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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Sei)teinber 10. 1022 



WE WANT TO SELL 



I he following 



Dry Northern Michigan 



HARDWOODS 



BIRCH 



3/4" Selects & Better 15,000' 



4/4" Ists & 2nds 25,000' 



4/4 " Selects 10,000' 



4/4" No. 1 Common 35,000' 



4/4" No. 2 Common 100,000" 



5/4 " Ists & 2nds 5,000" 



5/4"' Selects 35,000" 



5/4"" No. 1 Common 5,000' 



5/4"" No. 2 Common 80,000' 



SOFT ELM 



4/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr... 20,000' 



6/4"" No. 1 Com. & Btr... 20,000' 



8/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr . 30,000" 



ASH 



4/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr... 25,000" 



l>/4"" No. 1 Com. & Btr . 15,000" 



4/4"" No. 3 Common 50,000" 



6/4"' No. 3 Common 30,000" 



HARD MAPLE 



4/4x6" & Wider, 8" & Longer 



No. 1 & Btr., 50°o FAS. 100,000" 

 6/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr ...100,000" 

 6/4" No. 1 Com. & Sel... 60,000" 



6/4' No. 2 Common 95,000' 



8/4" No. 1 Com. Sl Btr... 90,000' 



8/4" No. 2 Common 25,000" 



10/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr.. 80,000" 

 12/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr.. 25,000" 



SOFT MAPLE 



4/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr .150,000" 

 8/4" No. I Com. & Btr... 85,000' 



BASSWOOD 



4/4" Ists & 2nds 15,000' 



4/4" No. 1 Common 15,000' 



4/4" No. 2 Common 15,000' 



HARD MAPLE FLOORING STOCK 

 FOR RAIL OR WATER SHIPMENT 



Band mills at 

 Chassell and Ontonagon, Michigan 



C. H.Worcester Co. 



NOT INCORPORATED 



19 So. La Salle Street, CHICAGO 



300,000 



FEET 



NORTH VERNON 



LOG RUN 



QUARTERED SYCAMORE 



This quartered Sycamore is band sawed, 

 edged and trimmed. It shows 35% or more 

 long lengths and good widths. We can 

 start shipments at once and load out good, 

 dry stock. The lumber has been sawed 

 from the log, not resawed, and as we manu- 

 facture it in exactly the same way that we 

 manufacture quartered Oak, practically 

 every piece shows figure. 



Write or Wire for Prices 



NORTH VERNON LUMBER MILLS 



INDIANA 



somewhat uf ii real octopus in squeezing the life out of the body of com- 

 merce. Embargoes have continued to thicken and the scarcity of cars of all 

 liiuds used in transporting either the inbound logs to the mill or the 

 finished lumber products to the consumer has reached a rather critical 

 stage, only augmented in seriousness by the fact that the hardwood manu- 

 facturers and distributors in many instances are not able to get their 

 fi'cight moved after having been so lucky as to obtain cars for it. Cars 

 liulen with lumber sitting on side tracks at the mills waiting Overtime are 

 now a common sight, even up and down the main trunk lines and the 

 plants situated on the small spur lines are eveu more unfortunate. 



The export business is rather active ; in fact, it is claimed by several, 

 including the American Overseas Forwarding Company, through its manager 

 at New Orleans, Robert E. O'Rourke, to be more active just at present 

 than for a long time since, the business of that big concen showing rapid 

 growth within the past few weeks. Rates to the United Kingdom have 

 recently been boosted on hardwoods to the tune of 5 cents per hundred 

 pounds, but that fact is exercising only a very small retardant effect upon 

 shipments. 



Stocks are not any too plentiful and are somewhat broken, and the 

 tendency is to replenish them. 



MILWAUKEE 



With the Milwaukee building program showing a total of twelve and one- 

 half miles of building frontage constructed since January 1, the biggest 

 boom in the history of the city will be experienced this year, W. D. Harper, 

 building inspector, stated. Operations are i?7.00U.00(» ahead of last year's 

 program at this date, and the fall season is opening with a brisker trade 

 than last year, he stated. Hardwood markets are profiting by activities 

 of this nature in large sales of woods for interior finish, building construc- 

 tion and to the furniture manufacturers and other allied industries who 

 furnish the homes when completed. Unusually heavy order files and 

 increasing totals of unfilled orders are the problems that confront the 

 average lumberman who finds traffic congested, rolling stock difficult to 

 secure and railroad outbreaks threatening to tie up what would otherwise 

 prove to be a banner year. Transits are readily picked up and the trade 

 is now making frantic efforts to place orders for immediate shipment. 



Industries are steadily improving, and this is reflected in the slight 

 movement of the sluggish low grade hardwoods, inactive all season. Crat- 

 ing is taking a small share of the hardwoods as the industries prepare to 

 make shipments. The agricultural implement manufacturers are beginning 

 to appear for large orders, as are the automobile body manufacturers and 

 musical instrument makers. 



Building activities causing the increased demand have forced prices 

 higher, and a general advance is seen in all divisions, with the exception 

 of a few scattered lines in the low quality hardwoods. The price levels 

 cannot now go much higher without checking a normally healthy trade, 

 wholesalers declare. 



Further advances are expected, however, in the woods used for fur- 

 niture and automobile body making, as mill production is reported low. 

 Scattered lines in the interior finish divisions are due for an increase, it is 

 stated. Better grades of birch, maple and ash will be firmer at the next 

 writing, it is predicted. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



A few branch lines to mills remain tied up because of transportation 

 congestion, but in general the supply is etjual to the demand, most of the 

 furniture factories and the automobile building plants having an adequate 

 supply of raw material on hand. 



Birch veneers, however, are somewhat slowed up in shipment, and the 

 supply is not equal to the demand. 



TORONTO 



Lumber markets, both locally and throughout Ontario, have retained 

 more activity than was expected during August, owing to large scale 

 building operations, hut trade in hardwoods is not particularly active, 

 although some improvement in business is noted. The most favorable 

 feature of the hardwood business is that a better denuind is noticed for 

 the low ends for which there was a negligible sale formerly. The market 

 for hemlock is considerably firmer and the product is in good demand. 

 British Columbia lumber is selling in moderate volume in Eastern Canada, 

 but the big bulk of the Ontario hardwood trade is still in the United States 

 market. Improvement is anticipated when the fall trade gets under way. 

 Some attractive business has been secured recently by eastern representa- 

 tives of British Columbia hardwood firms. Comparatively little export 

 business of consequence being done from Eastern Canada. The British 

 market is described as dull, and since it is recovering very slowly from the 

 long period of depression, it is not likely that large amounts of lumber 

 will he required during the balance of the season. American business has 

 been quite good, due to the comparative absence of southern woods caused 

 by the railway tie-up. Reports from the Montreal district indicate that 

 men are getting $30 to $35 a month, and that road, railway and con- 

 struction work has taken much of the labor that usually goes to the lum- 

 ber camps. The same condition to a lesser extent exists in Ontario. 

 Some Ontario operators state that men are demanding as high as $40 a 

 month. The extent of the new season's lumbering operations depends 

 larwly on the labor developments of the next six weeks. 



