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Mich., last fall. The new building will be 



50x100 feet. 



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The Indiana Veneer & Panel Company of 

 New Albany has appointed J. T. Greene as 

 traffic manager. Mr. Greene will also act in 

 a similar capacity for the Star Furniture 

 Company, a concern affiliated with the veneer 

 company. 



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The Inman-Pierson Furniture Company of 

 Cincinnati, O., will begin operations May 1, 

 manufacturing medium and high-grade bed- 

 room furniture. The company has a $100,000 

 factory of modern construction, equipped 

 with up-to-date machinery throughout. Charles 

 Innian, president of the company, states that 

 the concern is now in the market for veneers. 

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The Freiburg Lumber Company of Cincin- 

 nati recently added a veneer saw to its ma- 

 hogany sawmill and is now cutting a fine line 

 of mahogany veneers. Harry P. Freiburg, 

 president of the concern, also contemplates the 

 addition of a slicer for the manufacture of 

 sliced veneers of all classes. 



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The old factory of H. C. Burton, a widely 

 known veneer manufacturer at Cincinnati, has 

 been abandoned and all the machinery dis- 

 mantled, the proprietor having retired from 

 business. John Hawkes, for many years log 

 buyer and veneer salesman for the concern, 

 although blind, is operating a veneer store 

 in the old Burnet House at Cincinnati. 



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The Hill Veneer Company of High Point, 

 N. C, of which J. C. Hill is secretary and 

 manager, is meeting with a brisk demand, 

 and 5lr. Hill says that the concern has all 

 the orders it can take care of with any de- 

 gree of promptness. The company is install- 

 ing an automatic clipper table device and is 

 also putting in a new hot-air dryer system. 

 It intends to make this a record year as to 

 size of output, and expects great things from 

 this recently installed equipment. Mr. HiU 

 states that he is in the market for fans, head- 

 ers, fittings and the necessary equipment for 

 forcing hot air through the kiln, and also for 

 a small engine with which to run the fan. 



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The Saginaw Heading & Veneer Company 

 of Saginaw, Mich., has been reorganized and 

 two basket manufacturing plants in Michi- 

 gan merged with it. The new officers are 

 B. D. Eice, president; L. D. Buck, vice- 

 president and treasurer, and A. A. Buck, sec- 

 retary. The basket factory operated by Mr. 

 Eice at Addison, Mich., has been dismantled 

 and the machinery is now being installed in 

 the Saginaw plant. The basket and veneer 

 plant at Adrian, operated by L. D. Buck, will 

 also be added to the Saginaw business. The 

 new company will manufacture veneering, 

 baskets and basket materials, box shooks and 

 drawer bottoms. 



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The Ohio Veneer Company of Cincinnati 

 recently added a large supply of splendid 

 mahogany logs to its stock at the big Cin- 

 cinnati plant. Tne company 's present supply 

 includes a large number of fine Circassian 

 walnut logs. Ferd. Bosken, head of the com- 

 pany, states that business is active and that 

 his concern is receiving a large number of 

 orders for all classes of veneers. The Ohio 

 Veneer Company operates one of the largest 

 and best cqiupped plants in the country. 



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The Eoddis Lumber & Veneer Company 

 recently opened a Chicago branch office, with 

 E. J. Davis in charge. Mr. Davis will look 

 after the door trade in particular, which is a 

 new branch of the company 's business. There 



are already orders for 2,100 doors, for hotels 

 and hospitals, on the company's books. 

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C. L. 'Willey recently sliced a mahogany 

 log which yielded 100,000 superficial feet. 

 The log was three and a half feet square and 

 twenty-four feet long, and before working 

 was sawed in two, and then each section cut 

 into four flitches, which were quarter-sawed 

 in order to secure the best possible figure. 

 An unusually conspicuous tint of red is no- 

 ticeable along the longitudinal stripes. It is 

 said that one piano requires about 200 feet 

 of surface veneer, and that being the case, 

 this one log will provide enough mahogany 

 to finish 500 pianos. AVhile touring England 

 in his automobile, Mr. Willey recently passed 

 a body of workmen who were engaged in 

 grubbing out an unusually large walnut burl. 

 Mr. 'Willey was impressed with the appear- 

 ance of the stump and stopped his machine 

 and purchased the burl on the spot. It is 

 now lying in his store yard in Chicago and 

 is said to contain about 100,000 feet of 



veneer. 



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Three African mahogany logs of unusual 

 figure were recently purchased in the Chicago 

 market for $14,600. They will be cut into 



veneering. 



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A. E. Gorham of the Gorham Brothers 

 Company, a prominent veneer manufactur- 

 ing concern at Mount Pleasant, Mich., has 

 been making a short visit to the Chicago 

 trade. 



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J. A. Levings, president of the Moorehead 

 Manufacturing Company of Moorehead, 



Miss., has been in Chicago several days 

 looking around for suitable veneer equip- 

 ment to be installed in his new plant at that 

 place. Mr. Levings also purchased a band- 

 mill which will be put in operation in con- 

 nection with the veneer plant. 



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H. S. Holden of the Henry S. Holden 

 Veneer Company, Grand Eapids, Mich., 

 made a trip to Jamestown, N. Y., recently. 

