HARDWOOD RECORD 



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WHITINQ MANUFACTURING COMPANY 



MANUFACTtREKS OF 



BAND SAWN STOCK WIDTHS IN 

 HARDWOODS AND WHITE PINE 



ELIZA BETHTON, 



TENNESSEE 



JANNEY = WHITING LUMBER COMPANY 



WHOLESALE CASH BUYERS Or 



SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN WHITE PINE AND HARD- 

 WOODS, SQUARES. BALUSTER STOCK. ETC. 

 Yard and OHice 1 151 Beach Si. Pier 52 Nor(h Wharves 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



1?oTtonwood1 



GUM and HARDWOODS 



PAEPCKMEICHT LUMBER CO. 



Mills: 



' Cairo, 111. 



' Marked Tree. Ark. 



' Arkansas City. Ark. 

 / Blytheville. Ark. 

 ) GreenTille, Miss. 



General Offices: 



Tribune Building, 



CHICAGO 



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CYPRESS 



We make a specialty of rough or 

 dressed Cypress Lumber and Cypress 

 Shingles in straight or mixed cars. 

 Your inquiries solicited for single car 

 orders or good round lots. Can also fur- 

 nish Sound Cypress Dimension Stock. 



The Borcherding Lumber Co. 



Northern Office. * CINCINNATI, OHIO. 





WALNUT. 

 OAK, 

 ASH, 

 POPLAR. 



...Oak Wanted... 



"We are in the market for 

 500.000 feet nicely figured, 

 dry Quartered White Oak 

 for prompt shipment. ; : 



JOHN DULWEBER ^ CO., 



CINCINNATI. 



OHIO. 



ONSULT our list of ad- 

 vertisers, page 33, also the 

 W. & F. S." section page 32. 



1 



facturers' Association, is chairman of tlie com- 

 mittee. An effort to form a combine made 

 several years ago failed. 



WiUiamsport, Pa. 



This spring will see more extensive rafting 

 on the Susquehanna river than for several sea- 

 sons past. It is stated that sixty-six rafts will 

 come down the river from the West Branch 

 tributaries which surpasses the number of last 

 year, only fifty-seven being sent through to the 

 lower markets last season. 



The Billmyer & Small Company of York. Fa., 

 has purchased the majority of the rafts, sev- 

 eral of which measure over 300 feet in length. 

 The timber in these rafts is the finest that 

 Clearfield county ever produced, among them 

 are white pine logs 104 feet long and 24 inches 

 square in the middle and at the butt ends per- 

 haps 30 inches. Some of these rafts are of 

 gigantic oak sticks, 60 feet in length and v"ery 

 thick. 



The timber this year Is of an unusually fine 

 quality, the rafts being made up of pine, hem- 

 lock and oak.. The demand is much greater this 

 year than last and the supply will not nearly 

 meet this demand for timber, which is rapidly 

 becoming more scarce. 



Most of the rafts will be shipped from Cur- 

 wensville. Clearfield. Clearfield creek. Deer creek 

 and Chest falls. The square timber rafts will 

 average from 45.000 to 70,000 feet per raft and 

 there will be nearly 4,000,000 feet in the sixty- 

 six rafts. 



Log drives are coming out of Kettle creek 

 and Sinnemahoning. The quantity seems small 

 compared with former years. Foi-merly the 

 river was covered with them at this season of 

 the year. 



Jacob Mceks of Washington. Pa., recently sent 

 a large quantity of walnut logs, which he pur- 

 chased from the farmers in his section of the 

 country, to New York, whence it will be shipped 

 to England. ^ 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD Exclusive Market Beporters.) 



Cliicago. 



The local hardwood market conditions have 

 improved materially within the last two weeks. 

 Maple is looking decidedly better and increased 

 sales are reported. Basswood is still a long 

 item in both the local and northern markets, but 

 the trade is waking up to the fact that the 

 season's demand is going to absorb not only all 

 the old cut but the new cut in sight. This is 

 especially true of the good end of basswood. 

 Plain oak is still in much more demand than 

 the supply and prices are ranging high, both 

 in red and white. Quarter sawed oak is having 

 some call, but the price is considerably lower 

 than former quotations. The good end of birch 

 is doing well, but No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 seem 

 to be dragging. The demand for gray elm, black 

 ash and rock elm is increasing. 



