HARDWOOD RECORD 



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prices will apply ou such items as are getting 

 scarce at the mills. 



Cypress lath is in good demand. During the 

 summer the mills were not able to supply 

 straight car orders, notwithstanding the fact 

 that some buyers were offering a considerable 

 advance over the list prices. The recent 50-cent 

 advance a thousand, which made the price of 

 lath $3 at the mills, has not curtailed the de- 

 mand. The lath that is being handled is shipped 

 In mixed car orders. 



Cypress shingles are being called for as rap- 

 idly as the mills can get the stock in shippiug 

 condition, and there has been no accumulation 

 of the upper grades of stock at any of the 

 mills. Prices are very firm at $3.25 for bests 

 and $3 for primes. Demand is not so good 

 for low-grade shingles, but with the opening of 

 the fall trade, it is expected that all the avail- 

 able stock will be taken up. 



Kansas City. 



The principal activity among the hardwood 

 dealers here is local and the city trade, owing 

 to continued activity in the better class of 

 residence building, is keeping dealers well sup- 

 plied with orders. Their trade to date this 

 year has been above normal, as the local busi- 

 ness has been steadily active and the spring 

 demand from the country was heavy. There 

 was the usual lull in outside business during 

 the summer, but with the advent of fall the 

 inquiry is improving nicely. 



There is every reason to believe that before 

 the end of September the demand will be ac- 

 tive for all kinds and grades of hardwoods 

 usually called for by the furniture manufac- 

 turers and planing mill people. It follows that 

 in the event of the anticipated fall trade there 

 will be little sagging in price and that the 

 markets will be steady and firm, and any 

 changes in price will be in the direction of ad- 

 vances. 



When it comes to the question of supplying 

 the demand, dealers are not so enthusiastic. 

 They say that they will manage some way to 

 make out, and the yards here are fairly well 

 stocked at the present time. There is no ques- 

 tion, however, that plain oak is a very scarce 

 commodity and that it will continue scarce 

 through the year. An inquiry sent out a few 

 days ago to most of the prominent hardwood 



WHITING MANUFACTURING COMPANY 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



BAND SAWN STOCK WIDTHS IN 

 HARDWOODS AND WHITE PINE 



ELIZABETHTON, 



TENNESSEE 



JANNEY -WHITING LUMBER COMPANY 



WHOLESALE CASH BUYERS OF 



SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN WHITE PINEAND HARD- 

 WOODS. SQUARES. BALUSTER STOCK, ETC. 

 Yard and OHice 1 151 Beach St. Pier 52 Norlh Wharves 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



[cotton wood] 



GUM and HARDWOODS 



PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER CO. 



Mills< 

 Cairo, 111. 

 Marked Tree, Ark. 

 Arkansas Citv. Ark. 

 ( Blythevllle, Ark. 

 Greenville. Miss. 



General Offices: 



Tribune Building, 



concerns in the various centers for a carload 

 of one and one-quarter inch stock was turned 

 down by all but one or two, and finally bought 

 at $50 per thousand. Other kinds of lumber 

 may be had in sufficient quantities through the 

 fall to meet the demand in tory man- 



ner, but it is conceded that there will not be 

 enough plain oak to go round and that It will 

 be held at fancy prices. Prices on other Items 

 are stationary, with some weakness on quartered 

 oak of late. Cottonwood is quite firm and 

 birch, cypress. guru, ash and poplar are all 

 satisfactorily firm. 



That there will be little surplus stock of 

 any kind during the balance of the year is con- 

 ceded. It is well known that the cut of the 

 southern mills was seriously curtailed as com- 

 pared with the normal production during 1 he 

 spring season, and the expected heavy runs 

 during the summer have not been realized. At 

 many of the mills the showing for output dur- 

 ing June and July was little better than earlier 

 in the year. August has been better and the 

 mills as a rule have made good runs. One 

 concern here states that its mills cut more 

 lumber during July and August than for all 

 the preceding five months combined, and at that 

 they are not boasting of the amount of lumber 

 cut during the past two months. The woods up 

 to within about thirty days have been steadily 

 wet and soggy and it has been difficult to log. 

 Hardwood manufacturers hope for two or three 

 months of seasonable weather now and ex- 

 pect to cut a good deal of stock for the demand 

 next year, but the amount of dry lumber avail- 

 able for the fall trade will be much below nor- 

 mal. 



Interviews with wholesale concerns who han- 

 dle railroad and car stock, bridge timbers, etc., 

 bring out the fact that trade in this line Is 

 active. The railroad demand has been steady. 

 and the railroad mills have been months be- 

 hind their contracts through the year. The 

 present inquiry is strong and prospects are that 

 the fall demand for railroad material of all 

 kinds will continue in the present good condi- 

 tion. The sale of oak bridge stock is confined 

 to a more limited area than in the past, owing 

 to the substitution of Washington fir, which 

 the dealers say answers the purpose and can 

 be supplied in the desired sizes and lengths 

 more quickly. At the same time oak people 

 report a satisfactory demand for bridge mate- 

 rial. Posts of all kinds are in active demand. 

