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HARDWOOD RECORD 



seconds red are now commanding the best 

 price in the history ot this lumber and offer- 

 ings are not large. There is also a good de- 

 mand for lower grades, as well as for clear 

 saps. The small mills which usually glut the 

 glim market hare accomplished comparatively 

 little during the past few months, with the 

 result that there is no gum on the bargain 

 counter. Some thin stock is going into export 

 and several firms are making a specialty of this 

 material wth profit. 



nan oak is holding its own. There is enough 

 demand to take everything offered at full prices. 

 Quarter-sawed oak is in moderate request, the 

 demand being rather better than heretofore. 

 Prices are not advancing much, but there is 

 a healthy undertone because there is no sur- 

 plus stock available. 



All grades of poplar are selling well. The 

 lower grades are firm, in sympathy with the 

 scarcity and strength noted in cottonwood. while 

 the upper occupy about the same position as 

 other high grade lumber. 



Louisville. 



The Louisville hardwood market is probably 

 in better shape now than it has been for many 

 months. There is not an item on the list that 

 is not in good demand and bringing fair prices. 

 Some items are in more active demand than 

 others, among them ash. chestnut and plain- 

 sawed red and white oak. Probably the most 

 pleasing feature in the market is the active de- 

 mand for No. 1 common poplar. Last summer 

 and fall everybody was loaded with this grade 

 of poplar and endeavoring to sell it. Every- 

 thing else in poplar was selling well. Some be- 

 came discouraged, sorted over the piles of No. 1 

 common and made it into bevel siding, worked 

 it off into saps and one thing or another to 

 reduce their stocks a little. Now things are dif- 

 ferent : No. 1 common is in excellent demand, 

 with available dry stock pretty well cleaned up. 

 The best demand for this stock seems to be com- 

 ing from the planing mills, and evidently it is 

 taking the place of a higher grade of yellow pine. 



For car stock generally the demand is good, 

 in many instances even urgent. The car people 

 have been paying premiums for prompt delivery, 

 and seem tp be well supplied with orders to 

 place for future delivery. The furniture trade 

 is in the market for all grades of stock and 

 taking a good volume of it. .The local trade in 

 hardwood flooring is active. The skating rink 

 craze has helped it along, increasing the demand 

 for maple flooring considerably. Hardwood man- 

 ufacturers are all busy, free from worry about 

 sales, only concerning themselves with the prob- 

 lem of getting out and shipping stock. 



some heavy plank and wagon stock unsold, but 

 the supply is light and broken. 



Trade is not heavy in other hardwood lines. 

 The factories have on hand good stocks of 

 birch uppers and elm, and business in those 

 woods is rather light here. Some shipments are 

 being made east and south. Low-grade birch 

 was in surplus, but is well cleaned out, and 

 what shipping culls are left sell readily for 

 flooring. Maple flooring is having a steady run, 

 and is bought more in smaller towns than a 

 year or so ago. Basswood is stronger than be- 

 fore. Uppers are running rather low, and are 

 in better demand th.in usual, while culls are 

 cleaned out, and box manufacturers are con- 

 tracting ahead for the new cut at prices a dollar 

 or two ahead of last year. 



The furniture factories have some good busi- 

 ness ahead and will be excellent customers. 

 Big orders have been placed by local factories in 

 San Francisco. 



Ashland, Ky. 



The hardwood market in Ashland and vicinity 

 is in excellent condition. Hardwoods are selling 

 freely at list prices. Mills are all running full 

 time in an effort to keep up with orders. Stocks 

 are uniformly short, and orders for immediate 

 delivery are being turned down. Throughout 

 the Ohio river mills lumbermen were more pros- 

 perous and the trade this spring will largely 

 eclipse that of 1005. 



Minneapolis. 



This is rather off season tor the factory trade 

 in the Northwest to buy. The heavy buyers have 

 laid in their stock or placed orders to practically 

 supply their needs until some of the new stock is 

 ready for shipment. They are not stocked with 

 oak, and will buy freely any stock that is 

 offered with a prospect of early delivery. There 

 is very little to be had, however. Reports from 

 southern mills supplying this territory indicate 

 that there is very little oak on hand. Because 

 the winter season was so wet there was little 

 logging done and they have shipped out about 

 all of their stock. The general overflow has 

 prevented shipment from most of the mills, and 

 orders placed here some time ago in many cases 

 remain unfilled. As for northern oak, there is 



Asheville. 



