HARDWOOD RECORD 



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CYPRESS 



We make a specialty of rough or 

 dressed Cypress Lumber and Cypress 

 Shingles in straight or mixed cars. 

 Your inquiries solicited for single car 

 orders or good round lots. Can also fur- 

 nish Sound Cypress Dimension Stock. 



The Borcherding Lumber Co. 



Northern Office, 



CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



:| We have what you want - 



THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST, 

 AND WE HAVE THE BEST 



The Red Book is the recognized Authority 

 on lumber credits. Published in January and 

 July and covers the United States and Man- 

 itoba. It contains the names of dealers and 

 manufacturers who purchase in car lots and 

 gives you their financial standing, alsoindicates 

 their manner of meeting obligations. 



The book is devoted exclusively to the line 

 you are interested in and it is not necessary for 

 you to wade through information you are not 

 interested in. 



Remember we also have a well organized 

 Collection Department and solicit your 

 business in this line. 



Lumbermen's Credit Association, 



Established 1876. 



1405 Great Northern Building, Chicago 

 16 Beaver Street, New York City 



(Mention this paper.) 



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WE MANUFACTURE 25,000,000 

 FEET BAND SAWED 



COTTONWOOD, 



POPLAR AND 



CYPRESS 



PER ANNUM 



Are always in position to supply the 

 trade. 



National Hardwood Association 

 Grades Guaranteed and certificates 

 furnished when requested. 



JEFFERSON SAW MILL CO. 

 Lid. 



Front and Robert Streets 

 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



ihr volume of business being transacted in their 

 line. 



Memphis. 

 The hardwood situation here, though rather 



quiet in some lines, in general continues healthy. 

 There is some weakness in low grade cotton- 



" 1. and poplar in the lower grades is not 



in great demand. But, aside from these two 

 items, the tone of the market is excellent, while 

 the run of orders is satisfactory in volume. 

 There is a noted scarcity of plain oak. with 

 little prospect of relief in this respect very 

 soon. All the lumber dealers here are of the 

 same opinion regarding lightness of stocks of 

 this description, as well as the firmness of 

 prices at the recent level. Quartered oak is 

 rather quiet, with prices, however, maintained. 

 1 dferings are not excessive and nothing is be- 

 ing pressed for sale. Ash is in active enough 

 demand to take up everything offered, with the 

 better movement in the higher grades. Cypress 

 is excellent property, this item having recently 

 been in splendid request at good prices. Gum is 

 steady at recent prices. The cut of this lumber 

 this season has not been very heavy and holders 

 have had no trouble in disposing of well-handled, 

 well-cut stock at a range of prices giving a good 

 margin of profit. Export conditions are showing 

 a slight tendency toward improvement, though 

 the percentage of lumber exported from this 

 city is below the average for this time of year 

 by a considerable margin. Toplar is in good 

 demand in the higher grades, with offerings re- 

 ported rather more limited. 



Ashland District. 



The demand for poplar lumber, especially in 

 the higher grades, and oak in all grades, con- 

 tinues very good, and sales are being made at 

 lull list prices. Owners of mills in this section 

 are becoming very much alarmed over the log 

 situation, having received, up to this time, but 

 a very small proportion of their log supply for 

 this year's cut. 



New Orleans. 



Men in this section who are well posted de- 

 clare the prospect in building for the coming 

 summer to be the greatest that the section has 

 ever seen. Thus the demand for interior fit- 

 tings, furniture and other high-grade and man- 

 ufactured hardwood will surpass anything that 

 this immediate vicinity has seen in some time. 

 New Orleans will build more houses of the bet- 

 ter .lass during this summer than ever before. 

 The same is true of every town in this section. 



The hardwood men of the section are pre- 

 paring to fit the houses with what they need — 

 and hence they look for good market condition-.. 

 The outlook is reflected in the present. 



While the demand for staves has fallen off 

 with the close of the sugar season the outlook 

 for the future is brighter than ever, and is also 

 reflected. During the past month it has (level 

 oped that the cane acreage and the consequent 

 demand for oak staves will be ten per cent 

 greater next season than this. 



Genera] conditions in domestic and export cir- 

 cles are reported excellent. 



Kansas City. 



