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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



June 10. 1922 



Specialists in 

 /DIFFICULT ITEMS\ 



We Manufacture 



ROTARY CUT VENEERS 

 THIN LUMBER SPECIALTIES 



BIRCH DOOR STOCK 

 MAPLE PIANO PIN BLOCKS 



YEARS OF EXPERIENCE BEHIND OUR PRODUCTS 



\MUNISIIVG WOODENWARE CO./ 



MUNISING. MICHIGAN 



Rotary Cut 



NORTHERN 



VENEERS 



Members of 

 Maple Floorin 

 Mfrs.' Assn. 



pURNlTURE maiiiifacturers and factory buyers who insist on 

 haTin^ hierh cjnalHy veneers should send us their orders. We 

 are specialists in Northern \eneers. We also manufacture 

 Northern Pine, Spruce, Hemlock, Cedar Posts and Poh's, I^ath 

 and Shingles, niik-b we ship in straight cars and rareoes or 

 mixed with our "Peerless Brand" Rock Maple, Beech or Birch 

 Flooring. 



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Largest and Longest Established Manufacturers 

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Chicago Veneer and Plywood Market Is Improved 



The Chicago Veneer and Plywood market has acquired a better 

 tone during the past thirty days, through a general improvement 

 in demand and a stiffening of prices. Business is still slow as 

 compared to normal conditions, but the situation has undoubtedly 

 improved a great deal. Competition in prices is still pretty severe, 

 but at the same time there seems to be less of the selling at 

 cost and below than was apparent thirty days back. One of the 

 most marked features of the market at this juncture is the scarcity 

 of birch veneer and panels and their high price. Birch veneer 

 and lumber have enjoyed sharp advances during the last sixty days, 

 due to the increased demand from the trim and furniture people, 

 and at the same time a famine in birch veneer logs. 



Figured w^alnut veneers and panels continue to be in first de- 

 mand from the furniture industry and prices are high and tending 

 upward. Highly figured veneer and panels command almost their 



own price — anything within reason because of their rarity and 



the fashion for them that now^ prevails. 



The full effect of the nation-wide building boom has not yet been 

 felt by the veneer and plyw^ood business, the Chicago manufac- 

 turers and dealers state. The trim required, especially in the 

 matter of doors, has been a strong element in the increased de- 

 mand for veneers, but the real demand is expected to develop 

 when it comes to furnishing the homes now^ in process of build- 

 ing. It is the belief of the veneer and panel men that this is 

 going to so increase the demand for furniture that the furniture 

 makers w^ill buy heavily of their products this fall and make busi- 

 ness really good. 



WaJnut Stronger Than Ever 



The general situation in the veneer market is not particu- 

 larly encouraging, according to the opinion expressed by Julius 

 Spicker, Sr., of the Ingalls-Spicker-Ransom Company, but the 

 position of w^alnut lumber and veneers has never been stronger. 

 During the last thirty to sixty days prices of these items have 

 substantially increased. That this situation w^ill not only continue, 

 but be improved upon, is Mr. Spicker's firm belief. He believes 

 that 80 to 85 per cent of the furniture, at least in case goods, sold 

 on the forthcoming markets at Grand Rapids and Chicago will be in 

 walnut. He pointed out that at the Jamestown show over 90 per 

 cent of the samples were made up in w^alnut and the purchases 

 were in accord w^ith this percentage. Walnut experienced the 

 same triumph at High Point. 



Highly figured walnut is even more scarce than usual and 

 commands high prices. The percentage of fancy figured wal- 

 nut is so small not over I per cent of the cut — Mr. Spicker 



pointed out, that it naturally is costly. The situation as to 

 highly figured walnut is comparable to pearls and oysters. There 

 is only one pearl bearing oyster to a very great many that have 

 nothing more precious than their meat. 



In spite of the present overwhelming popularity of walnut as 

 a cabinet wood, Mr. Spicker believes that mahogany is going to 

 stage a come-back, due to its present cheapness. Eighteen months 

 from now, he thinks, mahogany will be splitting the furniture 

 business with walnut. At present the demand for mahogany has 

 dropped almost out of sight. The piano people, he declared are 

 the only users of mahogany who are taking anything like the 

 former quantities of this wood. 



The great popularity of walnut is making the demand for gum 

 strong, because so much of it is used as a substitute for w^alnut 

 in so-called walnut furniture, Mr. Spicker said. 



R. A. Smith of the Hardwood Mills Lumber Co., declared that 

 the veneer business is "looking up, prices are stiffer, business is a 

 little better all around, there is a better feeling in the trade." 

 Mr. Smith expects the veneer business to continue to show^ a steady 

 improvement, with the exception of the customary hot w^eather 

 slumps of June and July. He said that rotary cut birch is in a very 

 strong position; bassw^ood is unusually high priced for this time of 

 year, but gum is not very strong. Poplar is up a few^ cents, though 

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