HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ilianged. Chestnut and i-ed gum are a little 



i|iiiet, but are expected to pick up witliin a sliort 

 time. Tight money is tiguriug somewhat in the 

 demand tor hardwoods. Healers are holding off 

 from buying owing to that fact, and unless there 

 is more money thrown into the market the pros- 

 pects are that there will be no change in the 

 situation for a few weeks. 



Chattanooga. 



Lumbermen here generally report that the 

 midsummer dullness is a thing of the past and 

 that trade for the fall is fairly well under way. 

 Good dry stocks of all kinds of hardwoods are 

 scarce, hut what wood is in good shape goes 

 into consumption readily. Although no advances 

 in quotations have been made recently, prices 

 generally are satisfactory. 



Poplar in all grades holds first place in point 

 of demand on the hardwood list. The demanfl 

 for quartered oak is not as active as usual, this 

 being attributable to the fact that as oak tim- 

 ber of the best physics is growing scarce rap- 

 idly and plain oak is in better demand than 

 ciuartered. the mills are sawing plain oak the 

 more extensively. 



The export trade is active and it is reported 

 that the demand for all lines of hardwood Is 

 satisfactory and prices good. 



St. Louis. 



The autumn business has started up remark- 

 ably well. Most of the orders are for quick 

 shipment, and so many are tor mixed cars of 

 different thicknesses, grades and varieties that 

 it is evident stocks in the hands of consumers 

 are depleted, though equally obvious that they 

 are unwilling to buy heavily just at this time. 

 Business is good and steady, which would indi- 

 cate that prices will hold up well for the rest 

 of the year ; moreover, the summer dullness has 

 not developed any marked tendency to cut fig- 

 ures. Poplar is strong ; cypress is holding its 

 own ; plain oak is in heavy supply but selling 

 well ; quartered white is a leader, and red is a 

 trailer. Ash, being so scarce, is remarkably 



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strong. In fact, the only shadow on the path 

 ahead is the prospective car shortage, which- is 

 already being felt further south. 



Nashville. 



Some improvement in the market situation 

 over recent conditions is noted just now in 

 Nashville. More inquiries are reported, even 

 it there has been no perceptible increase in 

 the volume of business done. The only handi- 

 cap to business in this section is that of a 

 car shortage, already noted. Good demand 

 for poplar is noticeable, especially the better 

 grades. The lower grades of quartered oak 

 ai-e not moving briskly. Chestnut is in good 

 demand. Light stocks of ash are noted, and a 

 consequent heavy demand. There is a good 

 deal of activity being enjoyed by the local 

 box factories. The retail lumber concerns, 

 however, are not doing a land-otBce business, 

 for the reason that there has been a slight let- 

 up in the amount of manufactured building 

 material used. This is explained by the fact 

 that much concrete is being used in buildings 

 here. 



Memphis. 



Some improvement in the demand for hard- 

 wood was noted the past few days and the trade 

 is of the opinion that it will only be a short 

 time until active business is resumed. There is 

 a tendency toward increased firmness in values. 

 The car situation is serious, and the trade ex- 

 pects it will prove a decided handicap. Where 

 consumers are showing a disposition to remain 

 out of the market, wholesalers and manufac- 

 turers are urging the placing of orders without 

 delay so that shipments may be gotten out as 

 rapidly as possible. The export situation does 

 not show any decided change. The demand is 

 still rather slow. Production of hardwood lum- 

 ber is increasing steadily and large quantities 

 are being placed on sticks. The mills are well 

 supplied with timber, but there is no surplus of 

 dry stock, and this is one of the main reasons 

 why wholesalers and manufacturers are as firm 

 as they are in their views of values. 



Quarter-sawed oak. in both red and white, is 

 a good seller and prices are well maintained. 

 There is also an excellent demand for the lower 

 grades of both cottonwood and gum, which are 

 scarce and which are moving as freely as the 

 limited offerings will allow. The higher grades 

 of these woods are also moving at a fairly sat- 

 isfactory rate, the slowest feature being Firsts 

 and Seconds cottonwood, running from 6 to 12 

 inches. Ash is offered in only a moderate quan- 

 tity and the sale for this is comparatively easy 

 at good prices. There is a particularly good 

 demand for dimension stock. Poplar and cypress 

 are offered in only a limited way and no diffi- 

 culty is experienced in disposing of what is for 

 sale! Cypress is recovering somewhat from the 

 depression of a short time ago. Yellow pine 

 prices are reported from 50 cents to $1 per 

 thousand higher than recently and. as cypress 

 declined in sympathy with yellow pine, it is only 

 natural that it should feel the influence of the 

 better tone and higher values in that wood. 



