March 10, 1918 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



27 



LONG-KNIGHT 



LUMBER COMPANY 



WALNUT- HARDWOODS 



CYPRESS 



Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



Indianapolis, Indiana 



American Veneers of Foreign Wood 



The Output Is Small, but the Cost May Range Quite High 

 Hf: UNITED STATES is so well supplied with 



wood of its own that it has little reason to bring 

 wood from foreign countries to work into ve- 

 neers; yet nearly 25,000,000 feet, log scale, are imported 

 annually for that purpose. This has nothing to do with 

 veneers imported already cut or with panels made abroad 

 and shipped to this country. The stock cut from im- 

 ported logs is small in comparison with that produced 

 from homegrown material, and is approximately six per 

 cent of the whole. The following foreign woods are im- 

 ported in the log and are cut into veneers in this country. 

 The figures cover one year: 



Cost per 

 1. 000 Feet, 

 Wood Imported Feet, Log Scale Log Scale 



Mahogany 16,05 7,000 $ 97.50 



Spanish cedar 5,140,000 92.19 



Maple 1,025,000 



Elm 



Satinwood 

 Rosewood 

 Ebony 



25,000 



15,000 



15,000 



1,000 



12.00 

 200.00 

 140.00 

 180.00 



Circassian Walnut 



Birch 



Beech 



White oak 



809,000 

 500,000 

 500,000 

 463,000 



15.02 



318.33 



15.00 



12.00 



100.00 



Of these woods, beech, birch and elm may be dis- 

 missed as of no special interest, because they came from 

 Canada and are of the same kind as grow on our side 

 of the international boundary. They were imported for 

 no reason except that they were convenient, and could 

 be had as cheaply as similar wood on this side of the Ime. 



Foreign Oak 



Information regarding the imported oak is incomplete 



and its origin is not stated. It was all converted into 



veneer in the state of New York. Its price indicates 



that it did not come from Canada, as it cost too much 



more than twice as much as the oak grown in this 



country that went to veneer mills. While the high price 

 seems to exclude Canada as its origin, the price is rather 

 too low for European oak. Possibly it was Japanese oak 

 which can be laid down in this country at the price 

 quoted. Oak from Japan, and similar oak from Siberia, 

 have found considerable demand in the United States. 



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