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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Juue 10. 1921 



WE WANT TO SELL 



the following 



Dry Northern Michigan 



HARDWOODS 



Can furnish all kinds of 



Hemlock and Hardwood Crating 



Band mills at 

 Chassell and Ontonagon, Michigan 



C. H.Worcester Co. 



NOT INCORPORATED 



19 So. La Salle Street, CHICAGO 



Results from Experience 



Our well selected logs, our careful manufacture and the 

 grading of our stock, demonstrate a service built on expe- 

 rience that should bring you into our family fold for fu- 

 ture business. We make Hardwood Lumber that brings & 

 follow-up order. Keep In touch with us when in need of 

 future supply. Dry stock Is scarce now. A careful con- 

 suming manufacturer, however, looks to the future for sup- 

 plies that give satisfaction. 



We desire to get In communication with you so we may 

 know what your needs are and maybe by and by we can 

 help you. The erection of new mills and because of our 

 having a constant eye cast about for Increasing our timber 

 holdings, should put us at the head of the list of mills 

 when you want to buy Pine and Hardwoods. 



Kentucky Lumber Co. 



Manufacturer 

 tiJUl Dresaed 



Oak, lied and Sap Gum. liouijh 

 Tuiiclo, Shnrl-Leat Y. Pine 



8ale« 

 Offl<'« = 



606 Security Trust Building, Lexington, Ky. 



SAW AND PLANING MILLS AT ?ULLIGENT. ALA. 



Facts That Fit Any Business: 



/■COMPETITION, unprccedentedly keen, hereafter will cause whole- 

 ^^ sale elimination from the ranks of producers and distributors. 



Survival will demand definite knowledge of underlying conditions and 

 the ability correctly to apply this knowledge to individual businesses. 

 The Brookniire Economic Service furnishes executives of large and 

 small concerns alike authentic information and definite advice, based 

 on its original system of forecasting from economic cycles. 



Gur records show more companies in the lumber business subscribe to 

 our Commercial Service than in any other industry. 



Send for free current copies of 

 Brookniire bulletins and booklet ;U 



The Brookmire Economic Service 



INCORPORATED 



25 West 45tli Street, New York 



434-4.^6 Citizens National Hank Building, Los Angeles, Calif. 



.■nr|i(ir:iti(»ii whifh bas b(_M_'ii orKunizi'd with a cjipital stock of $H.s(H> to 

 '■nsagi' iu the manufacture of bodies, cabs, etc.. for vehicles of all kinds. 

 The Incorporators are John Vandcr Ile.vden, Edmund Kichter anil Herman 

 1'. I'afc'el. all of Milwaukee. 



Ilenr.v M. Ogden, one of the most prominent men in the fine vehicle 

 industiy of the country for many years, died at his home in Milwaukee on 

 .May 2G at the age of 09 years. Me was one of the first white children 

 born in Milwaukee. For more than forty years, with his i^rotber, (ieorge 

 \V. Ogilen. he conducted the Ogden Carriage Works on the site of the pres- 

 riit Hotel Wisconsin. The business was sold and the brothers retired in 

 I'.iii". 



SOUTH BEND 



An open sf^sMion bainiuct of the Hardwood t.'luh was held Monday. May 

 ;iO, jit the South Keud Country Chib, South Bend, Ind. 



Mr. Oilier, vicp-pressidcnt and diroctor of sales of the Studebrikcr Cor- 

 poration, who has just returned from a business trip around the world 

 ill the interests of the Studebaker Corporation, gave one of the most educa- 

 tional and interesting talks ever listened to by the hanlwoud club. 



lie especially pointed out the fact that American manufacturers of all 

 <(pnimodities were entirely overbjoking the foreign trade, and stated that 

 inreigners in general were anxious and willing to Irade with America. 



In his travels around the world he found South Bend the best adver- 

 tised Ameriean city, seeing everywhere Studebaker's ears, Oliver ehilled 

 plows and Singer sewing machines, all of which are manufactured in 

 Sniith r.end, 



A r.al)e Kuth rival was unearthed during the chanipii»nslup games of the 

 Hardwood Cluli. Donn Piatt knocking four home runs in one game, playing 

 his position of first base without an error, (Take notice. Mr. flleason.) 



Quite a number of the boys have left for the Nalional Hardwood Lum- 

 iter Association convention at Philadelphia. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



While buyers appear to he mure intcrestt-d in >rock lists than for several 

 weeks there has been no noticeable improvement in demand within the 

 last fifteen days, the tie-up of buildings having a depressing effect on 

 buying liy all hardwood fabricating inrlustries. Furniture makers and 

 citlicrs are afraid to put on much speed and conseijueutly lumber buying 

 while building is slack. However, the i'hicago furniture factories recently 

 increased their operating schedule to four days a week. Flooring manu- 

 facturers continue to make substantial purchases. Because of the elinnna- 

 tion of competition of southern wooils by exorbitant freight rates, demand 

 for northern hardwoods of the common grades has increased in the imple- 

 menl industries in this territory. 



BUFFALO 



Not much activity is shown in the hardwood trade and few consumers 

 .ire interested at this time. When they are going to buy in larger quantity 

 is regarded as quite uncertain, but the general opinion is that business will 

 open up in fair .shape this fall. Much of the buying at present is in small 

 (luantities, based on the feeling of caution which is common in industrial 

 circles. It is believed by many that freight rates will come down before 

 long and that for this reason it will pay to bold off. 



While it takes nerve to buy much lunil)er under the present unsettled 

 conditions, some wholesalers are deciding that now is a good time to do 

 so. and they are taking advantage of the opportunities afforded. Some 

 millmen need the money so badly that they are willing to accept offers 

 which show little or no margin of profit, and of course when business 

 improves and hardwoods are in pretty fair demanil they will shove up their 

 prices. Some chances offered nowadays are regarded as worth taking, even 

 with the possibility that freight rates may go down l)efore nmny mouths. 



Hardwood prices in this market show much unsettlement. Dealers say 

 that there is too much stock available in most kinds of hardwoods and 

 they do not look for much price improvement or increase in business before 

 Ibis fall. Oak, gum and chestnut in firsts and seconds are said to have gone 

 higher in the past month. Walnut prices have declined considerably in the 

 past few weeks. Cypress is one of the strongest wockIs in the list. Floor- 

 ing in both oak and maple is reported firmer. 



PHILADELPHIA 



It is a difficult task to give an accurate and honest analysis of the hard- 

 wood market in Thiladelphia and the metropolitan district of the cit.v. 

 The number of factors determining the present status of the industry are 

 so great that Judgment must be made in the most careful manner. Listen- 

 ing to one group of hardwood men it would be eas.v to predict a boom while 

 another group would induce pessimism. The small dealer, who has been 

 obtaining a multitude of orders from rural Pennsylvania. New .lersey and 



