June 25. 1!)21 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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improvement in outlying districts. Tliis Is partly due to new building, l)ut 

 more especially to tlie annual spring repairing. The improvement is con- 

 fined almost entirely to yards dealiug in building lumber, the result being 

 that activity is largely in yellow pine, hemlocli and white pine, with nii.Ned 

 car shipments predominating. 



The trade in this city proper is badly handicapped by the building trades' 

 strike, which has been in force since May 1. The present situation is one 

 of deadlock between employers and men, with both sides holding firm. 

 There can be no great improvement in the city trade here until this dead- 

 lock is broken one way or the otlier. 



The hardwood trade has shown some little improvement, but it is slight. 

 The demand has been largely for common and better stock, with the lower 

 grade practically at a standstill. This is due to the fact that most of the 

 hardwood bought has been for yards, while factory and industrial consump- 

 tion has been very slight. 



Hardwood prices have slunvn a tendency to weaken for sonic time past, 

 but the recent improvement in demand for better grades has served to 

 steady prices for the time being. Opinion here is divided as to whether 

 the improvement will continue or prove to be temporary. 



PITTSBURGH 



The lumber business in this city is excessively quiet. Railroad, indus- 

 trial and mining trade is practically nil. Retail yard trade is confined 

 only to small, mixed and scattered orders for filling-in purposes. Inquiry 

 has been developed only by quoting constantly lower prices. It is a buyers' 

 market through and through. The best that can be said of it is that hard 

 hustling now and then brings an order. In the main, however, business 

 is so badly out of sorts that everybody is sore and has a grouch on so that 

 the lumber salesman Is fearfully out of place in most offices. General 

 opinion-expressed at the weekly meeting of the Pittsburgh Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association in the William Penn tlotel today is that trade 

 will not show much improvement, if any, before fall. 



BOSTON 



There seems to come something of a lull in the hardwoods trade here. 

 To be sure there continues to be improvement in both demand and inquiry, 

 but the Improvement is not as much as it was. This loss is not thought 

 by the trade to be anything serious, but rather something temporary more 

 or less to be expected at this time of year. In the lower grades, in which 

 there was accumulation, there continues to be some little weakness in tone 

 and demand. In the firsts and seconds, however, the market is firm, 

 though all efforts to obtain even slight advances over the prices recently 

 quoted have failed. What business there is seems to be chiefly with the 

 hardwoods yards and with the furniture makers. There is no improvement 

 noted in demand from the chair manufacturers. Likewise trade with the 

 railroads and export business is dead. The piano people are in the market 

 to some extent, but not much as yet. Trade is really dull with the auto- 

 mobile body people. 



BALTIMORE 



Sentiment as to the state of the hardwood trade here is decidedly mixed. 

 While some of the dealers report that an improvement has taken place 

 over and above the change for the better previously noted, others are not 

 less positive that the market has gone back about to where it was before 

 a temporary quickening in activity, when an increased number of orders 

 came out. The hardwood men who take the view that the situation is 

 more encouraging, however, seem to be in the majority, and the belief 

 in at least a partial revival is causing a greater display of energy with 

 a view to getting orders. Factories that use hardwoods are reported to 

 be entering into commitments on a somewhat bigger scale to take care 

 of their current requirements, without any atfempt so far to make provi- 

 sion for possible and probable future needs. The furniture factories in 

 the South, for example, deem it expedient to buy with greater freedom, 

 some of them having orders for goods in hand to carry them along until 

 next fall, according to advices received here. The northern consumers 

 are developing larger needs, while the additions made to the available 

 stocks are by no means extensive. Many of the saw mills arc still shut 

 down, while others are running far below their capacity. In fact, it 

 may be questioned if the production has undergone any expansion for 

 some time. This, it is felt, has resulted in a further reduction of assort- 

 ments at producing points, a circumstance that has served to strengthen 

 the list somewhat, though no important marking up of the quotations is 

 to be recorded. The calls for lumber come in by fits and starts. Da.vs 

 will elapse before a dealer will get an order, and then again these 

 acceptances will follow each other in fairly rapid succession. It does not 

 appear that the foreign business has made any gains. The movement, if 

 anything, has undergone a further shrinkage, the foreign buyers being 

 disposed to hold back even to the point of deferring actual wants. And 

 the tendency to take advantage of any little pretext for making rejections 

 and filing claims for allowances is fully as pronounced as before. The 

 advisability of observing every provision of contracts and taking account 



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