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were the stock available. Poplar is strons; 

 in all items and a liigh basis of value pre- 

 vails. Ash is wanted in large quantities, 

 but is very light in receipt. Hicliory, elm, 

 maple and the minor hardwoo(Js are in 

 very light receipt and are seldom heard 

 of in present trading. 



MEMPHIS. 



The price situation continues about the 

 same as at last report The manufactur- 

 ers in the MemiJliis district who export 

 extensively anticipate higher prices. Tho 

 domestic trade shows every indication of 

 firmness in price and stability in demand. 

 Yellow pine is not as active as usual and 

 first and second cottonwbod is somewhat 

 quiet. Quartered and plain white oik, 

 plain red oak, poplar, hickory, walnut, 

 gum, ash and chestnut are in first-class 

 demand in the four lumber centers of Ten- 

 nessee. 



EVANS VILLE'S LUMBER INTERESTS 



It is difiicult to estimate the greatness 

 and importance of Evansville as a hard- 

 wood lumber market— a producing market. 

 It is not tuo much to say that Evan£'\'ille 

 ships moi-e than 150,000,OUO feet of hard- 

 wood annually, at a value of more than 

 $5,000,000. It is exported via New Or- 

 leans, Mobile, Savannah, Pensacola, New- 

 port News, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Bos- 

 ton and New York, to Argentina, Brazil, 

 Sidney, Melbourne, Honolulu, Manila, 

 Hongkong, Havre, Hamburg, Frankfort, 

 Berlin, London, LiveriJool and Glasgow. 



Every kind and quality is made and 

 handled, from ship timbers 30x30-80 feet 

 long, to dimension furniture stock so small 

 that it must be exported in barrels. 

 Whence does Evansville draw her supply? 

 Go down to the city wharf and take notes. 

 There you see towboats i>ushing immense 

 rafts to river mills' that have a combined 

 daily capacity of 500,000 feet. Whence 

 come these boats? Well, ten miles above 

 the city is the mouth of Green River and 

 beginning there you see the banks of that 

 stream lined for ten miles on either side 

 with rafts of choice white oak and pop- 

 lar logs, so close together that you could 

 walk the entire distance on logs. This is 

 Evansville's log harbor in part only. If 

 these rafts were put together, it would 

 make one immense raft more than twenty 

 miles long. Whence comes the rest? Go 

 to the Incline just below the foot of Ful- 

 tun avenue. There a thousand cars of 

 logs are annually lifted from barges to 

 cars and S'ent to railroad mills. And there 

 a thousand cars of lumber are annually 

 loaded from the Green, Cumberland, Ten- 

 nessee and Ohio rivers and tributaries. 

 Whence comes the rest? Well, from the 

 territory along every one of Evansville's 

 nine railroads and their branches. 



More than ■l,.50O cars of logs' are an- 

 nually sawed by the mills that are not 

 strictly river mills. Think for a minute 

 that logs and lumber can be found and are 

 continually lieing shipped to Evansville 



from points on the Ohio from Louisville 

 to Cairo, and from points on the Missis- 

 sippi from Vicksburg to Evansville, and 

 from points on Green River from Mam- 

 moth Cave and Bowling Green to Evans- 

 ville. 



The Evansville mills saw logs from 

 Obion County, Tennessee, and from the 

 Yazoo In Delta in Mississippi. 



It is no uncommon sight to see barges 

 unloading at the city wharf that carry 

 500,000 to 1,000,000 feet each. 



You can get anything in hardwood that 

 you want in this great lumber center. You 

 can have any size or thickness sawed. If 

 you want thin quartered oak or poplar, 

 you can have it from one-fourth inch up 

 to flitches any tliickness. If you want 

 walnut, it is here to e.xchauge for your 

 dollars-. If you want bridge or ship tim- 

 bers, you can get them from the usual 

 sizes up to 30x30-80 feet long. 



Do you want car oak in a hurry? Well, 

 Evansville mills can saw and load 25 to 

 50 carloads daily, and that is something 

 that cannot be done out of oak in any 

 other city in the world to-day. 



