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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10, 1017 



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I Plain & Qtd. Red & White I 



I OAK I 



AND OTHER 

 HARDWOODS 



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Soft Teoiture | 



MADE (MR) RIGHT 



OAK FLOORING 



We have 35,000,000 feet dry stock— all of 

 our own manufacture, from our own tim- 

 ber grown in Eastern Kentucky. 



PROMPT SHIPMENTS 



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I CINCINNATI, OHIO I 



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licT. Mr. Just is negotiating for tlie purchase of the Seely mill at Witten- 

 berg. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed b.v the Se.vmour Woodenware 

 Company, Seymour, Outagamie, Wis. The capital stock is $10,000 and the 

 incorporators are Roy Talbot and P. A. Konz. The company ■n-ill manu- 

 facture cheese boxes, barrels, and other ivooden containers. 



The case of Emma Foral against the Holt Lumber Company, Oconto, 

 Wis., to recover $10,2.jO damages for the death of her husband on Jan. 16, 

 1915, is being heard in the circuit bourt at Wausau, Wis., having been 

 transferred on two changes of venue. 



The Wisconsin Soap Company, Wausau, Wis., has opened its new potash 

 plant and already is preparing to erect a large addition to make it the big- 

 gest in Wisconsin. 



Objection to his discharge from his debts has bcfn filed by creditors of 

 F. C. Heise, bankrupt, formerly doing business as the Oshkosh (Wis.) 

 IJox & Lumber Company. It is charged that Mr. Heise did not keep suffi- 

 cient records of his business and made false statements regarding his affairs 

 and financial transactions. 



Contracts for school seats, opera chairs and furniture for the new $150,- 

 000 high school at Ashland, Wis., have been ilividtd among the American 

 Seating Co., Chicago ; Xorthwestern School Supply Co., Minneapolis, and 

 Kewaunee Mfg. Co., Kewaunee, Wis. The furniture contracts total about 

 $12,000. 



George C. Swallow, senior member of the Inmber firm of Swallow & 

 Hopkins, Winton, ^linn., and a prominent capitalist of Milwaukee, died 

 August 1 after a long period of indisposition. He was seventy-six years 

 of age. 



John J. Kingsbury, senior member of Kingsbury & Henshaw, sawmill and 

 Hour mill owners. ,\ntigo. Wis., died August 1. aged sixty-five years. Mr. 

 Kingsbury wns one of thf hcst known lumbermen i>f northern Wisconsin. 



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Have you seen any better Walnut loes than these T 



' I 'HEY all grew right in Indiana where 

 ■*■ hardwoods have always held the 

 choicest farm lands. The best growth of 

 timber as well as the best yield of wheat 

 comes from good soil. The soundness of 

 the log-ends shows that they fed on the 

 fat of the land. My 



Indiana Oak 



comes from the same soil 



CHAS. H. BARNABY 



Greencastle, Indiana 



The Hardwood Market 



< CHICAGO >■ 



Chicago cannot boast anything out of the ordinary in the volume of 

 speed of its present business. There is a distinctly noticeable lessening 

 in demand for many woods in the usual lines of factory consumption. 

 Still, in spite of this there continues to be the old feeling of buo.vancy, 

 iiecause where one line steps out still another steps in. and the prospects 

 are that whatever direction normal outlets work iuto, the ever broadening 

 call resulting from war needs will act as a business stabilizer. There is 

 still no suggestion of change in values other than change for the better, 

 and hardly the possilnlity, as far as anyone can foresee circumstances 

 accurately, of sufficiently lessened demand, except possibly for veneers, to 

 effect any real change. 



=-< BUFFALO >• 



The P.uffalo hardwood yards are laying in a large assortment of lumber 

 in anticipation of a car shortage. It Is expected that this fall cars will 

 be more diflicult to get than for a long time, and should this happen the 

 local market Avill be well prepared for it. At present, less trouble is e.v- 

 perienced in getting cars than was the case a few weeks ago, but this 

 improvement is not expected to last long. With the crops and the war 

 preparations, cars are expected to be in great scarcity within a tew weeks. 



The largest demand continues to bo in the factory trade. Concerns which 

 are making various products of use in war jire having about all the busi- 

 ness they can handb'. Other concerns. inciudiuK liiruiture factories, are 

 not so fortunate, and a period of comparative ilulluess is in evidence. 

 The building trade has had a setback also as compared with a year ago. 

 and few large buildings are going up, except such as are needed to extend 

 factories that are cramped for space. 



The demand runs to maple, oak, ash and one or two other woods most 

 strongly. Thick stock of all kinds is in good sale. Prices are generally 

 firm, though some easing up in plain oak quotations is reported. The 

 temporary larger car supply has given the mills a chance to make ship- 

 ments of some of their back orders and they are now looking for more 

 new business. Low grades are in as active demand as for some time past 

 and they are being rapidly picked up as offered. 



=-< PITTSBURGH >= 



'i'he mid-summer season finds hardwood men luucli busier than the 

 ordinary run of lumbermen this .vear. Demand for hardwood lumber of all 

 kinils is keeping up well. There is no surplus of stock anywhere. Country 

 mills have all they can do to keep lined up witli ilemaud. This situatii'U 

 is the more acute because of the shortage of labor iiiid demands during the 

 harvest season which this .vear is unusually late. Inquiry from purchas- 

 ing agents of manufacturing concerns is flrst-clas,^. Prices paid by them 

 are mostly at the seller's option. The railroad demand keeps up well and 

 the trade with the mining companies is better than ever at this season. 

 The only place where there is a real falling off in Imsiness is In the .vaid 

 trade, which Is very disappointing. 



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