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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 23, 1922 



Offering 



Thoroughly Kiln Dried 

 Lumber and an Efficient 

 Kiln Drying Service 



A thoroughly modern kiln equiDinent at 

 Owensboro enables us to make oromot shio- 

 ment on our own stock, thoroughly kiln dried 

 and also to offer kiln drying service of oroven 

 efficiency for handling either green or drv 

 lumber. We offer quick shioment. either 

 domestic or exDOrt. straight or mixed cars, 

 all N. H. L. A. grades in our soft texture 

 oak ideal for good furniture. We also have 

 solendid walnut, a fine stock of poplar, chest- 

 nut, gum. hickory, maple, elm. cottonwood. 

 heech and Quartered sycamore. Thus prac- 

 tically everv line of woodworking is offered 

 a thoroughly reliable source of entirelv de- 

 pendable material. 



Trv STIMSON at Owenshnro 

 ths n?xt timp 



J. V. Stimson & Co. 



OWENSBORO, KY. I 



JACKSON & TINDLE 



INCORPORATED 



Sales Office 

 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



Main Office 

 BUFFALO. N. Y. 



Complete stock of 



Dry Northern Hardwoods 



HARD MAPLE BIRCH 



SOFT MAPLE BEECH 



BASSWOOD ELM 



MILLS AT PELLSTON AI^'D MUNISING, MICHIGAN 



Foster-Latimer Lumber Co. 



OFFER THE FOLLOWING 



DRY HARDWOODS 



BASSWOOD 



4/4' FAS. Kee. Widths & Lengths 6 



5/4" No. 1 & Btr., Bee. Widths & Lsth9.12 



BIRCH 

 4/4" No. 1 & Btr.. Bos. Widths & Lgths. 5 

 4/4-5/4" No. 3. Reg. Widths & Lengths.. 12 



6/4" No. 8. Reg. Widths & Lensths 5 



SOFT ELM 

 5/4" No. 2 & Btr., Reg. Wld. & Lengths. 12 

 8/4" No. 2 &. Btr.. Reg. Wid. & »ien2ths.l2 

 10/4" No. 2 & Btr.. Beg. Wld. & LgthB.12 Mos. Dry 



WIRE, PHONE OR WRITE FOR PRICES 

 MAIN OFFICE AND MILLS 

 MELLEN, WISCONSIN 



Mos. Dry 

 Mos. Dry 



Mos. Dry 

 Mos. Dry 



Mo6. Dry 

 Mos. Dry 



for manj' to curtail production just at a time when they wished to expand. 

 Few. however, were forced to shut down their plants altogether. Prices 

 are at hich levels and stocks are in poor shape generally. During the past 

 twd wei-ks the car situation has become an important factor especially to 

 the retailer, who was operating with light stocks not expecting the new 

 coustructioo! volume to create such a demand upon his supplirs. The 

 industrials are fairly well supplied, but with an expansion in production, 

 as is certain in the furniture industry, there will be a scramble for raw 

 materials. There has been an improvement in the business of manufacturers 

 of musical instruments durii-g the past two weeks and some of the plants 

 in Indiana report some nice orders. 



EVANSVILLE 



The strike of the railroad shopmen has delayed shipments to a certain 

 extent, according to the hardwood lumber manufacturers and the whole- 

 salers in Evansville and southern Indiana. The demand for the various 

 grades of hardwood has been very good during the past two weeks and 

 prices on some of the grades have been tending upward owing to the knv 

 stocks reported and the car shortage coming in the wake of the railroad 

 strikes. The various wood consuming factories in Evansville and towns 

 in the tri-state section are being operated steadily and in some instances 

 they are running on a pre-war basis and everything would be all right, 

 the manufacturers assert, if only the railroad strike came to an end. The 

 indications were before the strike started that the coming fall and 

 winter would witness a great revival in business and this improvement 

 will come in the event the strike is not further prolonged. General busi- 

 ness conditions are improving steadily in spite of the strike and there are 

 fewer men now out of employment than there were at the beginning of the 

 present year. The retail lumber trade is holding its own very well. 

 Planing mills have been getting a lot of repair work for several months 

 past and new business also has been picking up some. Box manufacturers 

 report their business has been interfered with to some extent by the rail- 

 road strike. Stave manufacturers say that their business Is not picking 

 up to any great extent. Plow manufacturers are looking for a splendid 

 fall trade in the South and Southwest. Wagon ma-nufacturers also are 

 looking for a better trade than last year. Of course, this increase in trade 

 depends largely upon when the railroad strike is settled. But things look 

 quite encouraging. Reports from the rural communities are more encour- 

 aging than they have been at any time since the closing of the world war. 

 Farmers are spending more money and they will have a great deal more 

 money when this year's crops have been sold. Manufacturers of lumber 

 report that logs are coming in more freely and many of the manufacturers 

 will lay in liberal supplies of logs during the fall months for winter use. 

 Logging has been resumed on a large scale along Green and Barren rivers 

 in western Kentucky. 



MEMPHIS 



All indications, according t<i prominent members of thi' industry, point 

 to a volume of business in hardwood lumber and forest products this fall 

 and winter that will he limited only by two factors — available supply of 

 lumber and available supply of cars. 



Demand is steadily broadening and promises to assume record propor- 

 tions as soon as the prospective settlement, in their entirety, of the coal 

 and railway strikes releasrs the large volume of orders that have been 

 held up pending a better supply of fuel for consuming interests throughout 

 the country. It is conceded that stocks in the hands of these interests are 

 comparatively light and that, once they are assured an adequate supply 

 of fuel, they will get away from the policy of handto-moutb buying which 

 has been in evidence for an almost indefinite period. 



It is likewise regarded as virtually certain that the trend nf prices for 

 hardwood lumber and forest products will be upward, but, even so, hard- 

 wood interests are none too optimistic over the outlook because of the 

 threatening transportation situation which promises not only to materially 

 curtail production but which also promises to interfere materially with tht^ 

 supply of cars for distribution of hardwood lumber and forest products. 

 Periods of high prices, due to restricted production and limited distribution. 

 such as experienced during 1919 and the earlier months of 1920. are not 

 regarded by the trade as nearly so satisfactory as those when prices are 

 on a normal and well stabilized basis and when the movenient of hardwood 

 lumber and forest products is steady. 



J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association, with 550 members in the hardwood producing territory 

 handling over 600,000 cars of hardwood lumber and forest products 

 annually, discusses elsewher ■ in this issue of Hardwood Recoud trans- 

 portation conditions as they exist at present as touching the industry and 

 as they promise to develop during the next few weeks. Suffice it to say 

 here that the shortage of flat cars is already seriously restricting the 

 movement of logs to the mills and that the shortage of gondola and box 

 cars is likewise seriously interfering with the distribution of hardwood 

 lumber and forest products. Embargoes are also showing up in a number 

 of directions and transportation difficulties are growing more acute each 

 week. 



As to present market conditions : Demand is quite satisfactory. All 



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