 Those who cater to the wagon stock trade say 

 they ;n hi-, ing a greater call for hickory 

 wagon stock than they can handle promptly. 



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CHICAGO 



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Minneapolis. 

 There has been a general waking up all along 

 the line during the past fortnight, and whole- 

 salers here are enjoying as good a trade as 

 they have seen at any time this year. The 

 factories are all in the market for stock. Im- 

 plement dealers are closing contracts lor the 

 year's supply, and are asking for early deliv- 

 eries. The sash and door companies have used 

 more hardwood stock than ever and just now 

 are rushing to turn out big orders for special 

 work, much of it requiring oak and birch. 

 Northern oak is being snapped up quickly when 

 offered, although prices are stronger than ever, 

 nnd the lower grades of oak are selling more 

 readily than ever known. Birch is doing well, 

 and large quantities are being used here for 

 mill work. Kock elm and maple are active. 

 Flooring la still one of the main items in the 

 mark' country yards are taking con- 



ihle of It. : has shown some Im- 



ment, but It Is still dragging somewhat 

 and weak In price. Piasswood culls have i 

 vanced owing to the demand from the boi 



. which are paying es for pine 



boards and are turning 1 d be- 



cause of Its comparative cheapness and econ- 

 omy in cutting. It is predicted here that mixed 

 culls will sell for $13 before winter. 



Wagon stock and flooring arc the principal 

 items In the country yard trade, which Is be- 

 ginning to order straight cars of hardwood as 

 well as the usual run of mixed car orders. The 



>n is well under way and I 

 September Is over the farmers will begin re- 

 palrlng and lilting up. The retail yards arc 

 calling for wagon Btock, especially In white 

 oak. which is in fairly good supply now. but 

 will not last long at the present rate. 



Louisville. 



The demand for small dimension stock In 

 oak and hickory Is good, but prices are not 

 satisfactory. What orders are being ac- 

 cepted, as a rule, are for Immediate ship- 

 ment 'ken to clean up accumulations 

 of material. Taking the trade all In all, man- 

 ufacturers arc not nearly as anxious to sell 

 as purchasers are to buy. 



The call for high-grade poplar continues to 

 be fairly satisfactory', and the trade Is ex- 

 pecting better conditions. From seme points 

 comes the information that low-grade poplar, 

 with the exception of No. 1 common, is mov- 

 ing very well, and with the continued stiffen- 

 in;,' in yellow pine boards it Is felt that low- 

 grade poplar is good property this year. 



Chestnut is moving fairly well, and local 

 handlers of this stock say that they do not 

 have much trouble in disposing of all they 

 can get hold of at fairly good prices. 



In the cooperage end of the hardwood busi- 

 ness there has been some stiffening in whisky 

 stock prices, especially in bourbon heading, 

 because the rains in the South have so re- 

 tarded operations at the mills that the supply 

 of this high grade stock is not adequate for 

 the requirements of the trade. There is a 

 plenty of the lower grades of tight cooperage, 

 especially oil stock, and the market is abso- 

 lutely without feature in this class of mate- 

 rial. The slack cooperage Industry, which 

 has been down in the dumps for a long time, 

 is now showing some signs of life. The ar- 

 rival of part of the new wheat crop at the 

 mills is leading to a more liberal purchase 

 of flour barrel stock, and the manufacturers 

 of apple barrel stock are now beginning to 

 be bu thai the first note of encourage- 



ment manufacturers of this stock have had 

 for six months at least Is manifest. 



London. 



The hardw 1 market has not yet had time 



to settle down to "tl nor of Its way" 



after the holidays. Arrivals ha 1 fairly 



heavy, thi of the stock having been 



sent on consignment; as there is no particu- 

 lar demand for the stock that has been sent, 

 it is being stored with the dock companies 

 Most of the stocks arriving are Nos. 1 

 not wanted al the 



moment. 



Prime whltewood is in fairly 1:00. 1 demand 

 for thin planed boards, but It is noli, 

 that tin proles are not so good as they were 

 last year, and this is causing friction between 



Primi pi axds do not arrive freely, 



and parcels that do are not fetching the high 

 prices asked unless in a very dry condition. 

 being asked for, but consignments 

 are n it present, as buyers are quite 



willii j for future arrivals. 



in walnut ho, 1 arriving 



freely, and buyers have taken the parcels 

 that have I.,-, 11 shipped in good condition and 

 neglected those which were not. 



Mahogany stocks are light, but the demand 



1 1 and tile high prl 



further supplii The first 



irgo of Honduras has ar- 

 rive, 1, wll ■ from Tobasco and one 



from Cuba, with the usual consignments from 

 the w of Africa. 



