HARDWOOD RECORD 



31 



WE MANUFACTURE 25,000,000 

 FEET BAND SAWED 



COTTONWOOD, 



POPLAR AND 



CYPRESS 



PER ANNUM 



Are always in position to supply the 

 trade. 



^atio^al Hardwood Association 

 Grades Guaranteed and certificates 

 furnished when requested. 



JEFFERSON SAW MILL CO. 

 Ltd. 



Front and Robert Streets 

 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



WILLIAMS & BELL, 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Hardwood Lumber, 



Quartered Oak Our Specialty, 



Prompt Shipments. 



MURFREESBORO, TENN. 



inf O. C. GARDNER 

 LUMBER CO. 



- -- INCORPOKATBD 



DEALERS IN 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



TIMBERS AND DIMENSION STUFF 



Dressed Lumber. Mouldings and Turned Work 



N.. C. AND ST. L. R. R. FOOT OF LIBERTY ST. 

 JACKSON, - - - TENN. 



be needed before the end ot the season. Thick 

 maple is moving well and those with a stuck ot 

 ash arc finding a ready market tor it. There is. 

 in fact, nothing really plentiful, good as the 

 stocks were last fall, and with the increased 

 amount found by the January iuventorie.s <'Yer 

 the previous January. So it looks as though 

 Uie sales are heavy enough to tell upon the 

 slock"! in spite of all effort to keep them up. 



In southern woods the report is favorable to 

 a good season. Cypress is much stronger Ihan 

 it was. Poplar has been slack for some time, 

 but there is something of a revival of the de- 

 mau'l. 



in the city's history, will be fulflilert. Lumber 

 dealers may well held optimistic views tor 

 future business. 



Saginaw Vailey. 

 Hardwood dealers report a moderately fair 

 business. The price of maple flooring has ad- 

 vanced, the retail price being $3 higher than 

 it was last season, and this branch of the busi- 

 ness looks better. The manufacturers say there 

 is a better demand and prices having picked 

 up the conditions are satisfactory. There Is 

 a good inquiry for basswood and considerable 

 quantities are being moved. A number of man- 

 ufacturers are cutting special bills 01 hardwood 

 for manufacturing purposes, and sye.-ik of the 

 situation as to prices Jiiid demand as seas »n- 

 ably good. Conditions apiwar to be in every 

 way more satisfactory than they were a year 

 ago. There has been built up here a good trade 

 in finishing material, and a number of plants 

 manufacture house and business building mate- 

 rial of various kinds of hardwo.:)a. for which 

 a good many contracts are taken. The trend of 

 prices tends to firmness in nearly ail kinds ot 

 hardwood material. 



Grand Bapids. 



The hardwood lumber situation remains in 

 statu quo. The freight situation is clearing up 

 and as spring advances dealers feel that values 

 will harden in maple and some other products 

 that are now quiet. Furniture manufacturers 

 complain of dull trade in the East, which is 

 due in part to bad weather conditions. While 

 it has been the happy experience of dealers in 

 recent times that they could not buy except on 

 a rising market, that condition has changed and 

 they now do some figuring and ascertain where 

 they can place the stuff before buying. It is 

 stated that a big furniture concern at Holland 

 that used to put in elm at $28 is now substi- 

 tuting gum from the South at $22. Conditions 

 are changing and the jobbers are forced to keep 

 their weather eye out and be prepared to tack 

 their courses at short notice. 



Indianapolis. 



There has been no change in the hardv/ood 

 lumber situation in Indianapolis during the 

 past two weeks. Dealers ail seem to be busy, 

 but there is no particular rush of business. 

 During the closing week of March the weather 

 man was especially good to Indianapolis. Trices 

 are being maintained and the business outlook 

 remains good. 