The demand for hardwoods of various kinds 

 ami 1 > f all grades seems to be fully as active 

 here as reported from other markets. The de- 

 mand is probably not as urgent as it has been, 

 as buyers placed liberal orders early in the 

 season, and are now hurrying shipment of stock 

 already bought. The inquiry, however, is strong, 

 and the consumers of hardwood lumber evidently 

 are well acquainted with the mill situation and 

 know that present and prospective stocks are 

 not any too plentiful. In this territory the 

 spring demand has not only been satisfactory, 

 but considerably in excess of that of last spring. 



A year ago there u:is a hesitancy iti placing 

 orders, and quite a scramble on the part of man- 



ufacturers and wholesalers for business. This 

 season the business seems to be coming in with- 

 out much solicitation, as is evident from the 

 fact that representatives of hardwood concerns 

 in Memphis. St. Louis and other markets have 

 paid infrequent visits 1,1 this section this spring 

 looking for business. 



The Arkansas mill men have had more than 

 their share of trouble from wet weather this sea- 

 son, and the accumulation mi* stoek has been 

 slow. It was very wet all through April, and 

 for a greater part of the time the woods in the 

 low country were about waist deep in water. A 

 few weeks ago there was trouble in getting cars, 

 but this has been obviated and the car situa- 

 tion is easy, so that shipments are coming for- 

 ward more promptly than they have been. Alt 

 mills report a decided shortage of plain oak, 

 and in the wholesale centers this has been the 

 scarcest article in the hardwood line. The mills 

 are cutting as much plain oak as possible, and 

 there will be an improvement in the supply in 

 sixty or ninety days. However, the difficulty 

 in getting logs has been so great this season 

 that plain oak will be scarce through the year, 

 and if the demand continues as active as prom- 

 ised it will continue the firmest item in the 

 way of hardwoods. There is a fairly good de- 

 mand for quartered oak, but it is being supplied 

 without trouble. Dealers here report a stronger 

 demand for gum than during past seasons [or 

 finishing purposes, and architects are recogniz- 

 ing the fact that when properly handled this 



w 1 makes a good finish at a very moderate 



price. T'ppers of other kinds are selling fairly 

 well and the demand is fully up to normal. It 

 is the opinion here that prices on the better 

 grades of hardwoods will continue as now quoted 

 throughout the spring and summer. 



The demand for factory stock of all kinds is 

 active, as it has been since early in the year. 

 Probably wagon stock is in more urgent demand 

 than anything else, and it is bringing higher 

 prices, as the mills are behind on orders and 

 orders accepted for prompt shipment command 

 a premium. The furniture factory trade is 

 good, and considerably more active than at 

 this time last year. There has never been a 

 heavier demand for railroad stock of all kinds 

 than this season. It started in January and 

 the inquiry has been strong ever since. The rail- 

 mad mills have been getting orders much faster 

 than they could take care of them, and now- are 

 several months behind. The demand for bridge 

 stuck has been good for the past tew weeks, and 

 there is a satisfactory inquiry. 



The local demand for uppers has never been 

 better. Kansas City is doing a large amount 

 of building this season, which is running to the 



letter class of residences requiring mor less 



hardwood for floor and interim' finish. Dealers 

 here have not only been busy since the building 

 season began, but are figuring on an activi 

 demand throughout the summer and tall. 



St. Louis. 

 The brisk business which has been for some 

 time reported from this market continues and 

 the only impediment is the scarcitj of dry lum- 

 ber Si. far as some items ar ncerned this 



scarcity is very pronounced and of late it has 



1 11 spreading to such an extent that the whole 



country reports a shortage. I'm' some time there 



a- 1 11 practically no inch plain red oak t" be 



found in St. Louis in a shipping ■ t ■ > condition 

 and the small holdings have been reserved for 

 mixed car orders The trade, under these con- 

 ditions, naturally turned I" ">'ii plain white 

 oak and the sho this is now fully as 



pron iced a- thai of plain red. One and a 



quarter inch cypress ami Inch poplar are also 

 among the short in ■ onsiderable busi- 

 ness has. perforce, 1 n re 1 ise of this 



condition. livery effort is being made to bet- 

 iei- stock conditions in St. Louis ami buyers in 

 the southern o int 1 orl ng whatever 



they can find, si .lain: nthern pro- 



