HARDWOOD RECORD 



many of the othei-s. C'onsoqiiently. if business in general enjoys the 

 stimulation which is expected to result from the shutting o£f of imports 

 which have competL-d with domestic products, the iumliermen ought to 

 have plenty to do taking care of their trade. The demand for quartered 

 oak is good. Quartered red oak is scarce and In good call, with prices 

 firm. Plain oak is quiet, and it has been for some time. Ash is picking 

 up, and there is a good demand for inch, though the thicker dimensions 

 are not in as brisk call. Wormy chestnut is selling well to panel fac- 

 tories, who are talung 'advantage of market conditions to stock up on this 

 item. Although the prospects are excellent for the sale of farm equip- 

 ment, the wagon and implement factories do not appear to be buying 

 heavily at present. 



=-< ST. LOUIS >.= 



There is a gradually gaining strength in the hardwood market, but it 

 Is not resuming its activity quite as fast as is wished. There is a con- 

 tinued good demand for plain sawed white oak and also for wide poplar 

 boards, bone dry ash and choice red gum. Upper grades of Cottonwood 

 are also in good demand from the box-making interests. There is a rather 

 unsatisfactory cypress market reported but it is getting better. Several 

 large orders have been booked recently by tilg Southern cypress manufactur- 

 ers and shipments are now going forward on them to points In the North 

 and East. Local distributors have been purchasing freely and it is evident 

 that there .soon will be an improvement. Ijolli in demand and prices. 



< LITTLE ROCK >- 



L^rs generally throughout the state of 



ts from the European war disturbances. 



lis entirely, while others have begun to 

 A very large percentage of the hard- 



I'kansas is exported to Europe, and the 

 he dangers of seizure are declared by the 

 millmen to he too great at present. 



The disturbed foreign market hits with particular force the stave and 

 heading manufacturers and also those men producing pencil timber. The 

 pencil factories at Cotter, Ark., closed on August 8, on account of the 

 European war. The management received several messages from Austria, 

 the principal market, advising that all shipments be withheld. The 

 American market for the pencil timber men has also been practically 

 killed, as the finishing plants in this country get the composition for the 

 inside of the pencil from the old country, 



=— -< NEW ORLEANS >.==— 



Heroic measures have been taken by the hardwood mills in this section 

 to prevent a demoralization of the domestic market that was expected 

 to follow the embargo of freight and suspension of the export business. 

 Curtailment of production was the only recourse, to avoid a break in 

 interior prices, and with very few exceptions this has been recognized by 

 Louisiana and south Mississippi mills. The export mills shut down 

 after the declarations of war just as soon as they could dispose of the 

 logs on hand, and those mills engaged in both domestic and export busi 

 uess are now running on half-time, practically reducing their output 

 one-half. As a result of these drastic measures there has been no 

 noticeable slump in quotations submitted to interior buyers, although the 

 coastwise business has been depressed to a certain extent by the glutting 

 of practically all American ports. 



Approximately a thousand cars of timber and lumber and staves are 

 tied up in this port, pending the resumption of shipping, and hardwoods 

 comprise a large precentage. About sixty ships are being held by the 

 steamship agents for instructions from abroad, and many of these bad 

 already loaded lumber cargoes before the embargo was placed on freight. 

 Hundreds of cars have been returned to the mills, at a heavy expense 

 for reloading and switching, and other shipments have been stored in the 

 local yards and warehouses. 



While the ships that cleared out of this port during the latter part of 

 last month are thought to be safe on the other side, so far as confiscation 

 by hostile powers is concerned, returned drafts and deferred collections 

 have forced all of the local exporters of hardwoods to reduce their office 

 expenses. Those who have large consignments on the water will lose 

 heavily. 



War insurance rates are so steep, ranging from fifteen to twenty-five 

 per cent, that none of the local exporters would care to make shipments 

 at this time, even if there were bottoms available, although it is reported 

 that the larger lumber companies may charter their own vessels just as 



as England's supremacy 



the se 



is fully established. 



=-< MILWAUKEE >= 



Milwaukee lumbermen seem to be convinced that the European war 

 situation will, temporarily, at least, adversely affect the lumber trade. 

 News from various northern mills indicate that the export demand for 

 various lines of northern hardwoods has been practically shut off and 

 the indications are that for the time being there will be very little hard- 

 wood exported from this section. News has been received that orders 

 for export of southern pine and hardwoods have been cancelled and the 

 natural result will be that the southern woods will now be disposed of 

 in the domestic market in competition with northern hemlock and hard- 



Mahogany and 



Circassian 

 Lumber & Veneers 



^ The largest assortment of finest figured 

 Mahogany Logs, Lumber and Veneers in 

 the country can be found at the Chicago 

 plant of C. L. Willey. 



^ We are just in receipt of fifteen cars of 

 remarkably superior Circassian Walnut 

 Logs, large size, well-figured and of good 

 color, which are now being cut into 

 Veneers. 



Q A visit or correspondence from discrim- 

 inating buyers of all varieties of fine Im- 

 ported and Domestic Cabinet Woods in 

 Lumber and Veneer is solicited. 



Q You will not only find the Willey ware- 

 houses well stocked with a superb collec- 

 tion of Circassian, Mahogany, Vermilion, 

 Black Walnut and other fancy foreign 

 and domestic lumber and veneers, but 

 buyers are assured of prompt and pains- 

 taking service, and a quality of product 

 not usually obtainable. 



^ To visit the plant take Blue Island Ave. 

 car at the postoffice to Robey Street. 



C. L. WILLEY, Chicago 



Largest Fancy Wood Veneer 

 and Lumber producing plant in the world 



