Ortober 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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F. L. Adams, former president of the Southwestern Hiirdwood Manu- 

 facturers' Cluh of the Newell Lumber Company, Eunice, La. : J. li. Kobin- 

 son, Pelican Lumber Company, Mound, La. ; 11. IL Hates, New Deciner 

 Manutacturing Company, I>('c incr. Miss., and A. N. Smith, Bomer-Ulanks 

 Lumber Company, lUanks. I^a. 



The hardwood sawmill of Amos Huff, Newport, Ark., was destroyed 

 by Are recently, the loss being placed at $5,000 and there being no 

 Insurance. 



The Fee-t'rayton Hardwood Lumber Company, Dcrmott, Ark., lost a large 

 lumber storage shed in their yards and about 50 carloads of gum and 

 walnut ready for export. The principal ndll of the company was destroyed 

 by fire early last fall. The recent loss was placed at about .$50,000 and Is 

 understood to be fully covered by insurance. 



The Hamilton Lumber Corporation near Spartanburg, S. C, lost Its 

 big box manufacturing plant, the loss being estimated at about $20(1, nnn 

 and partially covered by insurance. 



TORONTO 



The first gathering of the Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association siii(r 

 the holidays was held at the Albany Club, Toronto, on Septemliir i;.'i. 

 when an instructive address was given by S. Shiels of U. G. Dun & ('.■. 

 on "Credits and Business," in which he spoke hopefully of the improve 

 ment shown of late in many lines of business. As the result of a dis- 

 1 cussion over a suggested resolution asking the Railway companies for 

 new regulations restop-over in transit, the Transportation Committee will 

 take up with the railways the advisability of allowing lumber that had 

 been dressed in transit to go through to the Western provinces, and to 

 allow, at least, six months for stop-over in transit in Canada. It was 

 also decided to hold a conference shortly with the retail dealers on the 

 subject of cooperation and trade conditions generally. 



MacDonnell & Conyers, Limited, has been organized at Ottawa, with 

 power to engage in a general lumber business, and has been granted a 

 Federal charter. The comiwny is capitalized at .$100,000 and among the 

 incorporators are Donald J. MacDonnell, C. 11. Conyers and L. J. Mac- 

 Donnell, all prominent lumbermen of Ottawa. Other recent lumber 

 company incorporations are the Lewis Lumber Company, Limited, Mon 

 treal, with $100,000 capital, one of the directors being James B. Knox, 

 lumber merchant of Montreal ; the Angus-Keefer Lumber Company, Lim- 

 ited, Belleville, with a capital of $50,000. 



Advices received from Montreal indicate that only about twenty-five 

 per cent of the number of lumber Jacks that ordinarily go to the bush 

 will be required this season. Over 15,000 men went out from Montreal 

 to work in the woods last winter. Wages offered this season are very 

 much less, running as low as $20 a month, whereas last year at this 

 time the pay was about tiirce times this amount. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



The Chicago hardwood market is reflecting the decided improvement 

 that has developed in the last few weeks in all hardwood market centers. 

 Prices have shown a marked firming tendency, particularly in the upper 

 grades of white oak, quartered red and plain red gum. The sellers are 

 evidencing a pronounced reluctance to take orders for large future 

 deliveries as they prefer to hold their stocks in anticipation of the 

 further steady rise of the market. Buyers are becoming more tolerant, 

 more receptive to quotations and some of them are now buying wbo a 

 short time ago declared themselves out of the market for a long time. 



BUFFALO 



The hardwood demand is reported to be improving this month and 

 orders are coming in quite a little better than a montli or two ago. The 

 buyers are not desirous of adding extensively to their stocks, but they are 

 more willing to listen to the salesmen and are not so pessimistic as was 

 formerly the case. The furniture factories are reported to be among the 

 chief customers at present and to be in general need of stock. The auto- 

 mobile plants are not active as a rule, so their buying is small. Tiie 

 building business is now on a more satisfactory basis than for some time 

 past. 



WTiile prices are unsettled, the offerings in good lumlicr are not hoa\y 

 and it is said that liefore long much of this stock will be exhausted, when 

 buyers will have to turn to common lumber, which is now in large supply : 

 Prices in the latter are on about a par among the different woods, and some 

 readjustment seems likely. Oak, for example, .seems likely to go higher. 

 Red gum is one of the strongest woods, especially one-inch stock. Oak 

 and maple flooring continue in fairly good demand. 



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