January 25, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



17 



T.^BLE 54.— PLUMBERS' WOODWORK. 



Quantity used 

 annually 

 Kind of wood. Feet b.m. 



White oak 1.004.000 



Red oak SIM, 000 



Birch 522.000 



Basswood 100.000 



Red gum 100.000 



Cherry 15.000 



Mahogany 15.000 



Sugar maple 2,000 



Av. cost Total cost Grown 



% 



44.80 



E4.32 



21.3S 



4.10 



4.10 



.61 



.61 



.08 



per 



1.000 ft. 



$39.59 



35.87 



32.46 



:8.00 



25:00 



39.00 



140.00 



CO. 00 



f o. b. 



factory. 



$ 43.308 



21. 308 



16,043 



1,.800 



2,500 



5Si3 



2.160 



120 



in lud. 



Feet b.m. 



50,000 



10,000 



50.000 



Grown 



>ut of Ind. 



Feet b.m. 



1,044.000 



584.000 



472.000 



100.000 



100,000 



'15,666 



Total 2.442,000 100.00 $36.31 $ SS.664 127,000 



MANUFACTDRERS OF PLUMBERS' WOODWORK 



2,315.000 



American Woodwork Mfg. Co.. 



Evaiisville 

 Never Split Seat Co., Evansville 



Peerless Tank & Seat Works, Evans- 

 ville 

 Van Arnam Mfg. Co.. Fort Wayne 

 Central Closet Mfg. Co.. Kokomo 



Fixtures 

 I'ixliires occupy an important place among the country 's wood- 

 using industries. They are midway between interior finish and fur- 

 niture. They partake of the characters of both, yet in most instances 

 they are separated by distinct differences. Furniture is intended to 

 be moved from place to place, and to be set up anew without injury 

 to itself or its surroundings. Interior finish is not intended to be so 

 moved, and cannot without more or less damage. Fixtures are fre- 

 quently built in place, or fastened in position, and, though when it 

 becomes desirable to move them it may be done, they are regarded as 

 permanent. 



Fixtures may be divided into several classes, determined by the 

 uses intended. Store fixtures include counters, shelving, showcases, 

 cabinets, window display racks, stationary seats, benches and tables. 

 Those for offices and banks consist of counters, r.ailing, partitions, 

 stationary desks and benches and cabinets. The ordinary fixtures 

 found in saloons consist of bars, back bars, screens, gates, railing, 

 fixed chairs and tables, display racks, cabinets and lunch counters. 

 Eestanrant and cafe fixtures include counters, cashier booths and 

 permanent seats. Fixtures are provided specially for churches, schools, 

 halls and lodgerooms. They are pews, benches, railings, pulpits, ros- 

 trums and many others made for particular purposes. 



Fixtures are built on the same plan as expensive furniture, though 

 there are cheap fixtures as well as cheap furniture. For the better 

 classes, cabinet woods are in demand, and broad panels and fine rail- 

 ing and molding are used. Panels are built up of veneers, with cores 

 and facing materials. Precaution against warping and checking are 

 necessary. Columns and pilasters are prominent parts of fixtures, and 

 here the best woods find place. Table 55 reveals the fact that cheap 

 and costly species are fairly well balanced in quantity. Chestnut, 

 yellow poplar, red oak, and basswood may be employed for cores, or 

 they may serve as outside material. These woods may likewise find 

 place as shelves, drawers, and compartments. Padouk, Circassian 

 walnut, cherry, black walnut, mahogany, birch, and the best grades 

 of oak are too costly to be hidden in obscure places, and they are 

 usually found in the visible portions of fixtures. Ash, elm, maple, 

 cypress and beech and yellow pine meet demand for both outside and 

 inside work. Strong frames are one of the requisites, for which ash, 

 elm, beech and lougleaf pine are well suited. 



Table 55 gives the items making up this industry in Indiana. 

 Twenty woods are reported with white and red oak in the lead, fol- 

 lowed by red gum, chestnut, yellow poplar and birch. Less than half 

 of the material is state grown, though all of the white elm, beech, 

 basswood, black ash, black walnut and cherry are home productions. 

 Circassian walnut at .$300 a thousand feet and padouk or vermillion 

 at $400. are the most costl.v, and no woods have been reported in 

 t'ie state at higher prices. The quantities used were small. 



-FIXTURES. 



Quantity used 

 annually 

 Kind of wood. Feet b.m. 



White oak 868,000 



Red oak 44n,(riio 



Red gum 205.500 



Chestnut 130,000 



Yellow poplar 103. fCO 



Birch 103,000 



White elm 100,000 



Mahogany 

 Cottonwood 

 Sugar maple, . . 

 Shortleaf pine. 

 Longleaf pine. . 



Beech 



Basswood 



Cypress 



Black ash 



.53.000 

 50,000 

 34.000 

 30.0CO 

 25.000 

 23.000 

 20,000 

 15,000 

 7,800 



S9.07 



20.01 



9.24 



5.84 



4.65 



4.f.3 



4.50 



2.38 



2.25 



1..53 



1.35 



1.12 



1.03 



.90 



.67 



.35 



.A.V, cost 

 per 

 1.000 ft. 

 $43.27 

 40.45 

 23.97 

 19.85 

 28.45 

 38.07 

 20. CO 

 80 47 

 26.00 

 24.56 

 18.00 

 33.10 

 20.43 

 23.00 

 40.00 

 22.82 



Total cost 



f. o. b. 



factory. 



$ 37.593 



18,000 



4,925 



2,580 



2,945 



3,715 



2,000 



4,265 



1,300 



835 



540 



ST3 



470 



460 



600 



178 



Grown 

 in Ind. ( 

 Feet b.m. 

