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Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests. Wood Veneer Industry. Hardwood Flooring. 

 Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery. 



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Vol. XXIII. 



CHICAGO. FEBRUARY 10. 1907. 



No 8. 



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Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by 



THE HARDWOOD COMPANY 



Henry H. Gibson. President 



FRANK W. TUTTLE, Sec-Treas. 



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ASSOCIATION MEETINGS. 



National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. 



This association will hold its next annual convention on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, March 6 and 7, 1907, at the New 

 Wiuard Hotel, Washington, D. C. 



National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



The tenth annual convention of this association will be 

 held on Thursday and Friday, May 23 and 24, 1907, at 

 Atlantic City, N. J. 



General Market Conditions. 



In all hardwood producing sections, both north and south, the 

 situation is practically the same. Nearly all dry lumber is sold, and 

 the shipment of it is going forward just as fast as cars can be 

 obtained. In the North the early winter was without snow and the 

 ground was soft. Today this section of the country is buried with 

 snow to an unusual depth and the fall came on soft ground, with the 

 result that logging has been carried on under extreme difficulty and 

 at very heavy expense. In many cases proposed logging operations 

 have been abandoned for these reasons and because of the short and 

 high-priced labor supply. To a certainty the result will be that the 

 hardwood log output of the North for the winter of 1906-7 will be 

 considerably less than that of a year ago. 



In the southern hardwood producing sections the weather has been 

 very bad since early in the fall. The rainfall has been prodigious. 

 Operators in mountain districts have had their bridges and tram 

 roads torn out repeatedly by tides in the streams. Throughout the 

 Mississippi valley the woods have been flooded and the greater portion 

 of logging operations had to be abandoned for weeks at a time. 

 These conditions have resulted in a diminution of the log supply and 

 the consequent shutting down of a large number of sawmills in the 

 southern district for days and even weeks at a time. Beyond per- 



adventure, therefore, the incoming stock of hardwoods from the South 

 is going to be comparatively light; in fact, much lighter than the 

 output of a year ago. lu many localities green lumber is being 

 sought by buyers, and advances almost to its full value are being 

 made upon it for the sake of securing supplies even for midsummer 

 trade. Every condition in the hardwood manufacturing situation 

 points to short stocks and higher prices. 



The wholesale manufacturing consumers of hardwoods are almost 

 without exception busy in their several lines of trade. While a 

 good many of these concerns have taken time by the forelock and 

 secured stocks of lumber to carry them through for some time, in 

 many eases their supplies are extremely light. Again this consuming 

 trade contends that the sellers have been unable to fill many of the 

 orders they have placed, owing to conditions which have prevailed, 

 and they have been obliged to place them a second and even a third 

 time to take care of current wants. 



The high prices prevailing are of course contributing to the instal- 

 lation of a great many small mills throughout the country. In fact, 

 everyone, from the farmer-lumberman up, is making all the hard- 

 wood lumber he can. At the same time the aggregate of all that can 

 be produced will not be up to the normal demands of the trade by 

 any possible chance. 



The hardwood flooring factories are busy and there is a special 

 call from oak flooring producers for common and cull stock. Maple 

 flooring manufacturers are fairly well supplied with lumber, but 

 they are still buying every desirable lot offered. 



Plants of the interior finish people are taxed to the utmost to 

 execute orders. Furniture factories are busy, and many of them have 

 secured a considerable advance over prices heretofore obtained, and 

 are thus able to pay augmented prices for lumber. 



The demand for mahogany lumber is constantly increasing and 

 stocks are gradually growing very light. 



The Dove of Peace. 



While every lumberman in the country who has the interests, 

 the well-being, and the integrity of his calling at heart will be 

 rejoiced at. the spirit of conciliation now manifest between the two 

 great hardwood associations of the country, which — say what you 

 will — have been at outs for the past five years, there is no element 

 interested in the trade which will rejoice more thoroughly at the 

 possibilities of an amicable outcome of hardwood inspection matters 

 than the lumber trade press. Outside of the accomplishment of 

 harmony and prosperity in the lumber trade, this result would be of 

 far-reaching benefit to the "brief chronicler of the times" which 

 attempts to publish the news and give publicity to ideas of interest 

 to the calling. Without harmony of interests there must needs be 

 a lack of harmony in reflecting facts pertaining to them, and it 

 therefore goes without saying that the lumber trade press of the 

 country will rejoice in pacification and unity of all branches of this 

 great 'and important industry. 



There is no faction that will not welcome this panacea for the 

 evils that have beset the lumber business save the grade juggler. 

 The present system is one that leaves the way open for his nefarious 

 calling. The slight difference in the two systems of grading gives 

 him an opportunity to make it still wider, until confusion worse 

 confounded ensues. When the lumber manufacturer or merchant 

 attempts to market his product abroad, he encounters difficulties 



