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We Are Prepared to Furnish 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



on 



OAK TIMBERS 



Cut to 



SPECIAL SIZES 



Up to 16-Foot Lengths 



JAMES E. STARK & CO., Inc. 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



BA^D MILLS 



MEMPHIS, TENN., DYERSBURG, TENN. 



VENEER MILLS 

 MEMPHIS, TEiNN. 



.•x..'Ilii.t mil f..r iii.Mliiiin Kni.l.' li:inl\v,.,.,ls altli"ii;,'li in small iiiiantitles. 

 as a ruli>. lli- spriu ten ilays in tbc castiTU market lately. 



The Satler-IInmilton LiimlHT Compauy flnils the situation very mueh 

 upset. Mr. Satler believes that there will be a pretty gooil demand, 

 however, l)etween now and fall and predicts that prices may be higher. 



C. V. MeCrelght of the Ridis-McC'reight Lund>er Company reports un- 

 usually heavy shipments with their tirm in June. Demand this month Is 

 very light and wholesalers are all playing close to shore. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is furnishing a large amount of lumber 

 for government uses. President J. L. Kendall has opened his summer cot- 

 tage at Vcntnor. N. .T., where his fandly is now tarrying. 



The Duquesne Lumber Company has been getting a very good industrial 

 demand of late. Its trade in the eastern market is not so strong in 

 general as In the Pittsburgh district. 



The Frampton-Foster Lumber Company reports larger shipments of oak 

 this summer than ever before. Its mills are all busy. Demand from the 

 railroads and Industrial companies, especially, for bridge oak is very 

 heavy. 



The $40,000,000 munition plant to be built by the government on 

 Neville Island, just below this city in the Ohio river, is already making 

 a big demand for lumber as barracks have been started. So far most of 

 this lumber has been bought direct by the government. An enormous 

 amount of banlwood will be needed for the operation and also for river 

 im|>rovemcnts to go along with it. 



Hardwood mills in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia are badly 

 handicapped this month because most of their teams and men have gone 

 into the harvest fields for the farmers. Wages higher than were ever 

 dreamed of before are being offered l.ui ir is almost impossible to hold 

 their forces together and keep prn.lii. tion np to anything hkc normal. 



.< BOSTON >= 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lum 

 Ing Thursday, July IS, at Youngs hotel 

 relations with the government In its 

 ii<" some matters of the survey law 



le Interstate Commerce i 



• hearings on uniform classlfleatlo 



er .\ssoclation. Inc., held a meet- 

 r.nston. to take up the wholesalers' 

 purchasing and price-llxlng policies, 

 of Massachusetts and traffic (jues- 



a will commence a scries of nation- 

 it Hoston on Angust 1. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



"his eity, along with practically 

 1 is being troubled by a great sli 

 ilt that the requirements in the 



thers in the country, has been 

 in building operations, with the 

 i.f various kinds ot lumber are 



Jtly reduced. The ixtiMit to wiiieh operations of the building con- 

 •e fallen off can t>e .seen from a statement of the building in- 

 spector for the last first six months of the year, according to whicii the 

 declareil cost of the structures for which building permits were issued 

 from his office did not exceed ?l,il5C,5.'J5, as against $,S.220.130 for the 

 corresponding perioil of 1917. .\nil last year was by no means noteil for 

 the importance of its results in that line, the effect of the concentration 

 of the country upon war activities having already become apparent even 

 at that time, although the greater portion of the six months fell outside 

 of the period. As a matter of fact, the figures given for the first half of 

 the current yc>ar is not less than $5,000,000 behind ordinary times, and 

 in some previous years the gain over and above 191.S has been considerably 

 exceeded. Of course, the difference shown by the figures is not total, for 

 against it must be set the construction work carried on by the govern- 

 ment, which made up in large part for the deficiency and continues to be 

 a very important factor in the trade. That builders have been hard hit, 

 however, is shown by the fact that two ot the more important operators 

 have practically ceased all construction work. They fear, it is said, that 

 at the first intimation of peace, the price of building materials will slump, 

 and -so that if they have on hand any appreciable quantity, purchased at 

 prevailing iirices. they will- stand to suffer considerable loss. Another 

 builder, who is willing to take his chances and begin the erection of some 

 1,000 houses, linds himself unable to do so because of Inability to get 

 materials. To a large extent, however, the scarcity of labor Is also a 

 factor, other work taking men in such numbers that ordinary activity 

 must necessarily halt. 



.\n interesting visitor called on Ilarvey M. Dickson, secretary of the 

 National Lumber Kxporters' .\ssociation, ten days ago in the person of 

 Edgar S. .May. who has been appointed purchasing agent of the British 

 government fir mahogany in British Honduras, and who stopped here on 

 the way to liis |)cist. >Ir. May, who. by the way is a son-in-law of Frank 

 Tiffany, foni-n representative in London of the N. L. E. A., was formerly 

 a member of the will-known English lumber firm of Fox, Elliott & Co., ot 

 Mull. He resi-neil at least temporarily. In order that he might give his 

 services and ibe benefit of his expert knowledge to the government, ond 

 wftl be In Cc'ntral America, away from civilization, not less than a year, 

 making his biadquarters at Belize. Mr. May stands high in the lumber 

 business and has been long held In repute as one of the best informed 

 members ot ili' trade on mahogany. Several million feet of mahogany 

 logs are down ^n New Orleans, awaiting shipment to England, and it will 

 he a part of Mi-. May's work to see that these shipments get off with the 

 least loss ot tine- lie came by way of .New York, and will take a steamer 

 for Belize at .Nr« (iileans. 



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