 472,500 

 260.000 

 3,000 



i'5'..->66 



3.000 

 100,000 



23.000 

 20.000 



7,800 



Growp 



ut of Ind. 



Feet b.m. 



398,400 



185,000 



202,500 



130,000 



88,000 



100,000 



'53.666 



so.oon 



18,000 

 30,000 

 23.000 



MAXDFACinUEES OF FIXTURES 



W. B. Brown Co.. Bluffton 

 Geo. W. Grimes Co., Bluffton 

 Aetna Cabinet Co., Indianapolis 

 Bank Furniture Co., Indianapolis 

 Indianapolis Drug Cabinet Co., In- 

 dianapolis 

 Wiegel Show Case Co., Indianapolis 

 S. S. Co.^ Show Case Co., ^'orth 

 Manchester 



Kahler Co., New Albany 



Oakland City Planing Mill, Oakland 



City 

 .Vauglit Furniture Co., Parker 

 C. H. Brownell, Peru 

 Standard Cabinet Mf'r. Co.. '■■v\\ 

 Fry Bros. Mfg. Co., Richmond 

 Louck & Hill Co., Richmond 

 Conrey-Davis Mfg. Co., Shelbyville 



Machine Construction- 



The articles constituting this industry are of many kinds. In 

 building machines, which may consist chiefly of metal, certain wooden 

 parts are essential, such as skids, levers, frames, hoppers and chutes. 

 Though such wooden parts are small, the aggregate quantity of wood 

 demanded in the whole country approaches 70,000,000 feet a year. 



It is not practicable to compile a list of the machines included in 

 this industry, but some of the most important belong in flour mills, 

 sawmills, shingle mills, breweries and distilleries, foundries and 

 woolen and cotton mills. Bellows for blacksmith shops may be men- 

 tioned as a common article listed in this industry. Drum lagging for 

 hoisting eng^es is frequently reported. Cranes and derricks are 

 among the largest articles on the list and dredge spuds belong with 

 them. A single derrick mast may contain 500 board feet, and the 

 beam of a spud may measure 1,000. Dust arresters in woodworking 

 plants and factories of other kinds are usually of metal, but con- 

 siderable amounts of wood are listed by manufacturers of such appa- 

 ratus. Clay gatherers arc frequently on the list of machines included 

 in this industry. 



Indiana's forests furnish about one-fifth of the wood consumed in 

 the state by this industry, as is shown in Table 56. Seven of the 

 fifteen woods are whoUy supplied from home forests, while seven 

 come entirely from outside regions. 



TAST^E 56. — machine CONSTRUCTION. 



Quantity used 

 annually 

 Kind of wood. Feet b.m. 



Sugar maple 465,000 



White piiie 201.500 



Cypre.!S 160,000 



Longleaf pine 156,000 



Chestnut 150,000 



Yellow poplar ISO.OCO 



Norway pine. 

 White ash. . . . 

 White oak .vf . 



Hemlock 



Red oak 



Bf-ech 



Cottonwood 

 Black wall ut. 

 Red Cedar. . . . 



90,000 

 50,000 

 45.000 

 42,.50O 

 20,000 

 10,000 

 10.000 

 500 

 100 



% 



30.38 



13.17 



10.45 



10.19 



9. SO 



S.49 



5.88 



3.27 



2.94 



2.78 



1.31 



.65 



.65 



.03 



.01 



.\v. cost Total cost 



per f. o. b. 

 1.000 ft. factory. 

 .$32.20 $ 14,975 



44.92 

 18.75 

 26.85 

 17.00 

 41.92 

 32.00 

 45.50 

 22 22 

 20.35 

 25.00 

 25.00 

 50.00 

 .50.00 

 30.00 



9.032 



3,000 



4,189 



2.330 



5,4.50 



2.880 



2,275 



1 COO 



865 



500 



250 



500 



Grown Grown 

 In Ind. out of Ind. 

 Feet b.m. Feet b.m. 

 170,000 295,000 



201,500 



160.000 



156,000 



150,000 



130,000 



90,000 



50,000 

 45,000 



'26,666 



10,000 



10,000 



500 



100 



42,500 



Total 



.1,.530,600 100.00 $31.04 $ 47,514 

 MANUFACTURERS OP MACHINES 



303,600 1.223,000 



Geo. W. Grimes Co.. Bluffton 

 Fellwock Automobile & Mfg. Co., 



Evansville 

 Indiana Road Machine Co., Fort 



Wayne 

 ,T. Lon Baker, Gosport 



Nordyke & Marmon Co., Indianapolis 

 Rockwood Mfg. Co., Indianapolis 

 N. P. Bowsher Co., South Bend 

 Foster Lumber & Coal Co., Valpa- 

 raiso 



Shipbuilding Is Active 



Eecent statistics published by the Department of Commerce shot 

 that on December 1, 1915, vessels under construction in Americai 

 yards, or provided for by contract, aggregated 761,511 gross tons. 

 The total number of vessels over 3,000 tons was ninety-eight and they 

 were distributed in twenty yards, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



The revival in shipbuilding is due to the high freights of the pres- 

 ent time and expected for the future. Water transportation is 

 profitable. 



This increase in the construction of vessels in American yards 

 ought to provide a large sale for lumber. Much iron and steel find 

 place, but wood continues to fill numerous places as frames, planking, 

 decking, interior finish, and in other ways. The total amount of 

 wood of all kinds for ship and boat building in the 'United States in 

 normal times totals approximately 200,000,000 feet a year. 'With the 

 increase in ship work at the yards, there should be greater sale for 

 lumber of all kinds, from frame material to the finest for cabinet 

 work. 



