THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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M. R. CHIXZiZIS 



Successor to B. J. Ehnts 

 WANTELD AND FOR SALE. 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



ASH, OAK, POPLAR, CYPRESS, 

 AGRICULTURAL AND WAGON STOCK, 



WALNUT AND CHERRY 



LESPERANCE STREET 



:: : AND THE :: :: 



IRON MOUNTAIN RAILROAD TRACKS, 



ST. LOUIS. 



MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 

 LUMBER COMPANY. 



MAIN offices: 



Liacoln Trust BIdg. 

 Saint Louis. 



ISBANCIIES: 



Cairo, III., Carulhersville, 

 Mo., aad Memphis, Tenn. 



Cash Buyers oE Cypress. Cottonwood, 

 Gum and Oak and solicit inquiries from 

 the Consuming trade for the following. 



COTTONWOOT); 



2,000.000 feet linch, log run or on grade, 



GUM: 



2,,'j00,000 feet 1-inch No. 2 and shipping cull. 

 600,000 " 1 and \\i inch furniture common. 

 390,000 " 1, IJi and l"!; inch sap clear. 



OAK: 



650,000 feet 1, I'/i and 2 inch Red and White 

 plain and quarter sawed Ists and 2iids. No, 1 

 and No, 2 common. 



Williams & Voris Lumber Co. 



Manufacturers of 



Hardviood 

 Lumber ana 



QUARTER SAWED OAK VENEER 



We guarantee our oak to be equal to 

 Indiana oak in quality and figure. 



CHATTANOOGA, 



TENN. 



T. F. McGEE & 

 COMPANY 



Manufacturers and Dealers in 



POPLAR LUMBER 



We have the Lumber Write Us. 



ACKERMAN, 



niss. 



where he expects to stay some weeks, getting 

 out hardwood lumber to meet the demand, which 

 is pronounced decidedly good. 



So it will be seen that the hardwood people 

 are not letting the business get away from them, 

 though they do think there has been an eftort 

 of late to take it by unfair means. 



The late examination into the afifairs of the 

 defimct Queen City Lumber Company develops a 

 prospect of adding nearly $20,000 to the assets, 

 by reason of a chance to declare a transaction 

 with Smith & Holden, bankers of Port Alle- 

 gheny, ra,. Illegal. If this is done the company 

 will pay a large percentage on its liabilities. 



Hardwood Market. 



Chicago. 



Business on the whole has beeu fairly good 

 for the season of the year, but as a rule January 

 conditions are somewhat disappointing. 



The promise of December has scarcely been 

 kept. When trade continued good, clear up to 

 the holidays, there was much hope felt that 

 business had at last got well started again, but 

 .January has been rather dull. This is probably 

 only a temporary lull, how'ever, and everyone is 

 holding prices strong and the expectation that 

 business will be good the latter part of the 

 month and first of February is very strong. 



At present there is nothing of importance to 

 report except that the market is quiet but 

 strong. Those who want to work hard enough 

 for orders get them in fairly good volume, but 

 January business hardly comes up to what was 

 expected of It. 



New YorK. 



The local hardwood market is in excellent 

 shape, particularly from the standpoint of the 

 wholesaler and manufacturer. While it is true 

 that since the opening up of the new year 

 business has not taken on any great activity 

 as yet, the wholesalers and manufacturers of 

 hardwood are convinced that conditions among 

 buyers are such that there is plenty of busi- 

 ness in sight and that it is only a question of 

 time, and a brief time at that, before things 

 will begin to hum. Here are the facts as re- 

 gards the Metropolitan district. 



Buyers as a general thing are short of stock. 

