March 25. 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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at Ilatley for many years. He will move his residence to Appletou as soon 

 , as the new mill is ready and take personal charge of the management. 



One of the largest contracts of the new construction season in the in- 

 terior finish line ia that awarded to the A. F. Meckelburg Company, 760 

 Thirty-first Street Milwaukee, for the large addition to the Hotel Martin 

 on Wisconsin Street. The work also embraces the entire remodeling of the 

 main floor of the present hotel and involves a large requirement of high 

 grade hardwood finish and trim. 



The Railroad Commission of Wisconsin has taken under consideration 

 the application of two railroads for grant of permission to close parts of 

 their lines permanently. Hearings will be held in order to give logging 

 and lumber companies an opportunity to express themselves in regard to 

 the vacation of trackage. The principal line it is proposed to abandon is 

 an eleven-mile cutoff operated by the Wisconsin and Northern Railway 

 between Girard Junction and Taylor Rapids in Marinette county. This 

 originally was built as a private logging railway, later being acquired by 

 the railroad company. It has been intimated that a strong protest will be 

 entered against the abandonment of this line when the hearing is held. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



The Chicago market continues to be chiefly a one-car aSfair in hardwoods. 

 The bulk of the demand is coming from manufacturing concerns with small 

 storage place for lumber. Their stocks of hardwoods are being exhausted 

 more quickly than the stocks of the larger plants that were able to store up 

 a large surplus of raw material. The curtailed operation of furniture and 

 other plants continues to keep sales far under par. The furniture plants 

 are operating about 30 per cent of capacity. The railroads are buying very 

 little and the hardwood people are not particularly anxious to sell them 

 because of their being such slow pay. The phonograph demand continues 

 dead. No large quantities of stock are being sold anywhere and the In- 

 dustry is being sustained only by the accumulation of small orders widely 

 distributed as to firms and industries. The securing of this kind of busi- 

 ness is widely distributed as to firms and industries. The securing of this 

 kind of business is demanding the highest measure of industry from the 

 lumber salesmen. Prices are vacillating, but on the average now longer 

 than fifteen days ago. Buyers are not yet confident, however, that the 

 bottom has been reached. Many of them, nevertheless, are picking up 

 bargains. Especially is this true of the wholesalers, who are doing quite a 

 little speculative buying. 



BUFFALO 



The hardwood trade is not showing much activity, though at some yards 

 a fair increase in shipments is reported. The improvement is slow to 

 develop and much unsettlement of prices exists. They vary sometimes as 

 much as 40 or 50 per cent and as long as such conditions occur buyers are 

 very likely to hesitate about taking hold in any extensive way. There is 

 not quite so much optimism about early revival of trade as was the case 

 several weeks ago, although the demand is probably a little better than it 

 was at that time. If any particular woods can he said to be leading In 

 the demand, oak and maple are selling best at most of the yards. 



Building is not going ahead here on any active basis, although the cost 

 of buildings for the first two months of the year were larger than a year 

 ago. They were $1,668,000, as compared with $1,064,000. There Is no 

 assurance as yet that March will do as well as last year, when the cost 

 of permits was alx>ve the average. 



PITTSBURGH 



Hardwood business is so slow in reviving that wholesalers are disgusted 

 with the situation. There is no inquiry from the yard and there will not 

 be any until building and industrial conditions are greatly improved. 

 Railroad trade is confined to ties and a little bridge timber. Glass fac- 

 tories have been shutting down here and there the past two weeks which 

 has put a stop to all business in that direction. Coal mines, owing to 

 the warm weather, are working only about two days a week, if at all. 

 and are consequently buying no lumber. Steel mills are doing little better 

 for several more big plants have shut down since March 1 and the United 

 States Steel Corporation is putting its furnaces out of blast. All In all, 

 the demand for hardwood is extremely poor. Wholesalers believe that 

 there will be no improvement in particular until wage scales are adjusted 

 and this may take months. Also, the bad financial condition of the rail- 

 roads is no doubt holding up a large amount of good hardwood business. 



BOSTON 



Improvement continues, though slight, in both demand and Inquiry for 

 hardwoods. But the trade and inquiry Is still very unevenly distributed. 

 Some wholesalers still report absolutely no improvement In trade in any 

 line ; and others there are who report an encouraging though not by any 

 means heavy improvement. 



What Improvement there is In the hardwoods trade Is chiefly from the 



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