HARDWOOD RECORD 



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at their plant they have their owu houses for 

 workmen, a large hotel and store. Mr. Good- 

 man has charge of the timber and manufactur- 

 ing of lumber. The office in Ashland is in 

 charge of Mr. Page, assisted by the general 

 salcsmanager. FI. G. Irwiu. The company's sup- 

 ply of logs is large, there being sufficient logs at 

 the mill to insure a year's run. 



Little Bock. 



A. T. lioiseu of the Forest Service, who has 

 been specially detailed by the government to 

 make a study of the hicknry of this state, has 

 been for the past several weeks engaged in in- 

 specting the hickory sections and noting the 

 supply. He said, in an interview recently : 

 "Some of the far-sighted users of hickory have 

 become uneasy as to the supply available. The 

 cutting of the wood began first iu the East. It 

 has moved gradually west and then south. To- 

 day the bulk of the supply is iu the southern 

 states. The output from Arkansas is probably 

 greater than from any other state. The present 

 study will examini* intci the industrial uses of 

 hickory and annual consumption, suggest means 

 to prevent waste, and lielp and encourage the 

 farmer and wood-lot owner to take the proper 

 care of the hickory on his timber tract. In 

 that way alone can the supply be maintained." 



The foundation for the new $o0.000 factory 

 to be erected at Fort Smith by the Southwestern 

 Chair Company is completed and work will be 

 pushed until the plant is ready for operation. 



The Ozark Mining and I'ower Company has 

 established a comliin;i tiun soft and hardwood 

 mill on White i-ivrr, ;il iis confluence with 

 Kuft'alo river. 



The new mill ;il .fuuciiiin is imw in operation 

 and machinery lor tin- production of finished 

 buggy and wagon material is being added. 



H. C. School-r of I'eoria, 111., has leased the 

 Smith Brothers sawmill in Terry county and is 

 operating it in cutting a supply of hardwood 

 material for lln- vchicb' factory oC his firm at 

 l^euria. 



Suit has been filed by the St. Francis Levee 

 Board to recover .$iar»,()ni» from the U. E. Wil- 

 son Timber Company for timber alleged to have 

 been cut from certain lauds in Mississippi coun- 

 ty, nearly all of which was hardwood. The 

 board is represented by Siimator Jeff Davis. Mr. 

 Wilson will not fight the case, as he holds war- 

 ranty deeds from other parties and will put the 

 fight up to them. 



The proprietors of the Agee Wagtm Works, at 

 i'amden, have .lust expended $10,000 in plant 

 Improvements. Ihey now have a capacity of 

 ri.oO(> vehicles yearly. 



A large lumber plant l»elimging to U. E. L. 

 Wilson at Amorel was completely destroyed by 

 tire last week, the loss being $20,000. The yard 

 <-ontained 1.5.000,000 feet of lumber, but most 

 of this was saved. The mill will he rebuilt at 

 once. 



Indicating the rapid advauce in the price of 

 limberlands iu thi' stat;-. it is interesting to note 

 I hat the sale of a 2S.O0O acre tract near Harris- 

 imrg was made recently at $;iO per acre, whereas 

 live years ago a smaller tract adjoining the one 

 just sold brought only one sixth as much per 

 acre. 



The .7. O. Nivens Lumber t'ompauy has erected 

 a hardwood sawmill in the vicinity of Wallace- 

 burg to work up the timber supply in that sec- 

 tion of the Little Missouri lowlands. 



The new hub factory at .Tonesboro began work 

 last week. Twenty-five men are employed. 



The Western Tie Company lias established a 

 grading yard at Cave City. 



A shipment of fifteen cars of walnut was re- 

 <'cnt!y made from Imboden consigned to the 

 Singer Sewing ^Machine <'onipany, at South 

 I^end. Ind. 



Work is progressing on the new hardwood 

 p'ant to be erected at Dardanelle by the Darda- 

 nelle Hardwood Manufacturing Company. The 

 plant is to cost $2ri,00n. 



The hardwood mill at Lockesburg shipped its 

 first carload of finished material last week. 



A represeutative of the Studebaker Wagon 

 i'ompany has been purchasing considerable ma- 

 terial for his company from the dealers at 

 Terry. Aplin and other points in the Fourche 

 Uiver valley. 



.Nathan Tatehen of the Fee-Creighton Lumber 

 Company, at Newport, is spending his vacation 

 witli relatives in Lima, Ohio. 



C. S. Jackson, manager of the Eldorado hard- 

 wood factory, was a visitor iu the city the past 



week. Mr. Jackson report.s a fine business. 



J. W. Black of Corning has secured a large 

 tract of hickory timber at Blackwell and will 

 place a mill there at once. 



A party of officials of the Crossett Lumber 

 Company spent Sunday here en route from Lan- 

 sing, Mich., to their plant at Crossett, Ark. 

 From here they proceeded to Crossett in their 

 automobiles, which had been shipped to this 

 point. 



W. D. Massey of the Martin-Massey Lumber 

 Company of Batesville is superintending the lo- 

 cation of a new mill near Black Rock. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Ezclnsive Market BepoTtera.) 



Chicago. 

 'J'lic luc'ul (Icmniul for hariiwuotis is not brisk. 

