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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



N'livciiilier 25, lOlt 



MAHOGANY 

 LUMBER 



About ten carloads 1" No. 1 Com., 

 also other thicknesses and grades of 



MEXICAN & HONDURAS 



MAHOGANY 



dry enough to put in a kiln 

 with safety. 



If at any time we can 

 serve you better by 

 telegraphing kindly 

 wire at our expense. 



We are carrying a nice stock of 

 SAWED VENEER, 1/8", 3/16" 

 and 1/4" Mexican; also several 

 MILLION feet of SLICED 

 1/24" and 1/28" Mahogany, and 

 AMERICAN WALNUT veneer 

 ranging from i)lain to highly 

 figured. May we send samples 

 to you? 



Huddleston-Marsh 

 Mahogany Company 



2254 Lumber Street 

 CHICAGO 



3^ West 42nd Street 

 NEW YORK CITY 



process in nearly all cases. In some instances it may be 

 cut with a saw, as other staves are, but this is done for 

 barrels only, and not for drums. TT>e wide sheets re- 

 quired for such vessels must be cut by the rotary process. 



Published statistics relating to the wooden shipping 

 container business have never made a very careful dis- 

 tinction between the veneer box or barrel and the com- 

 mon box or barrel ; but the time has come when such 

 distinctions are necessary. The use of veneer is increas- 

 ing at a rate which will soon place it in an important posi- 

 tion and separate figures for it will be demanded. The 

 tendency is to economize in wood, and the maker and 

 user of veneer for shipping containers is a practicer of 

 economy. Wood goes farther and serves as well if not 

 better. The body of the log may be peeled for rotary 

 veneer, and the central core can be ripped into strips for 

 cleats or hoops, or even for heading. The waste in the 

 form of saw dust is thus greatly reduced. The demand 

 for shipping containers has greatly increased in recent 

 years and will continue to increase, and the veneer maker 

 v^fill find his field constantly enlarging if he is to keep 

 abreast of this increasing demand. 



Woods most largely used in the class of slack cooperage 

 to which barrels and drums of veneer belong are, in the 

 order named, red gum, pine, beech, elm, maple, chest- 

 nut, birch, bassvk'ood, spruce, Cottonwood, and tamarack. 

 Some of these are not ideal for rotary veneer, but others 

 are among the best supplied by the forest. Among woods 

 most largely cut for veneers in this country are, in the 

 order named, red gum, yellow pine, maple, cottonwood, 

 oak, yello^v poplar, birch, tupelo, elm, bassvk^ood, and 

 beech. 



It will be seen that this list corresponds pretty closely 

 with the list of slack cooperage woods given above, and 

 it indicates that the relationship between veneer and 

 slack cooperage is very close. 



Mississippi Veneer Company Incorporates 



With a capital of $50,000, the Mississippi Veneer Company of 

 Lexington, Ky., has been incorporated with principal offices in 

 Lexington, while a portion of the operation will be in Mississippi. 

 The incorporators are: G. W. Headley, Jr., and L. A. Headley, 

 Poplarville, Miss.; H. P. Headley and Douglas Hoagland, Lexing- 

 ton, and C. B. Ashbrook, Sandersville, Miss. 



New Manager for Veneer Plant 



C. Fred Calhoun, manager of the Antigo (Wis.) sawmill and 

 other local interests of the Frost Veneer Seating Company, She- 

 boygan, Wis., for fourteen years, on November 1 2 assumed the 

 duties of general manager of the company, with headquarters at 

 Sheboygan. He succeeds his late father, W. C. Calhoun, who 

 died suddenly at St. Joseph, Mich., in September. Leo. P. Young, 

 manager of the Frost interests at Newport, Vt., for several years, 

 has been transferred to Antigo to take up Mr. Calhoun's duties. 



Xot only do niillnicn suffer for want of i-ars, but they have a mighty 

 poor chance for a come-back at the railroads for losses inciflent to 

 transportation delays — inability to take care of orders, loss of time, 

 shutdowns, etc. With this condition existing the railroads need 

 hardly expect a friendly attitude or generous treatment in the matter 

 of freight rate advances. 



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