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ties, for the Buckstaff-Edwards Company does 

 no logging. It handles thousands of feet of 

 hardwood yearly, but buys from jobbers. 



Frank Waters, a well-known Oconto hard- 

 wood lumberman, was married recently in Chi- 

 cago to his divorced wife, with whom be had 

 not lived for two years. 



Al Ringling, one of the owners of Ringling 

 Brothers' circus, will this summer have a costly 

 mansion built at Baraboo, his winter home, 

 which will be finished throughout in its interior 

 with quarter-sawed white oak. 



The Pankratz Lumber Company has pur- 

 chased an extensive tract of land in Delta 

 county, Michigan. The land is timbered with 

 valuable hardwood, which will be shipped by 

 water to the company's mill at Sturgeon Bay. 



A deal has been closed by Carver & Nourse of 

 Bayfield whereby the Wachsmuth Lumber Com- 

 pany became the owner of over 10,000,000 feet 

 of standing hardwood timber, the consideration 

 being $200,000. The timber is located on 23,382 



Of land, known as the Knight & Yilas and 

 Thompson Lumber Company land-. 



The Worden Lumber Company, with plant at 

 Bundy, Wis., is installing an electric light 

 plant, which will also supply village consumers. 



The Moore & Galloway Company is rebuilding 

 its plant at Fond du Lac, which was 

 recently by fire. 



R. N. Larner, who was appointed by the 

 county board of Marathon county to make an 

 estimate of the stocks of lumber of different 

 varieties in the various mill yards in that 

 county, the figures to be used for assessment 

 purposes, has completed his work. According to 

 his estimate there was. at the beginning of 



June, a total of 25,000, feet of hardwood in 



pile. Many of the yards had been pretty well 

 cleaned out by winter shipments. This amount 

 is a little over ten per cent less than was piled 

 in the yards at the same time a year ago, due, 

 no doubt, to the unfavorable season for logging 

 operations last winter. 



HardWood Market. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



Chicago. 

 The status of the Chicago hardwood lumber 

 situation can be told in a very few words, 

 is very dull, and although the general 

 strike which has prevailed for the last two 

 months is practically at an end, it has caused 

 such a set-back to business that the dealers gen- 

 erally do not believe that there will be a recur- 

 rence of the good volume of trade before the 

 middle of August. Everyone seems to feel opti- 

 mistic concerning the prospects for fall business, 

 but right now the volume of sales is not one- 

 half of normal, and not one-fourth of what it 

 should be. 



Boston. 



As usual during the summer season, hardwoods 

 are now quiet. For the next two months New 

 England wholesalers will devote their time to 

 -ing of orders which have accumulated. 

 The concensus of opinion dwells on the prospects 

 of a very favorable trade beginning in early fall, 

 although others look for conditions not ranging 

 beyond fair to good. One of the latter, when 

 confronted by the weight of opinion tending to 

 an exceptional fall trade, dryly quoted — not 

 prices — but poetry : "Man never is — but always 

 to be blessed," and said that the prospect of an 

 exceptional fall trade was the product of the 

 "untutored" mind. 



Piano manufacturing is dull, but there is some 

 noticeable improvement in the furniture trade. 

 The high prices of spruce, hemlock, southern 

 pine, etc.. has, according to architects, caused 

 many prospective building operations to be post- 

 poned until market conditions are more favor- 

 able. Hardwood prices in general are considered 

 to be about right — the price troubles centering 

 on spruce and southern pine. 



Quartered white oak is in easy supply and 

 slack to fair demand at - r standard 



grade ones and twos. Plain white oak is very 

 scarce and almost anything that looks like plain 

 white oak finds a buyer. The "real article" is 

 in good demand at $50 to $52. Brown ash, dry, 

 is wanting at $48 to $40 for ones and twos 

 boards. Elm common and better, .$38 to $42, ac- 

 cording to thickness. Cherry is a strong favor- 

 ite at $95 to $100 for inch ones and twos. 

 Maple boards rough ones and twos, $32.50 to 

 $33, 5-4 and 6-4 $35 to $37. thicker $41 to $43. 

 Sound wormy chestnut is finding a good market 

 at $21 to $23, sales of most desirable sound 

 wormy boards bringing $24 and better. Mahog- 

 any is in moderate demand at $155 to $165 for 

 inch ones and twos. 



Poplar is in an apathetic state except in 

 bright saps, the demand for which is good at 



$39 to $40 : inch ones and twos good average 

 grade, $48. Cypress inch ones and twos, $4". 

 16, 0-4 and S-4 $47 to $48, 10-4 and 12-4 

 $53. It is understood that the red, white and 

 blue list has been withdrawn and that the red 

 list practically prevails on cypress. Maple floor- 

 ing 2% -inch clear face, 2 feet and up long, is 

 holding well at $37.50. 



New York. 