 During the early fall the impression prevailed 

 among the buying trade that prices were going 

 off and they began to hold up c>n their pur- 

 chases in order to get the benefit of the lowest 

 prices. They have now been waiting all 

 through the fall and so far this winter and 

 prices have remained as firm as a rock with 

 the result that to-day they are slowly waking 

 up to a realization of conditions at manufac- 

 turing and wholesale points and to the fact 

 that they must begin to buy if they are going 

 to have suflicient stock for their wants. That 

 this is absolutely true is witnessed by the fact 

 that the holiday season usually sees prices a 

 little soft, but during this last period prices 

 not only remained exceptionally firm but sev- 

 eral items advanced sharply. Such a condition 

 lias been seldom known at consuming points, 

 such as this. On the other hand there is not 

 a buyer or w'holesaler who has returned from 

 manufacturing points who does not report that 

 there are no surplus stocks of the better grades 

 of hardwoods at mill points and that the only 

 stocks Vhich amount to anything today are 

 the lower grade hardwoods which naturally 

 invariably accumulate. With such a condition 

 at manufacturing points and the stocks in the 

 hands of local buyers very much depleted, there 

 is only one conclusion to draw, and as the 

 general business situation in the local district 

 is exceedingly promising tor this year, there is 

 not the slightest doubt in the minds of the 

 general trade but that the early spring business 

 is going to witness firm and advancing prices 

 ia hardwood lumber with only a nominal supply. 



Plain oak, which has been the leader in the 

 general trade for several months, has advanced 

 iu the neighborhood of $3 during the past thirty 

 or sixty days, with quartered oak firm, and 

 poplar improving. Ash is in fine demand with 

 light offerings and prices which are keeping 

 pace with plain oak. The return of buyers 

 t( poplar is much in evidence and prices for 



the better cuts are slowly advancing to the 

 basis of two years ago, present quotations foi 

 good well manufactured stock being on the 

 basis of .^48 to ,$50. although some of the poorer 

 cuts are still selling around .$46 to $47. Chest- 

 nut is in excellent demand w'ith only fair of- 

 ferings and prices can reasonably be said to . 

 be up $1. As a matter of fact the general 

 situation may be summed up in a few words, 

 namely, that holders of good well manufactured 

 dry hardwood lumber find a ready market at 

 firm and satisfactory prices for pretty much 

 everything on the list. 



Nashville. 



The lumber market here rules firm and the 

 members of the trade have been quite active 

 ihemseivs trying to get stock to meet what they 

 believe will terminate in a good healtliy trade. 

 The boats and railroads have both been con- 

 tributing a quota of lumber. Some cedar and 

 walnut, rare woods now are being marketed out 

 of here. Plain and quartered white oak are 

 each selling well. Chestnut and poplar both 

 have some demand. The export situation that 

 has been dull for a good many weeks is reported 

 better by those firms who sell extensively abroad. 



Cincinnati. 



Nothing of importance has developed in the 

 situation locally during the past fortnight. The 

 demand In all lines has shown gradual, steady 

 improvement and prices have been firmly sus- 

 tained. Optimism regarding the future con- 

 tinues to prevail. Stocks have not been In- 

 creased to any material extent. Furniture 

 manufacturers and desk makers have bought 

 everything of quality offered them. Oak and 

 ash have been best sellers, with chestnut and 

 hickory a close second. The better grades of 

 poplar have had a good, steady call. Cot- 

 tonwood and gum in light supply and clean- 

 ing up rapidly. 



Evansville. 



Now that invoicing is over and the books 

 are closed for 1904. everyone is out after busi- 

 ness again and the general conditions are improv- 

 ing. 1'he recent heavy rains have delayed lumber 

 shipments, but logs m large consignments have 

 teen arriving In Evansville since the first of 

 the year. 

 XEAVS. 



Philadelphia. 



Firms in the Quaker City having large and 

 dry stocks of hardwood lumber to offer are hold- 

 ing off for better prices, and the larger volume 

 of business, which the spring building opera- 

 tions will cause. The warm weather of the 

 past week has created an unusual stir among 

 the builders who are anxious to get to work 

 and avail themselves of the present market price 

 before another advance sets in. 



Plain and quartered white oak is still scarce 

 and not much in demand. Ked oak. firsts and 

 seconds in 4-4 and 5-4 is bringing $43 to $45. 

 Common quoted at $33, with culls at $21. 



Chestnut at $41 and $42 for 4-4 and 5-4. 

 common at $30 and sound wormy at $15. are the 

 quotations on that stock. 



Bass is not much sought after at present, 

 but Inquiries elicit figures for firsts and sec- 

 onds in 4-4 and 5-4 at $37, the common calls 

 for $28 with culls at $20. 



