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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10, 1921 



Hunt, Washington & Smith 



MANUFACTUREKS 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



TENNESSEE RED CEDAR— RED CYPRESS 



EXECUTIVE OFFICES 



««cVAIS!I^«'2fv^K ^ NASHVILLE. TENN. 



Thomas Forman Company 



DETROIT, MICHIGAN 



Lumber and Interior Finish 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 



FORElttAN'S FAHIOUS FLOORING 



OAK AND MAPLE 



We Specialize in Less than Carload Shipments 



We offer COMPLETE STOCK 



WISCONSIN OAK 



'TRY U S" 



MAPLE 

 4/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr..5 care 



4/4" No. 2 Com 4 care 



5/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr..e cars 

 8/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr..4 care 

 10/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr.2 can 

 16/4" No. 2 Com. & Blr.l car 



BIRCH 



4/4" No. 1 Cora. & Btr..3 cars 



4/4" No. 2 Cora 5 cars 



5/4" No. 1 Cora. & Btr..3 cars 



8/4" No. 2 Cum. & Btr..3 cars 



8/4" No 1 Cora. & Btr..2 care 



12/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr.l car 



Brooks & Ross Lumber Co. 



SCHOFIELD, WISCONSIN 

 (SALES OFFICE AND MILL) 



The Tegge Lumber Col 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee,.. Wisconsin 



Business is, not expected to be normal here for at least thirty days and 

 possibly sixty days, but steadily the demand is increasing and distribu- 

 tors say there is some buying, especially from among the retail dealers. 

 The demand for new stocks from the industries is slow, mainly because 

 most of those factories that have received sufficient orders to warrant 

 them re-opening their plants on a basis something near the production 

 of last year, have not exhausted the stocks on hand and they will not 

 be forced to enter the market for a period of two to six weeks. • However, 



some of them are buying on the assumption that the market will go no 

 lower. This sort of buying is small and the tendency among all con- 

 sumers is to buy from hand to mouth. During the past two weeks several 

 woodworking plants have signified their intention of opening their estab- 

 lishments again during March. The executives say that some orders 

 are being received and the men will be put back to work just as quickly 

 as orders warrant increasing production. Prices are holding firm, though 

 no tendency has been shown to increase them. 



EVANSVILLE 



There is a better feeling in the hardwood lumber trade, although the 

 manufacturers report that February showed very little if any gain In 

 orders over the month of January. A good many inquiries came in from 

 sources that lead the manufacturers to believe that trade will come a 

 little later on. Collections are some better and general trade conditions 

 are improved over a month or so ago. That the worst of the business 

 depression is over is the general belief of the manufacturers of Evansville 

 and southern Indiana, who say that there ought to be a marked improve- 

 ment in trade by the first of May. Pew logs have been coming in from 

 the southern logging district and log prices are rather high. A few of 

 the manufacturers have not made an extra effort to get logs, while others 

 have been sawing up all the logs they can get and stacking the lumber. 

 They believe that after the demand for lumber picks up the manufa'cturer 

 who has a liberal supply on hand is going to be able to get a good price 

 for the same. Most of the hardwood mills in the tri-state section have been 

 closed off and on during the past three months. But manufacturers see a 

 silver lining to the clouds just now and believe that this year, taken as 

 a whole, is going to witness considerable business. The retail lumber 

 trade has kept pace with the wholesale trade, which means that It has 

 lieen a little sluggish. Furniture factories and other wood consuming 

 plants in Evansville have not been in the market for much lumber for 

 months past, but as they lengthen their working hours, as they are 

 expected to do soon, they will be in the market for more liberal supplies 

 of lumber. Most of the wood consuming plants continue to operate on 

 an average of forty hours a week. The factories at Tell City, Ind., Jasper, 

 Ind., Henderson, Ky., and^ Owensboro, Ky., also are running on about 

 the same average. 



J. C. Greer, of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company and president of the 

 Evansville Lumbermen's Club, has returned from a business trip in the 

 south and reported that trade in that section is looking up some. 



Several new houses are being erected at Petersburg, Ind.. a few miles 

 north of here by the Petersburg Home Building Company, that was formed 

 a short time ago to conduct a building campaign in that town. Two large 

 lumber yards are being built there, one by the Reel-Blue Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Allen Wilkinson Lumber Company and the latter also is 

 erecting a new planing mill. 



The plant of the TIndall Lumber Company at Hartford City, Ind.. 

 closed down for an indefinite period a few days ago owing to the lack 

 of business. 



George Foote, of the Evansville Band Mill Company, returned a few 

 days ago from a business trip to Vincennes, Ind. 



With the coming of spring weather it is expected there will be more 

 activity in logging along Green river in western Kentucky. During the 

 winter months logging operations in that section slackened some, although 

 some logs have been gotten out. Most of the logs cut in the Green river 

 section are rafted to the Evansville saw mills. Many years ago the 

 Evansville mills got the bulk of their log supply from along Green river 

 and there is considerable timber still standing In that section, although it 

 is hard to get at because much of It stands on high hills. 



LOUISVILLE 



It is held that in lines where prices have reverted to something like past 

 war normal, business is picking up nicely, but that on account of the high 

 fost of labor in building operations conditions are still slow, even though 

 lumber is down considerably. While there isn't much hope just now of 

 getting union labor down, some of the woodworking plants, including 

 veneer and panel concerns, are cutting wages as much as twenty per cent, 

 which is enabling them to go out and get business on lower competitive 

 prices. 



In hardwoods there is some better demand for ash from the automobile 

 trade ; better demand for gum and walnut from the furniture trade, Im- 

 provement in poplar siding and poplar lumber ; better sales of mahogany 

 :ind a few other items, but as a whole the demand is for the better grades. 

 and it is a one car market at best. Buyers are sticking mighty close to 

 shore, and buying principally for immediate delivery and use. safe in the 

 fact that there is a full car supply, and plenty of good dry lumber in stock 

 on mill yards. 



ST. LOUIS 



Hardwood buying continues small In volume, the tone in some Indus- 

 tries consuming hardwoods, however, is better. Production in the southern 

 field has shown an increase lately, but that i.s due principally to the 



