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HARDWOOD RECORD 



DecPiiihor 



''WE WANT YOUR ORDERS" 



OAK— POPLAR— CHESTNUT 



Soft Texture Virginia Stock 



OAK DIMENSION, PINE DIMENSION 



Old Dominion Lumber Co., Inc., Roanoke, Va. 



PALMER & PARKER COMPANY 



TEAK MAHOGANY ebony 



ENGLISH OAK wr-MfC-DC DOMESTIC 



CIRCASSIAN WALNUT VtlMttRO HARDWOODS 



103 Medford Street, Charlestown Dist. 

 BOSTON, MASS. 



Carolina Portland Cement Co. 



ATLANTA, GEORGIA 



WE WANT TO MOVE QUICK: 



CHESTNUT 



No. 2 and Sound Wormy 200.000' 



No. 1 Com. Sound Womw 100.000' 



QTD. WHITE OAK 



6/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr 2 cars 



QTD. RED GUM 



8/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr.. SND. 2 cars 



SAP GUM 



4/4" FAS 200,000' 



4/4" No. 1 Com 300.000' 



MUl8 in GEORGIA, 



TENNBSSIEE, ALABAMA and 



MISSISSIPPI 



WE WANT TO BUY: 



HICKORY 

 5/4" -6/4" No. 1 & Btr 10 cars 



PLAIN OAK 

 4/4" FAS 100.000' 



CHESTNUT 

 4/4" FAS 60.000 ' 



SAP GUM 



4/4" No. 2 Com 100,000' 



8/4" FAS 10 cars 



13/17" Boxboarda 3 cars 



We can Dry Kiln 



and Surface Stock from oar 



Ldvingston Tennessee Mills 



Send Us Lists of What You Have to Offer or fVant to Buy 



STRABLE 

 Lumber & Salt Company 



SAGINAW, MICHIGAN 



Manufacturers of the Time Tested 



Wolverine Maple Flooring 



Want to move quick quantity of 13/16 

 and 1 1/16" factory grade. Can also 

 make prompt shipments of other 

 ^ grades. 



WRITE FOR PRICES 



LET US QUOTE YOU ON YOUR HARD- 

 WOOD LUMBER REQUIREMENTS 



Ash — Hickory — Beech — Poplar 

 Oak — C^spress — Gum —Tupelo 



Straight cars, all grades and tliickness 

 N. H. L. Association lules of inspection 



We specialize in Poplar 5/8" to 5" in thickness.. We have 



.100,000' 



TUPELO 



4/4", 5/4", 6/4" 



SAP GUM 



4/4", 5/4", 6/4" 75,000' 



CYPRESS 

 6/4", 8/4" No. I Shop &. Btr. 30.000' 

 BEECH 

 No. 2 & Btr 15.000' 



LET US QTOTE 



8/4 

 YOU ON 



ANY OF 



THE ABOVE .STOCK. ANY GRADE 



HOYT PARKER LUMBER CO. 



P. O. BOX 614. Office, 311 City Bank, MOBILE, ALABAMA 



wince Dec. 1, and it is conceded that production is on ji smaller scale than 

 was ever known at the end of any calendar year since hardwood manu- 

 facture in the southern field became so large. In the meantime logging 

 operations are almost at a complete standstill. Very little along this 

 line has been accomplished during the past ninety days, as curtailment of 

 logging was the first step in tbe direction of cutting down production. It 

 is not probable that more than modest progress will be made with logging 

 during the first several months of 1921, and it is doubtful if much head- 

 way will be made before late spring or early summer, with the result that 

 the outlook for manufacturing operations is very poor, even if the dis- 

 position develops to operate plants in this field. 



