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Table 94. Wood for Clocks, year ending June, 1912. 



ROLLERS AND POLES. 



Window shade rollers belong to this industry but none are manufactured in 

 Pennsylvania, though sawmills qutting white pine were found furnishing 

 large quantities of material in the desired form to the New York shade roller 

 makers. Curtain poles and brackets, rug and drugget poles, and awning 

 rollers are the articles to which the statistics in Table 95 refer. Basswood is 

 the leading wood and it went entirely into curtain poles. It serves well for 

 this use, first, because it is so easily worked, and second, the ease and 

 permanence with which it takes paint and stain allows it to be finished to 

 imitate expensive hardwoods like walnut, mahogany, and oak. Hard maple, 

 sweet birch, white oak, and white ash are other important curtain pole woods 

 and the ones reported mainly for curtain pole fixtures and brackets. 



Rug and drugget pole manufacturers called principally for black gum, but 

 beech, basswood, and yellow poplar met part of the demand. Awning rollers 

 require a heavy wood. Sugar maple, hickory, beech, and black gum were the 

 ones reported. The two former, being expensive, were used in small quan- 

 tities only. Black gum is practically a new wood for this use but the demand 

 is increasing owing to its being one of the cheapest hardwoods with the re- 

 quisite weight, strength, and adaptability for being turned. Redwood was 

 the only wood reported for shade hangers. 



