Harry White Visits Woco Plant

Upon his return from the convention of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Association held at Victoria recently, C. H. White, general manager of White Brothers, stopped ofi at the plant of the Wheeler Osgood Company in Tacoma where he took in all the sights in connection with their Philippine hardwood production. Mr. White finds this department thoroughly up to date in every way and turning out the finest plywood that it has ever been his pleasure to see in both the Light Red and the Dark Red varieties of Philippine.

The Wheeler Osgood Company import special veneer logs, what are known as "peelers," which is a much higher grade of log than is ordinarily used for lgmber manufacture. These logs are first cut into cants or flitches and after lying in the steam bath for forty-eight hours are taken out and sliced into thin face veneers. This slicing is done in a most ingenious manner on a machine made and patented by the Wheeler Osgood Company. The plywood is made up with the famous "Laminex" glue, a secret formula.

White Brothers are the distributors of Laminex Philippine plywood in the Northern California district.

Mr. White reports a stead)' increase in the sale of Philippine panels in his territory.

unnec€ssary and put in to make the game harder. A "hole" is a tin cup in the center of the "green". A "green" is a small parcel of grass costing about $1.99 a blade and usually located between a brook and a couple of apple trees or a lot of unfinished excavations.

The idea is to get the golf fall from a given point into each of the eighteen cups in the fewest strokes and the greatest number of words.

The ball must not be thrown, pushed or carried. It must be propelled by about $200.00 worth of curious looking implements, especially designed to provoke the owner.

Each implement has a specific purpose and ultimately some golfers get to know what that purpose is. They are the exceptions.

After each hole has been completed the golfer counts hisstrokes. Then he subtracts gix and says, "Made that in five. That's one above par. Shall we play for fifty cents on the next hole, too, Ed?"

After the final or eighteenth hole, the golfer adds up his score and stops when he has reached eighty-seven. He then has a swim, a pint of gin, sings "Sweet Adeline" with six or eight other liars, and calls it the end of a perfect day.

Duke Euphrat Returns From Northwest Trip

M. L. "Duke" Enphrat, Wendling-Nathan Co., returned to San Francisco recently from a two weeks' business trip to the Northwest, during which he visited the company's office at Portland, and a number of sawmills.

Asked by a representative of this journal how he found conditions in the Northwest, Mr. Euphrat said he found it hard to place specific orders for quick delivery. Mills that usually accept orders for loading in two to three weeks will not promise shipment at present under 30 to 45 days. He stated that curtailment is very general, and the attitude of the sawmill owners is a determined one. They seem to have come to the conclusion that their salvation iies in not cutting any mor€ lumber from now on than can be sold.

There is no disposition among the mills to drive the buyer lyay by asking high prices for lumber they haven't got, Mr. Euphrat stated, as they jtrst say they are oversold, and out of the market for a time.

Atlantic Coast business is very good, and Middle West business is showing a very decided improvement, and an early improvement in the off-shore business is looked for by cargo mills.

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