November 10, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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the fancy woods are strong in price and moving actively. Wliito pine 

 trade has taken on a new lease of life after a temporary slumber and Is 

 active all along the line again. Spruce is in fine shape, demand being 

 heavy and the quot.Ttions high. Price increase Is anticipated in hemlocL 

 at an early date. Cypress lumber and shingles are selling well. For this 

 season of the year bu.siness is exceedingly satisfactory and leading niombera 

 of the hardwood colony predict that the balance of the year will find 

 things in good shape and that 1916 should prove a decidedly encouraging 

 year. 



X PITTSBURGH >-. 



Things arc coming right along but slowly for the hardwood men. In 

 point of demand there is a substantial gain though not enough to raise 

 prices. With the new and higher yellow pine quotations holding as well 

 as they are doing at present, it is confidently believed that in a lew weeks 

 hardwood men can put up prices to stay. From all the manufacturing 

 and mining industries in the Pittsburgh district there is more business 

 coming. IJailroads are beginning to buy more lumber also but their 

 purchases will be relatively small until after the first of the year when 

 the new appropriations are made. The window glass industry is In 

 splendid condition and these plants will be good buyers of hardwood this 

 winter. .\utomobiIe buying .lust now is limited as it is oft season. The 

 prospects are excellent for heavy purchases after .January 1 as the factories 

 have little stock on hand just now. Yard trade has kept up well. Fine 

 weather has enabled contractors to go ahead with outside work so that 

 retailers have kept on buying if only in small quantities. 



-< BOSTON y 



Activity in the general lumber business of New England continues, and 

 has to a moderate extent been felt in hardwoods. Manufacturing along 

 domestic lines has shown a decided return and purchasing increases arc 

 noted but not in a corresponding degree. New developments in the war 

 requirements have been principally in greater call for case and packing 

 lumber, and this traffic is having a strong effect on market conditions. 

 Money is in good supply and rates low with most authorities optimistic 

 as to the winter situation of trade. Boston building proposals at this 

 time are exceeded by only one city in the country and there is a great 

 scarcity of skilled labor, all of which indications point to a steady hard- 

 wood market. Some items still remain in very low demand, but values 

 not having lately declined are not expected to fall off from present 

 quotations ; this condition refers principally to poplar, gum, plain and 

 quartered oak. Beech, birch and maple continue their relatively stronger 

 demand and prices. 



=-< COLUMBUS >• 



The hardwoods market has been rather active in Columbus aud central 

 Ohio territory during the past two weeks. Buying on the part of retailers 

 is the best feature at this time, although some buying is done by factories 

 making vehicles and furniture. The tone of the market is excellent and 

 prospects for the future are growing better. 



Retail stocks are not large and there is no disposition to Increase them 

 at this time. As a result buying Is from hand to mouth. Dealers are 

 loath to accumulate stocks in the face of the uncertainty of the future. 

 Shipments have been delayed by car shortage which is appearing on many 

 of the southern roads. 



Prices are fairly well maintained at the levels which have prevailed for 

 some time. There is less cutting than formerly and In fact the disposition 

 among jobbers is to maintain quotations. Mill stocks are only fair and 

 cutting to force trade is not as common as formerly. Building operations 

 are still active, favored by the pleasant weather and this is an outlet for 

 accumulated stocks. The prospects for building in the 'future remain 

 good in every way. Collections are growing better as general business 

 conditions Improve. 



Quartered oak is in good demand at prices unchanged from the previous 

 fortnight. In plain oak an advance in firsts and seconds has been recorded. 

 All quotations are well maintained. Chestnut is one of the strongest 

 points with sound wormy firm. Poplar is moving well and the same is 

 true of ash. Basswood is firm and other hardwoods are unchanged. 



=-< BALTIMORE >-- 



While no important changes are to be noted in the hardwood trade, such 

 as have occurred are undoubtedly in the direction of greater activity and of 

 more remunerative values. So far the quotations are much the same, wirh 

 the exception that a firmer tone prevails in the trade, the sellers no longer 

 showing the eagerness to dispose of stocks at whatever the buyers might 

 offer. The hardwoods, however, have made less headway than yellow pine. 

 for instance, this being probably due to the circumstance that southern 

 softwoods were aided by the development of much special construction work. 

 for which the hardwoods were not used. This special construction was 

 chiefly factories and establishments for the production of war munitions 

 or of articles required in such production. Lumber was wanted in a hurry, 

 and large quantities were taken up, with the result of reducing the available 

 stocks to relatively small proportions and stiffening values to an appreciable 

 extent. The hardwoods, for their part, have had to depend more upon the 

 ordinary requirements and their progress toward recovery has been less 

 rapid. But there can be no doubt of the substantial character of the gains 



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