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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 



NASHVILLE HARDWOOD aOORING CO.. 



Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



Hardwood Lunibei* diid Hardwood Flooring 



E- BARTHOLOMEW. MANAGER I^HIPA/^O 

 3622 South Moi-^dn St.. VJllVAWlV/ 



We have very complete stocks of dry 

 lumber in 4/4 and 6/4 thicknesses 



DOMESTIC HARDWOODS, Inc. " l^lV^t>ir ' 



BASSWOOD ELM 



Saps & No. 2 & Btr. .4/4. 5/4 ^'"- ^ *^* 



' HARD MAPLE 

 BEECH j^jj 3 4/^^ 5/4 g/ , 



No. 2 it B 4/4, 8/4 No. 1 & Btr 



5/4, 6/4. 8/4, 10/4 



BIRCH Q"5- Maple 5/4 



No. 1 & Btr -^OFT MAPLE 



4/4.5/4,6/4,8/4,10/4,12/4 No. 2 & Btr 4/4 



JACKSON & TINDLE 



INCORPOBATED 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 





We ofer COMPLETE STOCK 



WISCONSIN OAK 



STRAIGHT or MIXED CARS 



4/4", 5/4", 6/4" & 8/4" 



WATCH THIS SPACE 

 Your inquiries will have prompt attention 

 Send us a list of your requirements today 



Brooks & Ross Lumber Co. 



SCHOFIELD, WISCONSIN 

 {SALES OFFICE AND MILL) 



The Tegge Lumber Co. 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



ing trades are working from hand-to-mouth, with very light stocks on hand. 

 Excellent car supply nlong with good stocks on the yards, enable producers 

 to grivo good service at the present time, although it is helieved that later 

 in the fall the hand-to-mouth buyer will have trouble in depending on 

 quick shipments, as a result of the usual slump in car supply. It is noticed 

 that following a few quiet days there will be a sudden improvement, which 

 brings gladness to the hearts of the shippers, and as a whole the trade is 

 fairly well satisfied, as prices are considered good, considering existing 

 conditions of supply and demand. In oak there is a fair demand for plain 

 oak, but quartered is dull. Walnut is selling well, while poplar and gum 

 are fine. Mahogany has been very fair, as the furniture trade has been one 

 of the best buyers. Veneers are also selling very well, and glued up stocks 

 are moving to the table and dining room furniture trades. Musical instru- 

 ment business is dull. Wagon business is better and box boards are selling 

 more freely. Mills report good stocks on band, good log supplies, aD(} 

 pro.spects of steady running until February or later. 



MILWAUKEE 



Developments in the hardwood lumber situation, as well a.s conditions 

 affecting all lumber producing and using industries, have been influential 

 in inducing northern hardwood manufacturers to effect material readjust- 

 ment of their schedules for the winter, particularly in regard to woods 

 operations. The decline in demand, which was accentuated in the last 

 thirty days, has caused operators generally to decide to curtail production, 

 many of them to the point of closing the sawmills as soon as the present 

 stock of logs from last winter's and the summer input is out of the way. 

 At the same time, woods work planned for the winter is being reduced 

 considerably. 



Because of the unusual conditions existing in the hardwood industry, 

 loggers and lumber manufacturers are turning their attention more and 

 more to softwood production, while even this output is being steadily 

 reduced to fit requirements. At the present time both hardwood and 

 softwood markets are dull and featureless affairs, with practically no 

 demand. 



Northern hardwood manufacturers believe the industry should keep its 

 production within limits not exceeding current shipments, and they are 

 working to this end. The reason is that hardwoods are manufactured 

 mainly in close relation to needs of certain industries, since there is a 

 distinct disadvantage in indiscriminate production which is not the prob- 

 lem of softwood manufacturers, whose product is quite generally standard- 

 ized, as in the case of building materials. Consequently, to produce stock 

 with the least waste to manufacturers and consumers as well, hardwoods 

 are sawed largely on contracts and advance orders, which at this time are 

 negligible. 



While the immediate tendency of hardwood lumber prices is easy, the 

 representative producers in the north believe that a strong market is 

 bound to develop sooner or later. The easy tone of the present is appa- 

 rent mainly from the fact that some operators are making low prices to 

 move stocks promptly to gain room in the yards or to convert stocks into 

 money becaui|e of financial pressure in a drag^ng market. It is pointed 

 out that under existing conditions, stock can not be replaced at the price 

 for which it is being sold. As a matter of fact, the cost of logging has 

 increased since last winter and the price that sawmills can afford to pay 

 for logs is not sufficiently attractive to jobbers to induce them to bring out 

 a large quantity. 



LIVERPOOL 



Labor troubles still continue to perplex and haras.s commercial enter- 

 prise. No heav.v buying is taking place ; a preference being shown to 

 bu.ving from hand to mouth. 



. Colonial timber stocks are much heavier and prices down about 15 per 

 cent. 



The demand for English ash indicates very little buying of American, the 

 price of the latter prohibiting its use in competition with the domestic 

 supply. Prices, however, continue to harden and for dry stock all kinds of 

 figures are being paid. 



Housing schemes are well under way, therefore contractors are not 

 using hardwoods so extensively as hitherto, being restricted to a consider- 

 ,ihle extent in luxury building. 



The motor body building concerns still find plenty of business to keep 

 them fully occupied and, of course, although not holding largo timber 

 stocks, are steady purchasers. 



The cabinet trade for three months has had a depressing time. There, 

 however, appear to be indications of a revival in the near future. 



.\11 kinds of oak are scarce. Japanese oak has come to the front recently 

 and is realizing higher prices than northern grown .\merican white oak. in 

 some thicknesses and sizes. 



Yellow poplar, owing to the prices asked for it, is being substituted. 



Veneers. — Owing to the labor entailed, the demand Ls dull. \ preference 

 is being shown tor the solid or made-up panels. 



Criieral. — Prospects all round appear to be brighter than a month ago, 

 and if labor would settle clown there is every reason to b.^lieve the encour- 

 agement thus shown to the capitalist would increase his enterprise to such 

 an extent that a trade boom hitherto unknown would be here in very short 

 time. 



