HARDWOOD RECORD 



docks at St. Isnace, Mich. Fire spread to lumber piles on tbo docks, 

 eausing a loss of more than $5,000. 



Yuill Brothers, lumbermen at Vanderbllt, Mich., purpose to enter the 

 public utility field by erecting a power plant at Sturgeon river. They 

 would provide Gaylord. Variderbilt and other villages with current, 

 which they are now without. 



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The Hardwood Market 



< CHICAGO >■ 



There is ■■n. i is still the most evident condition surround- 



ing the Chi. I- - there has been practically no change worth 



noting, eitli. I r worse and the general situation continues 



both as to pii' : 1 . I "II just about the same plane that has main- 



tained since a cciupli: uf weeks after the war broke out. Buying locally 

 continues to be extremely spotty and the evidence of lack of life is still 

 current. In any period of uncertain times there are occasional concerns 

 for one reason or another that secure a considerable quantity of business, 

 and that condition is true now. However, this could hardly be credited as 

 a criterion of the general situation locally. 



What sales are made are still for Immediate shipment, of course, and 

 the average prices realized continue to be materially off. However, this 

 tendency is not strengthening but is rather working in the opposite direc- 

 tion as responsible millmcn are refusing to part with their stocks at 

 prices which would allow the wholesalers to sell without avoidance of 

 loss. 



The building situation locally is in fair shape and the consuming fac- 

 tories are working a fair proportion of the total time. All lines of 

 purchase, however, are continuing to buy in small lots, this including 

 the yards. There are very few complete stocks of hardwoods in the city 



time 



.-< NEW YORK >.= 



There is little of interest in the present lumber market. Reports 

 vary as to the amount of going business and prices obtaining, but iu 

 .sum the situation is unchanged in both respects. The buying Is eou- 

 flned to actual needs and with free offerings the prices are low. The 

 brightest spot is the hardwood flooring business, which is holding up 

 remarliably well. Building in Greater New York is fair in prospect, 

 though at present below normal. Manhattan is showing less activity in 

 this line, comparatively, than any of the four residential boroughs. 

 Building figures are being cited as favorable signs of returning activity, 

 as actual work is now more nearly equal to proposed operations from 

 which the statistics are generally gathered. Collections are said to be 

 as slow now as ever in history. 



--<, BUFFALO y 



VENEER 



The hardwood trade has not changed for the better to any extent within 

 the past two weeks. Trade is very dull and the quantity of lumber moving 

 from the yards is much below the a%-erage. No great improvement is looked 

 for In the near future, though it is oelleved that some stocks will become 

 firmer as the result of the shutting down of so many sawmills. A little 

 stock is occasionally being brought into the yards, but there is a general 

 tendency to restrict purchases as much as po.ssible. 



The furniture trade is taking little stock, most factories ruiiniiiL; on 

 short time. The leaders of it appear to be trying to'create a new int^irst 

 by making some quite radical changes in the upholstering of ch;iiis and 

 sofas. A Buffalo lumberman who is in touch with a big Rochester furni- 

 ture concern is informed that the tendency is to drop leather coverings 

 and put in their place elaborately brocaded cotton fabrics, which might 

 easily be made to produce as good an effect at less cost. 



Some plain oak is being sold right along, the price remaining about as it 

 has been for several weeks past. Brown and white ash are in fair demand, 

 but no hardwood is moving at any active rate. Flooring of different kinds 

 is in pretty fair sale, the trade being relati%-ely better than that in lumber. 

 Low grades in most all woods are holding firm in price, and the quantity 

 available is small. 



>< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



In the face of an increasingly attenuated business, the lumberman con- 

 tinues to be cheerful. To accept conditions philosophically and patiently 

 wait for the straightening out of an unforeseen economic tangle, business 

 men here feel it to be wiser than constantly looking for misfortune which 

 may never arrive. The prospective merchant marine and the strong and 

 concerted action of the Philadelphia merchants in their efforts to secure 

 new outlets for American goods must eventually result in an extensive 

 advance In trading all along the line. The farmer will soon come into the 

 market, and the banks which for obvious reasons have been withholding 

 loans, realizing that their attitude will neither make nor hold friends. 



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