 He reports having booked orders for four 

 or five cars of stock. The company has 

 contracted for the entire cut of the Eliza- 

 beth City, N. C, plant, largely rotary cut 

 poplar, and has placed a northern man in 

 charge there. Plans are being made for 

 installing a larger veneer plant, which will 

 probably be located at Norfolk, Va. 



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With a capital stock of $50,000, the 

 Southwestern Veneer Company of Cotton 

 Plant, in Woodruff County, Ark., has been 

 chartered. The company, in addition to 

 having liberal capital back of it, is well 

 officered, as follows: President, S. M. Bush; 

 vice-president, James Bates; secretary- 

 treasurer, E. H. McClure. Other incorpo- 

 rators are Charles Kay, Eichard Staffer, 

 D. H. Bush and L. F. Marsh. -In addition 

 to a veneer industry, the company will 

 engage in a general lumber business. 



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The Gray Veneer & Panel Company of 

 China Grove, N. C, has completed its panel 

 plant for the purpose of making veneered 

 roll and saddle chair seats and chair backs 

 for the chair trade. The company will also 

 make three-ply straight panels in different 

 figured woods. 



Monthly Meeting Chicago HardWood 



Exchange 



Th3 regular monthly luncheon and business 

 meeting of the Chicago Hardwood Lumber Ex- 

 change took place the afternoon of Saturday, 

 April 23, in the College room of the La Salle 

 HDtel. Following the roll-call and reading of 

 minutes, the business of the organization was 

 brought to order by President Brown, in a brief 

 address. Mr. Brown stated that in keeping with 

 the recent election of officers, which took place 

 at the last annual meeting, the work of the 

 organization has been more or less held up, but 

 that now with the affairs well settled, the work 

 will be pushed vigorously. He tendered his 

 sincere appreciation for the cooperation of the 

 membership and the committees for the past 

 year, and stated that with the same support for 

 the ensuing year, he can see nothing liut progress. 

 In keeping with his general desire to mold the 

 policies of the exchange in accordance with the 

 best interests of the Chicago trade. President 

 Brown drew up a set of questions which were 

 distributed among the members with instructions 

 to fill out and mail to him or the secretary as 

 early as possible. The importance of complying 

 with this request was forcibly emphasized by 

 the president. The questions were as follows : 



1. In your judgment what is or should be 

 the chief aim of this exchange? 



2. Along what particular line would you 

 like to see the exchange accomplish more this 

 year ? 



3. What can be done to make the exchange of 

 greater value: (a) To our members who do not 

 operate a yard? (b) To our members who do 

 operate a yaidV 



4. What individual or firm, not now a mem- 

 ber, can you recommend to the Membership 

 Committee? 



5. What suggestion can you offer the Pub- 

 licity Committee? 



6. What other suggestion have you to offer 

 for the benefit of the exchange in any way? 



F. B. McMulien. chairman of the Amalgama- 

 tion Committee representing the exchange in 

 the joint conference with the two other local 



lumber organizations, looking to an amalgama- 

 tion of the three, told of what that joint meet- 

 ing accomplished on first coming together on the 

 22nd of this month. He stated that the only 

 definite action taken was to appoint a commit- 

 tee of three, consisting of himself as chairman, 



E. A. Thornton and Robert Gillespie, to draw 

 up an outline which would give a more definite 

 basis on which to work. This committee will 

 report to the joint committee as soon as possible, 

 and the question will be more thoroughly 

 thrashed out at that time. 



Following Mr. McMulien, President Brown de- 

 livered what he happily called his "inaugural 

 address," in which he appealed especially to the 

 members of the various committees, urging their 

 entire support of the chairman, and expressed a 

 desire that they would feel it their duty to act 

 on their own initiative on the matters which 

 come before them. He then appointed the com- 

 mittees for the ensuing year as follows ; 



Labor Committee — Wm. H. Hopkins, George 

 Thamer. This committee was not completed, and 

 will be announced later, in full. 



Market Conditions Committee — J, S. Trainer, 



F. H. Heidler, A. H. Ruth, Fred D. Smith, Park 

 Richmond, Fred VV. Black, Clarence Boyle, G. C. 

 Pratt. Theodore Fathauer, F, B. McMulien. 



rublicity Committei? — Haivev S. Havden. A. 

 W. Wylio, Murdock McCloud, G. F. Kern, E. A. 

 Thornton, Paiil Schmechel, C. F. HoUe, C. F. 

 \an Xorstiand, Wm. A. Eager. 



Trade Committee — O. O. Agler. J. M. Attley, 

 Q. Y. Hamilton, W. O. King, U, H. McLaughlin. 

 A. K. Vinnedge, Frederick Guftorf, W. C. Schrel- 

 her. 



Committee on Complaints — Edward E. Skeele, 

 Theodore Fathauer, H. R. Foster. 



.Menibersl'.ip Committee — Joseph Dion. Tom A. 

 Moore. K. ,1. Leech, R. S. Huddleston, L. U. 

 Wli.M-lev, F. B. Sprague, A. H. Shoen. 



Entertainment Committee — .1. L. Lane, F. R. 

 Oadd. Frank B. Stone, Lewis B. Lesh and J. C. 

 Mc<}uorIaud. 



S. E. .Sanderson, Francis Beidler's representa- 

 tive at Marinette, Wis., followed with his version 



