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-material price changes and the demand has been spread over the list so 

 that each kind has had ils share. Oak, ash, maple and birch are 

 still the leaders. 



=-< BUFFALO >.= 



There is a fair amount of mixed-car business in hardwoods this month, 

 but large orders are lacking, as is usually the case in August. Pros- 

 pects are considered good for renewed business next month, although 

 nobody is looking for any brisk situation until after the tariff bill is 

 enacted into law. July business was favorable at most yards and the 

 present month makes a fair comparison with the same month last year. 



Plain oak remains as the wood most in demand, although maple has 

 been making a good showing with some dealers. Other hardwoods are 

 moTing rather slowl.v. brown ash being in a little better sale than it is 

 in some seasons. Yards are getting in very little stock, but assortments 

 are already in pretty good shape. 



-< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



For the warm season, when more or less business apathy might be 

 expected, conditions continue about normal. During the last fortnight 

 inquiries have increased and although not all of them result in orders 

 it indicates an initiative interest of the buyer in the market and augurs 

 a healthy tone in the hardwood situation. Buying in New York and New 

 England has been comparatively active but on a conservative basis, and 

 prices, with a few exceptions, have been well sustained. Furniture manu- 

 facturers continue fairly busy, with outlook encouraging ; box factories 

 manage to keep plants running full capacity and building work in large 

 cities, although not up to expectation, shows an advance during the last 

 few months over the same period of last year. Money continues tight 

 and there is a tendency on the part of the money lenders to avoid build- 

 ing ventures, at least for this season, to prevent the flooding of the real 

 estate market with empty houses. In large construction work, however, 

 there has been a strong activity throughout the summer. 



Hardwoods vary but little from old positions. Oak is the leader ; ash, 

 chestnut, basswood, maple, gum. birch and beech hold firm places. Taking 

 the situation as a whole, the hardwood market is more than holding its 

 own and the outlook for fall trading is very promising. 



=■< PITTSBURGH y- 



Hardwood wholesalers here are fairly well satisfied with present con- 

 <iitions. There has been quite a little slump in general demand since 

 Juno. For midsummer, however, business is keeping up pretty well 

 especially as regards prices. Factory hardwoods are in much better 

 demand than last summer. The big end of the business now being done 

 is in mixed hardwoods largely for the mining companies whose operations 

 are on a much larger scale than last year. It is thought that yard 

 buying, \iiuch is now very much in the dumps, w'ill resume in good form 

 in September in order that the retailers may be able to supply contractors 

 with finishing lumber on buildings started late in the season. 



.< BOSTON >= 



There has been little change in the market for hardwood lumber during 

 the past two weeks. The fall trade should be starting up in an active 

 way before long, but so far as we can see there is no buying movement 

 on. The average buyer is not willing to pay asking prices and cannot 

 be induced to anticipate his wants at this time. The majority of whole- 

 sale merchants in Boston admit that demaii;! is mostl.v contined to imme- 

 diate wants, which are not large. Consuming manufacturers in this 

 section of the country are operating their plants moderately and do not 

 appear to be making changes toward increasing production right away. 

 There may be some weak spots in the market, but it is safe to say 

 these cannot be found where desirable grades of hardwood lumber are 

 concerned. The millmen are very firm and anticipate a demand large 

 enough to take care of their offerings. If a bu.ver is not willing to pay 

 the price asked there are no inducements offered by the manufacturer to 

 bring about a sale. 



The market for plain and quartered oak is as firm as it has been at any 

 time during the past few months. Ash has been selling in a fair way 

 at firm prices. Cypress has held steady for some time, but demand is 

 uot largo. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



While it does not appear that the hardwood trade has made decided 

 headway, the statement can also be made that the situation is quite 

 satisfactory as to movement and prices. To be sure, a measure of quiet 

 prevails, but this is expected at the present time, when many of the 

 buyers of hardwoods are out of town taking vacations, and when other 

 factors are at work to retard the distribution. It is also to be said that 

 the general business situation has not yet sufficiently clarified to remove 

 all restrictive factors. The currency bill, for instance, is yet to be gotten 

 out of the way ; in fact, the opposition to the measure in its present form 

 has become so pronounced that it would not be strange if some important 

 modifications were made. The tariff bill is outlined with sufficient dis- 

 tinctness to indicate what the country must expect, but there is yet 

 enouih doubt to interfere to some extent with the trade movement. 



In view of these conditions the distribution of hardwoods may be 

 said to have attained a gratifying volume, with the yards interested to a 

 greater extent than might have been supposed and with values not so 

 much lower as to indicate real weakness in any division of the trade. To 

 be sure, the export movement is far from satisfactory, because of the 

 congestion that prevails on the other side, which encourages the foreign 

 buyers to insist upon price concessions, in lieu of which rejections and 

 other means of cutting down the returns are resorted to. It is also to 

 be said that the mills have so gained on the demand as to make the 

 offerings rather liberal in certain items, such as chestnut. Sound wormy 

 is about where It stood before the advance of last spring, with lower 

 grades of poplar in very liberal supply and extra wide stocks rather 



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