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Publ.shed in the Interest of Hardwood Lumber. American Hardwood Forests. Wood Veneer Industry. Hardwood Floorln,. 

 Hardwood Interior Finish. Wood Chemicals. Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery. 



Vol. XX. 



CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 10, 1905. 



No. 10. 



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General Market Conditions. 



'I'll, hardwood market throughout the eountry on the whole is 

 strong. However, there are local features that are militating 

 seriously against certain sections. The yellow fever scare has 

 gone far beyond the limits of yellow fever infection, with the re- 

 sult that the actual production and shipping of lumber in a large 

 portion of the oak, gum, cypress and cottonwood sections of thi 

 country is very much interfered with ami largely reduced. Tims. 

 the prevailing condition is interfering materially with loading 

 out stock to supj.lv the needs of the consuming trade. Quartei 

 sawed oak is improving, inasmuch as the dearth of plain sawed is 

 such that people who must have oak for their products are obliged 

 in many instances to supplement their stocks with quartered, 

 where naturally they would employ plain-sawed. 



The poplar situation is very good, and prices of the better qual 

 dies are strong, while the demand for lower grades is improv- 

 ing. In sympathy with poplar, cottonwood is doing bettei than 

 ii has at tins time cluring the season. The demand for cypress 

 exceeds shipping possibilities and prices rule strong and bigh. Oi 

 the minor southern woods, all are in excellent shape, generally 

 speaking. 



Not quite so g I a tone ordinarily prevails in the northern 



hardwood producing sections as in the middle South. Foi 

 strange reason, those sterling northern products, red birch and 

 busswood, are far from active. Prices arc still held 

 strength in Michigan, but quite a number of Wisconsin opei 

 have recently shaded prices on both these woods in an attempt to 

 move large blocks. Graj elm is in very fair shapi and the de 

 maud for rock elm and black ash is far i" exce 



All the good inch maph in the north country is pretty well 

 sold, up to medium dry stock. The Michigan i upany, 



which controls a large portion of the output 

 recently advanced the price on all thicknessi and : 



common -i This action really shows little advance 



maple values, but I h to equalize the manifest 



iliscrepi 3 between the price of No. 3 which nnder Na 



l " 1 *'- is onh. required to cut twenty-five per cent, and which baa 

 found a readj sale at $8 for some time and No. 2, which 



'- 1 show fiftj per eenl cutting, and which heretofore has 



listed at $9 at common Michigan 1 1 g points. 1 



Michigan list on hard maph • its and secondf 



for No. I common and $10 for No. 2 common. There 1- not very 



much thick maple in first hands, the larger portion of it having 



met an advance sale mainly with Chicago jobbing houses. The 



fad.' ia this stock running in five, si\, eight, ten, twoh 



and sixteen quarter has been a little slow during the past sixty 



days, but now there is every indicati f a marked improvement 



in the demand. The holders f this class of stock will nnquea 



tionably reaps very handsome I from spring purchases. 



The immense sale of inch maple during the season is largely trace 



able to 11 \t r -oirdiuai . that has prevailed for maple 



flooring. 



Generally speaking, tl xport trade a," which un 



fortunate result is principally due to the fool isignment meth- 

 ods practiced by not a few would be exporters. 



The veneer business is still in very g 1 shape. Thi demand 



for all lines of veneers, from thi finest furniture stock to basket 

 material, is keeping all the plants full} occupied, and many of 

 them are 1 unning d mble shift. 



The maple, oak ami b - ; flooring trade is good 111 all pat 



the inti\ I'h. demand in all eases is t'ulU up to ti apacity 



of the factories, and in man} instat 1 excess of the 



bilities 'f getting stock through the machines. 



Forestry in Michigan. 



I ti this issue of the Hakdwood Record considerable Bpact 

 to the proceedings incident to the organization of the Michigan 

 est ry Issociat ion at G m was 



fortunate in having its deliberal >ver bj Hon. Arthur 



Mill of Saginaw, a himlienn.an whose reputation is not confined to his 

 ow a state, but is pi ai ticall] t! ntry wide. 



i'h. gal hei or. strj young 



energetic, practical men have put their shoulders to tl 1 this 



much . the Wolt j arc 



going to make :i iin.st .let. i mini ■ 



into a work that "ill mean the eventual redempl 



land which is now a •■ and condil Jarly 



for this work, and while thi 



undoubt 

 e.iiy be rewarded witl 



Michigan is larg 

 millions 

 that it idily ach 1 



