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to $52.50. while ash is an excellent seller 

 at $45. The right kind of ash. by the way, 

 is not easy to obtain. 



For chestnut there is a fairly good de- 

 mand, but prices are not very firm, and 

 most of the call comes from the West. 



The export call for all the hardwoods 

 is best denominated ,is extremely light, a 

 condition that the dealers here find it hard 

 to explain, as there has not been much 

 buying and the stocks of American timber 

 in the hands of foreign buyers mu.st be 

 extremely light. It is haril to attribute 

 the delay in purchasing to any belief that 

 prices will decline, for conditions heiv do 

 not tend to strengthen or give color to any 

 such hope. 



MEMPHIS. 



The mills are very active here these 

 days, with generally good supplies of logs 

 by river and rail. The export demand is 

 better than it was thirty days ago for 

 lumber, and this has offset a somewhat 

 noticeable diminuition in the eastern Ijusi- 

 ncss. probably due to the strikes in the 

 East. The local contracting firms are 

 quite busy and the record of building in 

 .Tune exceeded that of any month for two 

 years back. Conditions of demand are 

 slightly easier on gum and cottonwood. but 

 there has not been, nor hardly will be. any 

 change in the price schedule. There is no 

 surplus, lint it is only that customers can 

 1j- accommodated with greater ease. 

 Quartered white and red occupy the same 

 strong position and are relatively much 

 liigher than plain sawn stock, though the 

 latter is very firm and in active demand. 



NASHVILLE. 



The mills of Nashville and those that 

 act as feeders to the Nashville mills in 

 Keutu<-ky and Eastern Tennessee are mak- 

 ing first-class time these days. The out- 

 put is generally pretty well contracted for 

 ill advance. There is no stock that goes 

 ii-begging. Practically every wood sold on 

 the Nashville market is in spirited demand. 

 This is true of oak. (puirtered and plain 

 sawn, white and red, pojilar, ash, chestnut 

 and walnut. It is not expected there will 

 be any cessation in demand or diminuition 

 in price this summer. There may be an 

 easier demand, but that is doubtful. It 

 looked more that way three or four weeks 

 ago than it does now. This is the nomi- 

 nally dull season of the year, but the in- 

 dications are that everything will go on 

 at an easy but firm gait all the summer. 



MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL. 



Trades are limited here principally by 

 scarcity of stock, which affects practically 

 everything. There is a steady though not 

 strong demand for oak. which is being 

 supplied by a few dealers fortunate enough 

 to hold some dry stock. No (luartered oak 

 .seems to be coming to this market, which 

 is not after the higher grades at prevailing 

 prices. Elm lumber is scarce and com- 

 manding full list i)rice and dealers are 

 looking for a shortage before the season is 

 o\er. The bigli price of elm staves has 

 caused the stave factories to buy up all 

 the.v can of the limited i)roduction of elm 

 logs, and the hunber output, will be small. 

 New stock of basswood is coming in in in- 

 creasing quantity to supply the demand, 

 which does not let u]). Hirch and ash are 

 being cleaned up closer than ever before. 

 The furniture demand is not strong, as 

 nearly all the local factories seem to be 

 stocked up and are using pine very largely. 

 The sash and door factories are running 



liglit and say they are not in the market 

 lor h.-irdwood stock at present. The trade 

 i'.^ cunung from yards and outside fac- 

 tories, Kirch is being used here steadily 

 in street car construction and some cherry 

 is worked in for finer finish. A notable 

 feature of the market is tlie increased use 

 of gum. which is coming in some quantity, 

 principally in the shape of barrel staves. 

 Some large oi'ders have been taken at the 

 local cooper shops, which have been des- 

 perate trying to get elm and basswood. 

 Some whitewood heading has also been 

 sent in to relieve the stringency in the bass- 

 wood sit\iation. 



LOUISVILLE. 



The m.-irket cunditions in Louisville con- 

 tinue excellent. The (V'mand for all woods 

 continues strong. The leading wood in 

 this market at the present time is quartered 

 white oak, which is exceedingl.v .scarce. 

 Stock from four to six months dry cannot 

 be had at any price. The country mills 

 during the last sixty days have put quite 

 a good deal of stock to the road, but this 

 lias had no visible effect on the market, as 

 all the stock that has yet reached the road 

 has been taken up, though most of it is 

 ,iust from the saw. there being practically 

 no dry stocks at the country mills, as was 

 expected. 



The demand for plain oak is fair, thick 

 stock especiall.v being in demand, and some 

 sales on 3 and 4 inch have been reported 

 during the last week at very fancy figures. 



SUGAR A TIMBER PRESERVER. 



(London (_;i(jbe,i 



-Vmong new uses to which sugar has 

 recently l)een put is in the preservation of 

 timber. Much interest has been aroused 

 by the announcement, as the result of a 

 in-olonged series of experiments, of a 

 method of so treating tindier as to secure 

 even from soft wood a largely increased 

 toughness and hardness. The treatment 

 to which the timber is subjected is. roughly 

 speaking, that of saturation at boiling 

 point with a solution of sugar, the water 

 being afterward evaporated at a high tem- 

 perature. The result is to leave the pores 

 and interstices of the wood filled in with 

 solid matter and the timlier vulcanized, 

 preserve<l and seasoned. The natui'e of 

 moderately soft wood, it is claimed, is in 

 this way changed to a tough and hard 

 substance, without brittleness, and also 

 without any tendency to split or ci'ack. 



I'rior to the glorious Fourth the Lum- 

 ber Underwriters of 0(5 Broadway, New 

 York City, sent out notices to their many 

 customers inviting them to use every pre- 

 caution against fire on that day and recom- 

 mending a special night and d:iy watch- 

 man. It was a thoughtful me.-isure which 

 should have been, and no <loulit was. ob- 

 ser\t'il to a great extent. 



