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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 



1921 



May we quote you on 

 our present stocks of 

 Southern Hardwoods 



Oak Poplar 



Chestnut Ash 



WILUABIS LUMBER CO. 



MANUFACTURERS 



HARSIMOOD X.VH8EB 



BAND mills: 



rAYETTVILLE.TENN. 



BASS.ALA. 



F&VETTVILLE ,TEHK. 



Tennessee Red Cedar 



^AROMJTia 



Basswood Maple 



Elm Walnut 



OTHER HARDWOODS 



WE WANT TO SELL 



the following 



Dry Northern Michigan 



HARDWOODS 



BIRCH 



4/4 No. 1 & Btr 40,000 ' 



4/4 No. 2 Common 115,000' 



S/4 1st & 2nds 50,000' 



5/4 Selects 80,000 ' 



5/4 No. 1 Common 60,000 ' 



5/4 No. 2 Common 200,000' 



6/4 1st & 2nds 10,000' 



6/4 Selects 30,000 ' 



6/4 No. 2 Common 75,000' 



8/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr . . 35,000' 



SOFT ELM 

 6/4 No. 2 & Btr 90,000' 



HARD MAPLE 



2 & Btr 40,000' 



1 & Btr 300,000' 



2 Common 175,000' 



1 Common...... 20,000' 



2 Common 175,000 ' 



2 Com. & Btr. .150,000' 



2 & Btr. 



. 60,000' 

 BASSWOOD 



1 & Btr 200,000' 



2 Common 200,000' 



SOFT MAPLE 



2 & Btr 100,000' 



2 & Btr 11,000' 



Can furnish all kinds of 



Hemlock and Hardwood Crating 



BAND MILLS AT 

 CHASSELL AND ONTONAGON, MICHIGAN 



C. H.Worcester Co. 



.NOT INCOKPOR.\TED 



19 So. La Salle Street, CHICAGO 



ti(in <if those project promoters being that they oau get shipmeuts of 

 material ready to use direct from out of town manufacturers. The market 

 still is waiting on the automobile and other manufacturing trades for new 

 business, but there appears to be such a surplus of merchandise that is 

 not moving out of distributors hands that manufacturers are slow to 

 replenish their materials in the absence of new bookings for their product. 

 While there is no accumulation of hardwood materials there is more than 

 i-nnugh still to meet present demands. Maplp and oak Hooring are particu- 

 larly in good supply. Prices are nut especially hrni but In the main art 

 hiililitm tb''ir own at the l<'v<'l noted at the beginning nf the month. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Slowly, but surely, the demand fur hanlwuod is increasing both in 

 Indianapolis and throughout the central district of Indiana. Dealers and 

 distributors say the number of inquiries that have lieen received <luriug 

 ihe past few weeks has lead to an increased demand and the continuancf 

 of these inquiries leads the trade to believe that when sfjiring opens there 

 ivill be a good demand. Stocks for the most pax't are low, dealers failing 

 io buy. The general tendency appears to be to pay more attention to the 

 iialaucing of the stock than to the quantities on hand. Dealers say the 

 itnpruved transportation situation, together with the increase of supply 

 rver demand at the mills, has made it possible to l)uy when stocks are 

 ni'eded and speculation is not necessary. Prices are practically the same, 

 though the market shows a consideralily healthier tone than it has since 

 the peak of the season last year. Industries report an increased ninnbcr 

 ut inquiries for their products and they are increasing slightly the amount 

 uf production. The automobile body plants here are expecting to resume 

 ((perations during the next month, if not on the same scale as formerly, at 

 least nearly so. They say the interest of the public in the coming auto- 

 mobile show here shows them that there will be a demand for automo- 

 liih's this summer. Talking machine cabinet men here say business is 

 ipiict, liut they are expecting an increase in demand soon. Handle nianu- 

 laeturers say their, business is good, especially in the brush trade, the 

 broom trailo being qidet. 



EVANSVILLE 



"There has been little or no improvement in the trade situation with the 

 hnrdwood lumber manufacturers of Evansville and southern Indiana dur- 

 ing the past ten days or two weeks. Few of the large hardwood plants 

 have been operating during the past few weeks. While business has shown 

 little or no increase during the month of February in the way of more 

 orders, there is a much better feeling among the manufacturers, who 

 profess to believe that the worst of the depression has passed and that 

 from now on there will be a gradual increase in trade. They say that 

 reports they have received recently indicate that by the first of April 

 there will be a considerable improvement in trade, and while things may 

 md be normal by that time that they will come nearer l)eing normal than 

 Cur a long time past. General trade eonditions in this section are some 

 l-etter than they were a month ago and collections are a good deal better. 

 The wood consuming factories are running on better time, and while but 

 few of them are running at full capacity, they are making much better 

 time than they were back in December, when the depression was most 

 keenly felt. There are fewer men now out of employment than there were 

 along about that time. During the Christmas holidays it was estimtaed 

 ny the superintendent of the government free employment bureau here 

 that about 12,000 men and women in Evansville were either out of employ- 

 Uicnt or were working only part time. Furniture manufacturers believe 

 that things are looking up for them and they believe that the market 

 that they have planned to hold in Evansville in April will be a great 

 ^timulant to the trade. Box factories are doing a little better business 

 I ban they were two months ago. P.uildiug operations in Evansville and 

 other towns in southern Indiana, southern Illinois and western and north- 

 I rn Kentucky are still a little sluggish, hut after the first of March it is 

 believed there will be considerable building either planned or under way. 

 Several towns in this section have large building programs for the year. 



ST. LOUIS 



The market has in the past two weeks failed t(t show any material gain. 

 Iltiwever. more activity is noticeable and more lumber has changed hands. 

 Prices have, if changed at all, been lower. Some individual sacrifices have 

 been made to move stocks. No large orders are reptirted. 



Furniture factories are doing little. Few. if any, are running full time 

 ;ind most of them are operating on a part time basis. 



Automobile factories have not resumed operations to any appreciable 

 extent. 



Railroads are evidently tno much concerned with thrdi" labor troubles 

 lu buy to any extent. 



While some luml>ermen are of the opinion that l>nilding, or rather lack 

 y\' tiuilding, does not affect the hardwood market to any great extent, yet 

 when the fact is taken into consideration that with a resvimption of build- 

 ing, vidiicular, furniture and practically all other lines of business upon 

 \ )ii<h the hardwood business does depend will open up, it will easily be 

 seen the extent to which the hardwood industry is affected by the lack of 

 bnildipg. Furniture men feel the reason for the lack of furniture orders 

 to factories is due to lack of houses for people who would want to buy 



