February 10, llilSi 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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There s! no Time 

 Like the present 



\T /"E would like to give our friends a little inside dope on the hardwood situation, 

 ' ' particularly as to stocks and the possibility of any general softening in 

 the market. 



Just taking the conditions at the mills as they stand, we find a radically cur- 

 tailed input of logs, both in the North and the South. It can be stated with 

 authority that southern operators cannot hope for more than fifty per cent log input, 

 while in the North the soft winter will not make possible more than fifty-five to sixty 

 per cent at the most. Conservatively the total hardwood cut this year will not go 

 over sixty per cent of normal production. 



So "THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT" for making your calcula- 

 tions as to 1919 hardwood requirements. The cards are against any permanent or 

 general softening of the hardwood market. Manufacturing costs have NOT gone 

 down and won't. 



Line up now with us and buy your southern hardwoods from the choicest 

 St. Francis River Basin of Missouri timber, shipped absolutely according to National 



grades. 



AVISCONSIN LU7V1BER CO. 



Sincerely, 



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