August 10. 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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accumulation of bad order cars, there are not many embargoes so 

 far. and these are generally lifted in short order, but movement 

 is quite slow. Jobbers and producers report fair demand for cotton- 

 wood, white oak, poplar, red gum, sound wormy oak. poplar box- 

 boards and ash. Cj-press has been moving fairly well and all soft 

 woods are good. The flooring trade is taking material as are the 

 producers of trim. Building operations continue \'ery heavy, and 

 there is good demand from the automobile trade and some other 

 lines, but lack of buying on the part of the furniture trade is making 

 for slow business on fine grades. 



BEAUMONT 



.Notwithstanding the industrial troubles over the country, the 

 hardwood market in this section has remained firm, although the 

 strike situation has had a tendency to restrict buying. This, how- 

 ever, has not prevented order files from remaining comfortably filled. 

 They are likely to remain so on account of the scarcity of empty 

 equipment and to get lumber moving after it is loaded. The big 

 railroad systems entering this territory are in fairly good shape so 

 far as box cars are concerned, but have very few fiats which are 

 reported to east waiting to move coal. 



The most important development in the past two weeks is the fact 

 tliat railroads are placing heavy orders for hardwood ties. The petro- 

 leum interests are the heaviest buyers at the present time, with 

 furniture factories taking considerable trim. Automobile factories 

 are buying a little, and this trade has the advantage of being steady. 



Manufacturers are of the opinion that with the rail and coal strikes 

 disposed of, the only cause for worry during the fall will be the cai- 

 shortage. They are very anxious to see the rail situation rectified 

 in time to get a large part of the wheat crop moved before the fall 

 rush actually begins. They do not look for much business from the 

 wheat belt until the farmers have the proceeds of their crop in the 

 bank, and all of them can not get this unless the buyers can move 

 the crop. Prospects are considered excellent for a big business during 

 the remainder of the year. 



Production shows a slight increase over the first months of the 

 year, yet it is still far below normal. Very few of the small mills 

 have resumed operations and they will not likely do so until things 

 become more settled. 



NEW ORLEANS 



Buying is not very active due to the dull midsummer season, and 

 prices for the most part are firm, but the tendency is to rise slightly 

 and a few instances of increases have occurred within the past fort- 

 night. This refers especially to FAS sap gum. This commodity has 

 a.scended $2 per thousand feet, making the present level of prices 

 thereon at $40 for 6 inch white oak stock and $47 for 13 inches and 

 wider at the mills in both cases. White oak is getting more and 

 more scarce every day, but, odd though it may seem, there has been 

 no corresponding advance in its prices. With production much below- 

 normal and the flooring factories buying rather sprightly, the inroads 

 on white oak generally have been exhausting. 



The general movement of lumber is quiet. The box factories are 

 taking virtually nothing. The railroads, due to the strike, have let 

 up in their purchases for repair and equipment purposes. On the 

 score of transportation facilities, however, the strike does not seem 

 to be affecting the movement of lumber so acutely now as it did a 

 week or so since. The interior trim people are active, but most of 

 their demands, as usual, are for cj-press rather than hardwoods. 



Production is beginning to pick up rather smartly, due to the re- 

 cession of the high water situation which was so acute in the late 

 spring. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



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The Grand Rapids lumber market is firm, with prices slowly rising 

 stock at present is adequate, but there is little surplus. 



Birch veneer is none too plentiful, the stock being absorbed as fast as 

 cut, with the result that an increasing number of furniture factories are 

 using gum veneer in place of birch. These report that the birch is nice to 

 finish in different colors for imitating other woods, 

 adequate, and indications are that there will be a steadily increasing 



.■x\l furniture factories are working full time, the labor market is 

 demand for lumber from Grand Rapids for several years to come. 



TORONTO 



The hardw^ood lumber business in Canada is keeping up fairly well, 

 the United States supplying the bulk of the trade, although the build- 

 ing programs in various Canadian centers has absorbed a fair amount 

 of the domestic product. Wholesale lumber dealers say that they have 

 lees old lumber on hand than they have had at a corresponding time 

 of year for three or four years past. It is stated that stocks on the 

 north shore of Georgian Bay are pretty well cleaned up and north 

 shore manufacturers report that they have obtained practically last 



TRY 



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when you are in need of Quality and 

 Service. No higher type of timber 

 can be found anywhere than that 

 from which our supply is draw^n. 

 And our timber is backed by work- 

 men w^ho have been taught to look 

 out for the customer. We maintain 

 that a satisfied customer is a life-long 

 customer 



Our Specialties 



Plain and Quarter-Sawed Red and 



White Oak. Plain and 



Quartered Red Gum 



Let us send you our stock sheet and give 

 you such information as you require. 



ARCHER LUMBER CO. 



HELENA, ARKANSAS 



The Tegge Lumber Co. 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee,, Wisconsin 



Foster-Latimer Lumber Co. 



OFFER THE FOLLOWING 



DRY HARDWOODS 



B.4SSW0OD 



4/4" FAS. Bes. Widths & Lengths 5 Mo9. Dry 



.)/4" -No. 1 i ntr.. Bee. Widths & Lgths.l2 Mos. Dry 



BIBCH 

 4/4" No. 1 & Btr.. Eee. Widths & Lgths. 5 Mos. Dry 

 4/4-5/4" No. 3, Beg. Widths & Lengtli3..12 Mos. Dry 

 6 4" No. 3. Be?, Widths & Lensths 5 Mos. Dry 



SOFT ELM 

 5/4" No. 2 & Btr.. Ree. WId. & Lengths. 12 Mos. Dry 

 8/4" No. 2 & Btr.. Bee, Wid. & Len5ths.l2 Mos. Dry 

 10/4" No. 2 & Btr.. Ree. Wid. & Leths.l2 Mos. Dry 



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