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in Buffalo that woiilcl mako that remark 

 this year. It is some men's nature to 

 croak, and there are some of the breed in 

 Buffalo, but the good times have lasted so 

 long they have got pretty well tired out 

 prophesying the hard times that don't 

 come and that show no signs of coming. 



Taking it all around, there is very little 

 change in the general market condition 

 from my last letter. 



MEMPHIS. 



The activity in hiiuber demand continnes 

 here, but the mills have been doing better 

 work recently. Tlie liigh tide of prices has 

 likely been reached, and the tendency of 

 the market is to an easier tone. This 

 year promises to be another of the "\m- 

 precedented" in local building, and big and 

 little contracts are coming thick and 

 heavy. The box manufacturers and the 

 general lumber trade are still clamorous 

 for Cottonwood. Poplar Is more .active. 

 Ash is scarce in large quantities of tlie 

 better grades. Orders for cypress from 

 out of town are not quite so numerous, 

 but this deeaese is offset l)y the local de- 

 mand. Gum has been sold in quantities 

 In the domestic and foreign markets. 



NEW YORK. 



Even with the general lumber situation 

 dull, the trade iu hardwoods is of qiiite -i 

 satisfactory nature. Of course, no stock 

 of any amount is either moving in or out 

 of the retail yards of tlie boroughs of Man- 

 hattan and the Bronx, but the export trade 

 is not being aft'ected and the furniture and 

 interior trim men are getting wliat they 

 need, while, as for out-of-town orders, tney 

 are being filled right along. 



Firmness, too, continues to be the fea- 

 ture of prices. It might be imagined that 

 with only a fair call there would be cer- 

 tain elements of wealiuess creep in. But 

 this is not discernible. Everything — oak, 

 plain and quartered, poplar, ash, walnut 

 and mahogany — is scarce and high, and 

 there is no reason why holders should go 

 down a penny iu their prices to secure or- 

 ders. The latter are bound to come, and 

 the chasing to be done is all on the part of 

 the buyer. The seller knows lie has a 

 good thing and can afford to wait. 



CINCINNATI. 



Thus far this nioutli has proved to be 

 very good for the hardwood dealers, al- 

 though even at that it is a little behind 

 the month of April iu volume of business 

 transacted. The demand continues good, 

 but sales are not eft'eeted as easily as they 

 have been, for certain woods. The supply 

 on some woods seems better than it has 

 been, l)ut not to a very great extent. Prices 

 are high and firm and bid fair to remain 

 where they are for some time. To this 

 may be attributed the reluctance of large 

 consumers to lay in lieavily of needed 

 stock. The scarcity of dry stock has also 

 played havoc with ^.w. many yards iu this 

 vicinity. They look as if a cyclone had 

 struck tiiem and the owners claim it 's 

 next to impossible to get any desirable 

 lumber. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Despite the fact that the carpenters' 

 strike seems to be no nearer a settlement 

 than on May 1, when the men quit work, 

 the trade conditions in this city are un- 

 usually good and all of the dealers are 

 looking forward to one of the largest sea- 

 sous in the history of the trade. All of 

 the lumber men admit that the strike has 

 lessened the demand for building material. 



but the falling off was not nearly so great 

 as the dealers anticipated. The demand 

 for lumber in the districts outside of the 

 city is extremely heavy, and the dealers 

 are shipping many carloads out of the city 

 each day. 



NEW BAND RIP SA^W. 



If any of our readers have any ripping 

 to do. the machine here represented will 

 without doubt prove of much interest. Its 



ble danger to oi)er.itor. Its many advan- 

 tages that enable it to do good work and 

 prove labor saving re(|uire detailed descrip- 

 tion, so cuts should l)e sent for in order to 

 thoroughly understand what it can do. 

 The thin saw blade will save an amount 

 oc kerf that will be readily appreciatetl by 

 all users of flue hnnber. The straining de- 

 vice, with knife edge balance, insures at all 

 times an even tension on the saw blade, 

 something so necess:iry to jirolong its life 

 and yet so seldom found. 



The lower wheel being solid there is no 



.NO. I. BAND KIP SAW. 



makers claim it will surpass In ([uality and 

 (luantity anything in this line tliey are now 

 using. For ripping fine lumber it is far in 

 advance of other models of this character 

 and represents an entirely original de- 

 I)arture. There is no other like it. and It 

 has met with umiualitied success wherever 

 used, as is attested by many letters from 

 its users who praise its merits very highly. 

 Copies of these letters will be sent to any 

 desiring them, as it is the policy of the 

 makers to prove as far as possible every 

 claim they may make concerning any mu- 

 chine, Tlie machine was patented Feb- 



190(1, and October 



lt)(K). 



It will do either light or heavy work, and 

 cut either soft or hard wood, with no possi- 



vibration, increased nK)inentnni, and no 

 possibility of it overrunning the upper. By 

 the single movement of a lever the machine 

 is converted into a hand feed rip saw, and 

 where flooring is matle in largo quanti- 

 ties, it is fitted with a long table in which 

 are rolls for quickly rcturning material. 

 The feed rolls are placed close together, so 

 that short work can be done to advantage. 



The builders of this tool. .7. A. Fay & 

 Egan Co., of No. 414 to 4:M W. Front 

 street, Cincinnati, Ohio, can be addressed 

 for further particulars. 



Their new complete catalogue of wood- 

 working machinery will be sent free to 

 those interested, who will write for it, men- 

 tioning this paper. 



