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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10, 19:1 



Hunt, Washington & Smith 



MANUFACTUKEBS 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



TENNESSEE RED CEDAR— RED CYPRESS 



laCECUTIVE OFFICES 



'■^'cV^aSSB^^fvVB^ NASHVILLE, TENN. 



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We have very complete stocks of 

 dry lumber in 4/4 to 16/4 thickness 



DOMESTIC HARDWOODS, Inc. " JTl^ ^-J,!^"' 



Thomas Forman Company 



DETROIT, MICHIGAN 



Lumber and Interior Finish 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 



FOREMAN'S FAMOUS FXOORtNO 



OAK AND MAPLE 



We Spe^alize in Less than Carload Shipments 



We offer COMPLETE STOCK 



WirsCONSIN OAK 



'T R Y US' 



MAPLE 



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



4/4" No. 2 Com 4 can 



5/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr. .S tars 

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

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

 16/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr.l ear 



BIBCB 

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



4/4" No. 2 Com 5 care 



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

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

 8/4" No 1 Com. & Btr.. 2 cais 

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



Brooks & Ross Lumber Co. 



SCHOFIELD, WISCONSIN 



(SALES OFFICE AND MILL) 



The Tegge Lumber Go; 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee,, Wisconsin ~ 



claims to be doing much just at present, and it is generally agreed that 

 the price situation is unsatisfactory. It is a buyer's market and seems 

 likely to remain so for a while, or until the surplus stocks now offered 

 have been considerably reduced and industrial plants get busier. 



Most of the industrial plants hereabouts are feeling the effect of the 

 business depression, and are taking lumber in only a small way, if at all. 

 Lumbermen say tbe conditions here are no worse than elsewhere, and in 

 some respects they are probably better. A widely varied line of industries 

 helps to keep the situation from getting very bad hereabouts, and the 

 nearness to the consuming sections of the East helps out the local yards, 

 even though the size of individual orders is generally small. 



CLEVELAND 



When the weather man says : "Xo relief in sight," when weather is 

 extreme, he doesn't offer much hope for the sun-balsed or shivering popu- 

 lace, as the case may be. Such may be said to be the sum and substance 

 of the hardwood market situation here. There apparently is no relief in 

 sight for the dealer in these materials, as far as better demand is con- 

 cerned. The entire building industry is waiting upon the controversy 

 between the building trades organized labor here and the Building Trades 

 Employers' Association, the one refusing flatly to accept any wage reduc- 

 tion while the other insists there must be a cut of 20 per cent. Lowered 

 living costs is the argument for lower wages. As a matter of fact there 

 is no reduction in living costs in Cleveland and vicinity, regardless of any 

 similar condition in other parts of the country. Hence a deadlock. Hence 

 a building strike, so to speak, on the part of the building public. Mean- 

 while there is plenty of material of all descriptions of hardwoods in yards 

 here, with few takers. Prices apparently have held their own, but actually 

 there is such a keen disposition on the part of holders to get material mov- 

 ing into consumption that prices are being cut in order to close any possi- 

 ble deals. The manufacturing interests, such as furniture, automobile 

 and other producers, are not taking anything like seasonable quantities 

 of material, and while there is nothing to prove it, probably are still 

 stocked with higher priced materials that have not been worked up. In 

 the automobile trade particularly, from which much was expected about 

 this time, there is little- coming forward in the way of new business. In 

 spite of talk of increased production at most plants here. The game is a 

 waiting one with dealers in hardwoods, and until the tide turns with bet- 

 ter building, the principal outlet, little improvement is looked for. 



PITTSBURGH 



The lumber business in Pittsburgh has gone from bad to worse the 

 last two weeks. The only thing that has been favorable was the weather. 

 This was ideal for building but other conditions were so bad that yery 

 little building has gone ahead. Since March 1, many of the big steel plants 

 in this district have shut down. Hundreds of coke ovens have been 

 banked and several big furnaces have been put out of blast. This, along 

 with the general shutting down in other industries, has greatly cut off the 

 demand for hardwood lumber, so that there is very little doing in this 

 line. The automobile business shows a little life this week and whole- 

 salers hope to soon get some orders from these concerns. In the mining 

 business everything is dead. Furniture and implement concerns are badly 

 hit by the buyers' strike and are not going to buy much hardwood. Tri- 

 State mills have been piling up quite a lot of hardwood lately, for which 

 they find little or no demand. Railroad ties and bridge timbers are the 

 best bets in the market just now. 



BOSTON 



The agreement of tbe building strikers to arbitrate has created a much 

 better feeling in the hardwoods market here. The direct effect in the way 

 of increased demand for hardwoods it is thought will be somewhat remote, 

 but the indirect effect in the way of a better feeling in the trade, in the 

 way of producing a confidence in the future of the market, is inestimable. 



There is a general improvement in the hardwoods trade here at the 

 present time. However, the improvement is still unevenly distributed. 

 Some are really reporting no improvement in building, while others are 

 iiaviug a most encouraging impi'ovement. In the different woods, oak is 

 dull and weakly inclined. Poplar demand is better. There continues to 

 be improvement in demand for it for specialty boxing and for machinery. 

 In the first and seconds demand is better than in the lower grades, Nos. 

 1 and 2 common, which are weak and low in prices 



BALTIMORE 



Conditions in the hardwood trade are not much changed as compared 

 with two or three weeks ago. If the inquiry seems to be a little more 

 active than it was, It is also to be said that much hesitancy continues to 

 prevail among the buyers with regard to tbe actual placing of orders. 

 This hesitancy is attributed in the first place, of course, to the unsatis- 

 factory general business conditions and, secondly, to the absence of sta- 

 Ijility so far as the range of prices is concerned. As long as prospective 

 or potential purchasers see that sellers will mane concessions and there 

 is no definite limit to the returns accepted, one seller going lower than 

 another, they will not be in a hurry to enter into commitments except 

 to take care of such needs as cannot be put off. Covering of future require- 

 ments will be deferred and allowed to go over, receiving attention only it 



