HARDWOOD RECORD 



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CINCINNATI 



Business in This raariiet is stt^adily i^rowing 

 more satisfactory in the aggregate volume of liusi- 

 ness, but the close or conservative buying of the 

 manufacturing consumers continues to bo the 

 perplesins' question. Business with the furni- 

 ture manufacturing industry continues conserva- 

 tive, although somewhat improved in volume. Oalc, 

 common and better, is in active demand, though 

 the stocks of good dry stock are somewhat lim- 

 ited. Quarter-sawed and plain are in fair de- 

 mand. Highly figured white oak is not much 

 sought. Heavy timbers and car stock and rail- 

 road ties continue in good call. All manufactur- 

 ing grades of chestnut are in very fair demand, 

 also long ones and twos. Heavy, rough stock 

 and low-grade chestnut are moving well. Sound 

 wormy chestnut, good wide stock, is active and 

 there is a fair demand for ordinary grades. 

 Prices for sound wormy are strong and buyers 

 are willing to pay a little more for good stuff. 

 Manufacturers' grades of poplar are in good de- 

 mand. Business in the wide stuff for the auto 

 trade is light. Box boards are in good call and 

 business in wide panel stock is fair. Ash, white 

 and brown, is in good demand for the export 

 trade. Wagon and carriage stock is selling well. 

 The furniture trade is buying freely. Hickory 

 is in good demand for wlieel, pole and shaft stock, 

 with a ready sale for all offered. The stocks 

 are limited and prices are firm. Hickory boards 

 of good lengths are very scarce and there is 

 some inquiry. Red gum, ones and twos, is moving 

 briskly and some activity is shown in saps and 

 common, which are still hardly up to the wants 

 of the market. Basswood is moving well and 

 a better feeling is noted in the manufacturing 

 srades. Cottonwood, ones and twos, is in very 

 fair request, and there is a lively movement of 

 common and low grades. Mahogany lumber is 

 in good demand, especially for Cuban, and there 



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 and .-Vfrican. Flitches are in good demand. The 

 decline of hishly figured oaU furniture has in- 

 creased the demand for mahogany, and the fur- 

 niture industry is buying more of this wood. 

 Birch, red and white, is receiving much atten- 

 tion. Buckeye and other hardwoods are in fair 

 movement. The buying for the foreign marltet 

 is fair, and there is a good movement of oak 

 boards. Walnut is in only fair movement to the 

 foreign trade. Ash is in good inquiry. Demand 

 for red gum is fairly active. Cypress, for thick 

 tank stock, is in fair demand but the buying for 

 the building trade is light and fall buying is 

 lisht. 



Prices continue steady. Hardwood mills are all 

 active. 



BVANSVILLB 



The hardwood market has shown signs of re 

 turning life during the last three weeks, after a 

 somewhat spotty season. Quartered oak is still 

 a little slow as well as a little off in price, but 

 the trend of the market the last three weeks will 

 see quartered oak strengthening, is the opinion 

 of local buyers. Ash and plain oak have been 

 in fairly good demand all season. Poplar is 

 fairly strong. 



The bnilding boom, which has been in progress 

 for about a year, is still on and shows no signs 

 of slackening, the gain for September being forty- 

 two per cent over the same month last year. It 

 is estimated that $2,000,000 have been spent tor 

 building during this season. 



MEMPHIS 



Demand is only moderately active. Consider- 

 able buying is being done at the yards for filling 

 in and tor immediate requirements, but there 

 does not seem to be any disposition to stock up 

 for future needs. The large consumers are still 

 holding out for lower prices and are postponing 

 purchasing until they get better values or until 

 they realize that holders are not going to make 

 the concessions desired. Demand for plain red 

 and white oak and No. 1 common and better red 

 gum is very good. Quartered white oak is still 

 very slow of sale, but there is a moderate move- 

 ment in quartered red. The upper grades of 

 Cottonwood and cypress are moving moderately. 

