The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-08
CONCERNING WALNUT

As a fancy wood, either in furniture or
in house finishing, walnut has yielded
most of its prestige to oak, and now the
bulk OF Our American walnut goes abroad.
Germany taking the major portion OF II.
At least so per cent OF it Is shipped to
London, Liverpool and Hamburg. There
is no reason why walnut should have so
fallen into 6isfavor, but the fact stands
that it is questionable. and it must 30.
The foreign shipments run along between
three and half and four and half mill
lion feet, and the bulk Of 1t comes from
Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois
and Pennsylvania, the remaining states
furnishing little or none. The hnest
shipment for 1895 came from Texas, but
as q rule Indiana walnut is the best.
Kentucky has more than any other state,
but It does not Average as high as lndl.
ana. The largest walnut sawmili in the
word is IN Chicago, and it uses about
5000 carloads year. Walnut is graded
into firsts, seconds, rejects and culis ana
the price varies from SIS to $50 Tor culls
and $35 to $40 for rejects to $40 per thou
sand for tirsts and seconds. At an aver
age price of $50 per thousand, 1t Will be
seen that the grand total OF the. value OF
orr walnut shipments is NOT very large
sum. Tbs best grade of walnut is forest
growth, what is known as "cornf1eld
walnut" being hard and irregular, with
more or less windshakes. Walnut trees
are worth from 81 up, according to their
sibility and there is no rule OF find
ing them. A tree should be at least 10
inches in diameter, while some trees 60
up to over so inches and log over 10 feet
long is found occasionally. AS a rule,
though, walnut branches low, and short
logs prevail. Figured walnut is speciality
and is used for veneering.. Its price
varies from SIX cents to a dollar foot.
One man in West Virginia is reported to
own figured tree which cost him thou-
sand dollars, for which be asks $4,000,
having refused $1,000 There are over
5000 feet in it. A walnut tree is at its
best at about 80 years of age, or rather it
shouli live that long before 1t is cut
DOWN for market
The largest collection OF walnut at p res
ent ready for market is at lronton, o.,
cut in West Virginia and Kentucky
There are 1893, 900 feet OF it, of varying
grades. One farm in Woodford county,
KY, last year furnished 49,, 900 feet fol-
Germany and $1,000 tect for home con
sumption. The farmer got $7o35 for the
entire lot. One Indiana man IS looking
for purchaser for $50, 600 feet which he
has collected at various points in the
state. The bulk of the shipments are N
the log, and ths average price, from com
mon Mississippi points" to Liverpool OF
Hamburg, is $50 per thousand.
Our competitors in the European mar
kets are Italy and Circassia, the latter
furnishing "Black sea" walnut. The So
called Frencn buris which are shipped tc
| this country to some extent are no
| French at all, but Circassian, shipped t,
Marseilles and reshipped from there. Thu
Italian walnut IS small and not OF al
| good quality as the others.
As might be expected, New York is the
leading point of consumption in America
and the largest amount is shipped abroad
from there, though some goes from Bal.
timore and Norfolk.
Butternut, which is another species O.
walnut, is a soft wood, light in color, no
m UGH in demand, not large in supply
and worth about $25 a thousand.-Nev
| York Sun.