January 25, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



25 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



THIRTEEN BAND MILLS 

 SIX PLANING MILLS 

 ELEVEN FLOORING UNITS 



LUMBER generally is now being sold by the 

 producer at less than the cost of production. 



We have closed all our sawmills and planing 

 mills. 



Our yards are full. 



Consumption of lumber is slow. 



Authorities say that stocks of lumber in the 

 hands of dealers and consumers are far below 

 normal. 



Everyone knows the extent of the arrearage in 

 building and construction lines. 



The subnormal consumptions of the past must 

 be made up, some time in the future by an extra 

 or abnormal consumption. 



Annual Capacity 

 130,000,000 Feet 



These fundamental facts are so plain, and the 

 deductions therefrom so obvious, that we would 

 doubt the value of the business of any one who re- 

 quired to be told, the obvious thing to do under 

 present conditions. 



No one can doubt the wisdom of buying at pres- 

 ent figures. Conditions, however, are such that 

 consumers are and will be more exacting in respect 

 to quality and service. 



OUR LUMBER IS UNSURPASSED IN IN- 

 TRINSIC QUALITY; 



OUR MANUFACTURES ARE STANDARD; 



OUR SERVICE IS THE SYNONYM OF 

 EFFICIENCY. 



W. M. RiTTER Lumber Co. 



COLUMBUS, OHIO 



pressure, and the pipe coils or radiators should be so arranged as to 

 obtain a uniform distribution of heat and flexibility of control. 



55. The toilet and locker rooms should be centrally located with 

 regard to the building or floors which each serves, and preferably 

 placed in a service wing, as already mentioned. By so locating these 

 features valuable manufacturing space is not taken up and good light 

 and ventilation may be obtained. Toilets with divided front counter- 

 weighted seat, extended lip, and of the automatic flushing type should 

 be installed ; one for each 20 to 25 men. These toilets may be used 

 for urinals and will be found to give much less odor when so used 

 than any but the most expensive uruials. Washing facilities should 

 preferably consist of enameled roll-rim cast-iron sinks with no stop- 

 pers ill the waste. Hot- and cold-water supply pipes over the center 

 of sink with mixing valves, similar to bath cocks, spaced about 18 in. 

 apart for both sides of the sink, will provide a maximum of capacity 

 per square foot of floor space. One wash cock or mixing valve should 

 be provided for about every 10 or 12 men. Such equipment has the 

 advantage that it is easier to keep clean than individual wash basins 

 and forces the men to wash in running water, an important point in 

 preventing the spread of disease. Every man in the plant should be 

 provided with a pressed-steel locker, where he may change his clothes, 

 and the addition of a few showers and a comfortable, well-lighted 

 room, where the men can eat their lunches will be found to be not 

 only conveniences provided by a generous management, but features 

 which add still more to the contentment and loyalty of the men. 

 Floors in all toilet, locker and wash rooms should be waterproof and 

 non-absorbent so that they may be easily kept clean and sanitary. 



56. As mentioned before, these few notes are not intended as a 

 treatise on the design of a furniture factory, but merely as a brief 

 discussion of some points which the writer feels are worthy of serious 

 consideration. The many factors affecting the design and construc- 

 tion of a plant are so important in their bearing on the final overall 

 efficiency of the plant, that the problem is quite properly one for 

 none but an experienced engineer. 



(Continited from page 21) * 



"It is very evident that the speaker for the Shevlin-Carpenter 

 interest was not speaking in the interest of the American consumer, 

 but protecting his own market in Canada against the importation 

 of American woods that are worked through a planing or flooring 

 mill more than one said," Mr. Bigelow's statement says. 



It is well known among consumers of lumber that probably 

 90 per cent of all lumber used is planed on more than one side 

 before it is used. As a practical proposition the point I make 

 is this: That the Shevlin-Carpenter Canadian interests are more 

 concerned in safe guarding their Canadian market for the distri- 

 bution of their finished products than they are in the American 

 consumer or the American industry. In other words, they do not 

 want the present situation disturbed whereby the finished American 

 lumber is denied the privilege of going into the Canadian market, 

 whereas the finished Canadian lumber has full privilege of free 

 access into the American market. Continuing, Mr. Bigelow's state- 

 ment says: 



Now all I am urging is that if Canada insLsts upon a tariff against our 

 finished product that reciprocally America ought to take the same posi- 

 tion, whereas if Canada will take down its tariff wall -America would handle 

 the situation in a similar way. It is the status quo that the Shevlin- 

 Carpenter people want to preserve, thereby giving them advantages in the 

 Canadian market undisturbed by American lumber. That is the real bug 

 under the chip. They neither want reciprocity nor free trade as between 

 the two countries for the finished product. 



Permit me to add this suggestion : The young man who represented 

 Shevlin-Carpenter stated that but 10 per cent of their entire investment 

 was invested in Canada. He failed, however, to tell you what per cent 

 of tjieir production was represented^y that 10 per cent, because it is 

 conceded that 10 per cent of investment in Canada will represent from 

 30 to 40 per cent investment in America because of the favorable condi- 

 tions under which Canadian stumpage can be purchased and controlled. 

 The buyer contracts for timber limits paying for the timber when cut 

 Into logs ; the Canadian Government taking all the risks of decay and 

 destruction by natural hazards, such as damage by fire and wind ; which 

 is estimated to be at least 10 per cent of the timber stand. 



