August 10, 191T 



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an average business under way for this time. Prices are firmly main- 

 tained. Practically every member of the trade believes that there is 

 going to be an unusual demand for southern hardwoods during the fall 

 and winter and they are taking care of their present holdings by refus- 

 ing to press them on the market, and they are likewise putting forth 

 strenuous efforts looking to the production of an increased amount of 

 lumber. Logging and manufacturing operations are being pushed in 

 every direction and as efficiently as possible. It is recognized that there 

 is a shortage of southern hardwoods compared with normal, and it is 

 further recognized that, with demand well above the average, the present 

 holdings must go an unusually long way. Strained relations between 

 supply and demand are regarded as inevitable for some time, but manu- 

 facturers are seeking to relieve this condition by producing more stock 

 than they normally manufacture at this season. 



There is an e.\cellent call for Cottonwood and gum in the lower grades. 

 The supply of these is sharply below the needs of the trade, and manu- 

 facturers of box shooks are tree to confess that they are not able to 

 operate their plants as fully as they would like because of this fact. 

 Prices, it is needless to say, are quite strong. FAS, sap gum is in excel- 

 lent call and a reasonably active demand is noted for FAS red in both 

 plain and quartered. Cottonwood box hoards are scarce and strong, and 

 there is a full movement of the same material In firsts and seconds. Ash 

 occupies quite a strong position. Demand for this is broadening and the 

 supply is not keeping pace with the call. There is a steady tone on oak. 

 The higher grades of plain and quartered red and white are moving at a 

 satisfactory rate, while there is no let up in the demand for common 

 stock in either plain or quartered. Manufacturers of oak are facing the 

 future with an unusual degree of confidence because of the revival of 

 demand for oak furniture, because of the large call for stock for the 

 manufacture of truck and other vehicle bodies and because of the pros- 

 pect that the work of the American oak manufacturers in behalf of oak 

 will greatly increase the outlets for this wood. The call for hickory is 

 insistent, while the movement of cypress is reported good in both the 

 higher and lower grades. There is little poplar for sale in this center, 

 and what is offering is being readily taken. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >= 



Instead of slowing up during the hot summer months the local hard- 

 wood lumber business is showing a steady increase month by month 

 for the year. At the present time orders are more plentiful than lumber, 

 the most interesting feature of the present day business being the greatly 

 increased demand for lumber to be used in furniture manufacturing, 

 there also being a good call for veneers, flitches, glued up stocks, etc. 

 Walnut and poplar are among the active items in the furniture trade, 

 while quartered oak, plain oak, and other materials, including gum, are 

 very active, the mahogany demand being steady. In tough fibred woods 

 oak, elm, ash and hickory are in big demand by wagon, truck, auto and 

 other manufacturers, and the government demand has been so great that 

 thick oak and ash are nearly out of sight. Cottonwood, beech, maple and 

 hickory are very scarce, but In good demand. High grades are moving 

 readily for various requirements, while general industries are busy, and 

 the demand foi' low grade lumber is very heavy from the box manu- 

 facturers. The labor situation is affecting production of various items, 

 and surplus stocks are not being laid up rapidly, a few mills getting logs 

 while others are having trouble in getting logs as well as getting them cut. 

 Many concerns have not been looking for new business during the past 

 month, and have been well content with getting old orders cleaned up 

 and shipped. At the present time the government demand for plain oak is 

 so great that it is said prices are bound to advance, and that a shortage 

 may develop. 



=-< MILWAUKEE >- 



The acute shortage of labor and the appearance of strike troubles In the 

 northern hardwood belt are the main causes of concern among woods and 

 mill operators at this time, although considerable apprehension has been 

 caused in recent days by the discovery of forest fires in widely separated 

 sections. On Aug. 1 the Sawyer-Goodman Company at Marinette was 

 obliged to suspend operations because of a strike In its mills when the com- 

 pany refused to grant the men an advance of 2oc a day. Even logging 

 operations have ceased for the time being. The employers are as obdurate 

 as the men. The organization of forestry regiments for overseas service 

 and culinary brigades for the eight cantonments for the new national 

 army is taking a large number of men from payrolls, accentuating the labor 

 shortage which has been enhanced by the departure of many members of 

 the national guard to mobilization camps. The outlook at this time is any- 

 thing but promising, as It is practically impossible to get new men in some 

 districts. Others, however, report conditions yet fairly satisfactory. The 

 outbreak of forest fires. has caused some alarm, particularly in the vicinity 

 of the Menominee reservation near Shawano, Wis. The national guard 

 unit at Shawano was called out on Aug. 1 to combat fires which are re- 

 ported to have destroyed the sawmill at Keshena and were sweeping down 

 upon the government plant at Neopit. Reports from other sections, how- 

 ever, are not nearly so alarming as these. Mills which received contracts 

 to furnish lumber for the construction of army cantonments are completing 

 these orders and vrill then be able to handle their regular business and get 

 back on sawing hardwoods to a much greater extent than during the last 

 month or two. 



Swain-Roach Lbr. Co. 



SEYMOUR, IND. 

 -We Manufacture 



Elm Ash 



Maple Walnut 



Gum Cherry 



Sycamore Chestnut, Etc. 



White Oak 

 Red Oak 

 Poplar 

 Hickory 



We liai:c for sale 1 car S" FAS Poplar: 1 car !,/'," Clear Sap 

 Poplar, S-16" wide; V2 car 4/4 Panel Poplar, 18" rf up icide ; 

 1 car "s" So. 1 Common Ash; 2 cars Ji/i FAS Sap Gum; 1 car 

 5-1, FAS Plain Bed Oak; 1 car 1,/lt No. 1 Common <£• Better Red 

 Oak. 



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Manufacturers of Hardwood Lumber, Oak & Poplar especially 



Our location makes possible quick delivery of anything in timber and hardwood 



lumber 



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Northern and Southern 



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Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

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