February 2 5, 1918 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



27 



HUDDLESTON-MARSH 

 MAHOGANY COMPANY 



Importers and Manufacturers of 



MAHOGANY 



Lumber and Veneer 



2256 LUMBER STREET 



Chicago, Illinois 



33 WEST 42nd STREET 



New York City, N.Y. 



Prospective Uses of Minor Tree Species 



A Promising Field for the Manufacturer of Various Small Commodities 



I HERE are many hardwoods in the United States 

 which are known only locally and some of them 

 are scarcely known at all. Some of these pos- 

 sess great beauty of grain and color, and are 

 suitable for a number of minor purposes, and they will 

 doubtless be put to use in the future in a number of ways. 

 Perhaps the manufacturers of veneers and novelties will 

 be the chief agents in providing these woods in form to 

 be put to use, though the general veneer industry, as it 

 is now organized, cannot become much interested in 

 converting these somewhat rare woods into thin slices. 

 Generally, the trees constituting this potential resource 

 are too small for the rotary machine, or even for the 

 ordinary veneer saw or slicer, and for that reason, if 

 much development is even made along this line, it will 

 call for special saws and knives to handle the small logs. 

 The hardwoods to which reference is here made are 

 commonly classed as minor species, because they have 

 never had much commercial importance. They are scat- 

 tered all over the country, but the most numerous and 

 most valuable are found in the southern part of the 

 United States from the Mexican boundary to Florida. 

 Of the hundred or more minor species in that region, 

 thirty or forty ought to be worth attention on account of 



AU Tbree of Ui Will Be Benefited if 



the finely colored and figured woods. They are not 

 much in the market now, and have never been; but there 

 are possibilities for the future. The woods are suitable 

 for manj' small articles for which markets already exist; 

 but these articles are now generally made from imported 

 woods, such as boxwood, cocobola, corra, ebony, furze, 

 malacca, partridge, rosewood, satinwood, weitzel, and 

 others. 



It is not claimed that American forests have substitutes 

 for all the finely-colored and extra hard imported woods; 

 but there are substitutes for some of them, and the number 

 of satisfactory substitutes cannot be determined offhand. 

 Trials and experiments must be made; but many such 

 experiments have been made on a small scale, with good 

 results. 



Some Promising Hardwoods 

 Florida and Texas have more of these promising ininor 

 species than any other two states, but some are found oa 

 the Pacific coast, some among the Rocky Mountains and 

 in the plateau region, and others are scattered widely. 



Mesquite is abundant and has never been much used 



in fine work. Trunks are small and short, but the wood 



compares in color favorably with mahogany, and in grain 



it bears some resemblance to the heartwood of birch. 



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