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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Dermoit Land and Lumber Company 

 DERMOTT, ARK. 



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SBIEB DEFABTMEM'T 



The A. H. Andrews Co. 



115-117 S. Wabash Avenue 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



and towns. The indications are bright for a rather active building season 

 when weather conditions again become favorable. 



Oak, both plain and quarter-sawed, is in fairly good demand and prices 

 rule steady. Chestnut is still active, especially sound wormy. Poplar is 

 in better demand and all of the grades are moving more uniformly. Bass- 

 wood and ash are steady, and other hardwoods are unchanged. 



=-< CINCINNATI >- 



The continued improvement noted In the hardwood situation is grati- 

 fying to dealers who have been looking for a break In tlieir favor 

 shortly after the first of the year. Lumbermen are sure that the pres- 

 ent numerous inquiries mean something, and already a considerable 

 amount of business has resulted. Orders continue to be for small quan- 

 tities but there is a better call for straight cars than for many weeks, 

 and return orders are more numerous. Buyers still maintain extreme 

 cautiousness, apparently not being disposed to buy beyend actual re- 

 quirements — but at that they are buying more stock than a month ago 

 and indications are the very best for continuation and on a larger scale. 



Right now there is not much call for poplar in common and better 

 grades but the low grades are in constant demand. The same is true 

 of red gum, but all grades of sap gum find a fair market, especially 

 low grades, which are in excellent demand. Chestnut has been on the 

 slow list for many weeks and there is none too much improvement as 

 yet except in the sound wormy grades, which in 6/4 and 8/4 finds a fair 

 market. There is a light request for the good grades of cottonwood 

 but like most of the other hardwoods suitable for the box makers there 

 is a steady demand for No. 2 and No. 3 common at good prices. West 

 Virginia maple is a fair seller in most grades of 4/4, but dry stock 

 thicker than inch is in good demand. Ash in thick stock is a splendid 

 seller, 16/4 being in excellent request and other thickness are finding 

 a good market. Plain red and white oak in upper grades is in good 

 demand, especially red oak, which seems to be in better request than 

 white. The low grades, due to the backwardness of demand from furniture 

 factories, are not moving satisfactorily. The call for good grades of quar- 

 tered oak is on the increase and there is more interest being displayed 

 in the lower grades than for many weeks. Considering conditions, prices 

 are being well maintained for standard manufactured stock, and dealers 

 look for better prices in a few weeks. 



■< INDIANAPOLIS > 



There has been no marked chance in tlie hardwood situation in this vicin- 

 ity. Very little actual business has developed, although inquiries are still 

 strong and encourage manufacturers and dealers to anticipate a fair business 

 later. It is expected that the automobile business will show Improvement 

 following the New York and Chicago shows. The furniture business is 

 expected to pick up shortly. Building operations promise to resume on a 

 Kood scale as soon as weather conditions are favorable. 



Prices remain almost stationary, and no change is anticipated until 

 business conditions actually warrant changes being made. 



=-< MEMPHIS >• 



There has been some increase in the amount of hardwood lumber being 

 produced in this part of the country. The McLean Hardwood Lumber 

 Company at Memphis has recently resumed operations and the Lamb-Fish 

 Lumber Company at Charleston, Miss., has done likewise. Reports from 

 Madison, Ark., say that J. W. Wheeler & Co. are running their plant on full 

 time and there are reports from a number of points In the Memphis territory 

 indicating that there is a tendency toward resuming milling operations, 

 ir^ome of these firms have either brought out or bought considerable quantities 

 of timber and are finding it necessary to begin sawing in order to take care 

 of these logs. There are others who believe that conditions have sufliciently 

 improved to justify operations on a somewhat larger scale, though it is 

 generally conceded that those who hold to this view are in the minority. A 

 number of firms which have done practically no logging and which have 

 been able to finance their holdings of both lumber and timber have con- 

 sistently refused to resume manufacturing operations and have announced 

 their intention during the past few days of awaiting still further develop- 

 ments before they undertake to put their machinery in operation again. 



There have been a number of inquiries since the first of the year and the 

 outlook is regarded as somewhat more favorable. It is pointed out, 

 however, that the improvement is prospective rather than real, and that, so 

 far as the volume of actual bookings is concerned, the gain has been compara- 

 tively slight. Most members of the trade are disposed to take an optimistic 

 view of the outlook. There has been virtually no change in the relative 

 position of the various items sold here. The lower grades of cottonwood 

 and gum are in good demand. High-grade cottonwood, including box boards, 

 is in rather limited request and prices are rather unsatisfactory. It was 

 developed at the meeting of the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Association 

 here last week that there was much interest in red gum but that prices on 

 this, as well as sap gum and box boards, were far from profitable. There Is 

 a fairly pood demand for cypress in all grades, from shops up. Ash is in 

 fairly active request but offerings are very limited. Export business in 

 the entire hardwood line is at almost a standstill, with no prospect of 

 much progress in that department until there are more ships available to 

 carry lumber tonnage to Europe and until ocean freight rates are much 

 lower. 



