HARDWOOD RECORD 



• )( rails, structural steel and cars, is taken by 

 the lumbermen to mean lliat some big business 

 may be expected from that source after the first 

 o£ the year. Pittsburg is getting ready to spend 

 large sums of money for municipal improve- 

 ments and industrial extensions and t!ie pros- 

 pect for a better year in 1911 is very flattering. 



BOSTON 



INSURANCE COST 



As a lumberman you carefully 

 analyze the cost of your stumpage, 

 manufacture and sales, but your 

 insurance is usually bunched with 

 "general expense." 



We can convince you that fire 

 insurance is worthy of even more 

 careful analysis andattention than 

 any other feature of your business. 



We can also convince you that 

 our form of insurance is the safe, 

 logical and economical one. 



Will you give us an opportunity 

 to prove our claims? 



Manufacturing Woodworkers 

 Underwriters 



LEE BLAKEMORE & COMPANY 

 Rector BuiMing CHICAGO 



BLUESTONE LAND & LUMBER CO. 



White Pine, Oak, 

 Poplar, Chestnut 

 and Hemlock Lumber 



WHITE PINE AND OAK TIMBERS ON 

 SHORT NOTICE 



RAILROAD TIES 



We own our own stumpage 

 and operate our own mill. 



Mill: GARDNER, \V. VA. 



Sales Office: RIDGWAY. PA. 



The market for hardwood Uimbm' here is un- 

 satisfactory. Outside of the general tendency 

 upon the part of buyers to act in a conservative 

 way, wholesalers have had to meet what they 

 term very unfair competition from large and 

 small manufacturers of hardwood lumber. 



Prices are more or less unsettled, although 

 dealers state really good grades are held with 

 a fair degree of firmness. The call for quar- 

 tered oak is not large. Plain oak has held fairly 

 steady, with a good demand. Maple is slightly 

 firmer than it has been and some dealers report 

 a good call for birch and basswood. Whitcwood 

 and cypr'-ss is in rather quiet call. 



Greenbrier Lumber Co. 



Manufacturers 



White Pine, Hemloclt and Hard- 

 woods, from our own lands. 

 Pine and Oak our specialty 

 NEOLA, W. VA. 



tories. Orders are pretty well distributed over 

 llie country, but the Middle West and the West 

 show up the best In that regard. The car sup- 

 ply Is one of the things that hinders better 

 business. Collections have improved In most 

 places and, on the whole, the tone of I hi' market 

 js satisfactory. 



Quartered oak is in good demand and prices 

 for firsts and seconds are Arm. Plain oak is in 

 good request and the volume of business is sat- 

 isfactory. Poplar is in active call at fair 

 prices. Chestnut is wanted in many places and 

 prices are strong. Sound wormy ash is strong- 

 er and sales are larger, while there is a good 

 dtmaiid for liasswood, wilh prices firm. 



BALTIMORE 



There is nothing new of a striking i-iiaracler 

 in the hardwood trade. Manufacturers and deal- 

 ers are running along in about the same way, 

 except as the end of ihe year draws near tlie 

 yards and other buyers are curtailing their pur- 

 chases so as to wind up the twelve months with 

 obligations held down as low as possil)le. No- 

 ' where are there especially heavy accumulations. 

 Some piling up of stocks is in jirogress at the 

 mills, but the supplies are by no means ex- 

 cessive, and the lumber now on sticks can be 

 disposed of without trouble. The inquiry for 

 export stocks is quite brisk, and quotations are 

 maintained at comparatively high ligures. The 

 belief prevails that when the British elections 

 are out of the way the demand from there will 

 greatly increase, and the foreign movement will 

 be swelled to impressive figures. Notwithstand- 

 ing the tendency on the part of the yards to 

 hold down, the range of prices has in no wise 

 weakened, and the holders of stocks are dis- 

 posed to make no material concessions. The car 

 builders and the other large consumers of hard- 

 woods are backward in buying. The furniture 

 factories and similar woodworking establish- 

 ments, however, are operating full time. 



Common chestnut is still ruling very low, with 

 the returns leaving the sellers minus proQts. 

 Common poplar and oak, on the other hand, 

 are finding ready sales. All high-grade stocK 

 is in good request at moderate figures, the only 

 exception just now being in wide poplar, the 

 demand for which is still easy. 



