March 10. 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



35 



th. 



5/4" 



$C0 

 4G 

 32 

 26 



6/4" 



$60 

 40 

 32 

 26 



8/4" 



$62 

 48 



BASSWOOD 



Bnsswood is stronger than ever. Dry stocks arc acplotcd and production materially curtailed. Prices show material advances over last mootb. 



The average market price of Bnsswood, F. O. B. Cincinnati. Is as follows : • . .„ 



C.IIADKS 4/4 



Box Boards — 1.^"17" SSJ 



Box Boards — 9"-12" • I'A 



Fas JO 



No. 1 Common .... 43 



Xo. 2 Common 2U 



No. 3 Common • ■ -4 



No. 4 Common . . '.0 2:; ::;; 



CHESTNUT 

 There Is some Indication of an improvement In the demand for 1" No. 1 Common and Better Chestnut. Sound Wormy and No. 3 Common are 

 strongest items on the list. 



The average market price of Chestnut. F. O. B. Cincinnati, is as follows: 



GRADES *'■* 



Fas 



.No. 1 Common 



Fas Wormy 



No. 1 Common Wormy. 



Sound Wormy 



No. 2 Common Wormy . 

 No. 3 Common 



.?49 

 40 

 35 

 34 

 33 

 30 

 23 



5/4" 

 $57 

 45 

 37 

 36 

 35 

 32 

 25 



ASH 



Ash continues in heavy ilinmnd and prices higher on all Items. Goyernment demand for thick stock predominates. 



The average market price of .\sh. F. O. B. Cairo, Is as follows: . „,,„ </^,^„ 



GRADES 4/4" 5/4" 6/4^ 8/4^' 10/4" 



Fas . . . $70 $77 $85 $95 $110 



No. 1 Common 45 53 60 75 95 



No. 2 Common 31 35 40 50 



No. 3 Common ...... i 23 



6/4" 

 $57 

 45 

 37 

 36 

 35 

 32 



12/4" 



$120 



100 



The average market price of Cottonwood. F. 0. B. Cairo. 

 GRADES 



Box Boards — 13"-17" 



Box Bonrds — 9"-12" 



Fas— 13" & up 



Fas — 0"-12" 



COTTONWOOD 

 Is as follows : 



4/4" 

 ..$67 

 . . 57 

 . . 50 

 . . 40 



Fas 6" & up 46 



No. 1 Common ". 34 



No. 2 Common 31 



No. 3 Common . ■ 24 



5/4" 



$54 

 42 

 48 

 36 

 33 



6/4" 



$54 

 42 

 48 

 36 

 33 

 25 



S/4- 

 $59 

 47 

 39 

 38 

 37 

 34 

 26 



16/4- 



$130 



105 



8/4" 



$58 

 46 

 52 

 38 



Is the Yearly Lumber Cut Increasing? 



Many people take for granted that the production of lumber is in- 

 creasing from year to year. Some of the sermons on the necessity of 

 conserving our timber supply are based on that assumption. The fact 

 is, no man knows whether the annual cut of lumber in this country is 

 on the increase, or on the decline, or standing still. It may seem 

 strange that nobody knows, in face of all the statistics that have been 

 compiled in the past seventeen or eighteen years; but it is the con- 

 dition of the statistics that is the reason why nobody knows, because 

 nobody is able to interpret the figures to the point of finding out 

 whether the cut is increasing or not. Following are totals covering 

 the period from 1899 to 1915, both years inclusive: 



Tear No. of mills reporting Cut in feet 



1899 31,833 35,084,166,000 



1904 18,277 34,13.5,139,000 



1905 11,666 30,502,961,000 



1906 22,398 37,550,736,000 



1907 28,850 40,267,154,000 



1908 31,231 33,224,369,000 



1909 46,585 44,509,761,000 



1910 31,934 40,018,282,000 



1911 28,107 37,003,207,000 



1912 29,005 39,158,414,000 



1913 21,668 38,387,009,000 



1914 27,506 37,346,023,000 



1915 16,815 31,241,374,000 



Sixteen years ought to be time enough to show whether the tendency 



is up or down ; but it only shows great variation when one year is 

 compared with another. The figures further show a remarkable fluc- 

 tuation in the number of sawmills whoso output is included in the 

 totals. In 1905 the number was 11,660; in 1909 it was 44,585, nearly 

 four times as many; while in 1916 the number was 16,815. 



It is not probable that any such fluctuations occurred in the actual 

 number of mills at work from year to year. The apparent changes in 

 number must have been due to failure on the part of mills to send in 

 reports some years, while they reported other years. It is on account 

 of such extremely fragmentary statistics that it ia impossible to deter- 

 mine whether the cut of lumber has increased, decreased, or stood 

 still since figures began to be first compiled in 1899. 



The Chamberlin Bill 



One of the most farrcaching measures ever proposed in congress, 

 so far as the lumber industry is concerned, is the bill of Senator 

 Chamberlain of Oregon authorizing the president to commandeer 

 timber, standing or down, logs and lumber for the war purposes of 

 the army, navy, shipping board and aircraft board. The bill was 

 reported from the senate committee on military affairs recently 

 after a secret session at which Director W. S. Gifford of the council 

 of national defense appeared and testified. It is learned that admin- 

 istration senators plan to push the measure for early passage. 

 Prominent lumbermen declare that they w'ill fight the bill, not 

 because they do not want to do everything possible to help the 

 government win the war, but because they believe that the enact- 

 ment of this legislation would give the industry a black eye in the 

 mind of the public. Lumbermen hope to be given a hearing on the 

 bill before a house committee when the bill comes up before that 

 body. 



Another bill of special interest to the lumber trade passed the 

 house of representatives this week. It is to punish by $10,000 fine 

 and thirty years' imprisonment the destruction or injuring of war 

 material and war transportation facilities by fire, explosives or other 

 violent means, and to forbid the hostile use of property during the 

 war. The bill would protect, it is believed, lumber mills and other 

 establishments producing war materials and supplies, protect those 

 products themselves, and all means of transportation and communi- 

 cation, together with buildings, bridges and other structures appur- 

 tenant thereto, wharves, docks, etc., ships, etc., used by the United 

 States. 



Civilian Workers Wanted for Ordnance Department 

 The ordnance department of the government is seeking civilian wiirkcrs 

 who have had high school education, .some shop training and the natural 

 ability to adapt themselves to new work to qualify for government ap- 

 pointment in which, under government Instructors, they will receive the 

 necessary training for positions to be filled. While the list is rather ex- 

 tensive, those positions that might Interest readers of Hardwood Rbcoeo 

 are Inspectors of gun carriages and parts, assistant Inspectors of motor 

 vehicles and artillery wheels, and Inspectors of ammunition packing boxes. 

 Inspection of the many things with which the government Is equipping 

 our armies Is Just as vital In the war as Is the fighting itself and those 

 who respond to the call will be volunteering for the national sen-ice. 



