September 25, iai5. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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^, This is one of our Rotary Mills for making cross-banding, panels, drawer bottoms, center stock, back panels, etc. 



J Importers and Manufacturers 



I Mahogany and Cabinet Woods— Sawed and Sliced 



J Quartered INDIANA White Oak, Red Oak. Figured R ed Gum^AmericanJWalnnt. Etc. 



I Rotary Cut Stock in Poplar and Gum for Cross 



■ Banding, Back Panels, Drawer Bottoms and Panels 



I The Evansville Veneer Companv 



I EVANSVILLE, INDIANA _ 



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they were this time last month. The inquiries regarding ash and quar- 

 tered white oal< have greatly increased during the past few weeljs. Wal- 

 nut is still in strong demand and manufacturers agree that it will re- 

 main in strong demand until the close of the European war. Hickory 

 is in some better demand and gum is moving more briskly. Poplar is 

 not in strong demand now and sycamore is inclined to drag, although 

 the river mills here have been shipping out some stock during the past 

 few days. 



Collections are fairly good. Crop conditions are reported encouraging 

 and the warm weather that has prevailed for the past two weeks is 

 calculated to help the late corn crop a great deal. It is estimated that 

 the corn crop will be almost noi-mal in spite of the heavy rains and 

 winds of several weeks ago. Wood consuming factories report an in- 

 creased business. This is especially true of the furniture and plow 

 factories that are now running on pretty good time. Trade in the South 

 and Southwest is said to be looking up. Cooperage manufacturers, espe- 

 cially the makers of slack barrels, say their trade is better now than 

 it has been for several months past, due to the picking up in the flour 

 trade. 



Building operations in Evansville remain active and from present indi- 

 cations it looks as though the building permits for this year will be 

 greater than they were last vear. 



people recently, only to revive again toward the middle of September. 

 Therf still seems to be a scramble to stock up on gum, in anticipa- 

 tion of a sudden and stiff rise in price in the near future. 



Lumbermen in Cincinnati are agreeably surprised with the manner in 

 which Cottonwood has been acting recently. For an extended ijeriod 

 this lumber was something like a drug on the market, the call being 

 slow and inquiry very light. Like birch and maple, however, as the 

 fall season approached, there began to be noticed a Jjcneral tendency to 

 feel out the market regarding the cottonwood situation. This Inquiry 

 soon began to develop into regular business, which has been quite well 

 sustained. 



The call for beech and ei'cn hickory has fallen off. Beech has not 

 teen active for a long time and its continued depressing attitude is 

 explainable, but hickory is running along in a rut far below expecta- 

 tion, and is the cause of much dissatisfaction in the hardwood market. 



Prices on the whole are much better than a few months back. Goods 

 now being moved command the highest mark on the list. The lum- 

 bermen have convinced themselves that the business situation in general 

 is looking up and there now is no reason to move stock at any price. 



-Vn increasing call for c.vpress has been noted. The supply still is 

 small, but enough is found to attend to the heavy call for lath and 

 shingles. The call for the latter shows a distinct revival over summer 

 months. The general run of stock enjoys brisk inquiry. 



The box manufacturers are taking care of the lower grades, inquiry 

 from this quarter being voluminous and ordering is picking up rapidly. 



-< IlsSDIANAPOLIS > 



The hardwood trade is not without its bright spots, yet the fall business 

 is not developing so rapidly as it should. The principal feature continues 

 to be the skirmish for walnut, which overshadows the d«niiand for all 

 other varieties of hardwoods. 



The demand for walnut is the one sustaining feature of the trade. A 

 slia^ht increase in the demand for jjum is reported in some localities, where 

 furniture factories are a little busier than they were. Buildiuii; operations 

 are still slow, with little pi'ospect of resumption on any large scale before 

 sprincr. 



=-< MEMPHIS >• 



=-< EVANSVILLE >= 



Ti-ade with the hardwood luml)er manufacturers in ICvansville and 

 southwestern Indiana is better now than it has been at any time this 

 year and practically all the large hardwood mills in this section are 

 being operated on an average of six days a week. The mills have been 

 recciviDg some nice orders lately and inquiries are more numerous than 



The export situation has shown little if any improvement during the 

 liast fortnight. A big order for walnut has been booked by a firm with 

 headquarters at Memphis, to which attention is called in the Memphis 

 correspondence of the Hardwood Record, but this represents one of the 

 specialties which has been in demand heretofore and has little or no 

 bearing on general export conditions. There have been a few cargoes 

 of lumber shipped to Europe within the past fortnight but this business 

 is quite small as compared w-ith that of a short time ago. It is reported 

 that ocean freight room is available on a slightly larger scale, but it is 

 emphasized that a vast amount of lumber has been consigned to Eng- 

 land and other countries and that the presence of this consigned stock 

 is operating against normal demand from that source. In fact, there 

 are some members of the trade here who regard the large amount of 

 consigned lumber in Europe as the most unfavorable feature of the 

 entire situation and the National Lumber Exporters' Association has 

 taken the matter up with Its members deploring the fact that consid- 

 erable quantities of lumber have been consigned under present conditions. 



Domestic demand is steadily improving and the outlook is considered 

 better. Inquiry among members of the hardwood trade here develops 



