HARDWOOD RECORD 



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JANNEY = WHITING LUMBER COMPANY 



WHOLESALE CASH BUYERS OF 



SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN WHITE PINE AND HARD- 

 WOODS. SQUARES, BALUSTER STOCK. ETC. 

 Yard and Olfice 1151 Beach SI. Pier 52 North Wharves 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



WHITING MANUFACTURING COMPANY 



MANUFACTURERS OP 



BAND SAWN STOCK WIDTHS IN 

 HARDWOODS AND WHITE PINE 



ELIZABETHTON, 



TENNESSEE 



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COTTONWOOD 



GUM and HARDWOODS 



PAEPCKE LEICHT LUMBER CO. 



Mills: 



Cairo, 111. 



Marked Tree, Ark. 



Arkansas City, Ark. 

 ? Blytheville, Ark. 

 ) Greenville, Miss. 



General Offices: 



Tribune Building, 



CHICAGO. 



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ONSULT our list of ad- 

 =d vertisers, page 49, also the 

 W. & F. S." section page 48. 



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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 Olfice. A CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



If You Want to Buy or Sell Hardwoods 



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Memphis hardwood lumber producing district, 

 which, coming on top of the excessive precipi- 

 tation already experienced, has seriously inter- 

 fered with production. Logging operations are 

 being conducted on a limited scale and many of 

 the mills are not running. Reports received 

 from some mill men in this territory, who hare 

 not had to close down heretofore, are to the 

 effect that they are not able to log, and thai 

 their plants are idle. Conditions, from a 

 weather standpoint, are about as bad as can be 

 imagined, and the output of hardwood lumber in 

 the Mississippi valley is much more limited than 

 usual at this season. 



The hardwood log crop this season, owing to 

 the failure of the Mississippi to rise to the 

 height necessary for bringing out timber, proved 

 to be short and this condition has been accent- 

 uated by the impossibility of hauling logs from 

 the bottoms. Some of those who have been 

 through the woods say it is so wet that it Is 

 almost impossible to haul over them an empty 

 wagon with a four horse team. It is possible 

 that the river here may rise high enough 

 through the recent heavy rains to bring out 

 more, but if it does not the timber yield in 

 this territory will be lighter than it has been at 

 this season for many years. It will be several 

 weeks, even without further rains, before some 

 of the mills will be able to do any logging, and 

 with further precipitation the time will be 

 lengthened. 



There is another feature that is beginning to 

 attract some attention, and that is the smaller 

 receipts of lumber at this point, on account of 

 the bad roads and wet conditions of the bot- 

 toms, which prevent hauling. A prominent 

 wholesaler said today that his receipts had not 

 been interfered with much so far, because he 

 had been bringing in lumber from mills lying 

 directly on the railroads, but that during the 

 next few weeks he expected to see a decided 

 falling off, because these accessible mills had 

 shipped out most of their stock, thus leaving him 

 dependent on the other mills, which have to 

 haul some distance in order to load cars. He 

 says he expects to see a considerable falling off 

 in the holdings of lumber here during the next 

 month or two on this account, although stocks 

 are fairly full. 



The trade describes the hardwood situation 

 and outlook as somewhat puzzling. There is 

 every reason, according to the prevailing view, 

 why there should be a big demand, and yet. with 

 the exception of a few items, the activity is 

 rather limited and the volume of orders dis- 

 appointing. Stocks are not large, production is 

 being interfered with, the timber supply is 

 unusually short, consumers have only moderate 

 stocks of lumber, the car plants are all working 

 at full capacity, wagon factories are running 

 with a full quota of orders, and the volume of 

 building all over the country is of record pro- 

 portions. These facts are apparent, and yet it is 

 acknowledged on all sides that there is not the 

 business there ought to be, and this condition 

 is ascribed in almost every case to the indispo- 

 sition of consumers to stock up freely at the 

 prevailing level. 



Louisville. 



