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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



October 25, 1918 



POPLAR 



LET us cut some of 

 that soft yellow pop- 

 lar into faces, cores or 

 cross banding- for 

 YOUR WAR orders. 



LET US make your 



PLYWOOD 



We are equipped to 

 manufacture from the 

 log to you. 



THE LOUISVILLE 

 VENEER MILLS 



Makers of good veneers 

 and panels for thirty years 



LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 



VENEERS FOR 



AEROPLANE CONSTRUCTION 



A SPECIALTY 



WRITE, WIRE OR TELEPHONE 



BIRDS EYE VENEER COMPANY, Escanaba, Mich. 



narrow black lines. In weight it falls below any rose- 

 woods previously mentioned in this article and dry speci- 

 mens will barely float in water. 



The lightest rosewood on the list grows in Ceylon, but 

 it is often called purple ebony, though, of course, it is 

 not an ebony. It is little heavier than sugar maple. The 

 wood is a rich, dark purple with the characteristic black 

 lines. 



Rosewood is expensive. Its cost is approximately dou- 

 ble that of mahogany, but rosewood varies in price, a£ 

 all other commercial w^oods do. The cost is governed by 

 the grade and the market. The average price paid dur- 

 ing a whole year for rosewood by manufacturers in Penn- 

 sylvania was $462.89 per 1,000 board feet. The wood 

 is nearly always bought in the log, and if it is purchased 

 by weight, the price is figured on the foot basis. The 

 average price during a year in Illinois was $2 33; in New 

 York $219.89, and in Connecticut, $225.40. 



Connecticut is the largest user of rosewood of all the 

 states. It consumes nearly as much as all the other states 

 together. The rosewood articles reported manufactured 

 in Connecticut are tool handles, gauges, clocks, levels, 

 organ stop knobs, and planes. Not one of these calls 

 for veneer, unless possibly clocks. In New York the list 

 of rosewood articles is longer, though the total demand 

 for the wood is not one-third that of Connecticut. In 

 New York the manufactured articles that might call for 

 veneer are billiard tables, brush backs, cabinets, fixtures, 

 furniture, musical instruments, picture frames, and show 

 cases. In Illinois the articles made in part of rosewood, 

 in which veneer might be used, are furniture, musical 

 instruments (including drum shells) and fine carriage 

 bodies. It is worthy of note that rosewood interior car 

 finish is not mentioned in Illinois statistics, though it is 

 commonly believed that many Pullmans and diners are 

 finished with rosewood and that veneer is used in large 

 amounts in their construction. 



Anderson Tully Starts Wire-Bound Box Plant 



The wire-bound package plant of the Anderson-Tully Com- 

 pany, North Memphis, will be ready for operation within the 

 next few days. All machinery has been set up with the exception 

 of the electrical equipment which will furnish the motive power. 

 This plant will have a daily capacity of one and one-half cars from 

 the first. This will be later increased to 2 and one-half cars. It is 

 the first establishment of this kind in this part of the country. 



The Williamson Veneer Company, which runs a big plant at 

 Highlandtown, a Baltimore, Md., suburb, has lately been adver- 

 tising freely for workers. It made an appeal to them on patriotic 

 grounds, stating that it is engaged in the manufacture of airplane 

 material and gun stocks, for which latter purposes especially quan- 

 tities of walnut are used. 



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