July 2o. 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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report they have for the most part sufficient orders to last until the next 

 furniture market and many of them turned down big orders because 

 of the uncertainty of marliet conditions. In the meantime various grades 

 of hardwood continue to show rather unexpected strength. Particularly 

 is this true of veneers and oak flooring. There appears to be no limit 

 to the demand for these grades. While building is falling off as shown 

 by the permits issued weekly, this situation does not appear to have 

 affected the retail demand to any great extent. The effect will come a 

 little later. Distributors here say the takings of the smaller rural yards 

 are surprising and indicate a large volume of farm construction during 

 the late summer and fall. Incidentally deliveries are slowing down due 

 to the rail strike. 



EVANSVILLE 



There has been little improvement in the trade with the hardwood lum- 

 ber and manufacturers of Evansville and southern Indiana during the past 

 ten days or two weeks, although things have been holding their own fairly 

 well and orders and inquiries have kept coming in. At this writing neither 

 the miners' nor the railroad strike had seriously handicapped shipments, 

 but it was generally believed that should the railroad strike continue long 

 business would be seriously interfered with. The manufacturers report 

 that June brought in a large volume of business as compared with the 

 corresponding month of last year, and July had been expected to show a 

 nice increase, but with the strikes on the anticipations of the lumbermen 

 may not work out as it was thought they would. General business condi- 

 tions have been steadily improving, barring the strikes, and collections 

 have been holding their own very well. The furniture manufacturers of 

 Evansville and those at Tell City. Ind.. Jasper, Ind., Owensboro, Ky., and 

 Henderson, Ky., report that their business has been increasing some, and 

 they have been in the market lately for lumber of various grades. This 

 line of business is expected to get better as the year advances, and veneer 

 manufacturers believe that their business will get better as the furniture 

 trade increases. The various wood consuming plants in Evansville are 

 being operated steadily and are employing more men now than at any 

 time this year. Box manufacturers say they are looking for their business 

 to continue to increase right along. 



MEMPHIS 



Hardwood manufacturers here report a very satisfactory demand. 

 There is: nothing particularly aggi'pssive about the buying, but members 

 of the trade point out that there is sufficient demand to ke^p business 

 rather above the average for this time of the year and to prevent the usual 

 summer dullness from making its appearance. The transportation situa- 

 tion ha:i not yet l)OCimie sufficiently acute to interfere with the move- 

 ment of hardwoods and the volume of shipments is quite full. It is 

 accepted as certain that there will be an acute shortage of cars in the next 

 few weeks, even if the railroad strike is settled, and there is quite a decided 

 disposition on the part of consuming interests to secure a good portion of 

 their needs while transportation facilities are available. 



Furniture manufacturers are steadily increasing their purchases under 

 the stimulus of increased sales of thpir own output. There is likewise a 

 good demand from the automobile industry and the building trades, with 

 the exception of flooring manufacturers, are taking lumber with consider- 

 able fr£edom. Flooring interests are buying only for immediate needs. 

 However, hardwood manufacturers arc giving themselves little concern on 

 this score. They believe good buying from this source certain. A well 

 known hardwood producer, who is interested in one of the largest flooring 

 plants in Memphis, is authority for the statement that flooring manufac- 

 turers will consume more plain oak during the last six months of 1922 

 than during the first half. He bases this view on the theory that they have 

 not yet experienced the maximum demand for their products that must 

 result from the rceord-breaking activity in construction work all over the 

 United States, as disclosed by the official figures for June, There is a fairly 

 active miscellaneous demand, including that from manufacturers of agricul- 

 tural vehicles and implements, musical instruments, railway and street 

 cars and wooden containers. Exports interests are taking some lumber, but 

 demand from overseas is not particularly aggressive. 



Stocks are considerably broken in No. 1 common and better in shipping 

 dry. Production is expanding at a very satisfactory rate, but, while the 

 lumber now being placed on sticks will stand buyers in good stead several 

 months hence, it will prove of little immediate value to them. There is 

 comparatively little red or sap gum available iu No. 1 common and better, 

 while there is rather pronounced shortage of plain red and white oak in 

 Kos. 1 and 2 common as a result of the large absorption on the part of 

 flooring manufacturers. The supply of thick elm is limited, while offerings 

 in ash are by no means large. Quartered red and white oak appear to be 

 in more active demand in No. 1 common than in firsts and seconds. There 

 Is very little buying of firsts and seconds cottonwood. Box boards, in 

 this item, too, are very slow. 



LOUISVILLE 



Business is moving along quite well with the Louisville. Ky.. hardwood 

 trade, there being a steady demand from hardwood flooring manufacturers, 

 also from planers and retailers as a result of active building operations. 



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