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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 10, 1917 



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KoTember 



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Pnepcke Lelght Lbr. Co., 



Oilcego, 



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Gentlemen:- " 



Te are using your Bed Ouai loiL^er in the 

 manufacture of our high claea interior 



worJc. 



being highly graded, soft texture, good 

 widths, and long lengths, also dry, straight 

 and flit. 



Respectfully, 



Harris, kcUenry & £aker Co. 



Diet. 

 fi££AG. 



Of course it is true that 



Red Gum 



is America's finest cabinet wood — but 



Just as a poor cook will spoil the choicest 

 viands while the experienced chef will turn 

 them into prized delicacies, so it is true that 



The inherently superior qusdities 

 of Red Gum can be brought 

 out only by proper handling 



When you buy this wood, as when you buy a new 

 machine, you want to feel that you have reason for 

 believing it will be just as represented. 



We claim genuine superiority for our Gum. _ The 

 proof that you can have confidence in this claim is 

 shown by the letter reproduced herewith. 



Your interests demand that you remem- 

 ber this proof of our ability to preserve 

 the wonderful qualities of the wood 

 when you again want RED GUM. 



Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company 



CONWAY BUILDING 111 W. WASHINGTON ST. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Band >I1I18; Helena and BlythevUle, ArU.; Greenville, MUb. 



report a healthier demand. Box manufacturers are heavy buyers of the 

 materials used in their industries, and predict that the demand will 

 increase as a result of the great demand for packing materials for the 

 government. 



The car situation is better than mo.st of the trade expected. Although 

 cars are not what might be called plentiful, shipments are put through 

 with less delay than might be expected. The slow grain movement through- 

 out the Middle West is believed to have relieved the car troubles of the 

 lumber trade materially. Prices remain firm. The farm trade is slower 

 than was expected, because of the lateness of all crops. Collections are 

 good. 



=^ EVANSVILLE >.= 



Hardwood lumber manufacturers in southwestern Indiana, southern 

 Illinois and western Kentucky report that August brought in a volume 

 of business that compared favorably with the corresponding month of 

 last year. Most of the up-town plants in Evansville are being operated 

 on full time and one is running on the day and night schedule. There is 

 a strong demand for lumber used by wagon and truck manufacturers who 

 are busy turning out orders for the government. The demand for quartered 

 white oak, poplar, ash and hickory is strong and prices are high. Walnut 

 is in only fair demand. Some sales of quartered sycamore have been re- 

 ported here during the past few weeks. Elm and maple are strong. Cot- 

 tonwood is moving fairly well and great quantities have been bought by 

 box factories in the Middle and Central/West. Manufacturers state that 

 the car shortage problem does not worry them much now but they fear 

 that when the government starts to move large numbers of troops they 

 will have difficulty in getting cars. Manufacturers are still worried over 

 the labor shortage. Collections are good and the crop outlook in south- 

 western Indiana was never better at this time of the year. Indications 

 are that a bumper corn crop will be gathered this fall. Planing mills are 

 doing a fair business and sash and door men manage to keep busy. Building 

 operations are a little more active. Taken as a whole, the situation is not 

 bad and both wholesalers and retailers are forgetting the war and buckling 

 down to business. 



=-< MEMPHIS >= 



While members of the trade admit that there is only a moderate num- 

 ber of inquiries in the market at the moment, they are tree to confess that 

 there are more now than there were a fortnight ago. They are further 

 Inclined to believe that the dullness incident to the summer season is a 

 thing of the past and that there will be a gradual return of active buying 



very soon. Congressional legislation affecting incomes and excess profits 

 through imposing taxes on both has been a deterrent factor for some time, 

 in the opinion of members of the trade, and, with this uncertainty elim- 

 inated, the view obtains that private industry will show greater activity 

 than recently. All members regard hardwood holdings as exceptionally 

 good property even under present rather quiet conditions and there is no 

 disposition in any direction to throw lumber on the market or to offer it 

 at concessions for the mere sake of moving it. Stocks of hardwood lumber 

 are considerably below normal and hardwood production Is also below, 

 rather than above, the average. Car shortage is felt in production through 

 the scarcity of equipment for supplying the mills with logs and there is 

 nothing of encouraging import in the outlook for hardwood manufacture, 

 a Condition which adds to, rather than detracts from, the value of the 

 stock now on hand. Deliveries are still far behind. Official figures given 

 elsewhere in this Issue of Hardwood Record show that outbound ship- 

 ments of lumber are being handled on the basis of 25 to SO per cent of the 

 actual requirements of shippers which means that many orders are either 

 not being filled at all or are filled quite some time after they are booked. 

 Furniture Interests are increasing their purchases in the way of oak and 

 gum and the American Oak Manufacturers' .Vssociation is doing its best 

 to ascertain the i)ossible requirements of manufacturers of furniture and 

 cabinet articles heretofore using metals, with a view to helping them secure 

 the oak that may have to be substituted therefor. It is recognized that 

 practically the entire metal supply of the country is being requisitioned 

 by the government in the prosecution of the war and that some substitute 

 will have to be found by those heretofore using these metals. Furniture 

 distributers have been a little slow about placing their orders because of 

 the uncertainty of business but the belief obtains here that they will in- 

 crease their buying in a large way very shortly and that oak furniture 

 will be very popular. Vehicle manufacturers are among the largest buyers 

 at the moment. .Automobile interests are taking large quantities of south- 

 ern hardwoods while considerable quantities are going into the manufacture 

 of truck bodies and army wagons, as well as other equipmenl needed by the 

 government, .\irplane manufacturers are rapidly increasing their output 

 and this means increasing needs in the way of ash, quartered oak and other 

 materials. The shipbuilding program is making much more rapid progress, 

 following the settlement of the Goethals-Donman controversy by the elim- 

 ination of these two gentlemen, and whole units for wooden vessels are 

 being furnished by southern hardwood manufacturers. Government needs 

 are expected to exi)and rapidly this fall and the Southern Hardwood Emer- 

 gency Bureau is doing everything in its power to find out the quantity of 

 southern hardwoods available, the number o? mills operating and the char- 

 acter and nm.nint of <;tnck tbcy produce. It is further making earnest 



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