Local dealers generally report a very good 

 condition of the market, with orders on the in- 

 crease in every direction. Every individual op- 

 erator is optimistic over the situation and a 

 good season's business is confidently expected. 



Boston. 



The New England hardwood market, especially 

 in Boston and vicinity, while in better than 

 normal condition, with respect to demand, evi- 

 dently fails to equal conditions in other large 

 eastern centers such as New York, Pittsburg 

 and Buffalo, and the difference is even more 

 marked when comparison is made with the mid- 

 dle west. Contracts for interior finish and other 

 woodwork are very unevenly distributed among 

 the woodworking plants. The fine modern plant 

 of the C. W. Leatherbee Lumber Company is 

 being taxed to its fullest capacity by orders, 

 the largest of which is for the Siegel department 

 store, on which over 1,000 men are now en- 

 gaged in various lines of trade. Other plants 

 like the G. W. Gale Lumber Company. A. T. 

 Stearns Lumber Company, George W. Macauley 

 and the Perkins Woodworking Company are hav- 

 ing more than average amount of business, while 

 some of the smaller mills are hunting for busi- 

 ness. Boston wholesale hardwood dealers are 

 paj'ing more than ordinary attention to trade 

 outside of New England, to such points as Buf- 

 falo, for instance, where price and demand, 

 they say, is more attractive than "at home." 

 Whitewood is not especially active with prices 

 at $48.50 to $50 for good to choice inch ones 

 and twos. Demand for inch clear bright saps 

 exceeds supply at $39 to $40.30. 



Plain oak and brown ash are much sought 

 after, the former at $49 to $51 and the latter 

 at $49 to $30 for inch ones and twos. An 

 advance in price is anticipated, especially on 

 plain oak. 



Quartered white oak is in good supply with 

 a fair demand at prices varying from $75 to 

 $81 for inch ones and twos in accordance with 

 degree of manufacture and relative choiceness of 

 figure. White ash boards sell in moderate way 

 tor $47. Rough maple boards are holding well 

 at $33, while 2^i-inch face and 3ii-inch face 

 clear face maple flooring are maintaining their 

 place in the market at $38 and $35 respec- 

 tively. Mahogany is active at prices based on 

 $165 for a desirably figured run of boards, that 

 is, of the Honduras variety. There has been 

 a revival in the demand for elm ; sales made 

 recently ran as follows : 3-inch and 4-inch thick 

 common and better. $41 : ones and twos 3-inch 

 and 4-inch, $45 : 2inch ones and twos, $38 and 

 $40. The volume of hardwood demand is on 

 the whole quietly and steadily increasing. 



New York. 



The local hardwood market has continued to 

 show a marked improvement during the fort- 

 night. An increasing activity is found in all 

 the sales offices and yards. ' The past winter 

 has been a very severe one, and has so greatly 

 curtailed the selling of hardwoods that there has 

 been very little depletion of last fall's stock. 

 The average New Y'ork yard is fairly well 

 stocked, and it will probably take two or three 

 weeks of pretty active demand before the retail 

 buyers will place many orders. Notwithstanding 

 this condition the wholesale trade reports a 

 decided improvement in demand. Prices through- 

 out the list are firm, but no material advances 

 in price have been made recently except on plain 

 oak. which inclines steadily upward. Birch Is 

 having a large call among the furniture and trim 

 trade. There seems to be plenty of chestnut for 

 current wants, although the demand is fair and 

 prices firm. Thick maple is moving a little 

 sluggishly, but one and two-Inch stock is in 

 fair demand at firm prices. There are some 

 offerings of dry white ash, but prices are held 

 firm. There is plenty of quartered oak. but the 

 demand is not as great as was anticipated, and 

 it is moving very slowly. Basswood is in good 

 demand, more especially one-Inch. 



The maple flooring business is not in a very 

 satisfactory shape. The agreed price among 

 the larger producers is being cut considerable by 

 smaller concerns that are not allied with the 

 Maple Flooring Association. Oak flooring is firm 

 in price, with a very good demand. 



Taken all In ali the local hardwood market 

 situation looks very promising and the trade 

 almost to a man is united in the opinion that 

 there is going to be a large consumption ot 

 hardwoods at advancing prices in the metro- 

 politan district this year. 



