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HARDWOOD RECORD 



^ A wood steaming cylinder, the use of 

 which insures the quick drying of all 

 kinds of Lumber without seasoning de- 

 fects, stain or war]i, to less than normal 

 weight and with a minimum shrinkage. 



^ Operating cost much less than yard- 

 ing practice. 



CJ Can be employed with or without a 

 dry-kiln. 



•I Lumber from the saw can be air-dried 

 in from ten to forty days: kiln-dried in 

 from one to six days. 



^ A new Kraelzer Preparator is being 

 installed every week b}- some of the 

 foremost and most astute lumbermen in 

 the country. 



^ The demand for Kraetzer - Cured 

 Lumber, owing to its superior quality, 

 is in such. excess of supply that it com- 

 mands a handsome premium. 



^ While we know "new ideas hurt some 

 minds as new shoes hurt some feet," 

 will you not investigate? 



^ Complete information for the asking. 



The Kraetzer Company 



537 South Dearborn Street 

 CHICAGO 



< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



AltlioHKli tlip liuyins murkrt has lieen less prominently active during 

 the last fortnight, the hardwood situation is without a weak spot any- 

 where. A menaeins apathy in one or two lines of high grade woods is 

 reported, but only in isolated cases : in low grades everything is sold to 

 the bare ground, with prices firm. The wholesale consuming industries 

 continue fairly busy, with outlook encouraging, but the increasing fear 

 of a break in values in the near future, although without tangible sup- 

 port, evidently deters the buyer from placing orders beyond actual re- 

 quirements. Dry stocks are scarce, and where there has been any accumu- 

 lation in the pile at mill points there seems to be no inclination on the 

 part of tUe manufacturer to sacrifice it. Box makers are still busy, but 

 continued activity will depend largely on the effect the protracted tariff 

 adjustment will eventually have on the box employing industries. Owing 

 to a cautious financing of operation work by financial institutions, the 

 local building work has not advanced with the advent of spring. 



nardwood values on the whole are firm, with an upward trend in one or 

 two of the most desirable lines, and altogether the situation is satisfac- 

 tory and the outlook promising. I'lain and iiuartered oak keep the lead; 

 ash is in good demand, with firm prices : high grade chestnut lacks snap : 

 sound wormy chestnut improving : poplar, except low grades, remains a 

 little quiet: birc'i is in good repute; beech, cherry and basswuod Hud new 

 friinds. No weakening in mahogany and veneer trading. 



=-< PITTSBURGH >-= 



The baidwooci lunrkot is behaving remarkably well considoriug tbe fact 

 ihat tbore is quite a slump in demand in price of yellow piue and hem- 

 lock. In 2rood hardwoods there is not only a trood demand but prices 

 ;ire being well maintained. No falling off at all is noticed in demand for 

 nr price of white oak. Tbero is a little weakening in spruce. Chestnut 

 is about holding its own, especially on good stock which may sell this 

 month at a tritlc less than in May. Furniture hardwoods are good sellers 

 at good prices. Manufacturing and industrial concerns are using a large 

 amount of lumber for repair and construction work. Trade with tbe 

 mining companies in pit posts, etc., is good and prices bid fair to be 

 higher before fall if tho present mining activity continues. June is start- 

 ing off a little backward and wholesalers are not making any prediction 

 iibout what this month wil do in business. May broki' alJ records for 

 the past 'ive years. Kv-ry linr of buying except from tln' retail yards was 

 pretty satisfactory. 



-< BOSTON y- 



No one in the Itoston mark'-i handling hardwoods even hints at con- 

 cessions in price. Tbe demand has been of very fair size since the spring 

 trade opened up and prices have been held in a very steady way. There 

 have been years when demand for hardwooils has been more active than 

 it is at the present time, but it is seldom that the undertone of the 

 market has ruled so firm as It has for many months. Other years thi' 

 offerings have been larger than they are at present. .\ feature of the 

 market today is tbe small olTerlngs that those firms doing n strictly 

 commission business are receiving. This Is due to the fact that mills 

 have small stocks of dry lumber and also that more manufacturers of 

 hardwood lumber arc selling direct to consumers. 



Dealers here have trouble in locating Uitnber of the thickm-ss desired 

 by buyers. This is particularly trui' of idain oak. The offerings of the 

 latter arc much below itormal and buyers are willing to place larger orders 

 in some cases than dealers can take care of. Stock well nianufacttired in 

 all thicknesses is in good call. For (juartiri'd oak thi'ie is a very good 

 demand at firm prices. Hardwood flooring of about all kinds Is in fair 

 demand. The volume of business reported in the market for cypress has 

 been moderate, Manv linvers have felt that prices might go lower and 

 for Ihfs r' ason t' <'v have lieen operating in a rather limited way. 



=■< BALTIMORE >-= 



Reports as to the condition of the hardwood trade in this market are 

 more or less conflicting. On the one hand statements are made that 

 business has fallen off and no longer reflects the activity that prevailed 

 during the first part of the year and throughout the winter, while other 

 reports are to the effect that In the post few weeks a sort of revival has 

 taken place and that the movement at this time compares favorably with 

 the demand for any previous period. There seems to he no doulit that 

 temporarily at least a marked cessation in the inquiry was to be noted, 

 but it is evidently also true that buyers have begun to show Interest in 

 stocks again, the distribution now being represented as approximately 

 equal to what has gone bi.fore. It looks as though the yards which 

 stopped buying to a considerable extent in .\pril and part of May, have 

 found their requirements larger than they had suposcd and have ascer- 

 tained by experience that they would have to place orders with greater 

 freedom. Certain it is that for tbe present the movement of hardwoods 

 of all kinds compares favorably with the earlier months of the current 

 year, and reports are hy no means infrequent thai hardwood firms an<l 

 corporations are once more making progress in so far as the volumi' of 

 their business in concerned. 



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