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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 25, 1920 



NASHVILLE HARDWOOD aOORING CO., 



Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



Hardwood Lvimberand Hardwood Flooring 



E.BARTHOLOMEW. MANAGER OVi^f^Ai^CS 

 3622 South Moi-^cin St.. VJll\./\VlV/ 



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We have very complete stocks of 

 dry lumber in 4/4 to 16/4 thickness 



DOMESTIC HARDWOODS, Inc. " ^iV^oIk"" 



BASSWOOD KLM 



Saps & No. 2 & Btr. .4/4, 6/4 '^O- 3 4/4 



HARD MAPLE 

 BEECH j^„ 3 ^/^_ g/^ g^j 



Xo. 2 & B 4/4. 8/4 No. 1 & Btr 



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



BIRCH . Qt'3- Mapio 5/4 



No. 1 & Btr ' SOFT MAPLE 



4/4,5/4.6/4,8/4.10/4.12/4 No. 2 & Btr 4/4 



JACKSON & TINDLE 



INCORPORATED 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 



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We offer COMPLETE STOCK 



WISCONSIN OAK 



Tj^r rs" 



4/4" 

 4/4" 

 5/4" 

 8/4" 

 10/4" 

 10/4" 



M.U'T.K 

 Com. & Btr. 



No. 



No. 



No. 2 



No. 



No. . 



No. 2 Com. & Btr.l car 



. Com 



. Cora. & Btr..fi 

 ; Com. & Btr. .4 

 ; Com. & Btr 



cars 

 cars 

 cam 

 cars 

 cars 



4/4" No. 

 4/4" No. 

 5/4" No. 

 S/4" No. 

 S/4" No. 

 12/4" No 



BIRCH 



1 Com. & Btr.. 3 cars 



2 Com 5 cars 



1 Com, & Btr.. 3 cars 



2 Com. & Btr.. 3 cars 

 1 r>m. & Btr.. 2 cais 



2 Com. & Btr.l car 



Brooks & Ross Lumber Co. 



SCHOFIELD, WISCONSIN 



(SALES OFFICE AND MILL) 



The Tegge Lumber Col 



High Crade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee,. Wisconsin 



well for several months, have also taken a big slump. The manufacturers 

 are not, however, altogether pessimistic over the outlook. They say that 

 a.s soon as there is a change in the situation and the demand of lumber 

 picks up again there will be a rising tendency in prices. They point to the 

 fact that stocks are low and that little lumber is now being produced, and 

 that prices will surely get higher because of this fact. When the change 

 in the trade situation will come is of course a matter of speculation. 

 Many of the manufacturers believe that the present slump in business is 

 only temporary, and that it will soon pass away and that by the first of the 

 coming year trade will take a spurt and things will get back to a settled 

 basis. Everybody seems to be holding back from buying at the present 

 time, this being due to the declining market, it being a well known fact 

 that few people buy on a falling market. The various furniture factories 

 of Evansville and those in other cities in the tri-state section are buying 

 little or no lumber at the present time, and in fact they have been in the 

 market for very little during the past two or three months. There is a 

 tightening up of many of the wood consuming plants at the present time. 

 Collections are reported fairly good. Crop conditions are only fair. 

 Farmers are greatly dissatisfied over the falling corn market, and many 

 of them are refusing to sell their new corn at the present quotations. The 

 retail lumber trade has been sluggish for some time past and no picking up 

 is expected for several weeks to come. 



LOUISVILLE 



IiHluirie.s contiuue light" and demand dull for hardwoods, and in fact 

 all lumbers, as there is no heavy consuming demand just now, and con- 

 sumers as well as jobbers are playing the waiting garae. Stocks on mill 

 yards are near normal, and in fact heavy in some instances. While prices 

 are still declining .'flowly and gradually this is to be expected. At the same 

 time production costs are beginning to recede a little, as some of the mills 

 are cutting day laborers fifty cents a day in the South, and loggers as 

 much as 25 per cent, as demand for labor is much lighter, with mills 

 i-losing down fast, and with many logging operations held up. Locally the 

 lumber and veneer plants have not cut wages on the hourly basLs, but 

 have cut hours. The box plants are now running nine instead of ten 

 hours and with reduced forces. The veneer and panel plants are not 

 turning a wheel on Saturday in some cases, and some are not running 

 oven five days. However, it is believed that business will be generally 

 better after Jituuary 1, when the present low wave reaches bottom and 

 taUe.s a brace. It is believed that stocks in consumers' hands are light, 

 and with improved building in the spring, and increased demand from many 

 consumers things should steady rapidly. 



ST. LOUIS 



The hardwood market in St. Louis continues very quiet, with few trans- 

 actions of large volume. The furniture manufacturers, who are the largest 

 St. Louis consumers of hardwood, are buying sparingly, and automobile 

 makers, who are second as consumers of hardwood here, also are rather 

 diffident. Car oak and other woods used in filling the needs of car makers 

 .ire fairly active, but there is little life in the market. There is little 

 disposition on the part of the hardwood men to trim their prices, as many 

 nf them take the position that they have about reached bed rock. All are 

 iiupi'ful. however, that with the passing of the inventory season, and the 

 readjustments to be expected in many manufacturing industries using 

 liardwoods, that the market will strengthen. Building here, though slack- 

 ening with the coming of cold weather, still continues at a promising rate. 

 Permits issued during the month of October numbered 739, with a total 

 value of $1,055,730. 



MILWAUKEE 



While the situation in regard to the ilcmand for hardwoods shows little 

 rhange. significance is attached to a freer inquiry which has developed 

 In the past week to ten days. Requirements wliich have been placed so far 

 in November are of unusually small volume, nevertheless indications are 

 noted which portend a revival of demand. However, manufacturers and 

 jobbers do not expect any material improvement in buying until after 

 January 1, at which time it is likely that wood-consuming industries will 

 itegin placing requirements for the new years in a sizable volume. 



The furniture, cabinet and musical instrument industries seem to have 

 their needs for the present fairly well covered and are taking little new 

 material, depending upon old contracts to carry them over. The same is 

 true of manufacturers of office furniture and interior trim. There is little 

 building activity at this time, largely because of the season, but there are 

 signs which seem to insure that industrial commercial and domestic con- 

 struction will witness a very definite revival during the coming year. 



Hardwood lumber prices are more stable now than for five or six months. 

 Here imd there it is noted that lots are passing at reductions, but this is 

 being done mainly to move stuff which is a drug on the market, sellers 

 taking advantage of reasonable offers to convert inert stock into money. 

 It is believed that the bottom has been reached in the declining price 

 movement, and while no advances are expected at this time, there are no 

 reasons why any material declines should be expected or asked, 



