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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 2; 



1921 



King Mill and Lumber Co. 



PADUCAH, KENTUCKY 



Manufacturers Southern Hardwoods 



Ash, Elm, Oak, Gum 

 Maple, Cypress, Hickory 



Cypress Shingles 



WE SHIP STRAIGHT OR MIXED CAR LOADS 



HARDWOODS and SHINGLES 



We Offer for Prompt Shipment 



MAPLE 

 Ix6" & Up No. I C. & B 50.000' 

 8/4- No. I C. i B., 5% 



No. 2 Common 75.000' 



BEECH 



4/4" No. 2 C & B 5n.r00' 



4/4" No. 2 Common 60,000' 



6/4" No. 2 C. & B 37.000 



BIRCH 



4/4" Full Log Run 18.000' 



•/4" No. 2 Common 72.000' 



BASSWOOD 



full Loo Run 75.000' 



4/4" No. 2 Common. 30.000' 



SOFT ELM 



4/4" No. 2 C. i B 100.000' 



8/4" No. I C. «. B 30.000' 



10/4" No. I C. 4 B 14.000' 



12/4" No. I C. 4 B 14.000- 



16/4" No. 1 C. & 8 14.000" 



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East Jordan Lumber Co. 



EAST JORDAN, MICHIGAN 



Buskirk-Heyser Lumber Co. 



High Grade, Soft Texture 



West Va. and Southern 



Hardivoods 



MIXED CARS OF ANY KIND, GRADE OR 

 THICKNESS FROM OUR 



Distributing Yards: CINCINNATI, OHIO 



Foster-Latimer Lumber Co. 



OFFER THE FOLLOWING 



DRY HARDWOODS 



Begular Widths and Lenctlis 

 SOFT EI.M 



4/4" No. 2 & Bptter 12 months dry 



5/4" No. 2 & Better 12 mmtlis drr 



6/4" No. 2 & Better, largely No. 1 12 months dry 



8/4" No. 1 & Better 8 months dry 



10/4" No. 1 & Better 12 months dry 



12/4" No. 1 & Belter 6 months dry 



4/4" No. 3 12 months dry 



6/4" No'. 3 10 months dry 



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MAIN OFFICE AND MILLS 

 MELLEN, WISCONSIN 



spot may be found in export business. This has somewhat improved during 

 the past thirty days. The number of inquiries received from foreign 

 buyers steadily increases, but the credit factor is retarding what might be 

 a healthy business. 



It must be stated, however, that the big users of hardwoods are out 

 of the market. Anything but a cordial feeling exists between consumer 

 and dealer. There is an almost universal feeling that the prices were 

 boosted just at a time when the buyer was in a position to really enter 

 the market. It is curious how opinions differ in regard to the market. 

 Three of the big dealers assert that no price change of moment will occur 

 for the remainder of the winter, while several expert purchasing agents 

 of the largest hardwood-buying group insist that the market must react 

 before their firms place anything but hand-to-mouth orders. Furniture 

 people are buying hut little. 



Uppers have been very firm. Oak has been particularly sti-ong. Low 

 gratle flooring has been quite active, but has fallen slightly, due to sea- 

 sonal business. Orders from outlying districts have fallen considerably 

 prior to stock taking, but in the city this factor is of little moment. The. 

 mills report more work, but their orders somewhat belie the words of 

 activity. 



A very encouraging tone pervades the market when spring business is 

 ijroached. Many inquiries are being received for deliveries after the 

 weather breaks. This, too, is improved by the vast building program of 

 construction which will come with the early spring months. On the whole 

 the undercurrent of the market is good. Collections only fair. 



BOSTON 



Business continues dull here this fortnight, chiefly because this Is the 

 stock taking time of the year. But wholesalers are not a bit dampened 

 in their enthusiasm over the prospects of a better trade by the spring. 

 The tone of the market here is firm as far as firsts and seconds are con- 

 cerned, and indeed, to some extent, the firmness extends to No. 1 common. 

 Prices arc the same as they have been for several weeks past in FAS. 

 Demand is chiefly from the hardwood yards and the furniture people. 

 The piano people are buying some. The chair makers, auto body makers, 

 railroads, musical in.strument people are really not very actively in the 

 market at this time, and there is no export trade through here worth 

 mentioning. In fact the chief activity in the trade just now is in prophe 

 sying what conditions will obtain after the turn of the year and before 

 the spring comes. The trade is on this point very optimistic. And in 

 the face of the general dullness obtaining in stock taking time there is 

 remarkaltly little concession making by the manufacturers. 



BALTIMORE 



Therp has been n slowing up in the hardwood trade here dtiring the last 

 two weeks, hut this is not considered surprising nor as indicating that a 

 real weakening in the business has occurred. A holding back with orders 

 always develops toward the end of the year, and it would have been 

 regarded as very remarkable if this year had proved an exception. Heavier 

 buying by the railroads and some other largp consumers was looked for by 

 way of compensation, and the railroads did show increased intprcst in 

 hardwood stocks, but the delay in the enactment of the funding bill and 

 other relief measures, together with the continuance of a shrinkage in the 

 volume of traffic, appears to have dictated a halt, so that the hardwood 

 sellers are again dependent largely upon the general run of trade. The 

 inquiry, however, has been fair until very recently. The leading whole 

 salens here report that they had a very good business diTring the first two 

 weeks of the month, the results of the period comparing verj' favorably 

 with those for November, which, in turn, constituted a gain over October. 

 No material expansion in the movement is looked for now, however, until 

 after the first of the year, and it will be a matter of favorable comment^ 

 if the shipments fail to undergo a further narrowing. The range of prices 

 is much as it has been. Here and there a seller can be found who is evi 

 dently under the necessity of realizing and who shows a disposition to 

 offer concessions. But where no immcfliate and pressing necessities are to 

 be taken care of the holders of stocks arc quite willing to wait and let 

 the ideas of the buj'-ers work up to fliose of the sellers. This is by no 

 means unlikely, as stocks everywhere are reported to be very light, with 

 positive shortages in prospect and with the time at hand when weather 

 and other conditions tend to interfere with the output. 



COLUMBUS 



The hardwood trade during this holiday period has been rather quiet, 

 but that was to be ex[)ected and had been fully discounted. The holiday 

 period Is usually quiet and trade this year was no duller than usual. In 

 fact, some of the manufacturers and jobbers profess to believe that trade 

 has held up more actively than usual during the pre-holiday period. Many 

 dealers have been shutting off on buying, not desiring to increase their 

 stocks. The inventory period is now at hand and this affected orders 

 not only from dealers but also from factories. Concerns making furniture, 

 boxes, implements and pianos have been buying rather briskly and trade 

 from those sources is expected after the inventories are finished. Their 

 reserve stocks of hardwoods are small as a rule and better buying Is antlci- 



