October 25, 1915. 



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^ This battery of automatic, electrically driven veneer saws, operated under ideal conditions, is conceded the model B 



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I Importers and Manufacturers ■ 



I Mahogany and Cabinet Woods — Sawed and Sliced | 



I Quartered INDIA NA White Oak, Red Oak, Figured Red Gum, American Walnut, Etc. B 



I Rotary Cut Stock in Poplar and Gum for Cross B 



1 Banding, Back Panels, Drawer Bottoms and Panels ■ 



I The Evansville Veneer Companv I 



■ EVANSVILLE, INDIANA ^ •^ ■ 



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J. W. TurnliuU, head of the J. W. TurnbuII Lumber Company. Stock 

 Exchange building, Is on a trip to the Pacific coast. Important announce- 

 ments as to new mill connections are expected when he returns. 



Owen M. Bruner, head of the Owen M. Bruner Company, has purchased 

 a motor car and is using it for business daily. Mr. Bruner was seized with 

 a sudden illness while at Asbury Park last summer. He has not progressed 

 as rapidly as he expected and on the advice of his physician is spending 

 most of his time in the open air. Hence the motor car tor calling on the 

 trade. 



The annual tournament and meeting of the Philadelphia Lumbermen's 

 Golf Club was held October 20 at the Huntingdon Valley Country Club. 



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:< PITTSBURGH >-. 



The J. W. Cottrell Lumber Company, which has a big hardwood operation 

 in Virginia, has been handicapped somewhat the past two weeks by the lack 

 of men and teams there, due to the enormous apple harvest. It has been very 

 hard to get any help in the woods as everybody was engaged in marketing 

 apples. 



F. A. Seaman has bought the mill and lumber of the Federal Lumber 

 Company, which is liquidating because of the death of its principal stock- 

 holder. The plant is located on the Bald Eagle railroad near Tyrone, Pa. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Company notes a gradual improve- 

 ment in business but does not expect anything approaching a boom until 

 after the first of the year. Manufacturing plants are buying considerable 

 more lumber than a few weeks ago. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company is very optimistic about the immediate 

 future of the lumber business. Manufacturers are putting in much larger 

 orders than in the summer and are likely to be heavy buyers next year. 



The Acorn Lumber Company, according te H. W. Henninger, finds business 

 a little better in other districts than in the immediate Pittsburgh section. 

 President H. P. Domhoff of this company made a trip through the East last 

 week. 



Joseph Collingwood has moved his basket factory from West Farmington, 

 O., to Warren, O., and is fitting up one of the best plants on the Western 

 Reserve. He will manufacture bushel, half-bushel and peck baskets. 



The A. & D. Lumber Company, of which W. A. Kessler, formerly of the 

 Crescent Lumber Company is manager, is nicely located now in the Hartje 

 building. Mr. Kessler's specialty has always been poles and ties. 



The McNitt-Huyett Lumber Company has bought a large tract of virgin 

 timber in Blair county. Pa., and will put in a plant at once to cut off the 

 hardwood into keg staves and other materials. The operation will require 

 about five years. 



The Jones Hardwood Company, one of the leading local concerns spe- 

 cializing in birch, has recently opened a New York office in the Hudson ■ 

 Terminal building in charge of Harry Snowden, a well-known hardwood 

 man in the metropolis. 



A number of lumber consuming industries are included in the recently 

 organized enterprises of New England, the principal firms being : The 

 Black Rock Manufacturing Company, Bridgeport, Conn., capital $100,000. 

 for the manufacture of tools, machines, etc. ; Frank C. Rawson Company. 

 Inc., Winchendon, Mass., capital $5,000. to manufacture woodenware and 

 specialties ; Mission Supply House of America, Boston, Mass., capital 

 $25,000, to manufacture school and mission furniture and supplies ; F. H. 

 Newton Company, Boston, capital $40,000, and H. E. Eiims Compay at 

 Boston, capital $50,000, both to manufacture and deal in sash, doors, build- 

 ing finsh, etc. ; The Sherburne Manufacturing Company at Portland, Me.. 

 to manufacture lumber locally, capital $10,000 ; John T. Scully Company at 

 Boston, capital $15,000, and The Pendleton Company of Augusta, Me., 

 capital $200,000, both to engage In heavy construction and building. 



L. L. Larouche, builder and contractor of Pittsfield, Mass., has filed a 

 petition in bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $99,947, which includes 

 several lumber creditors for considerable amounts. 



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The ocean freight rates are still climbing, and the Baltimore shippers 

 find themselves confronted by the difficulty of having the rates hold long 

 enough to make arrangements with the foreign buyers for shipments. By 

 the time shipper gets the buyer up to the point of saying that he will take 

 a lot of lumber at a certain price the rate has been put up, and the shipper 

 finds himself in the position of having to withhold the shipment or forward 

 it at a loss to himself. Within the last few weeks the rate to Liverpool 

 has been advanced not less than three times. During the week which in- 

 cluded the last few days of September to the second of October the rate on 

 oak planks from Baltimore has advanced from 58 to 60 cents. In the week 

 from October 2 to 8 it was raised two cents more, and on October 8 an- 

 other advance of one cent was made, putting it up to 63 cents. With such 

 frequent changes, of course, the shipper cannot calculate, and must keep out 

 of the trade until the rate conditions get down to a more stable basis. The 

 Gulf port shippers are even worse off, the steamship lines refusing to quote 

 from New Orleans at all, while the rate from Galveston is not less than $1 

 per 100 pounds. These figures are on oak planks, hut all the other rates 

 have been affected accordingly. They explain why the shippers of lumber 



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