JaDUur.v 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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■will be lost, it raay be stated, before the campaign is formally launched. 

 Jolin W. McClure, secretary of the Bellgrade Lumber Company and presi- 

 dent of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association, predicts that, 

 unless there is substantial reduction in freight rates on low grade lumber, 

 there will be two direct results of present high transportation cost: (1) 

 equipment of southern hardwood plants with machinery for converting low 

 grade lumber into box shocks, drawer bottoms and various other products 

 so that these may be shipped in fabricating shape, thus eliminating the 

 enormous waste therein on which freight must l)e paid under the present 

 system : or (2) removal of box factories and other low grade consuming 

 plants from their present locations closer to raw material supplj'. 



LOUISVILLE 



Business with the local hardwood trade is merely idling along at the 

 present time, there being very little activity, and most of the offices show- 

 ing a dull aspect. Until the January inventories are over it is not 

 expected that there will be much revival of business, but it is believed 

 that the building trades will take a good deal of material this year, and 

 that the furniture trade will not be so duU. 



Prices of hardwoods today are almost on a pre-war basis, and it is 

 alleged that this condition is not due so much to cutting of prices on the 

 part of the smaller operators, as among some of the large ones, who were 

 fairly well stocked, and who in meeting bap.k and other obligations sold 

 at a sacrifice. Right now there is not any great demand for any line 

 of hardwoods, although poplar and plain oak appear to be two of the 

 best sellers. Walnut is not showing so much since the cabinet trades hit 

 into a slump, and mahogany is not especially good. Veneers and panels 

 are moving very slowly, such plants being on a very small production 

 basis. 



BEAUMONT 



Th(' luirdwood situation is apparently clarifying au<l manufacturers 

 expect a distinct revival of business during the early part of the present 

 year. They do not look for a boom, there being nothing to justify such a 

 conclusion. But they do expect a lively Increase in the demand which 

 should bring back a .stable market with enough margin of profit to induce 

 the mills now idle to start up again. 



It is very evident that the mills in this section will look to reducing the 

 cost of producing to give th^ra a margin of profit. They do not expect 

 their product to get back to the former high level which made big wages 

 possible, neither do they expect it to reach a point where present wages 

 can be maintained. The truth of the matter is. the wage reduction scale 

 is already underway. One o£ the largest concerns in the state had given 

 notice that on Jan. 7. $3 will be the common labor ba.sis for a day'S work. 

 Some of them consider $2.50 a more equitable basis and this wage will 

 be inaugurated in some districts. 



With the hardwood mills, very little labor trouble could result from 

 the establishment of any kind of a scale. More than half o£ the mills are 

 ilown and they would merely start up with the old scale. It the men 

 did not want to accept that figure, the jobs would merely go to those 

 that do. There could not be much striking at this time for very few are 

 working. Manufacturers point out that they have been paying .'R4 a day 

 for men who formerly received .$1..50 for longer hours and did better work. 

 The war broke up the old crews and the labor was much less efBcient. 



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WISCONSIN 



Hardwood manufacturers in Northern Wisconsin report that while at 

 the beginning of the new year there is no appreciable increase in orders, 

 a firmer tone of the market is noticeable and they look for an accentuation 

 from this time forward. Production of hardwoods is estimated at about 

 20 per cent of normal, while stocks are considerably below normal. This 

 condition is believed to promise a very good year. Hardwoods are being 

 cut more conservatively than at any time in recent years. Quarter-sawed 

 oak, which wa.s not being cut by the quarter-saw method in recent years 

 owing to the waste, has not come into use in the North, although reports 

 from southern hardwood regions indicates a resumption of this method. 

 In Wisconsin and Upper Michigan the output of quarter-sawed oak is still 

 confined largely to the ordinary cut. At times when it coincides with the 

 grain, this shows up quarter-saw bakes to excellent advantage. The re- 

 appearance of quarter-sawed oak on the market is taken to indicate that 

 while flaked oak has been considered too expensive for interior finish and 

 general use in recent years, its return to popularity promises to develop 

 with its more general production and reduced cost. 



A hardwood lumber manufacturer at Merrill, Wis., says that grades 

 have not, as some believe, become inferior, although there has been a 

 great conservation of lumber by the establishment of intermediate grades. 

 A buyer who needs only one side and edge of a board clear and the other 

 side sound, can now buy this grade, whereas in the past he was obliged to 

 buy an all-clear grade. Nevertheless, the intermediate grades have not 

 caused any reduction in minimum requirements of grades already existing. 

 Industries using hardwoods are generally finding themselves able to 

 resume operations or to increase output. Much confidence is manifested in 

 the prospects that business is again on the upward trend and that the 

 new year will develop into an active one in all departments of the hard- 

 wood industries, both in Wiscon.sin and the Upper Peninsula, and through- 

 out the United States generally. 



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