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HARDWOOD RECORD 



RED CUM 



( Leading Manufacturers i 



Our Corps of Inspectors 



Intelligent! Highly Trained! 



Conscientious! 

 Is assurance that you will get what your or- 

 der calls for when you buy Gum from us. 



Himmelberger-Harrison 

 Lumber Company 



Cape Girardeau, Missouri 



St. Francis Basin 



HARDWOODS 



Band Sawn ^ 



Geo. C. Brown & Company 



Proctor, Ark. 



(1 Hour from Memphis on C. R. I. & P. Ry.) 



manufacturer makes a profit on the uppers and clears and can afford to 

 realize on the low-grade stock at a low price. 



"This is not the case in British Columbia. Both in the interior and on 

 the coast conservative logging would produce a large amount of low- 

 grade material. But the trouble is that the British Columbia millman 

 can not sell his low-gi'ade material ; the British Columbia logger can not 

 sell his low-grade logs, therefore the low-grade lumber goes into the 

 burner or is used for fuel, and the low-grade logs stay in the woods." 



The British Columbia lumber exporters are looking forward with in- 

 terest to the completion of the Panama Canal, expecting that it will 

 largel.v increase the lumber exports of the province, as the shippers of 

 British Columbia lumber will be enabled to land their product at Atlantic 

 coast ports for about one-half the present rate overland by railroad, and 

 also cheaper than the Pacific coast states, on account of transportation 

 on other than American vessels. 



Oak Leaves as Silkworm Food 



The leaves of the white mulberry tree have been regarded as the only 

 possible food for silkworms for generations. Even the red mulberry 

 has been tried and found wanting. Worms which fee* on leaves of any 

 other tree than the white mulberry produce silk of a quality so inferior 

 that it has little chance in the marltet. At least, such has been the 

 understanding of silk dealers in this country. 



However, that belief seems to have been not well founded. Recently 

 U. S. Consul Julean H. Arnold of Cheefoo, China, investigated the silk 

 industry of Shantung province, and was surprised to find that the 

 Chinese were feeding the worms on oak leaves and were manufacturing 

 the product into pongee silks, for which that part of China is noted. 

 Between fifteen and sixteen thousand men are engaged in the industry. 



In that part of China practically the only wheeled vehicle known is 

 the wheelbarrow, of which thousands are in use. They carry as much as 

 2,000 pounds, but in that case a donkey pulls while the coolie pushes. 

 The silk trade in that region is said to be steadily increasing, though 

 modern improvements have scarcely made any inroad upon the people's 

 ways of working. 



Building Operations for October 

 Building operations are fluctuating this season from month to month. 

 In August the comparison with August last year was unfavorable. In 

 September the showing was favorable. In October the pendulum swings 

 back to the other side. The statements of building permits issued by 56 

 cities and received by the American Contractor, Chicago, reach a total 



valui- of .<4.j,004.11i;. as i-om|iared with S;.j:;,1(!7,Si)(I f..r (ictuber, 1!)]2, a 

 decrease of 14 per eenl. Twenty-three cities, liowever, report gains. 

 .\mong the more notable of these are Albany, with 114 per cent gain: 

 t'edar Itaplds, 130 per cent: Chattanooga, 55 per cent: Columbus, 72 per 

 cent: nallas. SO per ci'nt : Kansas City, 72 per cent: I'eorln, 92 per cent; 

 I'Htsburgh, 71 per cent: Toledo, 115 per cent. 



The tabulation for the first ten months of the year also makes an 

 unfavorable showing when compared with the splindld conslruction work 

 of last year. 



Seattle in October issued building prruiii 

 Comparisons In detail are as follows: 



October, 

 city. 1913. 



Akron » 4ll."t.425 



Albany 781.«(15 



Atlanta 338.:i40 



Baltimore «!>7.(!0(i 



Buffalo 1.347.000 



Cedar Rapids 4»0,000 



Chattanooga 89,470 



Chicago 9.314.100 



590.005 



519,435 



252.225 



241,703 



212,452 



15.5,385 



257,863 



608.605 



573.048 



'city 1,540,705 



Lincoln 89,037 



Los Angeles 1,701,550 



l.oiiisville 332,580 



^t,.lM h.-..iter 149.022 



Ahiiil.liis 196,990 



Milvviukee 1,210,123 



.polls 1,240.950 



<;rand Rapids 



Hartford 



Indianapolis 





.\i' 



leans 



73,496 

 675,530 

 214.785 

 208,750 



York- 



nhattan 2,990,843 



Brooklyn 2,653.080 



Bronx 907.397 



Total 6,457.320 



Omaha 294,025 



Paterson 172,605 



Peoria 291.909 



Philadelphia 2.716,860 



^ tsburgh 1,362.387 



Richn 

 Ro 



Paul 



Louis 



t Lake City. 

 1 Francisco . 



147.060 

 735,403 



61.128 

 804.252 

 S20,n7:i 

 171, 7!!.". 

 1.118,280 

 102.251 



84.485 

 140,340 

 110,015 

 868.165 



51.695 

 600.932 

 206,687 

 494.044 



Total $45.004. 160 



Shreveport 

 Spokane . . 

 Springfield 



Topeka 



Washington 

 Wilkes-Barre 

 Worchester . 



7.-.o,glU 



l,lsil,7(lli 



1.117.:i8Cl 



65.518 



773,748 



399,465 



187.632 



3,221.485 



3.379.847 



2.400.189 



9.061.521 



22.5.305 



1.59,587 



151,875 



3.044.225 



797.999 



426,520 



915.121 



112.325 



809.940 



1.454.125 



126,210 

 1.53,613 

 145,330 



78,815 

 404.553 



70.207 

 803,123 

 281,104 

 739,509 



■.107,80(1 



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'News Miscellany 



:-< MISCELLANEOUS y 



gton, 



incorporated at 

 ch., has been succeeded by 

 ucorporated at 



The Williamson Luiobrr Compauy has b 

 Ky.. with .foO.OOU capital stock. 



The Little Motor Car Company of Flint 

 the Cheverlett Motor Car Company. 



The Bridgeport Spoke Works is the style of a con 

 Bridgeport, Ala., with $10,000 capital stock. 



The Peoples Manufacturing Company recently organized at Greenfield, 

 Ind. This concern will manufacture refrigerators. 



ri. L. Hall, secretary and treasurer of the Excel Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Shelbyville. Ind., has sold his interest in that concern. 



The T. C. McVey Lumber and Tie Company has been incorporated at 

 Charleston, W. Va. The company has .$25,000 capital stock. 



The Columbia Furniture Company has started business at Canton, O. 

 The concern is incorporated and has a capital stock of .$10,000. 



The D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company of Seymour. Ind., announces 

 that on Xov. 1 it changed its name to Swain-Koacb Lumber Company. 



The George Webster Lumber Company, Springfield, Mass., has Increased 

 its capital stock from ,$100,000 to $200,000, one-half of it to be preferred. 



The .Jacob Wiser Company is the style of a recentlj' organized concern 

 which has incorporated with ,$75,000 capital stock to manufacture chairs 

 and beds. 



Burton Hull and E. E. Wadsworth have engaged in a partnership to 

 conduct a wholesale hardwood lumber business at Kendallville, Ind, The 



