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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



December 25, 1920 



Madt In St. Louis by 



Stlouis Basket & Box Co. 



WE MANUFACTURE 



a complete line of 

 Built-up Stock in most 

 any size or thickness, 

 including Walnut, Ma- 

 hogany, Quartered 

 and Plain Oak, Ash, 

 Gum, Plain or Figured 

 Birch, Yellow Pine, 

 S y c a m ore, Cotton- 

 wood, etc. 



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THE DEAN. 

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Manufacturers of 



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 AND 



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I Colli iniicd from page 36) 

 but if you are optimistic your optimism will spread, and sooner 

 or later your customers will feel its effect. There is no reason 

 or excuse for pessimism. 



Business Dull Everywhere 



Reports on conditions in the veneer and plywood in- 

 dustry made by representatives of the various producing 

 regions were uniformly to the effect that the large majority 

 of the mills are down, that little or no logging is being 

 done and that there is no market for veneer logs. Speak- 

 ing for the North, F. A. Marshall of the Wisconsin Veneer 

 Company, Rhinelander, Wis., said that "business is flat." 

 The northern loggers are still getting out some logs, but it 

 the demand is not improved in a short time, logging will 

 be abandoned and there will be a short crop. Prices of 

 veneer logs are a little lower, he said, but not much, owing 

 to the fact that the logs now being offered were gotten out 

 during the high price period. The cost of labor has de- 

 creased somewhat, but not substantially, and only affects 

 logs now being got out. 



Reporting for the West, O. G. Steiner of the Schoenlau- 

 Steiner Trunk Top & Veneer Company, St. Louis, Mo., 

 said that business is very quiet, some producers having cut 

 prices so low that they can not be met by the rank and 

 file. Few logs are being gotten out, those now out hav- 

 ing been logged during the summer. 



James E. Stark, James E. Stark & Co., Inc., Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., defined conditions in the South. He said 



that considerable quantities of veneer logs are out, but 

 there is absolutely no market for them. The mills have 

 shut down to remain so until Spring. Out of thirty mills 

 in Memphis, he said, he knew of but four that are now 

 operating. Logs can be got in the South at most any 

 price, he said, by a person with cash. "What the South 

 needs is cash." He predicted that if the mills remained 

 down until Spring and the dearth of logging continues, 

 there will be a severe shortage of lumber and veneers 

 in the South and high prices w^ill inevitably result. 



Telling of conditions in the East, F. C. Rice of the Pearl 

 City Veneer Company, Jamestown, N. Y., said that log- 

 ging is at a standstill, as are also the mills. There is no 

 market for logs despite the fact that nearly all the mills' 

 log yards are cleaned out. The prices of logs have fallen 

 about 50 per cent, he said. 



D. B. Scully of the Central Door and Lumber Com- 

 pany, Portland, Ore., made a report on Pacific Coast con- 

 ditions, declaring that the demand for fir mill w^ork has 

 turned upward during the last few days and prices have 

 correspondingly stiffened. He said that his concern was 

 guaranteeing prices against decline to March 1 . 



A paper by Fred M. Knappen of the Grand Rapids 

 Veneer Works, Grand Rapids, Mich., on "Casein and 

 Vegetable Glues," was read by H. D. Potter during the 

 Tuesday morning session. 



Armin Elmendorf of the Haskelite Mfg. Company, Chi- 



