HARDWOOD RECORD 



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We make a Specialty of 



Sound Wormy Chestnut. 



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A. H. DAVID LUMBER COMPANY, 



GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. 



WHITING MANUFACTURING COMPANY 



MANUFACTUKEKS uF 



BAND SAWN STOCK WIDTHS IN 

 HARDWOODS AND WHITE PINE 



ELIZABETHTON, 



TENNESSEE 



[COTTONWOODJ 



GUM and HARDWOODS 



PAEPCKELEICHT LIMBER CO.: 



Mills; 

 Cairo, 111. 

 Marked Tree, Ark. 

 Arkansas City. Ark. 

 BlytheviUe, Ark. 

 Greenville, Miss. 



General OHices: 



Tribune Building, 



CHICAGO 



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SOUTHERN AND ^ORTHERN WHITE PINE AND HARD- 

 WOODS. SQUARES, BALUSTER STOCK, ETC. 

 Yard and OHice 1 151 Beach Si. Pier 52 North Wharves 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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 ON lumber credits. Published in January and 

 Julv and covers the United States and Man- 

 itoba. It contains the names of dealers and 

 manufacturers who purchase in car lots and 

 gives you their financial standing, also indicates 

 their manner of meeting obligations. 



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Lumbermen's Credit Association, 



Established 1876. 



1405 Great Northern Building, Chicago 

 16 Beaver Street, New York City 



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BONSULT our list of ad- 

 vertisers, page 37, also the 



" W. & F. S." section page 35. 



ft-el loiitidi-nt ol soiiii- hiK linings Liter on. ;ind 

 nearly all wish Ihey iiiiil inure sliick In supply 

 the eoming demand. 



Sales :ire active in oak U.r use in enr con- 

 struction and repair shops. 'I"he demand from 

 I his trade i.s general and comes in large quan- 

 tities. Orders of twenty-five cars or more are 

 noted of recent date. Plain oak for the factory 

 Irade is also selling well at present. Birch is 

 figuring largely in sales aiul inquiries, and the 

 demand for veneer is a feature of present con- 

 ditions. Maple flooring is active, and one 

 dealer reports a recent .sale of inch maple. 

 \\iiieh is something of a rarity. Basswood. 

 isptcially cull stock, lias been receiving some 

 attention, and the mills generally report their 

 basswood stocks reduced to a lower station 

 than last year. The factories are prepai ing for 

 inventory, and the process will usually show 

 light stocks of lumber, which must be re- 

 cruited before long, as everyone is busy. 

 The sash and door people are continually work- 

 ing up hardwood for special bills, which have 

 '■'ime in unusual ciuantity for so late in the 

 building season. 



Louisville. 



I'ackage material and lar oak form the most 

 .icfive materials in the Louisville liardwond mar- 

 ket at the present time. The demand for bo.xes 

 and box material has been unusually brisk this 

 winter, and the volume of business iu this line 

 has been at least ten per cent above normal. 

 The local factories have simply been loaded 

 down with work, but will probably get cleaned 

 lip and en.ioy a lull about the Hrst of the year. 



In the light cooperage market there has been 

 a decided increase in the demand and prices of 

 nil stock, in addition to a lively demand and 

 stiff prices that have prevailed for whiskey stock 

 all fall. In fact, the local cimcerns. which have 

 .among them more than fifty plants operating in 

 the South are taxed to their full capacity, and 

 the only sourc of worry is to get nut the mate 

 rial to till orders. 



The announcement that the Southern Hallway 

 is to place orders immediately for in.cioo freight 

 cars coining on the heels of the already accivt- 

 market for car material is playing right into 

 the hands of the manufacturers who have been 

 making efforts to increase the prir'e of this stock 

 and the offerings of car stock manufacturers are 

 being raised from .fl to .$2 right along. In 

 short, it looks like the beginning of the fulfill- 

 ment of the propheiy made in these columns 

 early in the season that those who were not 

 overanxious to contract and would hold off a 

 little might later on get better prices for mate- 

 rial. The chair stock people are holding out 

 probably harder than anyone else, but the indica- 

 tions are that while they may get a few bar- 

 gain lots of stock here and there, they will 

 wind up by having to pay better prices to such 

 manufacturers as understand how such material 

 should be made and realize the value of this 

 i-lass of material. 



There is nothing new in the gum market, hut 

 poplar is looking up right along and buyers are 

 becoming more urgent in their demands, with 

 manufacturers holding for better prices. 