This office is in receipt of n letter from 

 one of its subscribers wanting to know 

 w here he could find a market for Buckeye. 

 In the same mall was also an inquiry for 

 a market for persimmon and holly. All 

 of these varieties of hardwoods are fl lit- 

 tle outside the pale of what are considered 

 commercial hardwoods, yet they have their 

 uses, and (he Record would be indebted 

 for such inl'ormatiou on its own account. 



TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE. 



HERE'S A BARGAIN. 



Thirty thonsaud acres on the boundary 

 l)etween North Carolina and Tennessee ; 

 railroad runs through it ; can commence 

 operation at once; it has never been on 

 the market hefure; absolute titles and care- 

 fully estiinatfd bv a Wisconsin lumberman 

 to cut ]L',o(j(i,oi)ij white pine, 15,000,000 

 poplar, 2,,jiio,on(i chestnut. 1.500,000 oat;. 

 1,000,000 Ijasswood, 13,000,000 hemlock, 

 5,000,000 yellow pine, .S()(),000 ash ; other 

 woods such as beach, birch, buckeye maple, 

 hickory, cherry and walnut not included in 

 the estimate ; the tract will cut about two 

 cords of chestnut bark per acre, which 

 brings $S per cord on a 2\i cent rate to 

 tannery, or $2 per* cord in the tree. The 

 chestnut oak can be used for export, bridge 

 and car timber or railroad ties ; man on tlie 

 property to show it ; price $100,000. half 

 cash, balance on easy terms. File 215. 

 TI.MBER AND COAL LANDS. 



Twenty thousand acres in Southern Vir- 

 ginia, Will cut ti.oOO feet of yellow poplar, 

 3,000 feet white oak, and 4,000 feet of 

 other kinds of timber to the acre. The en- 

 tire tract is underlaid with coal. Five 

 openings have been made, the principal 

 vein being over ten feet thick and all of the 

 Pocahontas seam. Twelve miles to one sta- 

 tion, 22 miles to another. Title perfect, 

 tee simple. Price. ,$25 per acre. File 20y. 

 POPLAR TREES. 



Five thousand poplar trees in Kentucky. 

 20 incites and up. Each tree is branded 

 and measured and will cut 7.000.000 feet. 

 Warranty deed, perfect title, ,$25,000, File 



200,000 OAK AND POPLAR TREES. 



On the Big Sandy River, in E.astern Ken- 

 tucky, along the new line of the C, & 0, 

 R.v. " For sale outright or a half interest. 

 Price. $1,25 per tree from 16 to 21 inches ; 

 $1,75 for all from 22 up. Terms, half cash, 

 balance in two annual payments at G per 

 cent. Our contracts call for all oak, pop- 

 lar, lynn, ash, buckeye and cucumber. Title 

 absolutely good. Owner will pay all ex- 

 penses of investigation if titles are found 

 defective. 

 1,280 ACRES JIN TALLAHATCHIE COUNTV, 

 MISSISSIPPI, 



This land is situated six miles from 

 Charleston, ten miles from the I, C, R, R, 

 and three miles from the Tallehatchie River, 

 The average on this tract will be about 

 5,000 feet to the acre, and consists of 

 white oak, ash, and short-leaf pine. Price, 

 $7.50 per acre. File E. D. M. 



A BARGAIN IN HARDWOODS. 



Five thousand acres hardwood on Cumber- 

 land Mountain, within three miles of rail- 

 read ; estimated to cut IU.000.000 white 

 oak, 5.000,000 poplar. 5.000.000 chestnut 

 and 5,250,000 hickory and other timber, in- 

 cluding walnut : a portion underlaid with 

 coal : price. $3.25 per acre. File 25. 

 PINE, OAK AND POPLAR. 



We otter 1,440 acres of stumpage within 

 75 miles of Chattanooga, Tenn., at $6.50 

 per acre cash. It will cut 1,750.000 feet 

 vellow pine. 1,500,000 white oak, 1,100,000 

 poplar. Logging easy, can be cut and 

 logged to mill site for $250 per M ; level 

 road to railroad, team can make four trips 

 a day. Put in a mill and go to work. File 

 125. 



STUMPAGE. 



One thousand to 1.600 acres of hardwood 

 timber stumpage at $2.5o per M feet as 

 cut. Only a nominal payment down .as evi- 

 dence of "good faith. Balance can be paid 

 as timber is cut and marketed. Here's an 

 opportunity for a man and mill to go right 

 to work. Refer to File No, 1. 

 NORTH CAROLINA DEAL. 



We have for sale li.OOO acres in Hender- 

 son and Transylvania counties, N. C, of the 

 finest virgin hardwood timber at $5.50 per 

 acre. This is five miles from the railroad 

 and will cut .■!,000 feet to the acre of mer- 

 chantable lumber. Title perfect. File No. 1. 

 MICA. 



Five thousand acres of hardwood in 

 North Carolina, estimated to cut 3.000 feet 

 to the acre. This tract contains two veins 

 of excellent mica, which has been opened 

 up In two places, and several blocks of 

 mica have been taken out. Price, with min- 

 eral rights reserved. $3.25 per acre, or 

 $5 per acre net in fee simple. File No. 1. 



SOUTHERN LAND COMPANY, 



134 Monroe Street, CHICAGO. 



,), F. Olscn. formerly ugenl for the Land ami 

 Industrial Departmeiu for the Southern and 

 Mobile .d Ohio Hallways. .Manager, Dealers in 

 Southern timber, mineral and forming lands 



