HARDWOOD RECORD 



51 



=-< BOSTON y- 



The general demand for hardwood lumber has not been active during 

 the past two weeks. Usually at this season of the year the consuming 

 manufacturers of hardwood lumber arc all busy and are cutting up large 

 quantities daily. This season the plants are operating in a moderate way 

 as a whole, and the manufacturer cannot be induced to purchase hard- 

 wood lumber far ahead of his requirements. 



While the demand cannot be termed active, there appears to be enough 

 business going around to keep the offerings very well sold up, so far as 

 desirable grades and selections are concerned. The manufacturers of hard- 

 wood lumber are very firm in their views of the future. I'ractically all 

 of the letters received in this market from manufacturing centers show 

 that stocks are small and well held. The demand for quartered oak is 

 very good and prices are firm and high. Plain oak has been selling in a 

 very free way. There has been some inquiry for hickory in a small way. 

 Offerings are small. Chestnut has teen selling in a moderate way. There 

 has been a fair demand reported for whitewood and ash. 



=-< BALTIMORE >-= 



Reports from hai'dwood men as to the state ot the lumber trade are 

 almost uniformly encouraging. While the general movement has not 

 apparently exceeded moderate proportions, the demand has continued 

 sufficiently active to absorb the output of the mills and to avert serious 

 accumulations, while the range ot prices has been such as to encourage 

 the producers. Especially in the last week or two an appreciable in- 

 crease in orders has come out. the numerous inquiries giving evidence of 

 an active interest in stocks which promises to result in a decided expan- 

 sion of the demand. .411 kinds of stocks appear to be affected by the 

 favorable development and a most hopeful feeling prevails in the trade. 

 During a part of August a slacking off in the volume of business was 

 noted, but this has now yielded to a return to the former state ot 

 activity and there is every indication that the aggregate of the early part 

 of the year will be approached if not exceeded. With respect to prices, 

 also, the situation is satisfactory. Some items show a rather easier tone. 

 and here and there a slight sagging in the range of values has developed. 

 but in the main the returns leave no real cause for complaint and mill- 

 men as well as dealers are once more applying themselves with renewed 

 energy to the work of getting business, confident that the results attained 

 will be commensurate with the expenditure of effort. ' 



Chestnut is holding its own fairly well, with the quotations rather 

 stronger than tliey were during the summer, and with the requests for 

 ligures more numerous. Number 1 common oak is very much the same, 

 with prices perhaps a dollar or two off, Kut with a kind of revival making 

 itself felt. Northern buyers are purchasing in quantities that suggest 

 an increasing consumption, and salesmen have met with gratifying results 

 on their recent tours. Other sections of the country are hardly less 

 responsive and there appears to be a quickening all along the line. Much 

 the same can be said of poplar, which has been finding takers in sufficient 

 numbers to take up the output of the mills, with only the lower grades 

 at all halting, but with prices practically unimpaired. 



The foreign trade, of course, is not so satisfactory, but the heavy cur- 

 tailment of forwarding holds out a prospect that the exports also will 

 show a stronger tone before long. Wagon oak planks and other kinds 

 of stocks, including certain grades of poplar, are still offered abroad in 

 such quantities as to keep the range of values relatively low. At the 

 prevailing freight rates the exporters find it impossible to put down 

 stocks on the other side at the prevailing current figures which will net 

 them a profit, and a general realization of this fact has so checked the 

 export movement that an early improvement is among the probabilities. 

 Gum, basswood and some other kinds of lumber are comparatively strong, 

 even in the foreign market, and there is every prospect that the buoyancy 

 in them will continue. 



=■< COLUMBUS y 



The demand for hardwoods in Columbus and central Ohio has been 

 fairly active during the past fortnigat. All grades and varieties are 

 moving uniformly and the list of prices is generally well maintained. 

 The market is rather firm despite the weakness in yellow pine, and the 

 prospects for the future are considered bright in every way. 



Trade is about equally divided between manufacturing establishments 

 and retailers. Both are buying steadily in small orders but neither are 

 inclined to increase their stocks at this time. Their policy which is 

 being followed is to buy only what is needed for immediate wants. Retail 

 stocks are light and are not being increased. Stocks in the hands of 

 factories are not large. 



One of the worst features of the business is the growing car shortage 

 which is holding up shipments to a certain extent. The shortage is 

 probably the worst on the Chesapeake & Ohio, although other southern 

 roads are having troubles. Shipments from mills in West Virginia are 

 coming out fairly promptly. 



Building operations in this section are still fairly active and this is 

 quite a source of demand for hardwoods. The indications are good for a 

 continuation of the demand right up to the bad weather. Contractors 

 and architects are still busy preparing plans and figuring on construction 

 work. 



Oak, both quarter-sawed and plain are in good demand with the volume 



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