 Imr desultory tnidiug is goiug on to a consid- 

 oralilo oxtent. Poplar is in strongest demand, 

 witli (tali a fair second. Northern liardwoods 

 are onl.v in moderate call. That there is a 

 sliglit slackening in general demand is evident 

 from the fact that a large number of salesmen 

 from both the northern and southern country 

 have been in tlie cit.v during the last fortnight. 

 There is nothing in the situation that would in- 

 dicate that there will not be a good fall trade, 

 but the buying season will he later than last 

 year. Trices very generally are being well main- 

 tained. 



Boston. 



The market for hardwoods continues lirm, with 

 a demand of moderate proportions. Many of the 

 large consumers appear to have fair-sized stocks 

 and, with prices held on their present high level, 

 are not anxious to anticipate their future wants 

 to any extent. In a few instances buyers are 

 ready to take on additional supplies if prices are 

 right, as they believe it will be harder in a few 

 weeks' time to get shipments through with any 

 degree of i)romptness because of the threatened 

 (•ar shortage. Furniture manufacturers are busy. 

 Interior house finishers are not as actively em- 

 ployed as usual at this season. This is due in 

 part to the fact that building operations have 

 been conducted on a much smaller scale. The ex- 

 piirt demand for hardwoods is not active. 



offerings of plain oak are large. One of the 

 leading dealers states he has received letters 

 within the past week in which over ."),000,000 

 feet of plain oak is offered him. One-inch stock 

 is quoted at $'M to ifri.S. With quartered oak the 

 situation is entirely different. Offerings are lim- 

 ited and prices hold decidedly firm. Some of the 

 best stock is held by mills at prices that do not 

 permit dealers to sell under ,$85, although stock 

 is offered here in some instances at ,$8;^, The out- 

 side asking price is ,f87. The call for whitcwood 

 is moderate. Present indications do not warrant 

 any reduction in asking prices, and, in fact, some 

 dealers state that the.v will have to mark values 

 up rather than down. Ruling quotations for one- 

 inch are .$.%0 t(i .$liO. Ijut sales have been made in 

 a small way at .^(il. The call for cypress is quiet. 

 Advices from mill points do not show that man- 

 ufacturers are willing to make concessions. Brown 

 ash Is very firm, with offerings limited. White 

 ash is also firmly held, but the demand for the 

 latter is moderate only. Chestnut holds firm. 

 I:ilaek walnut is in fairl.y good demand, with 

 prices well held. Mahogany is meeting with a 

 fair request. 



New York. 



the manufacturing trade is providing the largest 

 volume of business. This Is not to be won- 

 dered at when the fact is considered that the 

 yards have lieen heavy buyers for a number 

 of months, especiall.v in the early summer, 

 whereas the manufacturing trade has, a.s a gen- 

 eral rule, bei'n holding off in the matter of 

 purchases in the h<»pe that prices would ease 

 off. 



While prices have for the most part been 

 firm throughout the summer, this increased ac- 

 tivity in buying has stiffened the market con- 

 siderably and sales of good manufactured hard- 

 wood lumber, in many instances, arc bringing 

 prices which are above the average for the past 

 four or five months. Payments and collections 

 are a trifle slow by reason of the heavy drain 

 on financial centers for the movement of crops, 

 but it is believed that such money conditions 

 will speedily be relieved, and if business keeps , 

 up the volume It is now offering everyone will 

 round out a good year. 



Reports in the local wholesale market, as well 

 as from returning buyers from mill points, in- 

 dicate that supplies of good manufactured 

 hardwoods in the better grades are by no means 

 plentiful and in many instances small in com- 

 parison with the demand. Especially is this 

 true in oak. poplar, ash and basswood, all of 

 which are holding extremely Arm in price, with 

 only a fair offering available to supply the de- 

 mand. Chestnut is fair. Maple and birch are 

 holding their own- nicely. 



The hardwood market in this district con- 

 liuucs lirm, and in many sections, in certain 

 lines of the manufacturing trade, there has 

 been a marked increase in activity during the 

 past fortnight. Yard dealers are making fair 

 purcha.'^es for their fall and winter trade, but 



Philadelphia. 



It is evident that the hardwood situaliou 

 throughout the country is not as good as might 

 be desired : the eastern sections, however, have 

 experienced least decline in activity. Trading 

 has kept up unusually well for the time of year 

 and considerable improvement is noticeable dur- 

 ing the last fortnight. Values have been below 

 par, but with the advance of the fall season 

 they show a slight tendency to become more 

 steady. Reports from the mill districts show- 

 stocks in good hardwoods not over plentiful 

 and from those sections obliged to rely upon 

 only one railroad company complaints are al- 

 ready heard of car shortage. 



Reports from the woodworking industries, 

 taken as a whole, are satisfactory. Sash and 

 doer mills work on unremittently : box makers 

 are consumers of such rejects and culls as can 

 be obtained. Flooring makers have been busy 

 and prosperous all summi'r. Veneer and cigar 

 box concerns likewise have no complaint to 

 make of summer trading. 



Railroad ties are again selling rapidly, but 

 ai'e scarce and high. Trolley and electric car 

 building goes on unabatedly. The building in- 

 dustry sustains its past record and though 

 money is tight and there is very little inclina- 

 tion among money-lenders to encourage specu- 

 lative building, preparations are being made for 

 extensive building work in the near future. 



The hardwood values at this period seem to 

 bo fairly steady. Ash and poplar hold good 



