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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



May 10, 1922 



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iCoHtiiiKff] Jrom ixifjc '.^-i) 

 ness in figured veneer and panels Is "not so good. There is little 

 business and competition is severe." Mr. Dean said the demand for 

 figured walnut continues to hold up and lead in the field. There is 

 still relatively little call for mahogany veneers, though the demand 

 for mahogany lumber has picked up. Mr. Dean attributes this to 

 the fact that the accumulated stocks of mahogany veneers in the 

 hands of consumers have not yet been depleted; but that reserves of 

 mahogany lumber, which were not as great as the veneer ac- 

 cumulations, have been largely exhausted. The demand for quar- 

 tered white oak veneer continues slow, though the door people 

 are buying conservative quantities of ^s " oak. There is also some 

 call from this source for }q walnut. 



Mr. Dean w^as optimistic in spite of the present slowness of the 

 trade and expects improvements to develop during the next two 

 or three months, particularly after the July furniture markets. 

 The producers of the high grade figured veneer and panels will 

 watch the market for its indication of the public's attitude toward 

 butt veneers, particularly walnut butt veneers. This veneer is 

 now the mode in furniture and the buying at the furniture shows 

 will indicate w^hether it is to continue so, or whether the fickle 

 taste of the public has turned to something else. 



Jack Dean of the Dean-Spicker Co. is recovering from an opera- 

 tion for appendicitis, w^hich was performed April 23. 



C. E. Curtis of the Veneer Lumber & Plywood Co., said that 

 there has been very little improvement in the veneer and plywood 

 market, though one hears talk of an advance in prices. "The build- 

 ing trades are not taking as much stock as they generally do at 

 this time of the year," Mr. Curtis said. He attributes this to the 

 fact that, while a great deal of building is going on, it is of the 

 cheaper kind that does not demand the use of fine panel stock. 

 Only the higher class residences, hotels and apartments use figured 

 panel stock and the small bungalows and cheap apartment houses 

 now being put up create no demand for such stock. "The furniture 

 people are not so lively," Mr. Curtis stated and he believes this is 

 due to the fact that they have not yet depleted the stocks of veneer 

 and panels they had accumulated prior to the deflation period. 

 Mahogany veneer is, however, he said, in better demand than since 

 the first of the year, while walnut figured stock continues to be 

 the leader. He figures that ninety percent of the figured veneers 

 sold is walnut. The demand for butt goods in Grand Rapids and 

 Rockford continues to hold up well, he said. The piano trade 

 seems to be in better shape than at any time since the slump came. 



The radio craze, ^vhich is sweeping so swiftly over the country 

 is the most significant present development in the veneer and ply- 

 wood industry, Mr. Curtis believe.-i. Nearly all the companies 

 manufacturing phonograph cabinets ar^ beginning to make cab- 

 inets to contain radio sets and amplify radio music. "This radio 

 cabinet business is starting out like the talking machine business, 

 Mr. Curtis said, " and there is no telling to what extent it may de- 

 velop. This is a movement that will bear w^atching." Mahogany and 

 walnut panels are being chiefly used in the manufacture of these 

 cabinets, which are of various sizes and shapes, being yet in the first 

 process of development and not yet in any measure standardized. 

 They are still in the experimental stage. 



The building trades are doing some buying of the cheaper grades 

 of gum and fir veneer stock, Mr. Curtis said. The fir is being 

 bought where formerly yellow^ pine was purchased. 



The store fixture trade is a very important item, he continued. 

 The demand of the fixture makers for high class figured walnut and 

 mahogany and figured gum is very good, and particularly is this 

 true of manufacturers of soda fountain counters. They are taking 

 large quantities of fine walnut panels and veneers. 



R. C. Clark of the R. C. Clark Veneer Co. said that since the 

 falling off in April the demand for veneer and plywood has not 

 picked up. The millmen, he said, also find this condition true. 

 The Hood situation in the South has caused the closing of a num- 

 ber of veneer mills, but thus far this has had no appreciable effect 

 on the supply of southern stock on the market, Mr. Clark states. 

 This is because many of the mills unable to get any logs because 

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