Business is brisk in the local hardwood 

 market, not to say booming, and hardwood 

 dealers have their hands full. There is some 

 concern among mill men, however, over the 

 approaching scarcity of logs. Several mills have 

 a fair supply of raw material, but the majority 

 of them have a supply which will last scarcely 

 sixty days. The run of logs from the up state 

 streams this spring has not been as heavy as 

 usual, although earlier In the season it reached 

 very fair proportions. However, lumbermen de- 

 pend chiefly on the heavy spasmodic rains In 

 the late spring for their heaviest runs. The 

 rains which are most advantageous for lumber- 



ing are those which swell the streams within a 

 few hours and rush out the logs from the hills 



into the small ci ks and thence to the rivers 



on short notice. The rains here this spring 

 have been meager, except within the past week, 

 when there were several good heavy downpours. 

 In the market for the finished product there 

 is little change. Plain oak is very strong, the 

 price advancing by regular stages, with a heavy 

 demand and a rather short supply. Quartered 

 oak is somewhat weak, the supply being a little 

 in excess of the demand. There continues the 

 usual good demand for hickory and ash and 

 prices remain steady. Poplar is steady in prici 

 and seems to be more generally favored. The 

 movement has been of large proportions within 

 the past two weeks. 



Minneapolis. 



Heavy and continued rains in this section 

 have interfered to some extent with trade, and 

 still more with shipments, putting exposed stocks 

 in no condition to load. They have also de- 

 layed the appearance of new stock on the mar- 

 ket, which promised to come unusually early on 

 account of fine drying weather early in the 

 spring. It will take a month of favorable 

 weather to send much of the new cut into the 

 shipping market. However, a great many deals 

 are being made for the cut of the northern 

 hardwood mills. Dealers have been sharp after 

 stock and have contracted for it long in advance. 

 The indications are that a larger proportion of 

 the stock will be in strong hands this year 

 than ever, before, which will insure firmer prices. 

 Dealers say, however, that there appears to be 

 more new hardwood lumber offered than thej 

 hart looked for. indicating that the output will 

 not be much behind that of former years. 



Considerable southern stock is being shipped 

 this way to supply the demand of northern con- 

 sumers, especially oak. Northern red and white 

 oak are both very scarce and stocks broken. 

 For instance, sixteen foot oak is almost out of 

 the market, and it forms the larger proportion of 

 most of the orders that come in. Birch is 

 growing scarce, and so is elm. While there is 

 still considerable basswood, it is being cleaned 

 out unusually well before the coming of new 

 stock. 



The best branch of the trade here is still with 

 the retail yards, which are ordering some good 

 lii I Is of hardwood in mixed car lots. In the 

 cities there is a decided improvement noted 

 with the factories making doors and mill work. 

 Building operations are heavy and Increasing in 

 volume, and the orders for special interior finish 

 and sash and doors are the biggest and most 

 numerous local factories have seen. An unusu- 

 ally large proportion of them call for hardwood 

 stock, and the concerns are on the market more 

 actively again. They bought heavily in the 

 winter, expecting the stock to last them well 

 into the summer season, but the stock bought 

 i hen is almost cleaned out. They are only buy- 

 ing for immediate needs, but there Is enough 

 of the business to count. Furniture factories 

 are having a dull season, and are not heavy 

 buyers in the hardwood market. 



St. Louis. 

 For some reason trade conditions are not 

 leasing as at the last report, and prac 

 tlcally all of the local wholesalers admit that 

 May will not make the showing in volume of 

 business that was made in April. During the 

 past two weeks the decrease In the demand 

 has been very noticeable and those who have 

 been inclined to purchase have particularized to 

 a greater extent than earlier in the season. In 

 woods those items which showed a slight 

 dullness at the beginning of the month are now 

 decidedly dull, while those items which were 

 In strong demand have changed in no way. It 

 Is probable that this change is more exaggerated 

 In St. Louis than In other markets, as tho 



