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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 25, 1918 



Don't get the impression that we handle 

 Oak Flooring only. We are now piling on 

 our yard, a large stock of 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



all grades and thicknesses. Unexcelled 



facilities for Kiln-drying and surfacing. 



Write or Wire your inquiries 



MEMPHIS HARDWOOD 

 FLOORING COMPANY 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



Swain-Roach Lbr. Co. 



SEYMOUR, IND. 



We Manufacture — 



White Oak Elm Ash 



Red Oak Maple Walnut 



Poplar Gum Cherry 



Hickory Sycamore Chestnut, Etc. 



Qtd. Oak: 1 car 1x5 and 5 li Sirips: Plain Oak: 1 car 8/4, 2 cars 

 10/4, 1 car 4/4 FAS., 1 car 3/8 FAS.; Hard Maple: 2 cars 8/4 No. 

 1 Com., 3 cars 12/4 No. 1 C. & Btr.: Soft Maple: 1 car 10/4 No. 1 

 C. & Btr.; Beech: 1 car 5/8 Log Run; Elm: 5 cars 8/4 Log Run; 

 Qtd. Sycamore 1 car 4/4 Log Run. 



At Two Band Mills 



STRAIGHT or MIXED CARLOADS 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



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I Plain & Qtd. Red & White I 



OAK i 



AND OTHER 

 HARDWOODS 



Even Color 



Soft Texture | 



MADE fMR) RIGHT 



OAK FLOOREMG 



We have 35,000,000 feet dry stock— all of 

 our own manufacture, from our own tim- 

 ber grown in Eastern Kentucky. 



PROMPT SHIPMENTS 



The MOWBRAY 

 & ROBINSON CO. 



(INOORFORATEO) 



CINCINNATI, OHIO 



The Charles W. Fish Lumber Company, Birnamwood, Antigo and Elcho, 

 sustained an estimated loss of $30,000 by fire in the planing mill of its 

 plant at Elcho, on July 13. The mill was ruined and will have to be 

 entirely rebuilt and re-equipped. The fire was discovered shortly after 

 noon and no cause has yet been assigned. 



Matthews Bros. Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, maker of store and 

 office fixtures, interior woodwork, etc., has started work on an additional 

 dry kiln unit, 35x60 feet in size, at its plant at Fourth and Fowler streets. 



The John Kadletz Lumber Company, Shawano, Wis., has completed an 

 unusually good season's run on hardwood logs, during which in excess of 

 7.000,000 feet were produced. The mill is now running on shingles but 

 may cut more hardwood before the end of the season. 



The Wisconsin Box Company, Wausau, Wis., is planning to change iti, 

 entire mill and factory drive to electricity through individual motors as 

 the result of an enforced experiment due to the breakdown of the steam 

 generating power plant. For two weeks the new sawmill erected a year 

 ago has been operated with purchased current because of the breakdown, 

 and the results have been so satisfactory and suggest so much practical 

 economy that this drive will be continued. 



Mortimer Van Ostrand, son of B. H. Van Ostrand, formerly a well- 

 known lumberman of Antigo, Wis., has been reported as severely wounded 

 in action in France. The Van Ostrands now reside at Winchester, Ida., 

 where Mr. Van Ostrand Is president of the Craig Mountain Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



William J. Maxwell, Galesville, Wis., for many years actively identified 

 with the logging and lumbering industry of western and northern Wis- 

 consin, died recently from typhoid fever. He was sixty years old and 

 n-cfivcd his first instructions in the business under his father, a pioneer 



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The Hardwood Market 



.< CHICAGO >- 



While Chicago is reasonably well crowded with orders, the effect of 

 hurry-up movements prior to the big freight rate increase the first of the 

 month, has been noticed here just as it has in other regions. It mani- 

 fests itself principally in a slight falling off in the number of inquiries 

 coming in for hardwood stocks, but is not especially noticeable other- 

 wise. The Chicago jobbing element seems to feel that the mills are 

 experiencing the same condition as the jobbers arc able to purchase items 

 with much greater ease now than a few weeks ago. 



=•< BUFFALO >= 



The hardwood demand is not so active as a few weeks ago, though still 

 on a pretty satisfactory scale. When the announcement was made that 

 freight rates were to be increased a large number of consumers entered 

 orders for quite an amount of stock to be shipped immediately. This stock 

 was enough to carry them along for a time, so that tneir present require- 

 ments have been well satisfied. Another effect of the freight rate in- 

 crease was to create a large" movement of hardwoods from the mills to 

 yards and more stock has been coming in to some wholesalers recently 

 than for a long time. Lumber has been and still is coming in full3' as 

 fast as it can be handled. 



Among the woods most in demand at present are oak, maple, ash, 

 poplar and cypress. Prices are strong and are of course up in conse- 

 quence of the higher rail rates. Not much likelihood exists that prices 

 are going to be any lower for some time, according to members of the 

 trade, unless some official action should be taken to that effect. Lack of 

 labor is the chief detriment to trade at present, and it is causing some 

 delay to the handling of both incoming and outgoing stock. 



.^ PITTSBURGH >= 



Like other wholesalers, hardwood men arc considerably up in the air 

 about the outcome of the wholesalers' controversy with the government. 

 They firmly hope that an adjustment will be made so that wholesalers can 

 keep in business and make money. Demand is irregular and scattering at 

 present. Railroad stocks are wanted. Furniture demand has fallen off 

 and very little lumber Is going to the automobile concerns. Industries 

 which have turned over to making gun carriages and other war materials 

 are doing well and buying a lot of lumber. The mining trade has fallen 

 off considerably and as a result prices are likely to break on mining 

 stocks. General industrial trade Is good. With the retailers there is 

 very little doing and small chances of any good bulk of business in that 

 line this summer. 



=— -< ASHEVILLE > 



Shippers feel better this week over the raihvaj 

 time this year. It is easier to secure permits tron 

 lion committee at Norfolk and government orders 

 bor. The state furniture trade is strong in spite of 

 and the factories report no difficulty in marketing fur 

 in this region have kept up a steady stream of productii 



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situation than at an.\ 

 the freight transporta- 

 are increasing in hum- 

 an acute labor problem 

 ig furniture. Sawmills 

 though unable 



