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HARDWOOD RECORD 



.Tauiiary 2.j. 1919 



LIGNUM VITAE BOXWOOD 



SNAKEWOOD 



WE HANDLE ALL TROPICAL HARDWOODS 



EBONY 

 ROSEWOOD COCO BOLO 



C. H. PEARSON 



29 Broadway New York City 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter sawed 



WHITE and RED OAK and YELLOW POPLAR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wagon and Vehicle Stock in the rough 



Your Inquiries Solicited 



ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



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Godfrey Loe Conveyors | 



Tor tlie Mill Yard, | 



Handle Your IiOg's Mechanically | 



FRACTICAI., STTRASIii:, ECONOMICAIi f 



IVrite far detailed information i 



John F. Godfrey, Dept. 4, Elkhart, Ind. | 



Wistar, Underbill & Nixon 



PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA 



Manufacturers of CYPRESS and GUM 



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i Plain & Qtd. Red & White I 



I OAK I 



AND OTHER 

 HARDWOODS 



= Even Color 



Soft Texture I 



MADE (MR) RIGHT 



OAK FLOORING 



We have 35,000,000 feet dry stock— all of 

 our own manufacture, from our own tim- 

 ber grown in Eastern Kentucky. 



PROMPT SHIPMENTS = 



The MOWBRAY I 

 & ROBINSON CO. I 



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CINCINNATI, OHIO I 



skilled workmen have been making good money, and are expected to build 

 regardless of possible lower prices. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company was recently down for a few days 

 as a result of high water in the Ohio River getting into the boiler room, 

 but the river went down without doing any damage in the valley, due to a 

 cold spell, which held the rise in check. 



Box factories have been handling an excellent run of business during 

 the past few weeks in connection with the heavy bottling by distillers, 

 who are moving stock out of bond rapidly so that the country can get 

 fairly well stocked up before prohibition becomes effective next July. 



=-< BEAUMONT >■= 



The Beaumont Lumber Company held its annual stockholders* meeting 

 oil January 15. with the following results: Ben S. Woodhead, president; 

 W. A. Priddie. active vice-president; Geo. D. Anderson, secretary; Harry 

 C. Weiss, treasurer, together with P. A. Heisig. M. L. Womack, Jr., T. S. 

 Keed, isr., M. Geuiterman and Ed. Paggi forming the board of directors. 

 The regular semi-annual dividend of six per cent was declared. 



The city of Beaumont is making preparations to plank sufficient water 

 front ro accommodate an additional one million feet of lumber for export 

 purposes. The appropriation of $50,000 by the government to cut away 

 part of harbor island will give vessels loading lumber greater leeway in 

 turning ami loading. 



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The Hardwood Market { 



-< CHICAGO >- 



Wliile the Chicago market is still slow there seems to be an increasing 

 number of converts among the*buyers with the idea that it is not reason- 

 able to expect a break in hardwood prices. The general tendency is still 

 in that direction, but the impossibility of the market going off becomes 

 more impressive with each gathering of lumbermen who are in position 

 to compare lack of stock statistics and manufacturing cost. 



There have been quite a few sizable orders placed lately and local 

 hardwood men are for the most part sitting tight and refraining from 

 turning over any large accuimilath'ii at reduced figures. 



^■< BUFFALO >-- 



The members of the hardwood trade do not see much iu sight yet that 

 looks like improvement. Some of them think there is a slight stir, but 

 others deny that there is anything yet but the regular midwinter slack- 

 ness. They are not disturbed, though, for they seldom sell much in either 

 December or January. For all that some of them find their books showing 

 a better movement than took place a year ago. Inventories indicate a 

 good assortment of everything, but the really encouraging thing just now 

 is that so many of the yards are already laying in new stock. In fact 

 about all of them have begun to receive cars that will go into the spring 

 supply and the plan is to get as much as can well be carried, for if the trade 

 does not set in strong soon it is sure to do so after a little. 



The fact is that nobody is at present able to say just what the business 

 of the country is going to do this year. The belief is general that more 

 building will be done, outside of army camps, than was done last year, 

 for the country needs it more and more every year and there is money to 

 pay for it. Complaint is made that wages and material are too high for 

 much speculative building, but there is so much to be done outside of that 

 class that the trade ought to be busy if the capitalist is not very active. 

 Every city is short of houses and the workingmen can pay the rents 

 required. 



Dealers who have been taking the remnants of Pacific-coast lumber that 

 were not used up by the aviation factories are pleased to find that they 

 can sell It to manufacturers. The prices are not very high and there is 

 a special inducement to take such lumber and adapt it to the needs of 

 the country as they appear. This lumber is not going to last long and it is 

 of special quality. It will help get the consumer into line for more when 

 it is gone. 



As to the grade and sort of stock that is to go into stock now dealers 

 pretty nearly agree that it will be of everything that goes to make up an 

 assortment. The low grades are wanted for boxes and crating, tor those 

 Industries are active and the high grades of oak are wanted for special pur- 

 poses. The manufacturers are not well supplied and if they are to do any 

 business this year they must have lumber and they mean to do business. 



Buffalo did a fair amount of building last year, the aggregate being 

 $7,014,000, as against $10,501,000 in 1017 and $13,127,000 in 1916. This 

 is a falling off, but it is as good a showing as could have been expected. 

 This year there is to be the inspiration of the $8,000,000 in new school 

 building that has Jn.st been adupted by the city council. 



=-< PITTSBURGH >-= 



Il.udwood men are taking life easy nowadays. Very little is <l..ing this 

 month. They expect, however, that business will open up in the near 

 future because unless a big crash comes in the industrial situation, there 



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