CLEVELAND 



Lumbermen here are well satisSed with the 

 way in which business is coming in as the year 

 draws to a close. There seems to be a firmer 

 tone to the market and a more general demand 

 on all lines for hardwood stock. 



The automobile market, which has been some- 

 what backward for several months and which 

 lias let up on its demand for wide poplar boards 

 for body making, is again reviving and making 

 .1 call for good stock. The demand for the bet- 

 i.r grades of both quartered and plain oak Is 

 also noticeable. Interior finish in mahogany and 

 Circassian walnut and early l-Inglisli oak is also 

 (|iiite brisk. 



COLUMBUS 



The liaidwood trade in cinlral tJhio has been 

 sood in most branches. The movement of the 

 lower grades is better and both the higlior and 

 lower grades are in good demand. Prices on 

 most varieties of hardwoods are rather strong. 

 What changes have been made in quotations 

 liave been towards higher levels, and in no cases 

 have recessions been made. 



The yard demand is still ahead of factory 

 r.emand, although the latter has shown some Im- 

 |,rovement recently. Automobile factories are 

 pow in the market for larger stocks and the 

 same is true of fiuiilluio and Implement fac- 



CINCINNATI 



December opened to u fair volume of busi- 

 ness, with indications of continuing until the 

 end of the year. Collections have been rather 

 slow, and hardwood operators are Inclined, in a 

 measure, to lose their composure and spirit of 

 optimism. The long-continued slowness in the 

 demand for hardwoods has been trying upon the 

 merchants and manufacturers, as the prices have 

 remained at the lowest possible point. How- 

 ever, during the past fortnight more encourag- 

 ing inquiry has developed for quarter-sawed oak. 

 More inquiries are being received for selected 

 quarter-sawed white oak and the movement of 

 both red and white has been fair. Plain-sawed 

 white oak is showing signs of scarcity, owing 

 to the efforts of millmen to get the better price 

 for quarter-sawed out of the log, the prices of 

 v.hich were never known to be as high as at 

 present. Close inquiry has revealed the fact 

 that the cut of oak in the regions tributary to 

 this market has been light during the present 

 season, principally from the inability of the 

 millmen to get logs. Chestnut remains quiet, 

 with but light demand for the top grades, while 

 medium, rough and heavy slock has been meet- 

 ing with a fair movement. Sound wormy is 

 selling well for good-grade, while the demand 

 for low-grade stuff is light. The volume of low- 

 grade sound wormy has' been a deterrent to bet- 

 ter prices for good-grade. 



The carriage making industry keeps ash to the 

 front as a market feature, while there Is some 

 movement of furniture and manufacturers' 

 grades. Heavy white ash that is well seasoned 

 Ts scarce, as is bone dry. which Is what the 

 wagon-makers desire for immediate use. Hick- 

 ory is meeting with a good volume of trade 

 from the wheel, shaft and pole manufacturers, 

 while hickory boards of good length are hard 

 to get. Poplar is again slowly coming into Its 

 own as a feature of the market. Itecent ad- 

 vices from the automobile trade are to the ef- 

 fect that preparations are being made to manu- 

 facture on an extensive scale during 1911, and 

 mat the demand for wide, clear stock will be 

 strong before spring, though it is Intimated that 

 the high prices will not be reached. Good, 

 clear wide panel stock Is receiving some inquiry, 

 while box boards are in good movement. Furni- 

 ture and manufacturing grades are moving stead- 

 ily. Low-grade poplar is plentiful, and the 

 prices correspondingly low. Ked gum Is re- 

 ceiving fair attention from the furniture manu- 

 factuiTug industry, while the movement for In- 

 terior finish manufacturers is somewhat lighter. 

 Interior trim and gum flooring are attracting 

 little attention. Walnut is in good supply but 

 the movement light, and principally to forelcn 

 buyers but there are no reports of large ship 

 raents to foreign countries. Cherry is in good 

 supply Init the movement is light. Birch, ma- 

 hogaiiy, cottonwo.}d and basswood are In good 

 supply, but only few sales are being made. 



BVANSVILLB 



The market in this section remains about the 

 same, most of the local concerns doing a fairly 

 good business: however, very few are .satisfied 