This city is headquarters for the agents 

 of all the great car manufacturing com- 

 panies', as well as for the agents from 

 many northern and eastern cities, and 

 foreign countries. Do you want furniture 

 dimension stock or box shoolis? Well, 

 Evansville has four mills that do nothing 

 else, and most of her seventeen saw mills 

 have dimension plants attached. 



One concern alone handles, cuts up and 

 ships more than 500 cars of hickory logs 

 and lumber annually; another cuts 1,000,- 

 000 feet of beech logs into chair backs 

 and seats; and still another cuts up a 

 million feet of elm logs into hoops yearly. 



The cutting of lumber with a bush 

 scythe is a thing of the past and the num- 

 ber of country saw mills run by ignorant 

 people is becoming less and less'. The 

 proper manufacture of hardwood lumber 

 is something that many people know but 

 little of. 



To make lumber properly and econom- 

 ically and yet get the most possible out of 

 a log, is an art, but to saw quartered oak 

 properly so that it will show a regular and 

 decided grain is a s'cience. 



There are few mills anywhere that can 

 equal Evansville's mills in the scientific 

 manufacture of quartered oak, and none 

 that surpass. Here the manufacture of 

 thin quartered oak and flitches is a spe- 

 cialty. 



The social features of the lumbermen 

 are the Lumbermen's' Association, the 

 Business Men's Association and the IIoo 

 Hoo. 



Speaking strictly of hardwood, and leav- 

 ing out yellow pine and Cottonwood, which 

 are not considered strictly hardwoods, 

 Evansville produces and handles one and 

 one-fourth times as' much as Memphis, one 

 and one-half times as much as Nashville, 

 and more than twice as much as the cities 

 of Cincinnati, Louisville or St. Louis.— 



•WHITE PINE NOT A STANDARD. 



It is perhaps natural for the purveyors 

 of thos-e woods in former comi)etition with 

 pine to regard the latter as an exclusive 

 criterion, or as of itself a determining 

 standard of values. Take any kind of 

 wood, though, that can be made to serve 

 the structural purposes to which white 

 pine is adapted, and the current practice of 

 attempting to make the latter the sole 

 standard of its value does not hold. In 

 point of fact, wliite pine has ceased to oc- 

 cupy a leading or determining place on ac- 

 count of its scarcity. And besides that, it 

 is unfair to draw comparisons with white 

 pine as though it was th? only criterion. 

 White pine being neither available nor in- 

 dispensable, can no longer be cited as a 

 comparative standard for other kinds of 

 stuff that can be had and will serve. 

 White pine is not the only standard be- 

 cause it is not the only dependence for 

 kindred purposes. If a would-be buyer 

 cannot readily get white pine for his' pur- 

 pose, he can get something else and that 

 circumstance of course divests white pine 

 of, the character of an exclusive standard. 

 II is no longer that nor scarcely ranch 

 more in any sense than a reminiscence; it 

 is absolutely no longer a general depen- 

 dence, hence not a determining criterion. 

 If comparisons must be made, let them 

 be with not dead but living criterions. 

 When some particular kind of wood is 

 shown to be as good as white pine and its 

 only available substitute, it would then be 

 in order to compare its market value with 

 that of white pine if available— not other- 

 wise.— New Orleans Lumber Trade Jour- 

 nal. 



W. S. Prickett and other hustling busi- 

 ness men of Sidnaw, Mich., have suc- 

 ceeded In landing a manufacturing plant, 

 which it is declared is but a forerunner of 

 a sti-ing of new industrial enterprises. Thr> 

 plant will be a planing, shingle and saw 

 mill that will cost .$20,000. It will be 

 erected and operated by D. A. Hopermau 

 of Illinois. 



The National Dry Kiln Company, In- 

 dianapolis, Ind., will remove their plant 

 and oflice to their new shops on August 

 1. As noted in a recent issue their new 

 location and enlarged equipment will give 

 them better facilities for handling their 

 growing trade. They are having all they 

 can do and more at present, which is a 

 good indication that the National Drier is 

 rapidly gaining favor all over the country. 



SPOT 

 CASH 



H. 



For 

 2-Inch Plain White 

 Oak, 1st. and 2nds. 



1-Inch Quart'd White 

 Oak, 1st. and 2nds. 



1-inch Quart'd White 

 Oak, Strips. 



E.CHRISTIAN, 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



