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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 2-,. 1921 



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Chas. Gill Lumber Co. 



WISCONSIN 



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4/4" or 5/4" No. 1 Com. & Sel. Sap Gum.. 10 cars 



4/4" or 5/4" No. 2 Com. Sap. Gum 10 cars 



4/4" No. 1 and No. 2 Com. Cypress 10 cars 



4/4" No. 1 and No. 2 Com. Cottonwood. . . .10 cars 



8/4"-10/4"-12/4" Tough White Ash 8 cars 



4/4" No. 1 Com. & Sel. PI. White Oak.... 5 cars 

 4/4" No. 1 Com. & Sel. PI. Red Oak Scars 



Above stock is all band sazvn, bone dry, quality lumber. Can 

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Chapman & Dewey Lumber Co. 



MANUFACTURERS 

 MARKED TREE. .4RK KANS.4S CITY, MO. 



hie sotirc*' of supply, and exhaustion of h<ime statnis will but lead more 

 fjiiickly to complete dependence on Canadian forests for lumber. Tem- 

 porarily a( any rate the imposition of a heavy duty on lumber would inter- 

 • fere considerably with Canadian shipments, especially from British Colum- 

 bia. It woulil mean cheaper lumber for the Canadian consumer. It is 

 pointed out that the United States has left only one-fourth of its original 

 forest area, and much of this is ditiicult to get at. Lumber in the United 

 States would go up in price and tlius even up the customs levy on imports. 

 The high freight charges have checlted considerably the bringing of British 

 Columbia lumlier to Eastern Canada, but the whole British Columbia 

 Intlustry has l)een founded on the prairie demand nortii and south of the 

 border. The lumberman referred to above stated that the rate of which 

 the Canadian forest resources have been depleted has been alarming enough 

 to make Canadians consider reforestation also, and a lessened demand 

 from the I'liited States would not be an unmixed evil. 



The i;all l.umlier Company. Toronto, reports that dry kiln facilities, 

 which arc capable of handling 300,000 feet a month, are very busy at the 

 present time on drying oak and birch, the latter for the trade In Michigan 

 and the former for local requirements. They say that the demancl for all 

 kinds !»f Canadian and .\mericiin hardwoods is limitt-"d, altliough some buy- 

 ing is going on all the time. .Agricultural Implement factories have been 

 using considerable elm and maple and taking deliveries on contracts made 

 last year. .\11 woodworking plants, such as furniture factories, piano 

 Arms, wagon coucerns, etc, are very quiet, but phonograph makers have 

 been rather busy and using a fair quantity of veneers. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



Tht'iv has hecii virtually no improvement in the Chicago market during 

 tht* [jast tiftiM'u (lays, except for a strengthening in jirioes of red gum and 

 oak items in the upper grades, due to the further iler-rease in the available 

 stocks. All wood using industries getting thi-ir raw materials on this mar- 

 ket continue to observe the greatest timidity in buying. Buyers are placing 

 orders only for their immediate needs. However, the sellers are not 

 anxious to book orders for delivery very far in the future, as they have 

 a confident belief that lumber prices are going to start upward before the 

 summer is over. They do not want to load up on orders at present low 

 prices. Buying is chiefly in broken lots of one car quantity and a great 

 deal of buying is also being done from the yards. Orders are dften taken 

 for a carloacl of stock in a dozen or more different items, some of these 

 running as low as fifty or a hundred feet. It is evident that the consumers 

 are trying to hold their investments in lumber down to the lowest figure. 

 In spite of this condition the outlook is hopeful. Building labor troubles 

 are gradually being settled, clearing the way for building. The July fur- 

 niture markets are expected to result in sales that will cause good buying 

 by the furniture industry starting late in August. 



CLEVELAND 



Expectations for improved outlet for hardwoods in this market through 

 settlement of the building strike have so far been without realization. 

 Officially the strike has been settled. Actually, it is not settled. For 

 several branches of the organized operatives have been objecting to one 

 thing and another in connection with the pay awards made by the arbitra- 

 tion committees, and this dissent is marked with spasmodic halting and 

 resumption of work on those building operations that were held up during 

 the strike. In consequence the building public, and particularly that class 

 devoted to housing construction, which offers the best outlet for material 

 in the hardwood division, is still playing a waiting game. Here and there 

 a sparse order for flooring comes in, but this means little in the lives of 

 hardwood distributors who have been waiting since the beginning of the 

 year to see real building going ahead. 



It is a matter of some consolation to local hardwood interests that con- 

 ditions locally appear to be better than in other sections of the Middle 

 West. At least such is the assertion of representatives of out of town 

 firms who have forsaken their regular territories in search of new fields. 

 Admitting they are not doing anything sensational in the way of new 

 bookings here, these callers indicate that the prospects for an early 

 resumption of real building activity are better in Cleveland than else- 

 where. 



The slowdown is further reflected in the lessened inquiry from the 

 manufacturing trades. Furniture, cabinet work and similar outlet is 

 still quite limited. In the automobile trade the outlook is l»righter, based 

 largely upon the reduced prices of many cars, and the possiliility that this 

 will intluee buying. Manufacturers, however, are linnting their hard- 

 wood reqtiiremeuts to immediate needs. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Wholesalers in this city report some improvement in the general situa- 

 tion, but the improvement is neither uniform nor steady. There has been 

 considerable briskness displayed in the soft woods, caused largely by trade 



