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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 10, 1917 



TRADE MARK 



Oak Maple 



Chestnut 



ivianufacturers and Dealers 



— in — 



West Virginia and Southern 



HARDWOODS 



The Atlas Lumber & Mfg. Co. 



Union Trust Building, CINCINNATI, OHIO 



BLISS-COOK OAK GO. 



BLISSVILLE, ARK. 



■ KANXIFACTUBBKS 



Oak Mouldings, Casing, Base and Interior 

 Trim. Also Dixie Brand Oak Flooring. 



As Well As 



OAK, ASH and CUM LUMBER 



Can furnish anything in Oalc, air dried 



or kiln dried, routh or dressed 



MIXED ORDERS OUR SPECIALTY 



Lidgerwood Portable 

 Skidders and Loaders 



Ground & Overhead Systems 



We build various sizes and types of tliese machines 

 to meet requirements of every logging operation 



LIDGERWOOD MFG. COMPANY 



Originators ol Ground and Overhead Steam Legglni Machinery 

 CHICAGO 96 Liberty Street, NEW YORK SEATTLE 



New Orleans: Woodward. WlRht & C»., Ltd 

 Canada; Canadian Allia-ClialmerB. Ltd., Toront* 



market" than the lumber market on the building demand. The housing 

 situation is acute and builders are complaining to Washington that ship- 

 ments are so slow that much building is being held up or abandoned 

 altogether. This is especially the case with wood arriving from the south, 

 including cypress. Stocks, while ample for the present, are not being 

 filled as fast as they are being used, and prices continue firm, with a 

 tendency to rise. 



Retailers are inclined to blame the wholesalers for holding material at 

 such high prices that many building projects are being abandoned, although 

 they are greatl.y needed. 



Box and cooperage stocks seem plentiful and are constantly being added 

 to, as most of the material comes from up the lake by water. Prices, 

 however, are on the rise. The larger barrel and box manufacturers are 

 fortunate in having tlielr own boats to bring the material. 



The hemlock market has strengthened on top of a recent rise of $2 and 

 continues strong. Demand is good and the stocks short on account of the 

 mills being sold up for requirements in other quarters. 



Transit cars sent south some time ago by the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission are becoming rapidly used up, and little help is expected for 

 short stocks, which depend upon the South for replenishing. The dubious 

 outlook in the traffic conditions is eaid to account for the close holding of 

 stocks already on hand. 



-< YNDIANAPOLIS > 



Strength features all departments of the hardwood market, but the 

 mills throughout central Indiana are not as busy as they have been. 

 Prices are high and firm and the trade expects that high prices will prevail 

 during the remainder of the year. 



Hardwood manufacturers believe that a conclusion of the war or the 

 continuation of the war will have very little immediate bearing on the 

 demand for their products. Inquiries now being received from the manu- 

 facturers of motor trucks, vehicles, and farm machinery indicate that 

 government demands will support the current market strength. When 

 peace is restored the trade expects an unusual demand for other purposes. 

 Future business prospects are encouraging. 



Improved transportation facilities are reported generally, yet the 

 demand for cars is heavier than the supply. Large shippers, however, 

 report that remarkable headway is being made in relieving traffic con- 

 gestion. 



The demand from the factory trade is fair, gum, oak, chestnut, and 

 ash being in good demand. There is also a fair call for poplar. One 

 of the suprises of the present market situation is the demand from the 

 building trades. The value of building operations last month was $720,- 

 000, as compare<l with S77It.7i)2 for June of last year, or a loss for last 

 month of $50,087. The month of June, 191C set a high record for 

 building operations in Indianapolis and the trade is surprised to see 

 the record almost eiiu.illt'd when all kinds of Iniilding materials are so 

 high. The value of luiilding operations for the first half of the year was. 

 $4, 122, SOS, as compared with $4,161,705 during the corresponding period 

 of last year or a loss of only $liSi,fi07. 



•< EVANSVILLE >• 



During the past ten days or two weelcs hardwood lumber manufacturers 

 of Evansville and southern Indiana have enjoyed a very good trade, orders 

 and inquiries coming In nicely. While business is not booming, things 

 have been moving along very well and manufacturers state that this 

 year wiJl bring in as large a volume of tradi' as last year. At present 

 the scarcity of logs is worrying manufacturers more than any other one 

 thing and because of the log scarcity several of the mills in this city 

 and vicinity have been forced to close down. Most of tlie river mills 

 here are closed. The men in Tennessee, .Arkansas and other southern 

 states who get out logs have been busy for the ii.ist month or two attend- 

 ing to their crops and it may be several weeks before tliey can leave their 

 crops to get out any logs. To overcome the log scarcity, ^laley & Wirtz 

 have taken options on two timbered tracts near Paducah, Ky.. one in 

 southern Illinois, one near the Tennessee state line a short distance be- 

 low Guthrie, Ky.. and several in southern Indiana and it is expected 

 some, if not all of these options will be closed. General trade conditions 

 are good. Lumber prices are hohling up well and there is no disposition 

 on the part of the manufacturer or retailer to cut ov slash prices. There 

 is an unusually strong demand for No. 2 beech and a great deal of it is 

 being sold to the federal government for cots for the soldiers. Ash, elm 

 and plain white oak are in strong demand. The demand for hickory and 

 the lower grades of poplar is also fairly good, Quarten-d sycamore Is 

 not moving so briskly as it was a few weeks ago and walnut is In fair 

 demand only. Cottonwood is fair. The various wood consuming plants 

 in southern Indiana and western Kentucky continue to run on full time 

 and in some instances the furniture factories are being operated over-time. 

 Sash and door men say business is fair. 



=•< MEMPHIS >■- 



The hardwood market is in a str(tng position for the reason that de- 

 mand is large and offerings small. There is more demand now tor 

 southern hardwoods, practically without regard to grade or kind, than 

 ivrr known at this time of the ,^■onr. and. as for prices, tliey are higher 



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