 There is no active demand for ash, but some 

 manufacturers have sold their output and are 

 delivering it as rapidly as it is ready. The 

 lower grades of Cottonwood and gum are in 

 more active demand and prices are somewhat 

 firmer, largely as a result of activity in wooden 

 box manufacturing. Upper grade sap gum is 

 going at a good rate, but prices are not as 

 firm as had been expected. Conditions in the 

 foreign market are more satisfactory than in 

 America, but export business has been damaged 

 to some extent recently by the return to the 

 practice among American manufacturers of send- 

 ing their lumber to Europe on consignment. 



NASHVILLE 



There has been a general if not an extensive 

 improvement of business during the last week 

 compared with the weeks before. Orders con- 

 tinue comparatively small and for immediate de- 

 livery, this seeming to be the accepted rule, as for 

 the last few months. There has been more activ- 

 ity perhaps among the consuming factories, which 

 has helped the hardwood situation. Furniture 

 people are preparing for the holiday trade. Auto- 

 mobile makers are more active and are after 

 wide poplar. There is a steady call from the 

 box manufacturers and this has helped low-grade 

 poplar. The planing mills and manufacturers of 

 interior woodwork are also busy and calling for 

 red gum and other woods. Maple and birch are 

 more brisk and chestnut also is active. There 

 has been no change in plain and quartered oak. 

 Plain oak and poplar lead in demand. Vehicle 

 and implement makers are placing good orders. 



BRISTOL 



Local hardwood men report trade conditions 

 slightly more favorable but dullness continues. 

 The general belief is that business will pick up 

 gradually this fall and winter, and unless there 

 is a radical decline in the market manufacturing 

 will continue. There is still much complaint 

 hut the general feeling is buoyant. The volume 

 of business is fair and shipments of late have 

 been good. Exporters report a slightly better 

 outlook, and some of them report good orders 

 coming in. 



ASHLAND 



Demand for hardwoods is fairly good although 

 irregular. Some mills report excellent business 

 one week and few orders the next. Export busi- 

 ness both in poplar and oak is very good and 

 the price is satisfactory. The better grades of 

 poplar, except wide stock, is in fair demand and 

 the lower grades are moving more freely. Plain 

 oak probably is the feature of the market, with 

 some scarcity noted in common and better. Oak 

 timbers are moving well at prices that are in 

 some instances considerably better than for a 

 number of months. Quartered oak is in light 

 demand but the stock in this district is consid- 

 erably below normal. Considerable timber is 

 coming to market and it is thought that all the 

 mills will be in operation in the next few days, 

 which will help considerably along the lines of 

 replenishing broken stocks. 



ST. LOUIS 



This market continues to improve as the sea- 

 son advances. The increase in business is gradual 

 but noticeable. Consumers are buying more than 

 for a number of weeks. The purchases, however, 

 are in small lots and for immediate use. Deal- 

 ers have worked their stocks down to the very 

 lowest point and replenishing has to be done to 

 meet demands. Those best informed say that a 

 much better trade will come very soon. Items 

 most in demand are plain oak, red gum and thick 

 ash. but nearly all leading items on the hardwood 

 list are more or less called for. Reports from 

 the South are to the effect that conditions are 

 favorable for logging operations and production 

 is going on briskly. The stocks, as they are cut, 

 are moving, so dry stocks are running aud low. 

 Bone-dry lumlier is exceedingly hard to obtain. 

 Cypress conditions are most encouraging. There 

 is a steady demand, but prices are not satisfactory. 



MILWAUKEE 



Trade has shown considerable improvement of 

 late, in fact, one wholesale lumberman maintains 

 that business is 100 per cent better than a month 

 ago. Factory trade in general is better, while 

 the extensive fall building which is being carried 

 on is doing much to add life to the trade. With 

 the exception of prices on oak, quotations are 

 uuchanged. Both plain and quartered oak are 

 higher. Birch is in brisk demand with stocks 

 light, as usual, in this market. Both plain and 

 quartered oak arc selling well. Maple also is 

 \\auted, especiall.y by the hardwoud flooring 

 plants. 



CADILLAC 



JIarket conditions in this section app<^ar to be 

 equally as good or a little better than for the 

 same period last year. Some hardwoods are 

 moving. Common maple Nos. 1 and 2 is slow. 

 Hemlock for the entire season has done much 

 better than last year. Many of the manufac- 

 turers' stocks are depleted. 



