Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-17
VENEER STOCK.
Birch Veneer Largely Confined To YER
mont opd Three other states.

Tho reported consumption OF wood
in the manufacture OF veneer stock
by $40 mills in 1907 was 34S.523
thousand feet log scale. with a value,
delivered at mill. of s6,4Ss.237. as
against a2o,1Ss thousand feet. valued
ut s5.Oas.545, reported by ais mills, In
1906. The increase in quantity was
therefore 1897 thousand feet, or 5.5
per cent. and in value s1.397,602. or
21.7 per cent. In average cost per
thousand feet the advance between the
two years on logs of all species used
was from $3.50 to s1S.47.
The reported production OF veneer
stock In 1907 was 2656,s24 thousand
superficial feet while in 1906 II was
2.06S,094 thousand superficial feet. The
Increase was therefore 5SS,730 thou
sand superficial feet. or 2S5 per cent.
Tho statistics for 1906 related only to
domestic woods, while those for 1907
include in tho totals the consumption
of imported woods, chiefly mahogany
and Spanish cedar. in the manufac-
ture OF veneer stock. This item of i'm
ported cabinet woods include in the
later year amounted TO 1854 thou
sand feet, log scale. with value, de-
livered at mill. of s1.203Sl0.
For many years the manufacture %
veneer stock was mainly from tho In
ported cabinet woods and to a limited eS-
tent from such domestic woods as
walnut. oak. and maple. The product
was used exclusively as n covering Of
cheaper woods in the manufacture OF,
furniture, and for similar purposes
Tho rapid growth In veneer manufac-
,uro :, Two lac. decade has cora,s,ed
nr,c,ioo, t., Two .,oyo,onr,o,. ~ n
now industry, namely tho nroduction
OF material for tho narufacture n,
vor,oue k,,ds -, sb,rn,n, necl,o,os
laminotcd or huDt-un ,u,nber hoslso,.
etc FOR -boso ,urnoses n largo mum
her Of tho chcnncr and more nIenti-
ful woods oro usod Furthormoro
while .bc rroductior Of voroors
from tho cahinot woods bo,h imnort-
cd and domestic IS effected chiefly by
saving or s1ic,np. the reduction of
the great variety Of cheanar woods
for tho ,,urnoscs n,cntionel Is nv ro-
tory cutting This transformation in
the industry has occurred in COM
parativclv brief period. and has been
due IN largo mart 20 the growing
scarcity Of t,rhor thc ranid,v in
croos,np cost NJ lumber and tho CON
seouent NECESSITY for pr,oter economv
tn e. ,so
An ,n,oros,,r, fo,ture d,sc,osoa NJ.
the statistics for 1oo7 20 tho fact
+hot tho od,,orco /, a,o,oy. zoe, nor
Thousand foot for all domestic yroods
/ combined ,.os roo,itg,lo heiro pror,
.,5Aa to ,15k2 d.sn,,o ,b, ,act ,hot
mo,or,ol ,,croo,oa nr,e,r tn ,bo
, average cost of +be ,nd,v,dua, sn.-
; c,os cop,osirr tbo toto, ,rlo oxn,or-
: o.ior :. ,ornS "a ~. too, ,ho, ro,,
, ,,,.oiv and In WAC, cosos ac,uar,,
tro htoha-rr,cod ao,rostio ,,oods
bave decreasea g., nuort,v consumod
,,.huo -, 80 ,,a o,oa,ou 80.
hoy. .r,stor,t,uv ,roro,soa ,h,s
, oho,r,r ,ho oa,,,,,osi,io, -, a.. ,o,o,
: FOR ,so7 nv ,arpe,v Increasing tho
nercen,ays of lowar nr,ced woods
WITH Tho r..,,, tho. Two sbor, od.
yor,o, IN tho soror,, snoo,os nv. rr,c
+,cauv peutr,ltzed Tbo corsumn+,or
y, ,ran,. decro,sod fro,,, an osA "a 90
175 Thousand feet In quantity. but nd
vonced IN average cos, nor thousand
feet from 40 no ~, ,1Aoo
= The decreasa In white oak was
Y from assaS tc p2s71 thousand feet
accomponied bv an advance IN COS,
from s31.s7 t., s3b.56. Red oak de-
creased from s1Os to 4Gos thousand
1 feet in quantity and Increased from,
, .2s.s1 to s3lae ner Thousand feet IN
average cost: walnut decreased from
5l21 TO 395p thousand foe, IN ouen
ttty and advanced from ssr.7s n
s7o3e per thousand feet In averops
4 cost. On the other hand. red Run nd
vanced in averape cost nor thou
sand feet from $3.50 10 s1o.3s and in
creased In Quantity from 73os2 20
l02es2 thousand feet Cottonwood In
= creased in cost from s12.37 70 s12oo
and I'm quantity from 29OG3 TO og,1
thousand foot The increase I'm aver
aCe cost per thousand feet OF noplar
I was slight. being from s21.,9 TO SOL
n "a. but In quantity the increase wa.
from 2IG1a thousand feet to 2oO27
, thousand feet.
- Birch advanced IN average COS,
q per thousand feet from s13 TO s15.55
= and Increased In quantity from, 16 s2s
TO 1909 thousand feet: and tupelc
advanced from so.oe 70 s1O57 in av,r.
age cost por thousand feet and in.
: creased from san to 14s37 thousand
feet In quantity. White oak. red oak
maple. and walnut constituted Of ne,
cent. of tho total consumption o,
domestic woods In veneer manufac.