Ashland. 



Lumber prices in the Ashland district are 

 holding up firmly, with every indication for a 

 steady advance. Trade is excellent, but a 

 lack of oars is causing serious trouble. There 

 is an unusual amount of building. Crops 

 have been good so that the farmers have am- 

 ple means, which they are using in the erec- 

 tion of new homes, barns, etc. The railroads 

 are placing orders for equipment of all kinds. 

 in order to meet the heavy freight traffic. 

 There is plenty of money, and the country is 

 prosperous, of which the lumber dealers will 

 .get their share. 



There is a big demand for the best grades of 

 oak and poplar, both of which are very scarce. 



and have been about bought up. The demand 

 for low-grade stuff, firsts and seconds, com- 

 mon and mill culls, has been greater than the 

 supply, and dealers who have a supply of these 

 grades are reaping a harvest. 



The hardwood people of the Ohio valley lind 

 it liifhcult to get enough timber to keep mills 

 running. The timber near the markets has 

 all been used up. and all of the best tracts are 

 far from the railroads and rivers, thereby add- 

 ing very materially to the cost of getting it 

 out. in the way of tram roads, etc. There are 

 a number of mills being built and operated on 

 these inland tracts, but the owners find diffi- 

 culty in getting good men to oiierate same, and 

 much of tb" outiuit is very imperfect. 



Wausau. 



In the .\lariiii-lte market it is reported that 

 prices are nnl as sfronii as last year and that 

 there is not as much demand, although there is 

 quite an amount of lumber being cut for rail 

 shipment. It is thought the existing conditions 

 in the market will aifei'l prices next spring. In- 

 ventories being taken in the different yards 

 throughout the state show that there is less lum- 

 ber on hand al present than at this time last 

 year. 



London. 



The arrivals of lumber ha\'c not been so heavy 

 during the past fortnight, and there has been 

 a slightly better demand fo'- stocks, but things 

 will slacken owing to the approach of the 

 Christmas holidays. Triine whitewood and oak 

 are in fair demand, but the lower trades arn 

 neglected. 



Satin walnut is bi ing askid for. but the sup- 

 ply, though light, is eiptal to the demand. 



The mahogany trade is still very good. .Many- 

 dealers are busy selecting wood for the .Amer- 

 ican, market and the home trade is fairly ac- 

 tive. It is reported that the Segar-Emery Com- 

 pany has closed its mahogany mill here and 

 reshipped the n.ac-hiuery to the States. 



John N. I'enrod and Judge Prouty of the 

 American Walnnt Corporation, with headquar- 

 ters at Kansas City. Mo., and C. L. Willey of 

 Chicago and J. Ilawkes of Cincinnati are l.nn 

 don visitors at the moment. 



Liverpool. 



Alfred Dobell t'i Co. report that the auction 

 sales of mahogany, held during the past 

 m.onth. were well attended, and that demand 

 was active, with spirited- competition, a very 

 large amount of mahogany being disposed of 

 at satisfactory prices, African wood was eag- 

 erly competed for and sold iiuickly at good 

 rates, defective wood and small sizes being 

 somewhat neglected, however. There have 

 been no arrivals recently of Mexican stock, 

 and Laguna wood of medium and large dimen- 

 sions and sound, would meet with ready sale. 

 In Honduras, Guatemalan and Nicaraguan ma- 

 hogany the imports are light and good sizes 

 in prime condition would comt- to a welcoming 

 market. 



Rosewood is rarely inquired for and no 

 stocks are on hand. Satinwood logs of good 

 sizes, when in combination witli ligure. are in 

 strong request, and would realize good prices. 

 In lignum vitae only shipments of prime, thin- 

 sapped, sound and straight wood are wanted, 

 and such would realize good prices. 



Round southern oak has arrived moderately, 

 prices unchanged. Shipments of Baltimore 

 waney logs, in handy-sized parcels, strictly 

 prime quality, can be recommended. Wagon 

 planks of medium and inferior grade, are still 

 in excessive suppLv. Walnut logs in large 

 sizes, strictly prime, realize full values. Planks 

 and boards are arriving freely. The inquiry 

 ■ for logs, planks and boards in strictly prime 

 quality whitewood is good, but the stock of 

 small and inferior wood is ample. .Ash and 

 hickory import has been light. Handy sized 

 parcels of prime logs would realize full value. 



