July 



I lardwdod Record — Veneer 6; PmuI Section 



29 



LONG-KNIGHT 



LUMBER COMPANY 

 CYPRESS 



WALNUT- HARDWOODS 



WALNUT LUMBER 



30,000 ft. 1 FAS 



3.000 ft. 5 4 FAS 



1,000 ft. 8 4 FAS. 



28 Mahogany 



200,000 ft. 1" No. 1 C. 

 15,000 ft. 5 4 No. 1 C. 

 11,000 ft. 6 4 No. 1 C. 

 3,000 ft. 8 4 No. 1 C. 



VENEERS 

 227,000 ft. 1 28 " Wainu 



150,000 ft. 4 4 No. 2 C. 

 38,000 ft. 5 4 No. 2 C. 

 28,000 ft. 6 4 No. 2 C. 

 22,000 ft. 8 4 No. 2 C. 



367,000 ft. 1 28 Butt Walnut 



Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



Indianapolis, Indiana 



Busy on Government Work 



I he Wi.sconsin Cabinet & Panel Company. New London, Wis., 

 formerly the Wisconsin Seating Company, but now a unit of the 

 Thomas A. Edison Industries, Inc., is executing a contract for 

 135.000 square f3et of aircraft veneer for the British Government. 

 Delivery is to be made by August 15. The material is three-ply 

 birch, with a basswood filler and will be shipped overseas. The 

 New London plant also is filling orders for the United States Gov- 

 ernment, among them one for 20.000 trunk type filing cases for 

 the army in the field. 



Big Wisconsin Transfer 



One of the most important transfers effected in the hardwood 

 lumber and veneer industry of Wisconsin in some time was the 

 purchase by the Bissell Lumber Company. Marshfield. of the 

 entire interests of the Stolle Lumber & Veneer Company. Tripoli, 

 Wis. The deal involved a large sawmill, planing mill, veneer mill, 

 store, hotel, thirty-five houses and about 14.000 acres of tine tim- 

 berland. largely hardwoods. The Bissell company plans to enlarge 

 the capacity of the sawmill from 15,000,000 to 20.000,000 feet a 

 year by installing a new horizontal re-saw to supplement the 

 present band taw outfit. The veneer mill will be enlarged later. 

 It now has a capacity of 2,000,000 feet a year. B. D. Stone has 

 charge of the Tripoli interests for the Bissell company as resident 

 manager. The concern has a capital stock of $300,000 and has 

 sawmill interests at Amberg, Wis., and lumber manufacturing 

 connections at Thorp and Athens, this state. W. H. Bissell, 

 Wausau, is president: Capt. L. H. Schoenhofen, Marshfield, secre- 

 tary, and K. F. Bissell, Marshfield. vice-president and treasurer. 



Shippers of tea from on 

 accustomed to the use of 

 of Europe, are showing s 

 neer supplies since the w; 



intal countries, who have so long been 

 :hests m ide of veneers from the north 

 ime conrern over the problem of ve- 

 r has slipped all such shipments from 

 All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if 



Russia and 

 chests were 

 demand tha 

 be met frorr 



;reatly lessened them from Scandinavia. Mo.st of the 

 of birch and alder. If these woods are really in such 

 tea shippers will accept nothing else, the demand can 

 the United States. The paper birch and old field birch 

 of Maine and of other northeastern states is abundant and in qual- 

 ity fully up to that of Russia. For American alder it will be nec- 

 essary to go to Washington, Oregon, and California where two 

 species of alder attain tree size and the wood is of as good quality 

 as that of Europe. Prices may be higher here than they formerly 

 were in Europe, but war conditions account for most of that. 



The notion that only fine woods are made into veneer is er- 

 roneous. Cheap as well as expensive material is converted into 

 this commodity; but the quality determines the use to which it 

 will be devoted. Cheap woods make cheap veneers and they are 

 used for cheap articles, like baskets, packing materials, and the 

 inside plies of panels. Costly woods are the raw materials for 

 costly veneers and these go into expensive articles like furniture, 

 finish, and fixtures, forming the outside parts of such articles. 



Sawed veneer totals scarcely one-tenth as much 

 with knives, either sliced or rotary. A few woods, < 

 is oak, appear to give better results in the high grad 

 ting is done with a saw. In most other cases it is 

 economical to use the knife in making veneers. 



as that cut 

 me of which 

 ■s if the cut- 

 found more 



The cheap hardwood veneers of northern Russia were form- 

 erly seasoned by passing the sheets between hot rolls. It was a 

 rapid process and it was generally looked upon as satisfactory, 

 and sometimes that was all the seasoning the sheets received be- 

 fore being put to final use. Perhaps the same process is still in 

 use there, if veneers are being made; but for the past three years 

 little has been heard of Russian veneers and probably little has 

 been done, 

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