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Show TRADE IN WOODEN SHOES Scarcity of Willow Wood Hat Stead-led Stead-led Market, Which Wat Unsettled by Overproduction. Last year was unfavorable to the wooden shoe manufacturers In Holland Hol-land owing to the keen competition of the Delgtans and a doolded overproduction over-production horo. This year's prospects pros-pects are somewhat brighter. Tho scarcity of willow wood, from, which those shoes wero formerly mado, has caused tho market to steady up a little. 1'oplar and some Russian woods nro also being used moro oxtenslvely than heretofore Tho cost of tho wod from which the shoes are mado Is about $6 per cubic motor, out of which 100 pairs of ordinary slzo can bo mndo The t wholesalo prlco of these shoes Is 12 cents. One workmnn Is nblo to rnako 13 to 15 pairs In a day, from which It can be Inferred how narrow Is tho margin of profit In tho Industry. Holntlvoly few wooden shoes are produced by machinery for oxport, but with this exception nil tho wooden wood-en shoes arc mado by hand In Holland. Hol-land. About twenty different tools nro required In the operation. A year or bo ago several Clormnn capitalists started factories In this country to make wooden shoes by machinery, but failed Mncblne-mnde shoes, it Is said, nre not well Mulshed, nnd some handwork Is -nlways necessary to make them satisfactory. |