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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10. 1922 



Plain and Qtd. Red and White 



Even VJ /\ IV Soft 



Color AND OTHER Texture 



Hardwoods 



Soft Yellow Poplar 



MADE (MR) RIGHT 



OAK FLOORING 



PROMPT SHIPMENTS 

 The 



Mowbray 8C Robinson Co. 



(INCORrOHAiKU) 



CINCINNATI, OHIO 



STRABLE 

 Lumber & Salt Company 



SAGINAW, MICHIGAN 



Manufacturers 



Hardwood Lumber, Maple Flooring 



ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES 



MODERN DRY-KILNS AND PLANING MILL 

 Insist upon 



Wolverine Maple Flooring 



"Best by Teat" 



l^r'AV^rZ Maple, Birch, Basswood. Elm. Beech 



The Tegge Lumber Col 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee,. Wisconsin 



it is tliouglit thi>re is auntluT rcnsim, one that carries assurance that there 

 nil] be a good trade in the spring time, viz., there is no concession malsing. 

 It is true that there arc still some irregularities in prices and some -wide 

 ranges. But the tone is decidedly Arm, especially in the upper grades. 

 Red gum has remained stationary in price for the past month, as demand 

 for the various items has not been in as great quantity as most of the 

 lumbermen had anticipated. The outlook, however, is good, and increases 

 in the price ot some of the items are expected the latter part of this month. 



COLUMBUS 



The hardwood trade continues rather firm in Columbus and Central Ohio 

 territory. Buying is fairly well divided between factories and retail 

 yards, ivith the latter showing the most strength recently. Manufacturers 

 and distributors of hardwoods, however, believe that the factory de- 

 mand will soon become stronger and preparations have been made accord- 

 ingly. Concerns making furniture, boxes, implements and caskets are the 

 best customers. Railroads are also showing a tendency to buy. 



Retail stocks are only fair and buying on the part of dealers is mostly 

 for immediate wants. No tendency to stock up for the future has de- 

 veloped in any section. 



EVANSVILLE 



There has been some change lor the better in trade with the hardwood 

 luml)er manufacturers ot Evansville and southern Indiana during the past 

 two or three weeks and both orders and inquiries have increased some. 

 The outlook, in fact, is better than it has been for several months past and 

 manufacturers and wholesalers believe that business will pick up a great 

 deal between now and the first of May. Prices are holdinjs rather Hrm 

 and liave in tact been so doing for the past month. There is a better de- 

 mand for gum. poplar and walnut. Furniture manufacturers have been 

 buying more liberally for some lime past and the furniture plants in this 

 city are being operated steadily on an average of abont SO per cent normal 

 time. Taken as a whole, the hardwood business has improved a great 

 deal over .January and it is expected that March will bring in a larger vol- 

 ume of business tlian did February. General trade conditions are im- 

 proving gradually and collections are holding their own very well. Man- 

 ufacturers have not been in the market for many logs and for two or three 

 months past the logging camps along (Jreen and Barren rivers in western 

 Kentucky have been getting out but few logs and when the demand in 

 Evansville picks up again, it is expected that the logging camps will re- 

 sume operations. Log prices have been too high, the manufacturers assert, 

 they ari' looking for lower prices before long. 



MEMPHIS 



The hardwooil market continues to improve and it is notable lliat there 

 is more demand for low-grade lumber, especially No. 3 common oak, cotton 

 wood and gum. Box manufacturers and makers of crating are in the 

 market in a rather large way for these items as compared with the more 

 recent average and tlieir buying is liringing about a somewhat improved 

 tone as well as slightly better values. Building trade interests are buying 

 hardwoods in considerable volume. Flooring uianufaclurers are the heav- 

 iest purchasers at the moment. They are taking Nos. 1 and 2 common oak 

 and in some instances they are taking sound but wormy stock for the 

 manufacture of "common" flooring. One firm here has recently sold 250,000 

 feet of sound but wormy oak to one flooring manufacturer in this terri- 

 tory. The flooring plants are running on full time and they are making an 

 excellent showing. Manufacturers of sash and doors, as well .as interior 

 trim, arc also in the market in a stibstantial way and hardwood interests 

 anticipate still greater activity on their part in view of the improving out- 

 look for building in all parts of the country. 



There is very little demand as yet from furniture manufacturers. They 

 are buying to cover immediate re<iuirements, with their purchases princi- 

 pally confined to oak and gum, but they are not anticipating their needs In 

 the slightest degree, so far as can be learned here. 



Box manufacturers, as alread.v suggested, are taking low-grade lumber 

 in a larger way, while there is a fair demand from manufacturers of auto- 

 mobiles, nie railroads are in the market for some stock though their 

 l>uying is not yet assuming substantial proportions. Export demand is 

 comparafivi'ly limited and tliere is almost complete absence of demand 

 from mamifacturers of agri<'\iltural implements. Hard wood Interests, 

 however, are not overlooking the fact that the advancing tendency of farm 

 products is paving the way for larger buying power on the part of agri- 

 cultural interests and therefore for greater activity on the part of manu- 

 facturers of farming implements of all kinds. 



Production is running along pretty low lines just now because of ex- 

 tremely heavy rains in the valley territory. 



LOUISVILLE 



Demand for hardwoods has shown improvement since the first of March, 

 i-nd while there was a reduction of ,f2.r>0 to .f.5 a thousand on some Items 

 :'bcut the last of February, it is believed that prices will recover in the 

 next ten days if demand continues as active as it now is, as the market is 

 s'low'ing generally stronger tendency. Infjuiries on Monday, March G, as 



