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HARDWOOD RECORD 



E. A. Mercadal Lumber Co. 



WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION 



953 National Life Bldg., CHICAGO 



Northern Hardwoods Southern Hardwoods 



3 cars 8/4 No. 1 Com. & 



Better Birch 

 2 cars 6/4 No. 1 Com. & 



Better Birch 

 5 cars 1" No. 3 Maple 

 1 car 1" No. 2 Birch 

 1 car 6/4 No. 2 Com. Oak 

 1 car 4/4 No. 2 Com. Oak 



1 car 4/4 Fas Tupelo Gum 



1 car 4/4 No. 1 Common 



Tupelo Gum 



2 cars No. 2 Merchantable 



Hemlock 

 2 cars 1x4 Merchantable 



Hemlock Strips 

 I car 1" Fas Basswood 



Strips 



Jackson & Tindle 



ELM and BIRCH 



4/4, 5/4, 6/4. & 8/4 No. 3 

 Hardwood 



PELLSTON, MICH. 

 MUNISING, MICH. 

 JACKSONBORO, ONT. 



Main Office 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Send your Inquiries to 



SALES OFFICE: 303-304 Murray Building 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



CINCINNATI 



Hardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers 



OHIO VENEER COMPANY 

 Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS 



2624-34 COLERAIN AVENUE 



C. CRANE & COMPANY 



Manufacturers of Hardwood Lumber, Oak & Poplar especially 



Our looatlM makM poHlbIt oulek <«llv<ry •! anything In timbw and kardwMd 



The Tegge Lumber Coi 



High Grade '^ 



Northern and Southern ^ 

 Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



=-< INDIANAPOLIS >-= 



The hardwood demand in most departments is somewhat weaker be 

 cause of a falling off in the domestic trade. The majority of manufac- 

 turers, however, have so many orders booked that the trade is worrying 

 little over this condition. The domestic trade is slow because of the 

 slight demand for building purposes. Building operations in Indianapolis 

 are less active now than they have been at this season for many years. 

 The trade firmly expects business to become better before booked orders are 

 tilled. 



Many of the mills report that logs are not so plentiful as they were 

 some time ago due to the fact that farmers have been so busy with their 

 work that they have devoted little time to logging. This condition will 

 he improved later in the summer, and the trade expects to lay in as many 

 logs as possible for the winter. 



The demand is strong for quartered oak, ash, hickory, and the lowei 

 grades of gum. Prices are firm and collections are said to be improving. 



=-< EVANSYILLE • >.= 



The hardwood lumlinr manufacturers of Evansville and vicinity report 

 that trade is some better than it was this 'time last month, with both 

 orders and inquiries coming in nicely. They say that in most instances 

 inquiries lead to orders and that bu.vers are not hesitating about the prices 

 asked for lumber but are more concerned about getting the lumber on time 

 after it has been bought. Two of the uptown sawmills in Evansville are 

 being operated on time, but all the river mills are still closed. Collections 

 are good. The car shortage situation has improved and manufacturers 

 report but little trouble in getting all the cars they need. Logs remain 

 scarce and it is not believed that any great amount will be brought in until 

 after the men in the southern states who make a practice of getting out 

 logs have laid by their crops. Lumber prices are firm, tending upward on 

 some grades. Quartered white oak has been in good demand for some time 

 and thick plain oak is moving rather slowly. Hickory and ash are firm 

 and orders are plentiful. Beech is only fair. JIaple and elm are in strong 

 demand, but maple is rather scarce in this section. Poplar is in good de- 

 mand, as is quartered sycamore. Cottonwood is strong and walnut is 

 good. Gum is rather sluggish and many furniture manufacturers report 

 that they are stocked up on gum. The labor problem continues to be a 

 most serious one in this section. 



=-< CLEVELAND >-= 



Work directly connected with govei-nmeut war demands affords prac- 

 tically the only outlet tor hardwoods in this market, and unless housing 

 operations are stimulated through the activities of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce in obtaining an appropriation from President Wilson, the business is 

 likely to continue along this line. Heavy timbers of different hardwoods 

 are required in large numbers for mill construction, additions to factories 

 turning out government orders, and the like. Automobile truck manufac- 

 turers have entered the market heavily recently for additional supplies 

 with which to complete their contracts for truck bodies. These two out- 

 lets afford a tremendous business for oak, maple and ash. These mate- 

 rials have been coming in more freely of late, and although prices are 

 high, there is little quibbling about the prices, provided the consumers can 

 get the wood. With the principal outlet for hardwoods practically shut 

 off, this being the Interior trim for housing, there is a steady accumulation 

 of such hardwoods in yard here, but if buyers expect prices to lower they 

 will be disappointed, for the material is entirely too good to cut prices on, 

 even to stimulate business. Consequently, sellers may be said to be biding 

 their time. About the only construction that affords any outlet along this 

 channel is in several large apartment house contracts, but this demand 

 is insignificant compared with what it was even last year, to say nothing 

 of normal requirements. Some flue grades are moving into manufacturing 

 channels, but not enough to get excited about. Prices are easy to get, 

 however. There Is a better supply of low grades for boxing and similar 

 inirposes, which are being taken fairly will by certain producers of war 

 munitions. 



=< MEMPHIS >=— = 



The hardwood market continues fairly active, with a notably good de- 

 mand for some items, including gum in practically all grades and descrip- 

 tions, plain thick oak, quartered white oak and high-grade oak veneers, 

 ish and hickory. Dimension stock, rim strips, bolts, billets and other 

 Miugh materials are in very satisfactory call and offerings as a rule are 

 ii-^ht because of the difficulties surrounding production. There is also a 

 -,ood demand for the lower grades of Cottonwood which are, along with 

 Nos. 1, 2 and 3 common gum, being freely taken by the manufacturers of 

 boxes. A fair demand is reported for poplar and cypress while a moderate; 

 movement is noted in the case of elm and maple. 



Prices are generally well maintained for the reason that manufacturers 

 are aware that stocks are sharply below normal and that, in the case of 

 gum and oak, sales and shipments recently have materially exceeded pro- 

 duction. This is the time of the year when an amount of lumber vastly 

 in excess of sales and shipments should be going on sticks to take care of 

 the needs of the fall and winter trade but it is quite apparent that, in the 

 two items already mentioned and possibly others, quite the reverse is 

 true. Dullness is usually expected at this season but it can be stated au- 



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