THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



25 



l/^RIM. 



Y, 



MANLFACTURER OF 



BAND SAWED HARDWOOD LUMBER 



QUARTER SAWED INDIANA WHITE OAK A SPECIALTY. 

 OF9EEIMC54KS~ri_E ----- I |M E3 I A.IM ^X. 



THIS MONTH WE OFFER 



INCH CLEAR SAP CUM 



RANDOVl WIDTHS OR ASSORTED. 



For Implement Work, 

 Wagon Box Boards. 

 Furniture, Cabinet and 

 Wood Specialt.v Manufacturers. 



THE FARRIN-KORN LUMBER CO. 



^ I IM C I IM IM ^KTI . 



F. W. OILCHRIST, Prest. F. R. GILCHRIST, V.-Prest, W. B. SMITH, Sec'y and Treas, 



Three States Lumber Go. 



HANUFACTURERS OF 



HARDWOOD LUMBER, 



COTTONWOOD AND GUM 



IVIII_l_^ : 



MISSOURI ARKANSAS- — TENNESSEE. 



OFFICE AND YARDS: CAIRO, ILLINOIS. 



GET OUR PRICES. TRY OUR LUMBER. WE SHIP ROUGH, DRESSED, RESAWED. 



COTTON WOOD-GUM 



WILL LUMBER COST LESS ? 



Sonic of the liiiuli.M- tvatlo papers ai-e 

 ilisinssiii;; wlu-tluT or not tho prices for 

 il'i- loiuiii,,!! lianlwo.Mls will ever lie lower 

 lli'-iii llii',v now are. The lumber papers 



''"'"■' "'-'t Pi-iws have been niaintaineii 



at what .seems like :, hiy-i, sehednl,. longer 

 'liMM even the makers an.l handlers of 

 tlies," wo,«l,s believed would be (he ease 

 : l"-<""''>^s to find in 111.' rapidly diminish- 

 ing; supply of the commonly u.sed hard- 

 wo<ms un c.vplanation of the prevailing 

 prices. The Hai(lwoo<l Record says that it 

 lannot see how American hardwoods can 

 e^■er u<> nuieh lower than they now are. 

 ■•'iiil ill this opinion the American Lumber- 

 man c.iincides. "There was a time." says 

 llie Kccrd. -uhen the only hardwoods 

 made iiiio lumber were poplar, walnut and 

 white oak. It was believed that when the 

 supply of these wo.xls b<.<ame exhausted. 

 the country would be .-nibarrassed for luin- 

 l>ei-. -\ii(l. of course, it would liav*. been. 

 '"il.v tliat the ollu.r hardwoods were 

 brouiibl ill. one by one. to till the Rap. 

 Ked oak. cottonwood. basswotxl. elm. etc.. 

 were one after another reiiuisitioned. Hut 

 with the bi'lnyiiif; in of sum as a wood of 

 commerce, we have jrotten to the end. We 

 have no more ivserves of any kind to 

 liring uii into the tiriiiy line. To us(- a 

 slaujEC expression, we are ■all in.' .\nd 

 some of our battalions are pretty nearly 

 .inniiiiiated. Basswood. ash. elm and cot- 

 tonwood will, within a few years, be out 

 of the market in commercial quantities. 

 l'oi>lar and white oak are ju'rowiiif;: much 

 scarcer, but for all that they were the lirst 

 two commercial liardwood.s, they will prob- 

 .ibly be the last. In maple an<l birch the 

 lnj;li-watcr m.irk of production has been 

 passed, and from this time forth there 

 will be a rapid shrinkajre until a dozen 

 years from now the supply will be wipe<l 

 out almost entirely. l!asswoo<l and cotton- 

 wood were brought forward as stibstitutes 

 for poplar, when poplar lieyun to .i;row 

 scarce. This kept the pi-ji.c „f i)„|,i,ir 

 <iown. lull basswiMid and cottonwood are 

 ilioiii irone. and we have nothing else to 

 .■Iter. How. then, is it po.ssible that the 

 price of poplar shall decline to any extent? 

 Kcd oak was offered as a substitute for 

 \\liiie oak. maple for ash. and so ou. 

 Whenever the price of any kind of hard- 

 wood lumber became high a cheaper sub- 

 stitute was found. Hut we are out of sub- 

 stitutes. We have nothing more to olTer. 

 We are all in. And we cannot see liow 

 liaiilwood lumber of any kind is ever going 

 to be muili lower in price than it is at 

 present. " To us this seems to be an ex- 

 treme view of the case. It is the kind of 

 I a Ik heard ten years ago. and while it is 

 line that cherry and walnut liave prac- 

 tically disap])ear«Hl. it is not true that all 

 the areas of hardwood timber have been 

 <lespoiled. New sources of supply are con- 

 stantly being found. In furnititre making 

 iii.ihogany. which is not a native W(X)d. is 

 r,i|iidly coining to be the most important 

 cabinet wood. — Furniture Journal. 



