October 10, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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going into the construction of boxing tor shells and ammunitiou. There 

 i3 a greatly increased foreign call for American wood used in making 

 caskets for the fallen heroes of the contending European powers. 



The Implement manufacturers report increased business. The vehicle 

 concerns are enjoying prosperity and their requirements are gaining 

 steadily. The automobHo manufacturers are maintaining their steady 

 pace, with no signs of a let-up. 



The furniture trade is fast recovering from its little setback in August. 

 Local factories have all the business they can comfortably handle. The 

 call from the dealers for the lower grades is picking up in leaps and 

 bounds, thus creating an increased demand for quartered oak and a good 

 call for the other grades. The higher grades, such as walnut and 

 mahogany, were little affected liy the furniture bear movement. Bird's- 

 eye maple is said to be fast regaining the popularity it formerly had, 

 thus influencing the maple market to a considerable extent. 



The leaders of hardwoods of a couple weeks ago are still keeping up 

 in demand. The call is general, well scattered, and encouraging. The 

 improvement in cypress becomes more marked as the weeks pass, due 

 almost wholly to the steadily Increasing building operations. The demand 

 is heavy for the general run of stock, but is particularly good for shingles 

 and lath, the latter still heing rather scarce and the cause of considerable 

 anxiety among the builders where rush operations are under way. 



Walnut for fixture material is enjoying a good call, and the furniture 

 requirements also keep this lumber moving well. Its prices right now 

 for gun stocks are particularly good, the agents of the warring nations 

 being willing to pay almost anything in reason to insure prompt delivery. 

 Hickory is selling well and commanding good prices, the war entering 

 also into the good business being done in this wood. Wheel factories 

 are working on rush orders for motor truck wheels, gun carriages, etc., 

 and their call for hickory is insistent and heavy. 



=•< TOLEDO > 



The hardwood situation is nut I'speoially promising just now. The 

 yards seem to be pretty well tilled and the factory call is not what it 

 should be. Railroads have been doing only what cannot be avoided and 

 save from the building trades and automobile factories, the call is rather 

 light. The actual residence, school and factory building in Toledo is 

 exceptionally large this season. The building thus far has run close to 

 the $6,000,000 mark and is nearly half a million dollars in excess of last 

 year. While much of this business consists of factory buildings and addi- 

 tions, an immense amount of it lies in residence construction which has 

 exceeded everything heretofore known in Toledo. There is considerable 

 call for stock from automobile factories, but furniture and other vehicle 

 concerns are running slow. 



Poplar is not very strong here at present and there is some cutting of 

 prices. This is true of other materials as well as poplar. There is a 

 tendency on the part of dealers, however, to believe that the fall trade 

 will brighten up and that conditions will be better, basing this on a 

 somewhat better call which has been noticeable recently and upon archi- 

 tects' plans. 



-< INDIANAPOLIS > 



The hardwood market is showing some improvement. Dealers are 

 doing a little fall buying and the furniture factories ■ seem, from the 

 orders they are placing for gum, to be having a little more business. 



.\nother thing that is increasing the demand for hardwoods is the 

 sudden revival of building operations in the state, causing increased need 

 of hardwoods for interior trim. There have been a number of contracts 

 for large buildings let during the last two weeks throughout the state. 

 Many of these projects had been held in abeyance for months. 



There continues the same extraordinary demand for walnut, and buyers 

 are covering the entire state buying up practically all of the walnut that 

 is offered at prices consider.ibly above normal. 



■< EVANSVILLE >■ 



Trade with the hardwood lumlier manufacturers of southwestern Indi- 

 ana and western Kentucky is better and a more hopeful feeling prevails 

 among the millmen. Most of the large hardwood mills in this section 

 continue to run on full time and inquiries and orders are coming in more 

 freely than they did a month or two ago. Inquiries concerning export 

 trade, however, are not numerous and have not been for some time. 

 Leading hardwood manufacturers who have been interviewed during the 

 past two weeks by the local correspondent of the Hardwood Record are 

 of the opinion that the general trade conditions of the United States 

 are getting better and that things are going to move off with a vim. The 

 floating of the big loan to the allies, in the opinion of W. E. Blount, of the 

 Blount Plow Company here, and president of the Evansvillp Business 

 Association, is going to help conditions in the South and Central West. 

 A great deal of the money loaned will be spent for cotton in the South 

 and Southwest. Tliis will help the manufacturers of plows, furniture, 

 stoves, desks, tables and other large industries in Evansville. The South 

 buys much of her manufactured goods in the Evansville market. Crop 

 conditions in this section are encouraging. It is estimated that corn will 

 be about normal. A great many of the wood-consuming plants in Evans- 

 ville are being operated on full time and the outlook is better than it had 

 been for some time. There is a better demand for gum at the local 



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