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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Our Standard 



^We are makers of Good Lumber. 



^ For ten years we have been turning out 

 high-grade Hardwoods at our present lo- 

 cation, and thruout those ten years we 

 have been studying constantly to improve 

 our products. 



^ As a result we have established a real 

 STANDARD OF QUALITY. 



^ When our customers speak of GOOD 

 lumber they say "Like Liberty Lxmiber." 



^ It IS good lumber. Smoothly sawn — 

 plump, even thickness — good widths — 

 good lengths — and FLAT. 



^ Good to look at, a pleasure to work — 

 that is "LIBERTY" lumber. 



SEE OUR LIST OF DRV LUMBER IN 

 "HARDWOODS FOR SALE" DEPT., 

 PAGES 58-59, AND ASK FOR PRICES 



UBERTY HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY 



MAKERS OF GOOD LUMBER 

 Big Creek, Tex. 



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Williams 



Lumber 



Company 



FAYETTEVILLE 

 TENNESSEE 



-MANUFA CTURERS- 



Middle Tennessee 

 HARDWOODS 



Soft -Textured Qtd. Oak a Specialty 



maniit'neturers report their plants are working to capacity and in many 

 cases night shifts are operating factories. The market for manufactured 

 wood products was never better and orders are booked for months ahead. 

 A scarcity of labor is curtailing production although the highest prices 

 are being paid for experienced workmen. The federal employment bureau 

 here reports it has applications on file for hundreds of woodworkers which 

 cannot be filled. It is rare indeed that an experienced woodworker files an 

 application before employment agencies for a position. 



Consuming plants affiliated with the automobile Industry are swamped 

 with orders. A-W automobile manufacturers in Indiana have increased 

 their production for this year. Some of these plants have more than 

 doubled their production. Farm implement and vehicle manufacturers re- 

 port a heavy demand for their products. 



=< EVANSVILLE >- 



While trade with the hardwood lumber manufacturers In Evansville and 

 southwestern Indiana is not booming, there has been a good steady certain 

 business since vhe first of the year. Most of the hardwood mills in Evans- 

 ville report good business. One large mill liere is still being operated on 

 the day and night schedule with an average of eighteen hours daily. Col- 

 lections are good and crop prospects are promising. The manufacturers 

 report that many prospective buyers have been holding back for several 

 weeks and have refrained from buying lumber as they were of the opinion 

 that the prices would materially drop as the year advances. The manu- 

 facturers say they will be disappointed in this and that prices instead of 

 declining will increase from time to time. Plain white oak is in strong 

 demand and prices are advancing. The same may also be said of quartered 

 white oak. that was inclined to drag in the local market for several weeks 

 before the beginning of the present year. Hickory is going up graduall.v 

 and the demand is increasing. Handle factories and automobile manufac- 

 turers have been in the market for a great deal of hickory for some time 

 past. Ash is also advancing. Local furniture factories are being operated ou 

 steady time and are using a good deal of gum, which is increasing in de- 

 mand. The local river mills say they continue to get a good many in- 

 quiries concerning quartered sycamore. Maple I'emains in strong demand 

 and walnut holding its own. Cottonwood is sought by l>ox factories. Lum- 

 ber manufacturers say they are still getting all the logs they want but 

 anticipate a falling off in March, when it is feared high water and bail 

 roads in the soutliern states, where most of the logs in this market come 

 from, will retard the movement of the logs. 



=-< MEMPHIS >-- 



Tliere is plenty of inquiry fnr snutlicrn li;irdwucn[s liy lioth letter and 

 telegram. But there is no denying that business is restricted by unfavorable 

 transportation conditions. One prominent lumberman today said ; "I 

 cannot accept orders for immediate shipment until I call up the railroad 

 oflicers and find out whether or not the road In question will issue bills of 

 lading cov(;ring the lumber." lie dealt with tlie cimditious already out- 

 lined and then expressed himself as already stated. Other lumbermen, as 

 a rule, occupy a similar position and are sharing a similar fate unless per- 

 chance they are operating over roads that are not imposing all oi these 

 restrictions at the moment. There is a particularly good call for guni 

 in both the higher and lower grades. The box factories are requiring large 

 quantities of low-grade gum and they are likewise consuming low-grade 

 Cottonwood as rapidly as it can be delivered to them in dry stock. There 

 is a better movement reported in the higher grades of quartered oak, espe- 

 cially in stock 4,/4 and thicker but the lower grades are going out in rather 

 modest volume. There is a goorl enough call for hickory, ash and elm. 

 The reports from the larger centers wber<' furniture exhll)its liave been 

 recently, or are now being lu-Id indicate that tliere is an unusually big 

 demand from the large numlier of merchants wlm are attending and that 

 prospects are very favorable. This is accepted as a quite favoralile develop- 

 ment from the standpoint of lumber manufacturers and particularly of 

 those who are producing qiiantities of oak. gum and walnut, the southern 

 woods most used in the making of furniture. Oak is being vigorously 

 pushed by the association recently organized to advertise it and to 

 increase its consumption, and the view still obtains that a larger move- 

 ment is on the cards for this material in the near future though it is 

 admitted that the volume of business just now is not as large as it 



should lie. 



=■< LOUISVILLE >= 



With Ihe furniture and automobile iiiuiuifacturers the most liberal 

 buyers of hardwood, the local industry is managing to keep busy. Flooring 

 manufaeturers are buying plain oak in lilieral quantities, and everything 

 in the hardwood list is moving. Dry stocks are growing scarce, and prices 

 on southern hardwoods have advanced to n point where northern woods, 

 such as bircli and maple are showing an increased dr-maud and consumption, 

 quartered oak has been moving cousideralily better than it was. but it is 

 still suffering from overproduction to some extt'Ut. (Jum continues to 

 feature the trade, there being a good demand for ail grades of sap and red 

 gum. The veneer manufacturers continue busy, cutting walnut, mahogany, 

 oak ami other veneers, there being a better demand for higli grade veneert^ 

 than for some time past. All glued up stocks are moving freely. Poplar 

 continues in steidy demand, while elm, ash, cottonwood and hickory are 

 moviut; irc^'ly. Out in tin- siulr. u gnn.l di-mand for hickory has been seen. 



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