Minneapolis. 



Factory trade is ensaging the principal atten- 

 tion of dealers here. The season of orders from 

 the retail yards has hardly opened yet, but is 

 expected to be good as usual when it starts. 

 The Northwest has not as large a crop as usual, 

 but it is good in quality and prices are higher 

 than ever before, so farmers will be in good 

 shape. City building continues at an active 

 rate. While not so much lumber is going into 

 buildings as before, most builders are calling 

 for the best finish, and the hardwood consump- 

 tion is heavy as ever in this line. The rail- 

 roads are getting into the game again also, 

 especially for oak, but they are looking for car 

 stock as well, and elm sells readily. 



Northern hardwood is practically all in whole- 



sale hands now, and is held at firm prices. 

 Birch has not advanced any in price, but is 

 selling readily at list, and is one of the most 

 active woods on the market. Basswood is also 

 a good seller, and the lower grades are prac- 

 tically gone now. There is a little northern 

 white oak, which sells readily when offered, 

 and red oak is also sought for. Southern hard- 

 woikIs are more freely offered in this market 

 than for some time, and while there is no mate- 

 rial change in the prices made, they tend to be 

 somewhat easier than they have been in the 

 past. The volume of business done by north- 

 western dealers this fall seems likely to be lim- 

 ited only by the stocks they have for sale, and 

 those who accumulate lines of southern hard- 

 wood will be in the best position to take care of 

 the trade. The northern output in every line 

 seems certain to be inadequate. Some northern 

 mills have done summer logging and will saw 

 this winter, which will help the situation some 

 next spring. 



Toledo. 



The hardwood market, while still fairly firm, 

 is not quite as strong as it was a few weeks ago. 

 Hallway and other heavy construction work 

 which furnished a good outlet for certain grades 

 of hardwood has slackened up considerably and 

 the demand from those sources has somewhat 

 diminished. 



While building operations are fairly active at 

 this time they are confined largely to cheap resi- 

 dences and hardwoods are not in demand for 

 finishing in this class of buildings. One of the 

 largest hardwood yards in the city reports a 

 considerable falling oft in trade during August, 

 business being far below that of June and July. 



Poplar has made a recent rise of from .To 

 cents to (fl, give and take, and is extremely difli- 

 cult to secure. This is especially true of siding, 

 the supply of which is low and the amount in 

 sight limited. Some good poplar is to be had 

 from the West Virginia territory, but the delays 

 occasioned by car shortages have been very an- 

 noying. Shipments from there to this market 

 have been held up for more than thirty days 

 because of a lack of transportation facilities, 

 and ten to fifteen day delays from the same 

 cause are rather the rule recently. 



Liverpool. 



Very little change has to be reported duriug 

 the last fortnight. August is a big holiday 

 month in the Lancashire cotton towns, most of 

 them closing down for a week and business be- 

 ing entirely suspended. This naturally makes 

 thin.gs quiet. The very wet summer has tended 

 to make everything worse and has prevented 

 much outdoor work in the lumber trade. 



I'oplar is firm in tone and we have consider- 

 able difficulty in finding supplies. Hickory is 

 still strong. Though a few hundred logs have 

 been imported, they cannot have much effect on 

 the market. Oak. both plain and quartered, is 

 in demand, but the supplies for the moment 

 are ample for present requirements. Wagon and 

 cotBn oak planks of suitable specifications are in 

 much demand. We heard of quite extraordinary 

 prices being realized for a parcel of wagon 

 planks with a large proportion of IG ft. and up. 

 Maple logs have beeu overdone and no more 

 should be sent to this market. Birch is better 

 than it has been, though the stock is still large. 

 Mahogany on this side still keeps firm and high- 

 er prices are being realized for stock. Really 

 we would not like to say how high the price 

 of this wood is going, and we should not be 

 surprised to see extremely high prices at the 

 liack end. In fact, we unhesitatingly advise 

 American buyers to at once send to the Eng- 

 lish sellers for their requirements of this year, 

 as it will undoubtedly pay them. Once the holi- 

 days are over here an immediate sharp advance 

 will take place. Ash logs and planks are much 

 as before. 