Trade continues active and lumbermen are 

 enjoying a season of prosperity. The avail- 

 able supply of hardwoods is limited, and in 

 mauy cases orders for immediate delivery are 

 turned down. Chestnut leads in demand and 

 there is also a good call for poplar. Prices are 

 satisfactory in most instances. Prospects for 

 a continuance of activity seem very favorable. 



Liverpool. 



Trade generally has settled down very quickly 

 after the Easter holidays, and everyone seems 

 to be looking forward to a good run of business 

 during the next few months. 



Three mahogany sales took place last week 

 and a large representative list of buyers were 

 present. The wood offered found a ready sale, 

 and as the stocks everywhere are extremely 

 light buyers at last sale prices have made ex- 

 cellent purchases. A. large quantity was pur- 

 chased on behalf of American buyers, several 

 fine figured logs were sold, one with n particu- 

 - larly rich broken roe and mottle realized $1.8.j 

 per superficial foot. 



Prices of all classes of hardwood are strong. 

 Ash is in good request, and shipments arriving 

 are all going into consumption. 



Several quotations from American shippers 

 came to notice within the past few days for 

 goods to arrive, and without exception prices 

 were much higher than have been paid here dur- 

 ing the last six months. Consumers here -are 

 holding off on account of these high prices and 

 buying from hand to mouth. In view of the 

 low stocks and increased cost of logs, shippers 

 should stick to their prices, and not ship unless 

 they have a definite order. 



Oak has been coming in rather freely during 

 the last fortnight, but it is all wanted and buy- 

 ers are undoubtedly paying higher prices than 

 they were last year. However, it seems that 

 top prices for this wood have been seen, and 

 shippers would do well to dispose of stock at 

 present prices. 



Hickory has gone to pieces, and numerous 

 parcels of logs have been hawked round the 

 market and have been sold at prices which must 

 be far from profitable to the shipper. This wood 

 will undoubtedly right itself in due course, how- 

 ever. 



Birch has also eased, though slightly, in price. 

 This may always be expected at this time of 

 year, as buyers here do not care to stock same 

 in the hot weather. 



Little or no walnut has been arriving at this 

 port during the last few weeks, but there are 

 large stocks on hand and we do not think this 

 wood has been affected by the general rise in 

 the price of lumber here. 



It seems that the "Mariana" has arrived with 

 ten to twelve cars of walnut lumber, but after 

 inspection this proves to be principally medium 

 and common quality which no doubt will take 

 a great deal of "hard pushing" on the part of 

 the brokers here to sell at remunerative prices. 



Saw Mill and 

 Standing Timber 

 For Sale.... 



Hardwood Mill, now sawing 4000 

 feet daily, on Illinois Central and 

 Southern Railways in Mississippi. 



5000 acres good Gum, Oak, Ash, 

 Cypress amd Elm Timber. 



Business in going condition. Electric 

 Light Plant; McGiflert Log Loader 

 and Full Logging Equipment; Live 

 Stock, etc. 



Good opportunity for practical hard- 

 wood lumberman. For full particu- 

 lars, address 



"CHESTER" 



Care Hardwood Record. 



WALNUT. 

 OAK. 

 ASH, 

 POPUP. 



BLISS=COOK OAK 

 COMPANY 



BLISSVILLE, ARK. 



y\ ,\Nt:K ACTURERS 



Hardwood 

 Lumber 



^^— and —— 



Flooring 



We manufacture 15,000,000 feet of Oak 

 Lumber per year for export and domestic mar- 

 kets, from H to 4 inches thick. 



Also Quartered and Plain Polished Oak Floor- 

 ing, kiln dried, end matched, hollow back. 



Mills and Flooring Plants at 



SHULTS AND BLISSVILLE. ARKANSAS 



GUS. KITZINGER 



Michigan Hardwoods 



By Car or Cargo. Manistee, Mich. 