The past fortnight has shown a continuation 

 of good business in ay branches of the trade, 

 although the past few days were a l.ttle quiet 

 owing to the Fourth of July celebration, many 

 dealers taking advantage of the Saturday, Sun- 

 day and Monday preceding to leave town for a 

 little recreation. Business has been resumed 

 again with activity now that the celebration is 

 over. Some of the hardwood yards report busi- 

 ness a little quiet, but that condition cannot be 

 general, as the wholesale market shows no indi- 

 cations of a let-up, and it is the belief that any 

 lull is but momentary and that the next thirty 

 days will provide a first-rate volume of business. 

 This is certainly indicated by the building sta- 

 tistics for ttie month of May, which show a gain 

 of 64 per cent for Manhattan, 92 per cent for 

 Brooklyn and 145 per cent for Bronx, which pre- 

 sages a large amount of building for the balance 

 of the summer and early fall, which will pr 

 considerable business for the hardwood people. 



The furniture, coffin and cabinet trades are 

 fairly active. Taken as a whole at this, the be- 

 ginning of the summer season, there is a good 

 steady activity noted in all branches of the 

 trade, and any weak spots are simply due to 

 particular conditions incident to the local, 

 the yard so reporting. Prices are holding stiff on 

 all the hardwoods, and the movement of stock 

 in wholesale channels is very fair. Oak is still 

 in strongest demand, but orders are also plenti- 

 ful for birch, poplar and a=h. 



Philadelphia. 



The hardwood situation shows little change 

 from the last report. Jobbers and manufactur- 

 ers say the demand is not quite as strong as it 

 was during the latter part of June : however, u 

 considerable number of good orders have been 

 booked. 



The possibilities of any change in the demand 

 for the stocks now most wanted are most mea- 

 ger ; for instance, a report from the ' 

 that brown ash is selling at $2 over the 

 price. Business is somewhat hampered by the 

 lack of cars, but the Quaker City dealers believe 

 they are getting a fair share of the distribution. 



Bed oak is fair at list prices, but considerable 



.ng held at above list. The demand for 



ss in the V S'orthwest is reported 



fair. The demand for hickory continues fair. 



are only quoted at list. < 



nut is much in demand for all grades, and filling 



all orders is a hard proposition. Birch con- 



ulthough not much quoted 



in this market. loing fairly well and 



many inquiries are out for the stock. Beech 



• in fair demand this season. Maple 



mes a ready seller, as it has been all this 



n, and the I : red very bright. 



demand reman for nearly 



all li 1 inly. With the 



activity in building operations there 



a break during 



ining warm months. 



Baltimore. 



!'!•• hard nation here has continued 



favorable dining the :■■ - » are 



in very urgent demand, and nearly all the mills 

 have more orders on hand than they can fill. 

 Mere or less delay in filling them is inevitable, 

 and in not a few instances the manufacturers 

 decline flatly to assume further obligations. None 

 of the plants have stocks on band in considerable 

 quantities, the output being shipped as soon as 

 it can be made ready. 1'rices are well main- 

 tained. 



Not in years has the inquiry for plain-sawed 

 oak been so strong as at present, and the manu- 

 facturer is able to make the market. Frequently 

 it happens that a buyer is willing to pay the 

 current prices, but finds it impossible to get 

 lumber, mil! men having none to spare. Ash is 

 hardly less active, while all the other hardwoods 

 are mi ly at figures that stimulate pro- 



duction to the utmost limit. Stumpage is stead- 

 ily advancing, and dealers spend much of their 

 time in securing sources of supply. Poplar ap- 

 pears to be without special features, the wood 

 having relatively few lakers, but in spite of 

 this fact prices keep up and no pronounced weak- 

 ness has developed at any point. Trade is in a 

 most robust condition. This is also true of the 

 export movement, which is in the main large, 

 complaint is heard about the ruling quota- 

 oa the other side of the Atlantic, but it 

 may be assumed that no hardwood man will be 

 60 short-sighted as to ship his stocks abroad 

 when he can get more money for them at home, 

 without the risk inseparable from foreign trad- 

 The fact that the forwardings to England 

 and other European extensive 



proves that prices must be sufficiently attractive 

 to encourage the movement. Stocks In foreign 

 market seem to be ample for current needs, and 

 there may be an easing off later In the season 

 unless demand picks up. 



Pittsburg. 



Summer apathy is begins felt in the 



lumber market. As yet the falling off of busl- 



i.jugh to cause any uneasi- 



rg firms. The hap 



trad. is up remarkably well and 



port any re- 

 silience in their orcl 



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ck, but at 

 iug sold below quota- 

 is no prospect of any serious 

 break in p 



i hardwood are finding a fairly 

 sale. Maple fl - ne of the best 



- in the market and firms that make a 

 ,:ty of it ^ ar ln their 



: finds a ready market, 

 lerable birch is being bandied, most of it 

 going to the door manufacturers and furniture 



