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The Evansville Veneer Company cuts gum, poplar, white oak, red oak, 

 sycamore and beech. They purchase these woods in Tennessee, Kentucky, 

 and Mississippi, getting none from Indiana. 



The Goshen Veneer Company uses bass wood, maple, ash, elm, syca- 

 more, beech, poplar, oak and walnut. The oak they buy in Illinois and 

 Kentucky; the poplar south of the Ohio river. As nearly as they can esti- 

 mate. 60% of the material which they use comes from Indiana. 



The Hoosier Veneer Company uses white oak very largely, with some 

 red oak. About 35% of this material comes from the south and about 65% 

 from Indiana. 



Showers Brothers Company. Bloomington. cut only those woods that 

 are native to the southern part of the state. They include in their work 

 the different varieties of oak, poplar, beech, maple, sycamore, elm, ash, 

 and hard gum with occasional logs of walnut and cherry. The last two 

 are taken from southern Indiana. A direct quotation from the letter of 

 their secretary is extremely suggestive. "There is yet quite a quantity 

 of timber in this section of Indiana. It is, however, becoming very much 

 scattered. The visible supply of veneering timber in Indiana is rapidly 

 diminishing. In my opinion within four or five years it will be necessary 

 for the larger mills to draw from out of the state a large part of their logs. 

 The quality of southern Indiana logs, principally the oak varieties, is the 

 best in the country for veneering purposes. The texture of the grain and 

 of the figure being far superior for cabinet purposes to the southern varie- 

 ties. We use in our veneering mill alone about 35.000 feet log measure of 

 timber per week. It is my opinion that further development of the ve- 

 neering industry will do more to save the diminishing supply of timber in 

 this state than any other one thing, as in working timber into veneer an 

 enormous saving in waste is effected." 



The Diamond Veneer Company uses only quartered oak in its opera- 

 tions, buying flitches from the saw mills and not buying logs. The com- 

 pany estimates that about 90% of its stock comes from Indiana mills, but 

 has no knowledge as to the sources of supply of the mills. 



The Putnam Oak Veneer Company uses practically any of the native 

 woods of Indiana. The woods principally used are white, burr, and red 

 oak, ash. hickory, bass wood, soft elm, poplar, walnut, black gum and beech. 

 "Probably 20% of the wood, such as gum, Cottonwood, poplar, red and 

 white oak, comes from cur native forests, the balance comes from the 



