HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10, inio 



ASH 



We manufacture a splendid quality of White, firm 

 textured, Louisiana ASH, in thicknesses 1 to 3 inch. 



Sound, Square-Edge Oak Plank 

 TIMBERS 



ALSO 



Gum Cottonwood Elm Pecan 



WIDTHS, LENGTHS AND GRADES TO PLEASE 



Pelican Lumber Company 



MOUND, LOUISIANA 



Here's bomething 

 Unusually Caood 



MAPLE 



12/4" 2 & Better 24,000 feet 



10/4" 2 & Better 150,000 feet 



ELM 



6/4" 3 & Better 30,000 feet 



8/4" 3 & Better 40,000 feet 



12/4" 3 & Better 25,000 feet 



BIRCH 



4/4" 3 & Better 80,000 feet 



The above stock is of a fine quality, — the 

 best in the land. We also carry a complete 

 stock of Hemlock of all sizes and lengths 

 up to 20 ft., in good shipping condition. 



balling: H< 



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ling nanson v^oinpany 



GRAYLING. MICHIGAN 



The Tegge Lumber Go; 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



cannot give quotations tiiat will stand from one weeli's end to the other. 

 Home builders are actively engaged and from all indications there will be 

 no let up in the work until late fall. The total number o£ permits issued 

 in July amounted to 784 with a valuation of $1,746,357. Most of the 

 homes now under construction range from .?6,000 to $15,000. Those who 

 have watched the developments in the building line, predict that all 

 previou.s building records, both in number of permits Issued and total 

 ^■:lluation will tar surpass any previous year in the city's history. 



EVANSVILLE 



The hardwood trade here and in suiroundiDS territory has been unusu- 

 ally good for several weel;s, the great trmible being to fill orders promptly. 

 Because of the scarcity of stoclts. manufacturers are predicting it certain 

 that prices on certain grades of lumber will soar for the next several 

 months. Mills in this city are lieing operated on fairly good time. 

 Reports from many points around Evansville are to the effect that many 

 of the hardwood mills have been closed down for some time because of 

 the inability to get sufficient logs. Log prices have been unusually high 

 this summer. 



There is a scarcity of quartered white oak in this section and the prices 

 are high. Plain white oak is strung. Plain and quartered red oak is 

 brisk. Hickory ha.s been high and scarce for some weeks. Quartered syca- 

 more is moving along nicely. Gum is strong, local turnifure manufacturers 

 buying up lonsiderable stock. They now admit that they lost a good bet 

 several months ago in not buying large stocks of gum when they could 

 have gotten this lumber 100 per cent cheaper than it can be bought for 

 today. Poplar is strong, while walnut continues to drag. Elm and maple 

 are strong. Cottonwood is in only fair demand. Bo.k factories using a 

 great deal of Cottonwood are not being operated on full time now. Mo.st 

 of the other wood consuming factories in Evansville are running full time 

 and the trade outlook was never better. Labor troubles are reported in 

 several of the local plants, liut they have not been of a serious nature. 

 Taken as a whole the outlook is very encouraging. Building operations 

 are improving from week to week and building material men are busy. 



BEAUMONT 



".May 1 not," as President Wilson would say. about describes the hard- 

 wood market. Making a request and contradicting it positively with 

 seven letters constituting three words covers the situation forcibly — the 

 market i.s and isn't. If it is, no one knows what it is and if it isn't, no 

 one knows why it isn't. 



Clear weather has enabled some of the closed mills to resume operations 

 and this has had a tendency to increase the available supply of gtim and 

 other quick drying woods. There is decidedly more gum than there was 

 three weeks ago. 



The market is in much better shape to stabalize itself than yellow pine. 

 There is a decided tendency to let up in the steady advance which cleaned 

 out stocks. No declines have been recorded, but there seems to be no 

 disposition to pay the heavy premiums for quick delivery. 



Production of hardwood should become normal in a few months In 

 spite of present handicaps. Small mills are being constructed at different 

 points throughout the Texas-Louisiana belt, one having a capacity of 

 45.000 feet a day. The most promising feature of this situation is the 

 change in the attitude of many of the yellow pine men. They seemed to 

 look on hardwood with contempt and it was only in their way in logging. 

 Some of these same men have taken cognizance of the high prices and 

 are either building or figuring on mills. In most cases they have the 

 means, the logging equipment and when they move, it means production. 



The car situation is tightening up slightly and it is expected that this 

 condition will get more serious as the crop movement increases. Railroads 

 are buying more heavily than they have in months with a big demand 

 ci.iming frttm the oil fields. 



MILWAUKEE 



The demand fur hardwood lumber is at the most feverish stage since 

 requirements assumed the broadest aspect in the history of the business 

 shortly after the close of the war. A stream of orders that seems never- 

 ending is pouring in upon northern hardwood lumber manufacturers, tak- 

 ing the cut of mills virtually faster than production. Unfilled orders at 

 this time are con.sen-atively estimated to equal the cut of hardwood manu- 

 facturers until October 15 or November 1, as well as existing stocks In 

 all positions. 



The furniture and cabinet industries, which are experiencing unques- 

 tionably the greatest expansion ever known, are now in the position of 

 ihimoring for stocks. This is especially true of the industries having to do 

 with furnishing the musical instrument industries with cases, cabinets 

 and other frame parts, virtually all of which call for hardwoods of the 

 more select grades. At the same time, the demand fgr poorer and low 

 grades for other uses is insistently large and growing. 



It is estimated that if the present rate of consumption continues until 

 I he end of the year, not much more than -one-half of the entire require- 

 ments will have been filled because of the exhausting of available stocks. 



Prices are very strong and advances are being encountered from week 

 to week as the supply diminishes and the demand grows. It is extremely 

 difficult to define list quotations, for today's list would hardly be effective 

 tomorro.w. 



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