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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



LOCATIONS FOR 

 INDUSTRIES. 



The name of the Chicai^o, Milwaukee 

 & St. Paul Railway lias long been iden- 

 tified with practical measures for the 

 general upbuilding of its territory and 

 the promotion of its commerce, hence 

 manufacturers have an assurance that 

 they will find themselves at ho*ne on 

 the company's lines. 



The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 Railway Company's 6,300 miles of rail- 

 way, exclusive of second track, con- 

 necting track or sidings, traverses eight 

 states, namely: 



which comprise a great Agricultura., 

 Manufacturing and Mining territory. 



The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 Railway Company gives unremitting at- 

 tention to the development of local 

 traffic on its lines and, with this in view, 

 seeks to increase the number of manu- 

 facturing plants on its system either 

 through their creation by local enter- 

 prise or the influx of manufacturers from 

 the East. It has all its territory dis- 

 tricted in relation to resources, adapta- 

 bility and advantages for manufactur- 

 ing. Specific information furnished 

 manufacturers in regard to suitable 

 locations. Address, 



LUIS JACKSON, 



Industrial Commissioner C. M. & St. P. R'y. 



660 Old Colony BIdg.. Ctilcaeo. III. 



MANUFACTURERS 

 AND SETTLERS 



will Bnd extraordinary Inducements for lo- 

 cation In Northern Wisconsin along the 

 WiscouHiii Central Liines There are 

 plenty of fine lands (or farming as well as 

 large beds of Clat/, Kaolin and Marl, u veiher 

 with fine Hardicood timber for manufactur- 

 ing purposes. 



Pamphlets and complete Information can 

 be obtained by wrUlng 



W. H. KILLEN, 

 Deputy lAnd and Industrial Commissioner, 



Colby k Abbot Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis., or 



JAS. C. POND, G. P. A., 



Milwaukee, Wis. 



nil that onn Ik- Kt'curi'il in... .\ niul 



lI'ITl- is Mil iluri-IIKillK Illllllllllt riillllll^- III. 



.\vli mill lili'kiir.v lire Imtli imrtliuliirly 

 siiiri'c mill lire iieeileil In Si. I.ihiIh. IIIcIi 

 prli'i'K |ireviill on nil of the wiiimIk limiilliil 

 1:1 iIiIk tiiiirket iiiiil liutliliiK in the iiMlnre 

 of ii sliiiii|) In e.\|K'rtiil In the iieiir fiiliiie. 



MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL. 



'I'lie hiirilwiMiil iniii'liel Is In ]inii'tirnlly 

 the smile efiiiillliiin repinlliiK lirlees iit the 

 ini'si'iit lime lis It WHS six mill seven 

 iiKiiitlis iiKii til MiiineapuIlK iiiul the Norlli- 

 west. I'rlees lire exeeeilliiKly linn, iiiiil 

 mIIIidukIi liiisiness is eoiislilenihly liiililer 

 this yeiir Ihiiii in I'.NIli liiirin^ the siinie 

 perioil. there is no (lispuslliiin iiiiKini; llie 

 ileiilcTs 111 eiit jiriees llie merest Irille to 

 siininhite liiisiness. In this the iiMrilwood 

 |ieo|iie stmiil )i)it with the white |iine peo- 

 ple. Yiird Ifiide reeeutiy hiis pieked np 

 some. The retailers are eoming out of their 

 holes and are looking over the market for 

 liimlier for the suniiner Inisiness. The 

 wliolesalers have had suspleions that the 

 line yard iM'ople have had a eoinhine this 

 sprin;; to only liny luniher wiien ahsoliitely 

 necessary. The olijeet, of eourse, was to 

 hear the whole luniher niarkil. Ileavj 

 ;inil freiiuent rains tlii(in;;lioul llie Noiih- 

 west last sprint: and dnriii;; this iiiontli has 

 heeii the rule. Thi.s has hurt business, as 

 construction work is given a setliaek. 

 Wholesalers, however, find no diHienlty in 

 seiliiiK all the hardwood of tlie staple arti- 

 cles that they can buy. Hardwood re- 

 ceipts ill this city have been small lliis 

 year. Dry stock i.s liard to ^'et. The fea- 

 ture of the local market recently has been 

 the stIffeniiiK in prices of liasswood, owing 

 to its scarcity. Quartered wliite oak is 

 the most in demand and urices aeeoroiiigly. 

 Hirch is quoted at Higher prices than it 

 sold for last winter. The demand is good. 

 Slocks ne.xt winter arc expected to he in 

 fairly good sliape only. The Twin Cities 

 are doing more liuilding this year than last, 

 especially .Minneapolis. 



PITTSBURG. 



