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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Novi>mbi_T 10. 1921 



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Delta Hardwoods 



OUR ESTABLISHED POLICY 



IS TO PRODUCE ONLY THE BEST IN 

 HARDWOODS. THIS IS ASSURED 

 BY THE FACT THAT ONLY VIRGIN 

 TIMBER IS LOGGED AND CUT INTO 

 LUMBER. WE CARRY IN STOCK A 

 SPLENDID ASSORTMENT AND CAN 

 SUPPLY ANY OF THE REGULAR 

 GRADES AND THICKNESSES OF OAK, 

 GUM, ELM, ASH AND COTTONWOOD 

 IN UNIFORM QUAUTY AND TEXTURE 



HARDWOODS 



THAT 



APPEAL 



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Double Band Mills 



11 Arkansas City, Ark. 



BREECE 



Manufacturing Co. 



PortsmouH '" 



Results from Experience 



Our well selected logs, our careful manufacture and the 

 grading of our stock, demonstrate a service built on expe. 

 rience that should bring you Into our family fold for fu- 

 ture business. We make Hardwood Lumber that brings a 

 follow-up order. Keep in touch with us when In need of 

 future supply. Dry Block la scarce now. A careful con- 

 suming manufacturer, however, look* to the future for sup- 

 plies that give satlafactlon. 



We desire to get In communication with you so we may 

 know what your needs are and maybe by and by we can 

 help you. The erection of new mills and because of our 

 having a constant eye cast about for Increasing our timber 

 holdings, should put us at the head of the list of mllU 

 when you want to buy Pine and Hardwoods. 



Kentucky Lumber Co. 



Manufnrturera Oak, lied and 8np Gum, Rough 

 and Dretffted Tupelo, Short- Leaf Y. Pine 



ottite- 606 Security Trust Building, Lexington, Ky. 



SAW AND PLANING MILLS AT SULLIGENT. ALA. 



FOR SALE 



Southern Hardwoods 



OAK, GUM, ASH, ELM, 

 MAPLE, CYPRESS, 

 HICKORY, POPLAR 



WRITE OR WIRE 



Jerome Hardwood Lumber Co. 



JEROME, ARKANSAS 



WE SHIP STRAIGHT OR MIXED CARS OF FLOOR- 

 ING. OAK, ASH. CYPRESS AND GUM LUMBER 



Materials used more in the automobile and manufacturing trades have 

 firmed witli huilding hardwoods, hut not to the same extent. The prin- 

 cipal item of discussion ma.v he said to lie selected oak flooring, which haB 

 advanced from $65 to $78. Common oak flooring is less affected, not 

 being as much desired as the better grade, yet it reflects the same firming 

 tendency. Continued huilding activities, independent of the various moves 

 being made by the different branches of the construction industry, are 

 absorbing larger quantities, in excess of expectations at this time. This 

 development, combined with strength at primary sources, naturally makes 

 for a higher price level. Supplies are none too plentiful here, and with 

 rather indifferent receipts it is believed that the present firm level will 

 contitiue through the remainder of the year. Likewise there is every 

 indication that the huilding movement will be extended as long as weather 

 does not actually interfere with construction. Such a development will 

 offset the slow movement of hardwoods into the manufacturing field, as 

 this latter branch of the Industry still is working in a limited and rather 

 uncertain way and taking only such (juantities as actually are needed ; in 

 short, booking their own orders for finished products first before anticipat- 

 ing their material requirements. 



CINCINNATI 



Without the flooring and export trade, the local hardwooil market 

 would have little strength. These two factors have held up the trade 

 tremendously during the past two weeks, when the other sources showed 

 a weakness. One of tlie noticeable improvements in the trade has been 

 the increased volume of orders and inquiries for chestnut from Eastern 

 traders. Several large shipments of this stock have gone to wholesalers 

 in the east, but the local inlerests have been unable to ascertain names 

 of the consumers. The industrials are coming into the market better. 

 Furniture factories are liuying fairly large quantities of gum. whili' auto- 

 mobile concerns are demanding elm and ash, with the former items having 

 the edge. Carriage, implement and coffin manufacturers are not buying 

 the way they should for this time of the year, but some orders are 

 looked for from these sources shortly as a majority of them have very 

 small supplies of stock in their yards, tipper grade stocks continue to 

 be scarce in this locality and from present indications no immediate relief 

 is in sight. Oak prices have increased in greater proporticm than any of 

 the other items because the flooring manufacturers have been buying this 

 stock in fairly large quantities during the past month. For the first 

 time this year the demand exceeds 'the supply. The market in general 

 has developed a firmer tone over the last two weeks, and both domestic 

 and export business is healthier. There is not much low grade lumber 

 on the market as there was ten days ago and this has tended to stabilize 

 the trade. The railroads are buying very little now and it appears that 

 they will continue this kind of buying until the financial arrangements 

 are made. 



EVANSVILLE 



Conditions have have been very favorable with the hardwood lumber 

 manufacturers of Kvansvllle and southern Indiana during the past two 

 or three weeks and manufacturers are in a more optimistic frame of 

 mind than they have been for some time. They are delighted over the 

 fact that the threatened railroad strike did not materialize. They had 

 feared the strike would tic up ttusiness and stop things generally. Now 

 that the strike has been avoided business is going right ahead and 

 manufacturers, as wi-l! as retail dealers, believe that a fair volume of 

 business will come in during the next few months. It is believeil that 

 trade will continue active the balance of the year, and while there may be 

 a lull in business for a short time after the first of the new year, it Ik 

 believed by next spring things will be something like normal again and 

 that trade will forge ahead. Lumber prices on the best grades are hold- 

 ing firm, and there is less cheap lumber on the market now than there 

 was six months ago. This has had a stabilizing effect upon the market. 

 Wood consuming factories in Evansville continue to operate on a schedule 

 of about 50 hours a week, and some of the furniture factories are etill 

 being operated on an average of .14 hours a week, this being a pre-war 

 basis. Things certainly look better and furniture manufacturers In 

 some instances have been buying liberally of lumber, especially gtim. 

 The fact that the market has been rising has stimulated the furniture 

 men to buy in larger quantities. The future looks good and furniture 

 men believe that 1922 will witness quite a revival in trade. Box manu- 

 facturers have been doing a fair amount of business during the past 

 month. 



MEMPHIS 



The hardwood market continues to gain in strength and in volume of 

 business. Both domestic and foreign consumers are buying in a large way. 

 and competition between the two. strikingly absent until within the past 

 several weeks, is now quite iironounced. There is no means of approxi- 

 mating purchases by domestic interests during this period, but it is con- 

 servatively estimated that foreign importing and consuming interests have 

 absorbed more than 15,000,000 feet of southern hardwoods within the past 

 three weeks. As a matter of fact, it may be noted that the American 

 Overseas Forwarding Company alone has booked nearly that quantity, to 

 say nothing of that booked direct by exporters or through other agencies. 