There are considerable quantities of logs awaiting loading but they 

 belong generally to firms which prepared them for the open market and 

 which have been unable, in the condition of the industry, to find a market 

 for them. J. Vs. Dickson, president of the Valley Log I^oading Company. 

 is authority for the statement that there are 7,000,000 feet of logs on 

 the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley line of the Illinois Central ready for load- 

 ing hut he says they are not being loaded for the reason that thiere is no 

 destination to which they can be shipped at the present time. He further 

 says that there is practically no new timber coming out and, in confirma- 

 tion of this statement, he points out that his firm has taken off jill of its 

 log loading equipment with the exception of one loading machine. This, he 

 states, is being held for "emergency" uses rather than because there is 

 anything special for it to do. 



Col. A. ri. Egan, general superintendent of the Yazoo & Mississippi 

 Valley road, says there are approximately 8,000,000 feet of logs on that 

 road and he i.s complaining to the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association 

 because of the slow rate at which these logs are being handled. Indeed, 

 he has advised the management of this organization tliat, if there is not 

 more prompt loading of timber or greater use of the flat cars offering 

 for that purpose, this equipment will be sent to other fields where it may 

 be profitably used. The Frisco system is offering to send its equipment, 

 in the way of flat cars, to any section in the valley territory where it 

 can be employed with profit. The foregoing indicates to what extent the 

 policy of curtailment on the part of lumber manufacturers has affected 

 the carriers. Indeed, it is now quite clear that the "shoe i.s on the other 

 foot."' The carriers failed to furnish all the equipment for which lumber- 

 men were hollering so loud a few months ago, on the ground that they 

 were unable to do so. Now they have the equipment and the lumbermen 

 are very slightly interested therein for the reason that, with their mills 

 generally closed down and with outbound shipments reduced to a mini- 

 mum, they have little, if any tounage. to offer. 



In this connection, it is interesting to note that the average lumberman 

 in Memphis and the valley territory i.s convinced that rates on lumber 

 and forest products are entirely too high and that it is going tn be neces- 

 sary to take definite and vigorous action after the beginning of the new 

 year in the direction of a revision downward of these rates, e.specially 

 on low-grade lumber. It is announced elsewhere in this issue of 

 I-lARDWOOD REroRD that the board of governors of the Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic Association has already gone on record as declaring that 

 "something must be done in connection with rates on low-grade lumber" 

 and it may be noted that sentiment is rai^idly crystallizing on the propo- 

 sition that these rates are prohibitive for the reason that they will re- 

 strict outlets for such lumber to a point where there will not be the 

 slightest profit for anybody with the exception of the carriers. It can he 

 stated, with some degree of authority that there is likely to be an attack 

 on the entire rate structure, as affecting hardwood lumber and forest 

 products, in the near future, though, undoubtedly, the first contest will 

 center on rates on low-grade stock. Shippers who have been sending low- 

 grade lumber to Eastern Trunk Line territory during the period since the 

 new rates have become effective have found that transportation charges 

 are, in some instances from two to three times as much as the actual 

 value of the cargo and they insist that there is not a commodity in the 

 world which can stand such a transportation burden, particularly where 

 it sells in a territory where there is keen competition from nearer-by 

 sources. 



The market is merely marking time, pending the passing of the Christmas 

 holidays and the inventorying period that will come with the first of 

 the year. 



BUFFALO 



The hardwood demand is dull and more so than is often the case around 

 the holidays. The same quiet conditions apply to all kinds of lumber at 

 present, so the hardwood dealers are not discouraged. They had a good 

 trade during the first few months of the year and are hopeful that the 

 depression In general business is not going to last for any great length of 

 time. A little increase in trade is looked for after the first of the year, 

 with a considerably better movement in the spring. Just now the buyers 

 are determined to take on no stock at all and carload sales are scarce. 



The price situation remains unsettled and a good deal of lumber is to 

 be had. Sellers who, need the money are making pretty low offers, but it 

 is expected that before long this situation will be cleared up. The fact 

 that buyers of lumber, as well as handlers and producers, are letting stocks 

 run down, with a large number of sawmills closed, is considered a most 

 favorable feature of the market. Salesmen have not been on the road to 



