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HARDWOOD RECORD 



A Remarkable Shipment 



of 



Mahogany 



For the past two weeks we have been 

 unloading at our Chicago plant the most 

 remarkable shipment of mahogany logs 

 we ever received. 



This shipment fills several cars and is 

 made up of nearly six hundred selected 

 logs. 



Every precaution was taken to insure 

 as far as is possible in mahogany only 

 such logs as will produce the very highest 

 type of mahogany veneer for high-class 

 cabinet purposes. 



Those logs already opened up reveal an 

 amazing quality, character and variety of 

 figure. We will secure from this shipment 

 some brilliantly mottled wood for high- 

 class piano manufacture. 



Unusually good stock for furniture 

 purposes has already been cut from this 

 shipment and a very considerable quan- 

 tity more is insured. 



Altogether, judging from what has 

 already been shown, this shipment will 

 place upon the market the finest stock 

 of mahogany veneer that has yet been 

 turned out at our plant. 



Buyers are already too familiar with 

 our perfection of manufacture to need 

 further explanation of our methods. 



Users of mahogany visiting Chicago 

 are earnestly invited to call and inspect 

 the Willey plant and veneer and lumber 

 warehouse at Robey Street and Blue 

 Island Avenue. Blue Island Avenue 

 car at the postoffice to Robey Street. 



C. L. WILLEY, Chicago 



Largest Mahogany Veneer and Lumber Producing Plant in 

 the World 



sale concerns are able to secure it. Asli is in good demand but poplar 

 is waning somewhat. There is a fair demand for hickory and prices are 

 high. 



Builders are waiting for an opportunity to begin operations and a few 

 warm days held out considerable hope of an early season. There are 

 several new up-river additions to be opened and a boom is also presaged 

 for Air Line .Tunction, a suburb of Toledo, where the Lake Shore railroad 

 is expending .$3,000,000 in yard and shop improvements. Building has 

 already begun in that section and, according to architects' plans, build- 

 ing there will be heavy this summer not only in residence structures but 

 in investment structures as well. The work has begun of tearing down 

 old shacks in what is known as Toledo's "murder district" near the 

 court house, where the new civic center will be built at enormous ex- 

 pense, the tirst building to he constructed there this summer. This build- 

 ing will be a city hall. Large quantities of hardwood will be used in the 

 structure. 



=-< NASHVILLE >= 



The local lumbermen continue to do a thriving business. For the 

 past two weeks, however, the local market has been devoid of specially 

 interesting or important features. It is confidently believed that greatly 

 increased activity will be noticeable with the opening of the spring 

 season, activity which will benefit not only the manufacturers of hard- 

 woods but the retail trade as well, for the latter is promised all the.v 

 can comfortably handle, with the large amount of building in prospect. 

 The prevailing prices are still stiff, and there is a good general call 

 for all desirable stock. Good dry stocks are still low, however, and 

 hence hard to get. There is an increased demand for ash and good 

 calls for plain oak. Quartered oak is moving well: there is activity 

 with gum and chestnut, and there is a good call for Cottonwood and low- 

 ^rade poplar. The millmen, especially those in the country sections, are 

 behind with their orders and are making strong efforts to keep up with 

 the demand, but have been held back by bad weather, which has also 

 handicapped the log operators and prevented them from hauling much 

 1o the railroads for shipment. This has caused light receipts of logs 

 liere, hut the shipments will he materially increased with the advent of 

 good spring weather. 



luuing February there was a decided hesitation noticed among buyers, 

 l>ut this is not to be seen just now, and there are plenty of orders to be 

 had at prevailing prices from all needing stock. There are still com- 

 paratively few' orders for future deliveries, however, and the producers 

 show little disposition to book orders for future deliveries. The stocks 

 of a desirable character being low, producers feel that the demands will 

 increase with added spring calls, but the buyers seem to feel that prices 

 will go down if the present rate of production continues. 



=-< BRISTOL y- 



Hardwood men of this territory report that orders are not coming in 

 as rapidly as they have been, but they ai-e not complaining, and feel 

 that a short breathing spell will be of advantage to business, as most of 

 the mills are oversold and working overtime in an effort to get up their 

 orders already booked. The outlook is considered very favorable and it 

 is generally thought that 1913 will be a splendid year for the trade. 



=-< LOUISVILLE y- 



The demand tor hardwoods shows no diminution in strength, and the 

 price list is continuing on an extremel.v firm basis, though advances have 

 not been numerous. The strength of the market is of a satisfactory 

 character, however, and apparently means that lumbermen will be able 

 to do business under favorable conditions for many months to corae. 

 More lumber is coming into the market with the opening of the spring 

 season, which has released a good deal of stock cut up at the small 

 interior mills ; but this has been snapped up so quickly that it has not 

 had a chance to make itself felt as a bear factor. In fact, there are 

 no conditions of this type which could have much weight in the face of 

 the big proposition that consumers need luml)er. that they are working 

 their factories at full speed, and that they are not trying to analyze 

 conditions with a view to getting prices down a little, hut are chiefly 

 concerned with getting the material on their yards and turning it out 

 in the form of the finished product. Companies which have contracted 

 tor their lumber are specifying freely, and those which buy In carloads 

 are rushing shipments through in jig time. I'lain oak continues to he a 

 best seller, with red going best, but plain white also being absorbed as 

 soon as offered. Poplar is improving and quartered oak remains strong. 

 Ash is scarce and high in price, and cottonwood and gum are moving 

 briskly. Thick hickory has been in demand lately. 



--•<, MILWAUKEE y 



The scarcity of dry stocks is causing more and more uneasiness as 

 the season progresses and predictions are being made that considerable 

 difficulty will be experienced before new stocks begin to arrive. Bass- 

 wood generally makes its first appearance early in May, but birch and 

 other lines will not begin to arrive to any extent until June. Business 

 is naturally curtailed in some lines because of the shortage, as buyers* 

 are inclined to take only enough to meet their iiresent requirements. The 



