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This has reference to hickory woods required in the manufacture of wheels, as 

 hubs, spokes, and fellies. The hubs are imported either in a rough state or finished; 

 the spokes are imported ready for use, and so are the fellies (finished, bent, and 

 assorted in sizes to meet requirements). 



For the other parts of our carriage manufactures, we also use walnut, acajou, and 

 white wood, in boards of 10 millimeters (0.3937 inch) thickness. 



As to prices, we have to pay the following figures, delivered : Hubs, in the rough, 

 made of American rock elm (sets of four), 9.40 francs ($1.81). Prime hickory spokes, 

 1| inches, 40 francs ($7.72) per hundred; H inches, 42.50 francs ($8.20) per hundred; 

 1-g- inches, 45 francs ($8.69) per hundred; If inches, 47.50 francs ($9.17) per hundred. 

 Prime hickory fellies, bent, 38 to 50 millimeters (1.5 to 1.97 inches) thick and 90 to 

 95 centimeters (35.43 to 37.4 inches) high (set of four), 13 to 15 francs ($2.51 to $2.90) ; 

 38 to 50 millimeters thick and 110 to 140 centimeters (43.31 to 55.12 inches) high (set 

 of four), 15.65 to 19.40 francs ($3.02 to $3.74). Walnut planks, 3.60 to 4.80 francs (69 

 to 93 cents) per square meter (10.7642 square feet) ; acajou planks, 6 to 10 francs 

 ($1.16 to $1.93) per square meter; white wood, about 2.25 francs (43 cents) all 

 delivered free 011 board at Zurich and duty paid. 



Mr. Geissberger is ready to import direct from America, if prices and 

 terms are made satisfactory. 



WOOD MATERIALS FOR FLOURING MILLS. 



Mr. A. Millot, Zurich, writes that his requirements demand almost 

 exclusively pine and beech woods, and these he uses in considerable 

 quantities, other kinds of woods not being used to a large extent. Pine 

 boards cost here 55 to 60 francs ($10.61 to $11.58) per cubic meter, and 

 beech boards 75 francs ($14.48) per cubic meter. 



LUMBER DEALERS. 



Messrs. II. Gintzburger & Co., liomaushoru, write: 



We have imported Florida pitch pine in an indirect way; we are, however, ready 

 to make direct imports if prices are satisfactory. We can handle a shipload at any 

 one time. The woods mostly required are red and white pine of first quality in 

 boards of 5 to 6 inches in width by 1 inch thick ; also in larger dimensions. We 

 are also buyers of other A r arieties of wood. 



Mr. Gottfried Baumann, Zurich, writes: 



As far as I know, the consumption of American woods here is restricted to walnut, 

 mahogany, palissander, and pitch pine. The latter has been brought in direct of 

 late in the shape of lumber. I hardly think that American wood could be imported 

 with profit for building purposes, because native timber, sawed with angular edges, 

 is sold at Zurich at about 37 to 40 francs ($7.14 to $7.72) per cubic meter (35.316 cubic 

 feet). Something might be done in American oak, but only in thick planks of first 

 quality, at about 75 to 80 francs ($14.48 to $15.44), delivered at Zurich. Large quan- 

 tities of this article are being imported from Hungary. 



Special attention is called to the communication of Messrs. Gebrueder 

 Masera, at Winterthur, a large lumber firm making direct imports of 

 American pitch pine, etc. They write as follows : 



It is our opinion that American wood exporters could largely increase their sales in 

 Switzerland, especially if they would oft'er such varieties of wood as can be brought 

 into competition with the native woods. As long as American exporters seek a mar- 

 ket for expensive woods only, no satisfactory results are obtainable, even if the 

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