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Dartmouth hopes rest on Bill Morton and Bill McCall, who are both physically fir for the game. Whit Kimball, Bill Hoffman and Ward Donner will start, with Harold Mackey listed for the left end position...
...became one of Hammond Lumber's first stockholders. Another original holder was Collis Potter Huntington. much of whose stock in the company went through his widow to the Huntington Library in San Marino. Closely held, Hammond Lumber reveals no earnings. Other than redwood, its big interest is Douglas fir...
Christmas trees, for which 700,000 spruce and balsam fir were sold last year. Average price to the grower is 6? (in the cities the retailer gets 50? to $10). Last season a group of growers in Coos County marketed cooperatively, tagged their trees with special holiday labels, realized as much as 15? per tree...
...Sorger of Longview, equipped with spikes and a circling rope, squirreled up a 120-ft. fir tree, cut out the top, descended, all in 4 min. 5 sec. Among his prizes was a Paul Bunyan doughnut, one foot in diameter...
...husbandman must buy bricks, cement, lumber, glass, shingles. By its committee the House was asked to increase tariff rates on these building materials. From the free list brick was made dutiable at $1.25 per 1,000. A tax of 8¢ per 100 Ib. was laid on cement. While fir, pine, spruce and hemlock were retained on the free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, also of Oregon, saw that it got what...