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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
COPPER GOES HIGHER IN PRICE.
Sales of Electrolytic Made at 21 1-2 Cents a
Pound for Foreign Account—May Go to 25.
In connection with the advancing price of all
kinds of piano supplies it is interesting to note that
the price of electrolytic copper went to 21% cents
a pound Monday, which is a new high record for
the metal in this market. In view of the fact that
copper producers have practically sold out until
after April 1 and that a demand for deliveries
before that date will be made some predictions
have been made that on such orders 25 cents a
pound may be the price before the middle of
January.
Many dealers find it hard to supply the present
demand.
The sales of electrolytic copper at 21!/> cents a
1 ound were made for foreign account and were
cash, New York. It was also reported that be-
tween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 pounds of copper
have been sold to the brass makers of the Nauga-
tuck Valley and to New England electrical con-
cerns.
,
The sales of electrolytic copper .at 21V-> cents
a
I
'f.ter figuring off insurance and freight is equivSk-
3 Solent to approximately 21.70 cents a pound on these
sales.
Dispatches from London state that electrolytic
in that market advanced £1, carrying the price to a
new high record at £103. Stocks are seriously de-
pleted and the situation has become so acute that
a premium of i 3 per ton is being demanded for
spot metal.
ELECTRIC HANDS FOR POLISHING
Pianos and Furniture Now Possible, Thanks to
Latest Labor-Saving Device.
The electric furniture polisher is the latest labor-
saving device. As it makes 4,400 strokes a min-
ute it can do far more work than a human hand.
The Scientific American describes it as a com-
pletely inclosed motor of one-fourth horsepower
which is mounted on a substantial base and sup-
plied with two handles by which its movement
over the surface of the wood is controlled. A
flexible cord connection carries the power from
any convenient lighting socket, and mounted at a
point near at hand is a switch for controlling the
motor. The base of the device is oblong in shape
and at each end are two felt pads which are rap-
idly oscillated when thn motor is in operation.
For rubbing, the pads are removed and covered
with emery cloth or sandpaper of the desired
quality, and the surface of the wood is cut away
as the device is passed over it.
GOVERNMENT SELLS TIMBER TRACTS.
Nearly Two Hundred Million Feet of Timber
Contained in Areas Sold, Which Are Located
in National Forests in California and Utah.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 27.—The De-
partment of Agriculture has accepted bids for two
bodies of national forest timber, located in Cali-
fornia and Utah, which are estimated to contain
approximately 188,100,000 board feet. The Cali-
fornia tract, composed mainly of sugar pine and
yellow pine, is located in the Sierra. Mountains, in
the Plumas National Forest. This is th-e largest
of the two tracts- and contains ever 100 million
feet of lumber. The second tract is located in
the Wasatch National Forest, Utah, and contains
lodgepole pine, Alpine fir aad spruce. Cuttings
from this tract will 1>e made chiefly for railroad
and mine uses.
With one exception, these sales are the largest
made during the present fiscal year, which began
July 1. The majority of sales from the National
Forest reserve are of comparatively small tracts of
timber for local consumption. During the twelve
months ending June 30, 1915, there were nearly
11,000 individual sales, and only 109 of these in-
volved timber worth more than $1,000. The cut-
tings for the year from all national forests was
689,000,000 feet,, and the timber receipts from the
same were somewhat over $1,175,000. The indi-
cations are that the receipts from the sale of Gov-
ernment luni'ber this year will exceed all previous
records.
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LOOK TO YOUR RAW MATERIAL.
Lumber Market Now Feeling the Effect of Un-
usual Activity in the Matter of Demand, and
Prices Are Juggled Accordingly—Big Ad-
vance in Hardwoods.
After two years or more of depressing business,
there has finally developed enough activity in the
lumber world that the market situation has be-
come almost as exciting as an active day on a stock
exchange. At this writing the most excitement is
to be found in yellow pine circles. Many of the
larger mills have booked extensive orders and have
advanced prices by leaps and bounds, until to-day
quotations on many lines of common lumber are $5
above what they were a few months back. Mean-
time the yellow pine mill men have become excited,
and predictions are freely heard that prices are
going higher than ever were known. This may
happen, and then again the going wild of the mar-
ket at this time may lead to a reaction. These are
things that only time will determine. Meantime,
however, there has been enough booking of for-
eign orders in the hardwood trade that prices are
stiffening all around there, too. So far there has
not been so much excitement in the hardwood cir-
cles as in the yellow pine, and a number of mill*
remain out of commission. Yet at the same time
The Ohio Veneer Co.
CINCINNATI, O.
Importers a n d Manufacturers of
Figured Mahogany, Circassian Wal-
nut and Foreign Woods for high-
grade piano cases and cabinets.
Nmw York Office and Sammlm Room
Grand Central Palace Building
Lexington Ave. and 46th St.
G. H. VAUGHAN, Eastern Representative
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And when you're satisfied
that we've the best punch-
ings on the market, cut
clean and accurately from
the best of material in cellu-
loid, cloth, felt, fibre,
leather, paper, rubber or
whatever you want, give
us credit and send your
orders to
CFGOEPELACO
137 E A S T I3 T -* ST.
N E.W YORK
some other mills are running night shifts. The
indications at this writing are that this is to be a
very active winter in hardwood circles and that
hardwood values will increase very sharply.
This is a point worth keeping in mind by the
veneer men, for it probably means higher prices
both for veneer logs and for flitches, and one
should be careful about selling veneer for future
delivery until the log supply is assured. It is not
a good time to rush around and make sudden pur-
chases and contracts, because there is already too
much excitement in evidence in the lumber world,
and we need some steadiness and deliberation, says
Veneers. There seems no question, however, but
what values are going up sharply, and, with this as
as a generally accepted fact, the question is merely
of how much and how fast they will-ris^" and how
this will affect the raw material supply of veneer
manufacturers. It is a matter that needs serious
thought by all those interested in the purchase of
logs and flitches, for the days of easy buying and
readily finding what is needed are changing to days
of some scrambling for timber.
REACHES TWOJHLLION DOLLARS.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., December 27.—The postal
service has doubled in the last twelve years and
during the last fiscal year audited transactions
reached the $2,000,000,000 mark for the first time,
according to the annual report of Charles A.
Kram, auditor for the Post Office Department,
made public to-night.
Sales of stamps, postal cards and stamped en-
velopes, the greatest source of income, netted
$258,000,000 for the year. About $200,000,000 was
paid out in salaries.
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