The lumber situation here for the last 

 two weeks has been ovi'rshadowiHl by tlie 

 Iirospect of a general tie np of building 

 operations resulting from the inability of 

 the lirieklayers and stonemasons to agree 

 with eacli other and the eonseiinent deter- 

 mined stand of the contractors to stop all 

 work indelinitely jiending the setl lenient 

 of Uieir dithiulties. This has resulted in 

 ccntr.ictors "laying down" on their orders, 

 many of them large ones, and piling up 

 stock on retail dealers. Tiiey in turn jiave 

 cut off their orders from wholesalers, so 

 that the eft'ect has lieen to give tiie market 

 .1 slump. No serious results have lieen re- 

 liorted. although dealers ail along the line 

 leit the tighter conditions tliat prevailed. 

 There is a prospect now that tiie strike 

 will be settled amicably and that dealing 

 will not be curtailed. 



Local lumber dealers have been advised 

 recently and officially that on and after 

 .June 2'2 tlie freight rates from the South- 

 west will be advanced two cents per hun- 

 dred pounds. The advance marks a vic- 

 tory for the railroads, for shippers and 

 lumber dealers have been fighting the 

 r.Tise for months. It was expected to come 

 three months later. Init at this time will 

 result in a slight advance in the price of 

 all lumber from the Southwest. As man.v 

 o; the largest lirms in tlie city are cutting 

 largely in this territory this summer, the 

 local market will feel the change of rates 

 at once. Floods in the South and inade- 

 quate railroad facilities have been quite a 

 drawback to local dealers who are anxious 



to ^t>t In hirue Hhlpiiieiits before tile hot 

 Weillhi'l' sets III. 



Ill gi'iieial eoiidltloiiK are very rnvoralile 

 III the lo.al iiiiirket. .Mthoiigh I'lttslnirg Ih 

 not iiH iiineli of a hanlwiHiil center iin Home 

 other large ellles, where riirnlliire faetorleH 

 lake II large mnoiint of kIiiIT, more hiinl- 

 wi.imI is being hanilliil here this Hiiiiiinei- 

 than cMT iM'fore by al least one fourth. 

 The in< I'l'MNi'd amount of hiirdwoiHl llnlsli 

 Is liirgcl\ responsiliii- for this ilciuaiid in 

 the tincr grades. I'lider the Inipeliw of 

 the goiul limes more lionseK are being pro- 

 vided wilh an all round hardwood tliilsh 

 than before, and practh-ally all new liouseK 

 costing over !|!.*i.iKMi liave at least hardwoiKl 

 tloors. Itailroads cinitiiiue to take a large 

 amoiinl of heavy sliilT and the call for 

 mine limlier is increasing. Itiiyers who 

 have Just ifturneil from trips through the 

 South, when- local llriiis iiave their mills, 

 report Ihal il is very hard to gel good 

 timber In any i|uaiilll,v on the stump and 

 that a large amount of cut timber has not 

 collie down to the mills as yet. 



NASHVILLE. 



The liiiiilier market presents a strong 

 Imsition in tills Cuiiiberland Itiver eoiiii- 

 iry. with the same viewpoint over in the 

 iiiountaiiis of Kast Tennessee and down 

 in .\orlli .Mabania. all arising from phe- 

 lu.meli.il demand ;iiid liKnlerate slocks in 

 li:iiid, the mills generally going at fall* 

 capacity, but orders aliead all the time. 

 Trice teiideiii-ies do not seem to have' 

 liidged downwaril in the slightest since 

 the mills have been making their good 

 time. Oak, pojilar, Jish, chestnut, cedar, 

 hickory, walnut and coltonwood are in 

 jclive reiiuesl. Collections are geiierall.v 

 good anil the big concerns seem to be 

 having their day. The furniture business 

 in its ni.inufactnring lines is receiving 

 an impetus now. Tlie stave business, too, 

 that was thought to have gone by the 

 board for .Middle Tennessee, springs out 

 ar.ew every now and tlien. The buyei-s 

 of lumber are generally )ilaciiig tlieir or- 

 ders for delivery at some specilied time. 

 ]>ry slock is a term that stretches along 

 way now. Witliiii the last two or three 

 \M'eks. .Middle TeiinessiH' has experienced 

 heavy r.iiiis that not only inlerferred with 

 the wheat crop, but what is more vital to 

 the lumber peojih' — with logging opera- 

 tions in its interior positions. 



MEMPHIS. 



A shortage of dry stock seems to have 



relegated to the densest oblivion the for- 

 mer cry of sliorlage of cars. Dry stock 

 does not mean what it used to it; lumber 

 parl,ince. The price tendencies don't 

 Ml III to e;ise otT much after ail. The mills 

 :ire all running, liut the export and domes- 

 tic demand is keeping ahead of them. 

 Tliere hiive been more buyers in town 

 from foreign points the last fortnight than 

 for the last two months. As for the 

 domestic business, a healthy volume of 

 trade is moving and it's only a question 

 of stock aud knowledge of who has the 



Empire Lumber Co., 



CHICAGO. 



WAMTPn • i CHERRY. OAK. CYPRESS. 

 WANTED . ^ GEORGIA PINE . . . 



Or any tklnc yaa hav* tor side In hardwood*. 



