April 25, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



53 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Hardwood men have just finished a dull week after a period when 

 market conditions were showing slight but steady improvement, and whole- 

 sale interests report a sudden falling off in inquiries the last week that 

 amounts to fifty per cent or more in some cases. Lumbermen interested in 

 the hardwood market attribute the week's dullness to business uncertainty. 

 Prices have not reacted much to the dullness in the last week, however, 

 because of the increasing scarcity of materials. Some hardwood lines are 

 exhausted, so far as Indiana buying is concerned, and the logging situation 

 has been so unsatisfactory this spring as to limit mill outputs seriously. 

 There is no prospect that deliveries of logs will improve much before July, 

 for the farmers, after a warm winter when the woods were too wet for 

 logging operations, are now busy with spring planting, and the prospect 

 of a wheat crop of 60,000,000 bushels In Indiana at the government's 

 guarantee is expected to beep them pretty close to the fields. 



EVANSVILLE 



There has been a marked improvement in the hardwood trade in southern 

 Indiana, southern Illinois and western and northern Kentucky during the 

 past two weeks, and manufacturers are of the opinion that business will 

 remain good the balance of the year. The logging situation has picked up 

 a great deal and most of the mills are now operating on full time. A good 

 many logs cut and rafted along the rivers in western Kentucky will be 

 brought here on the next rise of the Ohio river. Many manufacturers 

 report a great scarcity of certain items of lumber and say that because 

 of this scarcity prices are bound to remain firm for some time. Hickory 

 is hard to get, carriage manufacturers finding it impossible to get enough 

 stock to keep their plants in full operation. There is a strong demand 

 for quartered white and quartered red oak, the plain grades being in fair 

 demand. Gum is in better call now than it has been for some time, due 

 to the fact that many large furniture manufacturers of this section have 

 been in the market. Poplar is in better demand than for some time, while 

 walnut is only fair. Cottonwood has been moving briskly for several weeks ; 

 quartered sycamore is moving well, and ash, maple and elm are strong. 

 "Wood consuming plants of Evansville and other cities in the tri-state ter- 

 ritory are being operated steadily. Chair and furniture factories are 

 especially busy and from reports received from the West and Southwest 

 they are going to have a good trade all season. Box factories are busy. 



MILWAUKEE 



The outlook in the hardwood lumber market at Milwaukee and in gen- 

 eral throughout Wisconsin shows gradual and healthy improvement. The 

 demand is broadening perceptibly almost every day, while manufacturers 

 are using their utmost efforts to keep production at the best possible level 

 to replenish the stocks that now are being reduced. The requirements of 

 veneer panel mills are growing probably faster than other sources of 

 demand. The furniture trade is becoming enlivened and reaching a state 

 of activity similar to that noted in musical instrument and cabinet In- 

 dustries. There also is a fairly good market for the medium and poor 

 grades of hardwood, so that little if any complaint is heard anywhere up 

 and down the line. 



Purchases of hardwood stock for sash, doors, interior trim, fixtures, etc., 

 are increasing. An idea of the remarkable expansion of building opera- 

 tions may be gained from the fact that In Milwaukee, the aggregate value 

 of building permits issued during the first three and a half month.s of the 

 year was more than ISO per cent in excess of the volume of a year ago. 

 And apparently only a beginning has been made. Much bigger things are 

 being looked for during the summer and fall months. 



DETROIT 



With a gradual expansion along all building lines the hardwood demand 

 is improving and comes more nearly approaching a healthy condition than 

 was generally anticipated by the trade. Dealers now see a most favor- 

 able outlook for a good season's business. Local representatives who have 

 been keeping in touch with the northern hardwood situation are more 

 concerned with the visible supply than the price situation and predictions 

 are freely made that there will be serious shortages before the close of 

 the year. 



Yards are buying more freely than at any time for many months, with a 

 view to some future requirements where a short time ago purchases were 

 more cautiously made. Some who had expected to see reductions as the 

 result of the price fixing commission have placed orders more freely, and 

 wholesale men and manufacturers say inquiries are better than at any time 

 since the signing of the armistice. 



The building reports for March showed a very satisfactory condition, and 

 work already announced during the present month will easily exceed March 

 figures and has done much toward putting the old time spirit in the local 

 market. 



Outside of the yard demands manufacturers say that inquiries and pur- 

 chases on the part of woodworking concerns are improving and are more 

 generous than formerly, indicating a growing belief that there will not be 

 any concessions in prices for some time at least. The demand is general 

 for all grades and thicknesses of woods. 



The anticipation for a general and farreaching program of residence 

 building has given considerable impetus to interior finishing in general, 

 flooring and oak. 



'WE WANT YOUR ORDERS" 



OAK— POPLAR— CHESTNUT 



Soft Texture Virginia Stock 



OAK DIMENSION. PINE DIMENSION 



The Kerns Lumber Co., Roanoke, Va. 



PALMER & PARKER COMPANY 



TEAK MAHOGANY ebony 



ENGLISH OAK \ICMCCDC DOMESTIC 



CIRCASSIAN WALNUT VENEERS HARDWOODS 



103 Medford Street, Charlestown Dist. 

 BOSTON, MASS. 



WE WANT TO SELL 

 For QUICK SHIPMENT 



100 M' 6/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr Birch 

 50 M' 6/4" No. 2 Com. Birch 

 50 M' 6/4" No. 3 Com. Birch 

 1 00 M' 6/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr. Hard Maple 

 (6" & wider) 

 50 M' 6/4" No. 3 Com. Hard Maple 

 1 00 M' 8/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr. Hard Maple 

 Send us vour inquiries for 

 NORTHERN HAR'DiVOODS and HEMLOCK 



Wheeler -Timlin Lumber Co. 



WAUSAU, WISCONSIN 



QUALITY is remem- 

 bered long after price 

 is forgotten. When desir- 

 ing quality write us. 



A Few Dry Items Now Ready 



1 car 4/4 No. 1 Com. & Bet. Red Gum 



1 car 4/4 FAS Sap Gum 6" & wider 



1 car 5/4 FAS Plain Red Oak 



1 car 5/4 FAS Qrtd. Red Oak 



1 car 4/4 FAS Qrtd. Red Oak, 10" & w. 



1 car 4/4 FAS Qrtd. Sycamore 



J. V. Stimson & Co, 



OWENSBORO KENTUCKY 



ATISFACTORY 

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