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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, 1917 



L-B QUALITY 



— Kraetzer Cured — 



GUM LUMBER 

 OAK LUMBER 

 OAK FLOORING 



{The Famous Forked-Leaf Brand) 



Southern Yellow Pine Unexcelled for Crating. 



We have 115,000,000 feet in pile. 

 Accurately Manufactured, Carefully Graded, Priced Right 



Long-Bell Lumber Company 



R. A. Long Building 



Kansas City, Mo. 



TRADE MARK. 



Oak Maple 



Chestnut 



iVianufacturers and Dealers 



— in — 



West Virginia and Southern 



HARDWOODS 



The Atlas Lumber & Mfg. Co. 



Union Trust Building, CINCINNATI, OHIO 



OUR SPECIALTY 



St. Francis Basin Red Gum 



WE MANUFACTURE 



Southern Hardwoods 



Gum, Oak and Ash = 



J. H. Bonner & Sons 



Mill 

 JONQUIL, ARK. 



Sales OfBce 



13Z3 Bank of Commerce Bldg. 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



BLISS-COOK OAK CO. 



BLISSVILLE, ARK. 



IfANUFACTCRBBS 



Oak Mouldings, Casing, Base and Interior 

 Trim. Also Dixie Brand Oak Flooring. 



As Well As 



OAK, ASH and GUM LUMBER 



C»n furnish inythinj In 0»k, tir dried 



or kiln dried, rouch or dressed 



MIXED ORDERS OUR SPECIALTY 



lord's side. However, the fact remains tliat Imildiag is inactive as it is 

 in most otlier cities. 



Cliicago contains many shops producing medium-priced furniture, 

 which of all the furniture lines has had the least active call of late. 

 Those hu.ving high-priced stuff usually have money enough to go ahead 

 regardless of outside influences, but the buyer of the moderately priced 

 stuff shows a disposition these days to think before putting his money 

 into articles that are not absolutely necessary. 



On t-he whole, though, the situation is not at all discouraging and the 

 feature that still is paramount has to do with the question of getting 

 stock rather than the question of selling. 



=■< BUFFALO >= 



The hardwood trade is fairly active at present, though some of the lead- 

 ing yards report that the demand is not quite so good as a month ago. 

 Some decline in the furniture business has resulted from the high cost 

 of all foodstuffs and the prospects of war. People are not putting their 

 money into luxuries as much as they formerly did. Piano manufacturers 

 say that the buying in their line is less active. Building does not show up 

 favorably as compared with a year ago. Increased cost of materials as 

 well as labor is reported to be responsible for the falling off. 



At the same time a fair volume of business is being done by the local 

 yards and a number of woods are being called for, particularly oak, maple, 

 ash and cypress. It is still difficult to get stock from the southern mills, 

 Uecause of car shortage, and where wholesalers here have the stock they 

 are able to move it promptly and at a good price. A little lumber is now 

 being brought in, but it is largely stock that started weeks ago from the 

 mills. New shipments are greatly delayed. Cai-s are easier here than a 

 few weeks ago. 



Shippers of lumber by lake are wondering whether they can get sufficient 

 tonnage at reasonable rates, or whether they will have to bring their 

 lumber down all-rail. Another point to be covered is the fact that western 

 prices are quite often higher accordingly than eastern, the difference seem- 

 ing to be on the old lumber rate eastward than on the new. which will be 

 $2 or -So higher. The lumber fleet is taking advantage of short car supply 

 and proposes to ask sometimes even more than the all-rail rate, believing 

 that if a man has a million feet of lumber to ship, and can bring it down 

 all in one cargo, be will not wait three months for cars enough to handle 

 it. On account of these conditions there is considerable effort to sell the 

 lumber on the spot to western consumers or jobbers. The local price of 

 handling is higher and it is said the rates by canal are going to be fairly 

 up to rail rates. The old days when lumber could be shipped to Albany 

 by canal for $2 a thousand feet, and to New York for $2. .50, are gone for- 

 ever, (leneral conditions, added to war rates, have made a big difference 

 in the handling of lumber. 



=-< PITTSBURGH >-= 



Lumber matters, so far as hardwood men are concerned, have not shown 

 any big disturbances the past two weeks. The only thing that stands out 

 conspicuously among the developments is the falling off in building opera- 

 tions. A large amount of building which, early in the spring, looked like 

 it would materialize has either been side-tracked or will be postponed this 

 month. .\ proof of this is shown in the statements of builders' hardware 

 men, who say that by July 1 there will be mighty little business in this 

 line. Trade with the yards in hardwoods has been fairly good, and retail- 

 ers were low in stock and have been obliged to fill in considerably. There 

 is a fair amount of buying by furniture concerns and the automobile peo- 

 ple. The big demand, however, is from the steel mills, mining plants, and 

 railroads. These corporations are forced to pay extravagant prices for 

 lumber in order to take care of their daily needs and it is to this trade 

 that hardwood men in general are looking for their most profitable busi- 

 ness. Prices are strongly on the uptrend. 



=■< BALTIMORE >•= 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited 



Whatever changes there have been during the last two weeks in the 

 general hardwood situation were as a rule in the direction of a more urgent 

 int^uiry and higher prices. With the impediments in the way of a free dis- 

 tribution not at all relieved, and with the small stocks at the mills In 

 shape for shipment, the buyers have been on the lookout for lumber and 

 have taken up stocks wherever they could be found. Many orders have 

 been placed ahead of immediate needs, so that there might be no failure 

 of supplies, and ample allowance made for delays in delivery. .\s a result 

 several of the big piles of lumber have undergone a material reduction, 

 and buyers are on the lookout to replenish their stocks. Whatever thought 

 might have prevailed that the range of prices would recede has been dropped, 

 and the expectation now entertained by all members oi; the trade is that 

 the quotations will go higher. This being the case, the desire to obtain 

 suitable stocks is greatly strengthened, and the producers can get all the 

 orders they want. Many, however, have found themselves compelled to 

 discontinue entering into additional commitments, for they see no way to 

 take care of the business. Labor is scarce and more and more in demand, 

 as enterprises that pay temporarily far higher rates of wages attract 

 workers in j.'r(at huiiihers, the southern States in particular being dejileted 



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