Cadwallader-Gibson Company Enlarges all Facilities Preparing for Increased Mahogany Trade

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A big new modern sawmill in the Philippines; a new -and modern wharf on the California Coast with every facility and convenience for the unloading and handling of lumber; a big new battery of dry kilns in California at the coast yard; increased volume of water shipments from the Philippine wharves of the Company to the California rvharves of the same concern; new and complete equipment' for manufacturing panels of mahogany and domestic hardwoods at the big Los Angeles plant of the company; _en- larged scope of setling operations covering the entire United States as well as foreign lands; these are some of the outstanding accomplishments now under way or recently completed by The Cadwallader-Gibson Company, of Los Angeles, designed and planned to meet the growing demands of their entire business, particularly in reference to their Philippine mahogany.

It is putting it mildly to say that Mr. B. W. Cadwallader, owner, active manager, and guiding hand of all these properties has been a busy man of late, and that his splendid organization is working under high pressure.

For a number of years Mr. Cadwallader has been developing his resources for producing, and bringing to this country his mahogany products, and for further manufacturing and marketing these products on this side. Step by step Philippine Mahogany has been establishing itself in public favor. One by one the early prejudices against it have been disappearing, and it has come into its own as one of the beautiful and generally useful high class hardrvoods of the world, until now Mr. Cadwallader has decided that the time has come to put his mahogany products on the market in quantity never before attempted, and give this great wood its rightful place in the world of cabinet woods.

And to that end he is norv bending all of his remarkable energies. Ever since the time when he went to the Philippines as a soldier during the Spanish-American War, and remained there to become one of the foremost industrial figures in the Islands, he has been laying his plans, and devoting his energies to the development of such an insti-r tution as he now possesses, and which is now being rounded out in every department to serve the large purpos€s he has tn vlew.

The Cadwallader-Gibson Company owns three hundred square miles of land in the Philippines, all heavily wooded with this Mahogany timber. His properties are located on the highlands of the Island of Luzon, where he believes he selected the highest quality and stand of timber on those islands. Here he has just placed in operation another big and modern sawmill, equipped with a band headrig and a horizontal resaw, together with every modern supplementary device for the manufacture of Mahogany. This is his second sawmill, another large and modern one having been in operation for several years. These two mills manufacture about 30,000,000 feet of Mahogany lumber a year, and in Mahogany that is SOME lumber.

They also operate there a large veneer and panel plant, and a big planing mill and hardwood flooring p1ant. They own their orvn docks and wharves, and have their own ships carrying their product of Mahogany lumber, veneers, panels, and flooring, to the United States.

They keep one million feet of Mahogany on the water all the time in transit from their Philippine mills to their California docks, and thev are planning now to keep an even larger av€rage volume on the water in transport.

Their big wholesale yard is located at Long Bealh, California, and it is there that they are now making many improvements and innovations, That yard has been in operation for a little over a year. The new wharves are being built on contract by Marritt, Chapman & Scott, of San Pedro, and they are-being equipped with every device that modern mechanics and ingenuity knows for unloading and handling lumber with facility. These docks will be-completed by July first. The Long Beach yard carries from

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