HARDWOOD RECORD 



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frlaiTator Compnny of Kansas City was recently taken over by tills con- 

 cern. A recent order came from a large firm In Moscow, Russia. 



Harry E. Friend, president of the Plilllp Goerres Cooperage Company 

 of Milwaukee, was talten to tile Emergency liospital December 5. after 

 IxToinlng unconsdons on the street. Mr. Friend was wallilng down Grand 

 avenue when he suddenly sank to the ground unconscious, his head strik- 

 ing violently the cement .'iidewalk. Doctors at the hospital could not de- 

 termine what had caused the attack, but believe it was a fainting spell. 

 Mr. Friend sustained a slight concussion of the brain. He Is forty-flve 

 years of age. 



II. I.. Gardner, manager of the Rice Lake plant of the Marinette-Green 

 Pay Manufacturing Company, was accidentally shot while hunting with 

 a party of friends near .Vshhind. He was just stepping Into the cani|i 

 when a stray shot struck him, penetrating his abdomen. He was imme- 

 diately taken to .Vshland but efforts to save his life were without success. 

 Mr. Gardner was forty-eight years of age and is survived by his wife 

 and three children. 



Plans are materializing for the construction of an intenirban railroad 

 In Door county with a terminal at Sturgeon Kay. The proposed line will 

 be run to Liberty Grove and eventually to Green Ba.v. It is planned to 

 construct tracks of standard type so that steam railroad cars can be 

 switched onto the line and carried to points along the new route. The 

 cars will be electrically driven, but the overhead trolley system will be 

 displaced by gas motor generators individual for each train. The fact 

 that the line will be connected with the steam roads is of interest to the 

 lumbering industry of northeast Wisconsin. 



R. F. LeMire will erect a planing i,iill at Federal Dam. Wis. 



T. A. Brenner is planning to open up the Langlll sawmill at Eagle 

 river about the first of the year. 



The director of the Forest Products L.iborator.v. Madison, has called for 

 hids on the machinery and equipment now installed at the Forest Labora 

 tor.v at Wausau. Wis. A motor generator set. .500 h. p. direct current 

 motor, starters, switchboard, a No. 3 Griulds centrifugal pump and one 

 rotary suction pump are included. 



The Hardwood Market 



-< CHICAGO >• 



.\ featureless continuance of the inactivity of the past couple of weeks 

 is alwnt all that can be said in a description of present market conditions 

 In Chicago. It is not likely that the local market is any more seriously 

 affected by the laxity in business than is the market in other sections, but 

 a fair share of pessimism is apparent. This, of course, does not mean 

 that there is not a good deal of business done in Chicago, for there is. 

 However, it continues to come with difficulty and as a rule those concerns 

 making the greatest effort are the ones getting the majority of the busi- 

 ness. 



Of course quietness in the lumber market is to be expected at this time 

 of the year, but the present condition is considered as rather below 

 normal. 



Of the various consuming lines, the box factories are probably taking 

 the greatest quantity of lumber, comparatively speaking, but other lines 

 are not talking very optimistically. The taking of inventory is having its 

 full cffe<^. which, coupled with other circumstances peculiar to the present. 

 Is effecting the undesirable result noted. 



Generall.v speaking the low grades of all hardwoods are in the best de- 

 mand, while uppers in the standard hardwoods maintain the same rela- 

 tive position that the.v have occupied for some little time. 



Quartered oak shows the greatest strength with perhaps a little mon' 

 easing off in plain oak, although this is not really a definite condition. 

 It is reported that there Is some little strengthening in the gum market, 

 although this strengthening has not yet assumed the importance of raising 

 the general level of prices. 



^■< NEW YORK >-= 



No changes in market conditions uvr not. il :ii this writing and until the 

 new year is ushered in few ciianges. if any. are looked for. Tlic volum'/ 

 •of trading is low but on a fairly firm basis. The price situation is satis- 

 factory under existing conditions. The hardwood flooring market is in 

 good shape at firm prices. Tlie only unsteady feature is in gum which is 

 quoted at a great range of values. There seems to be no knowledge of 

 what stocks arc available at mill points, some claiming shortage ami 

 "Others an overproduction. This is refiecte<l in wholesale prices. Yartl 

 stocks here are only fair and it is not likely that orders for stocking up 

 will be placed till after the day of reckoning on 1013 as a year for tradiu:;. 



=■< BUFFALO y 



The hardwood trade is cini. t and ~to.ks arc heing taken only as buyci> 

 need them for their Iminediate use. The reason given for this is tli- 

 taking of inventory and that usually liegins to be a factor about tlii^ 

 time. Whatever lumber is wanted is wanted quickly and this suits tli' 

 local yards, which have the stock and the supply of ears to make prompt 

 <3ellvery. Prices are holding pretty steady, although not as firm as they 



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