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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10, 1919 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter (awed 



WHITE and RED OAK and YELLOW POPLAR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wagon and Vehicle Stock in the rough 

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ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



Wistar, Underhili & Nixon 



PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 



Manufacturers of CYPRESS and GUM 



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NORTHERN 



HARDWOODS 



and HEMLOCK 



ELM 



2 cars 2" No. 2 C. & B. Rock 



2 cars I'/z" No. 2 C. & B. Soft 



BIRCH 



1 car 21/2" No. 2 C. 



1 car 1x4 No. 1 & 2 C. 



OAK 



1 car 2V2" No. 3 C. 



1 car 3" No. 3 C- 



WHEELER -TIMLIN 

 Lumber Company 



WAUSAU, WISCONSIN 



Lidgerwood Cableway 

 Skidders 



with Mechanical Slack Puller 

 Multiple Skidding Lines 



These exclusive features of the Lidgerwood Skidders 

 reduce time of hooking on logs to a minimum. 



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LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO. 



Originators of Overhead and Ground Steam Logging Machinery 



Chicago 96 Liberty. St., New York Seattle 



New Orleans: 

 Woodward. Wight & Co., 



Canada: 

 Canadian Allls-Chalmen. Ltd., 



Pony Carts Compete with Railroads 



A railroad loO miles in length iu northern China was so slow in de- 

 livering freight that shippers started pony cart service in opposition. 

 A cart carrying 3,000 pounds and drawn by nine horses can make the 

 journey in seven days, and to some extent is taking the freight carrying 

 business away from the railroad. The resourcefulness of the Chinese 

 shippers calls for admiration, but the methods can scarcely be tried with 

 succes.s in this country. 



Late Memphis Market 



The hardwood market continues in strong position. The tendency of 

 prices is toward a higher level but it may be stated on the best of authority 

 that the market is^more stable now than it has been at any time for the past 

 few months, as indicated by the fact that fluctuations are far less numerous 

 and as indicated by the further fact that values seem to be seeking equi- 

 librium around the present level. Demand continues to greatly exceed the 

 available supply and buyers appear to be paying ruling values without any 

 protest whatever. Indeed, they seem more concerned about securing their 

 retiuirements than they do about the prices they are asked to pay. This is 

 true of both domestic interests and exporters, all of whom are finding very 

 great ditiiculty in securing their needs. The furniture manufacturers are 

 the heaviest buyers in the United States. Automobile interests come second, 

 while there is a steadily expanding demand from the building trades. 

 Building operations are growing larger in all parts of the country and 

 manufacturers of flooring, ceiling, siding and Inteiror trim are in the 

 market for increasing quantities of hardwood lumber. Wholesalers are 

 taking large quantities of stock for distribution to their customers and 

 altogether there is more demand for hardwood lumber in the southern field 

 than there is lumber with which to supply it. 



The AmtM'ican Hardwood Manufacturers' Association estimates that 

 hardwood production is running not more than 70 to 75 per cent of normal, 

 at best, and reports, on the basis of incomplete returns from its members, 

 that stocks lost something like 10 per cent during the month of July. This 

 follows close on the heels of a loss of 32,000,000 feet in the southern field 

 and something over 11,000,000 feet in eastern territory during the month of 

 June. And, to make matters worse, stocks are still decreasing through 

 excess of shipments over mill output. The mills are better supplied with 

 logs now than at any previous time this year, but they are not producing 

 stock on anything like normal scale because of labor, transportation and 

 other conditions over which they are able to exercise no definite control. 

 Some mills are producing considerably more than 100 per cent of normal. 

 Some run as high as 140 per cent. A great many of them, however, are 

 well below 50 per cent and some few report that they are doing virtually 

 nothing. The average is therefore very low and just now the outlook for 

 hardwood production throughout the hardwood producing area is consider- 

 ably beclouded by the present strike of shop workers and car men. Equip- 

 ment is receiving no attention whatever on many of the roads in the South- 

 east and it is regarded as a question of hours until them will be an almost 

 if not complete tie-up of trafllc. Numerous railroads are declaring embargoes 

 against connecting lines and against the handling of any freight with the 

 exception of perlshaliles. Thus, just whon it looked as if hardwood manu- 

 facturers would be reaching normal output, the transportation situation 

 becomes such as to make the accomplishment of this purpose almost wholly 

 impossible. 



There Is this to be said, however : Any tie-up of transportation that makes 

 the handling of logs to the mills impossible will necessarily seriously curtail 

 the outbound movement of hardwood lumber and forest products. Members 

 of the trade here are already having serious diihculty in securing cars for 

 delivering their output because of the scarcity of equipment available for 

 this purpose. They are confident that the situation in this respect will 

 gradually grow worse and they are therefore advising their clients to place 

 their orders as promptly as possible and to accept shipments on flat cars, 

 in gondolas or in any other cars that can be had. The Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association is squarely behind this movement for the utilization of 

 all kinds of equipment because it sees in this policy the only possible means 

 of facilitating the movement of hardwood lumber and forest products. 



Export demand is excellent, according to J. H. Townshend, secretary- 

 manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association. He says that 

 scarcity of stock, however, is very acute and that the volume of lumber 

 available for exportation must be the measure of export business in the 

 near future. The supply of ships is much larger at southern ports, the 

 exchange situation has righted itself to a material extent and the embargo 

 recently ordered by the Hllnois Central against the movement of hardwood 

 lumber and other commodities to New Orleans for export has been removed, 

 but there is very little hardwood lumber available for export and business 

 is therefore much restricted on this account. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Seaman Eaton Flooring Company (Ltd.) has been incorporated at 

 Toronto, Ont. 



The MrLoud and Sparks Furniture Company and the Ward Furniture 