.\s an indication of what lumber dealers may 

 expect in the way of business .Mght here in 

 Indianapolis, it may prove of interest to state 

 that, according to the quarterly report of Build- 

 ing Inspector Stanley. Indianapolis enjoyed the 

 greatest increase in building values in the his- 

 tory of the city during the first quarter of the 

 present year. In all 743 building permits were 

 issued, representing a total value of $1,468,009. 

 During the same period last year but 458 per- 

 mits were issued, representing $579,565. This 

 was an increase of 285 permits and a valuation 

 of $889,344. The permits issued for business 

 blocks, churches, flats, apartment houses and 

 factories surpassed the records of any other 

 similar period in the history of Indianapolis. 

 Certainly it can be said that the city is enjoy- 

 ing a building boom, and it goes almost with- 

 out saying that the prediction made some time 

 ago. that 1005 would be the best building year 



Chattanooga. 



Lumbermen throughout this section are very 

 well pleased with the conditions at the present 

 time. They are all very optimistic over the 

 prospects for an upward tendency in the market. 

 The demand for high grade oak and poplar con- 

 tinues very strong, but there is a marked dull- 

 ness in the low grades of poplar. The local 

 mills are experiencing a great deal of trouble 

 in buying country-sawed stocks. They say there 

 seems to be no stock of this character, and 

 they can discover no cause for such a condition 

 except that they cannot compete with the best 

 mills which manufacture a higher grade of lum- 

 ber and also for the reason that the larger 

 mills, located in the centers of population, are 

 offering better prices to log men than the coun- 

 try mills can afford to pay. 



Foreign buyers are very busy in this section 

 and the export trade is showing a very strong 

 upward tendency. Several cars of poplar and 

 oak have been sold to the export trade here 

 within the past week. 



There is no very marked improvement among 

 the local lumber or woodworking plants, but 

 stocks are Ijeing increased from time to time. 

 The local mills probably have a supply of over 

 20.000,000 feet, consisting principally of oak, 

 pine and poplar. 



NashviUe. 

 The lumber business in 'Nashville during the 

 month just ended has been as good as could 

 have been expected. April business opened up brisk 

 and, although there has been a slight dr,')p- 

 ping oft the past few days, dealers are not 

 complaining, as a good business is expected. 

 The building boom which is on in Nashville 

 is expected to keep the retail market boom- 

 ing. There is still a scarcity of plain oak, 

 and it is in big demand. Good grades are 

 quoted a little more freely. Common stock is 

 more plentiful, but there is nothing that could 

 be called a suprlus. The Cumberland river 

 is low again and lumbermen are worried over 

 the poor prospect of getting timber down to the 

 mills and yards. There will be little doing in the 

 way of getting in more timber until another rise 

 comes. There is not much reported in the cross- 

 tie market. Staves are reported quiet. 



St. Louis. 

 ■Wholesalers in this market are almost a 

 unit in reporting a banner month for March. 

 The books are now closed for that month, and, 

 both in country business and in that of a 

 strictly local nature, a greater amouui of hard- 

 wood lumber has changed ownership than dur- 

 ing the same month of last year. Further 

 than this, the month has shown a steady hard- 

 ening of values so far as some of the items arc 

 concerned, and it can therefore be claimed 

 that the month has been one of advancement 

 in almost every particular. There has been more 

 lu- less complaint at the light receipts, as there 

 has been no great amount of 'umVier coming 

 in and much more has been needed than has 

 arrived. Fractically all of this is green, of 

 this season's cut, whereas it is dry lumher that 

 is absolutely needed in order to take care of 

 the business already booked. There is really 

 something of a shortage of dry lumber in St. 

 Louis, and so long as the shipments are In 

 excess of the receipts conditions are not betler- 



ing. 



From a strictly local point of view there 

 appears to be an abundance of trade with all 

 consumers except the box factories and these 

 are willing buyers of Cottonwood, but are well 

 supplied with gum for their immediate require- 

 ments. MX of these factories, however, are 

 running on full time and it is believed that an- 



