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HARDWOOD RECORD 



■Sl-.iy 10, 1922 



WE WANT TO SELL 



the following 



Dry Northern Michigan 



HARDWOODS 



BIRCH HARD MAPLE 



4/4 FAS 3e,(KW 4/4x6 •& Wider, 8' & Longer 



4/4 Selects 15,000' No. I Com. & Btr. . .100,000' 



4/4 No. 1 Common 15,000' 6. 4 No. 1 Com. & Btr 100,000' 



4/4 No. 2 Common 100,000' 6/4 No. 1 Com. & Sel.... 60,000' 



5/4 Selects 55,000' 6/4 No. 2 Common 150,000' 



5/4 No. 1 Common 10,000' 8/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr. . . .20«,000' 



5/4 No. 2 Common 80,000' 10/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr tO.Me' 



4/4 No. 3 Common 200,000' 12/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr 30,000' 



SOFT ELM SOFT MAPLE 



t/rN'l%^C?m •* Bt'r'- mZ' *^* ^o. 2 Com. & Blr. .. .150,000' 



8/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr..,. 33,000 j^^ p,^ ^ Com. & Btr,.., 14,000' 



ASH 8/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr,.., 100,000' 



4/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr .,. .100,000' RASSWOOD 



5/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr.... 45,000' BAbbWOOU 



4/4 No. 3 Com 100,000' 4/4 No. I Com. & Btr. ., .100,000' 



S/4 No. 3 Com 50,000' 4/4 No. 2 Common 45,000' 



HARD MAPLE FLOORING STOCK 

 FOR RAIL OR WATER SHIPMENT 



Band mills at 

 Chassell and Ontonagon, Michigain 



C, H.Worcester Co. 



NOT INCORPOBATED 



19 So. La Salle Street, CHICAGO 



BLAIR 

 LUMBER CO. 



Hardwood 

 Manufacturers 



CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 



lost some of its prestige, since tUe furniture manufacturers quit buying 

 uu a large scale. Generall.v, conditions in the market look brighter and it 

 appears that buyers are getting in a little better humor judging from the 

 orders that have been placed by them recently. Prices are .showing a bet- 

 ter tone as the volume of buying expands. There is no pressure to sell 

 and concessions are more difficult to secure. It cannot be too strongly 

 insisted upon that stocks are not at all large, and that it is quite possible 

 for a real shortage to develop with the first sharp competition to place 

 orders. The foi^ign trade shows no marked departure from the condi- 

 tions that have obtained with some progress being made toward greater 

 activity ami higher prices. The increase in building permits is considered 

 a good sii-'U and proliably will help to stimulate the hardwood market 

 later. A widespread buying of rolling stock and railroad equipment by 

 si.\ railroads entering Cincinnati heralds the renewal of prewar travel 

 and the expectation of greater volumes of business, railroad officials said. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Indications now are that the demand fm* hardwoods has settled into- 

 what is likely to be a steady spring and siininier trade. Practically all the 

 rttail yards have their stocks built up to about where they will be kept 

 until late in the fall and the present demand indicates more clearly the 

 consumption. Prices show no cbanj;? and deliveries are easy. For a time- 

 it was feared that flood c-onditions in various parts of the country might 

 dflay shipments, but this delay was only of minor importance. Demand 

 from the construction end is by far the big «^nd of the business. The 

 interior finish and flooring mills are working to capacity and many are 

 far behind with orders. Extra shifts have been put to work in many 

 plants to catch up with orders. Oak. red gum and hard maple appear 

 to be the favorite woods with the construction interests. The industrials 

 show but little activity. Some of the furniture plants are working to- 

 capacity, but the most of them are not. Box factories report a little 

 increase in business, as do the handle plants. Business is slow with the- 

 piiuin niamifacturcrs and the automobile body builders. 



EVANSVILLE 



The hardwood lumber manufacturers and the wholesalers of Evansville 

 and other towns in southern Indiana report a steady improvement in 

 business and, while things have not been booming, they have been coming^ 

 along all right, and May has started in under most favorable auspices. 

 The manufacturers, as well as thf wholesalers, believe that May will bring 

 in a larger vidunie of trade than the month of April, which was a better 

 month than March, (iwing to the exct-ssive rains and the floods in the 

 south and along Green and Harren rivers in western Kentucky, logging^ 

 operations have been stopped for the past several weeks, but May probably 

 will see a resumption of operations in those sections. Many of the hard- 

 wimm] mills in this section either remain closed down or are running on 

 part time. Lumber prices are holding firm and probably will advance in 

 price a little later on when the demand gets more brisk, due to increased 

 activities in the building lines. There is a better demand for gum now 

 than for some time past, and several more grades are moving very good. 

 General luisiness conditions are improving and collections have improved 

 some during the past month. Lumber manufacturers report that railroads 

 are buying more lil)erally of stocks and that they expect to see a great 

 many railroad improvements during the next few months. Many of the 

 wood 4onsuming factories in Hvansville now are operating on almost a 

 pre-war basis and business is looking up right along. Sash and door men 

 and phining mill men say that their trade is getting some better and that 

 they are looking for a very good season after the middle of May. Veneer 

 manufacturers say that the trade outlook is better now than it has been 

 for some time past. Wagon manufacturers also report a better feeling in 

 trade circles with indications nf n tietter Ivusiness than last vear. 



TORONTO 



While a fair volume of business is passing in the hardwood market in 

 Toronto it is not at all profitable to the lumberman who finds market 

 conditions anything but .satisfactory. What sales there are being made 

 cannot be replaced at the selling price ami despite the fact that a good- 

 sized building program has been launched all over Ontario, the .yards are 

 not buying and the demand all around is not what it should be. Prices 

 range as much as .$12 per thousand on Canadian hardwoods both below 

 and above market figures, according to firms that have called for tenders 

 recently. Most of the automobile buying of hardwoods for the construc- 

 tion of car bodies has been completed tor the spring months. Body mak- 

 ers had, in most instances, carried over a certain amount of stock from 

 last year, and their 1922 purchasing was mostly to even up their stocks. 

 In a majority of cases the body manufacturers have practically enough to 

 carry them through the active part of the spring operations, A broader 

 industrial demand is noticed, however, furniture, trim, flooring and other 

 manufacturing consumers of hardwoods buying in somewhat larger quan- 

 tities. The lumber still in weak hands i-ontinues to give the wholesale 

 trade considerable anxiety, but it is anticipated that the stocks that are 

 being offered periodically at prices under the market level will be worked 

 off by the end of the half-year. If that prediction is correct the market 

 will lie steadier, and prices will be better established. At present the 

 variations in (piotations are an unsettling influence. 



