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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Api-il 2.',, 1017 



CINCINNATI 



Hardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers 



OHIO VENEER COMPANY 

 Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS 



2624-34 COLEBAIN AVENUE 



C. CRANE & COMPANY 



Manufacturers of Hardwood Lumber, Oak & Poplar especially 



Our location makes possible auici* delivery of anyttilng in timber and hardwood 



lumber 



Swain-Roach Lbr. Co. 



SEYMOUR, IND. 



We Manufacture 



Elm Ash 



Maple Walnut 



Gum Cherry 



Sycamore Chestnut, Etc. 



White Oak 

 Red Oak 

 Poplar 

 Hickory 



We have jor sale 1 car 3" FAS Poplar and 1 car ^'/j" No. 1 

 Common Poplar 



At Tzvo Band Mills 



STRAIGHT or MIXED CARLOADS 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



OUR SPECIALTY 



St. Francis Basin Red Gum 



WE MANUFACTURE 



Southern Hardwoods 



Gum, Oak and Ash — 



J. H. Bonner & Sons 



Mill 

 JONQUIL, ARK. 



Sales Office 



1323 Bank of Commerce Bldg. 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



BUSS-COOK OAK CO. 



BLISSVILLE, ARK. 



MANUFACTURERS 



Oak Mouldings, Casing, Base and Interior 

 Trim. Also Dixie Brand Oak Flooring. 



As Well As 



OAK, ASH and GUM LUMBER 



Can furnish anything in Gale, air dried 

 or kiln dried, rough or dressed 



MIXED ORDERS OUR SPECIALTY 



tbe farmers will not be able to meet the demands for food in a-sliort time. 

 It is a matter of taking steps to protect themselves against a famine or o£ 

 closing down tbe camps. 



The Ilincs Lumber Company, Marinette, recently purchased 10,000,000 

 feet of hardwood and pine of the North Ludington Lumber Company for 

 .f250,000. This constitutes the entire cut of the season and is the twentieth 

 time that the Hines company bought tbe same cut from former Senator 

 Isaac Stephenson. 



The Hardwood Market 



.< CHICAGO >• 



The only definite dissatisfaction in the local trade is found in the interior 

 finish business. Various causes have hold up building, among them being 

 tbe fact that Chicago is probably overbuilt, and this, of course, has had 

 its reaction directly upon the finish trade. The increased cost of con- 

 struction has, of course, affected a good many types of building in an ad- 

 verse way. On the whole, tbe finish people are not talking nearly so 

 ilieerfuUy as are the rest. However, most of the remaining channels 

 through which hardwood lumber passes into consumption are going under 

 pressure and the trade as a whole is everything that could bo expected. 

 The usual way of referring to price changes that are inclined to be upward 

 is to say there is a trend toward better prices — the situation now is 

 beyond the "trend stage" and hardwoods are moving more briskly and 

 more directly into higher levels than ever. Practically every item is 

 strong on the local market. There is no time for pessimism, as everyone's 

 time is taken up pretty thoroughly with eCCiirts to obtain cars and make 

 shipment on orders. 



=-< BUFFALO >= 



The hardwood market is on a fairly active basis, though not quite so 

 active as several weeks ago, Tlie consumers have been able to get in a 

 larger amount of stock recently, owing to a somewhat better movement on 

 the railroads, and a temporary falling off in new purchases has occurred. 

 The declaration of war has caused a little hesitancy among buyers. If 

 actual volunteering sliould withdraw many men from their employment, 

 l)usiness is likely to be disturbed in consequence, and this possil)ility is 

 causing some concern to the building trade as well as to manufacturers. 



The local yards have been getting in pretty good stocks of various hard- 

 woods. The demand for plain oak is showing an increase. Chestnut is 

 another wood which has been recording improvement, especially in the 

 lower grades. Lumlier is coming in slowly from the South and the car 

 shortage at tbe mills is showing little or no improvement. Some millmen 

 report that tbe railroads are asking them to load cars to fullest capacity, 

 and tbey have to be satisfied with gondola or flat cars. 



It is likely to be about May 1 before nuich is doing in the receipt of 

 lumber and other freight at this port. Tbe ice in this end of Lake Eric 

 is heavier than in years and has impeded a number of vessels that sought 

 to make an early start. 



For the first quarter of 1917 local building permits show a decline of 

 .14 per cent from the same period a year ago, and tbe number of permits 

 fell off from 754 to C4.3. Not as much large building work is being done 

 as in cither of the two preceding years. Labor costs have advanced and 

 all materials are higher; hence the amount of speculative liuilding is said 

 to have been reduced. 



:< PITTSBURGH >.= 



Hardwood men feel that the situation here would be in pi-elty good 

 shape if deliveries could be nmde. The car supply is somewhat better in 

 the North and especially in tri-statc territory. .\11 reports, liowevcr, 

 indicate that the shipments from the South and Southwest are very badly 

 delayed. It is decidedly uncertain as to when there will be any improve- 

 ment in this phase of the business. Inquiry continues remarkably good 

 along some lines, especially from manufacturing and mining concerns. 

 Railroads are taking all the lumber they can get and are buying heavily 

 of bridge and construction timbers. The window glass manufacturers 

 as well as the furniture, implement and vehicle trade are putting in good 

 orders and apparently have no large stocks of dry lumber. Yard trade 

 is rather irregular and building operations, it is evident, are not golhg to 

 be what was expected early in the season. 



=-< BOSTON >= 



The hardwood situation in New Kugland sliows consideralile improvement 

 in deliveries ; the demand continues firm for western varieties and brisk 

 tor northern stock ; there is an especially marked call for low-grade lumber 

 by the constantly 'ncreasing number of users in furniture and built-up 

 work. The supply is not equal to the requirements in this class of stock, 

 and prices have advanced correspondingly. Naval, military, aeroplane and 

 merchant marine construction open such possibilities of consumption and 

 unreserved purchasing that Its effect can hardly be estimated as yet, but, 

 as many of these activities are proposed in this district, they cannot fail 

 to hove inipiirl:iii( lieariir; wliuh will lUnbal.ly In' ilcveloped in tbe near 



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