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Vol. XXIX. 



CHICAGO, JANUARY 10, 1910. 



No. 6. 



Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by 



FHE HARDWOOD COMPANY 



HENRY H. GIBSON. Prcsidcnl 



LOUIS L. J.iCQVES, .Sccicl.irv 



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Coming Association Meetings 



INDIANA HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



The next annual meeting of this association will be held at 

 IndianapoUs, on Thursday, January, 13, 1910. 

 C, H, KRAMER, JOHN M. PRITCHARD, 



Secretary, President, 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



The amiual meeting of the American Forestry Association 

 wlU be held at Washington, D, C, on Tuesday and Wednes- 

 day, January 18 and 19, 

 EDWIN A, START, HON, CURTIS GUILD, JR,, 



Executive Secretary, President, 



HARDWOOD LUMBER MANUFACTURERS OF 

 WISCONSIN 



The annual meeting of this association will be held at the 

 Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, on Friday, January 21, It is 

 earnestly requested that not only members of the association 

 but every Wisconsin hardwood manufacturer be present. 

 GEORGE H, CHAPMAN, C. A, GOODMAN, 



Secretary. President. 



HARDWOOD MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION OF 



THE tnsriTED STATES. 

 The eighth annual meeting of this association will be held 

 at the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati, on Tuesday, Wednesday and 

 Thursday, February, 1, 2 and 3, 1910. 

 LEWIS DOSTER, R. M. CARRIER, 



Secretary. President. 



NATIONAL WHOLESALE LUMBER DEALERS' 

 ASSOCIATION 

 The next annual meeting of this association will be held at 

 the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati. Ohio, on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, March 2 and 3, 1910. 



E. F. PERRY, GEORGE F, CRAIG. 



Secretary. President. 



General Market Conditions 



During the last fortnight a storni of almost unprecedented severity 

 and unusual length has prevailed from Ihe Atlantic seaboard to the 

 Rocky Mountains, in all the territory north of the Ohio river. It 

 lias interfered very seriously with the luoveineut of freight on the 

 railroads and has precluded the possibility of handling lumber. 

 While orders of large volume in the aggregate have been placed during 

 this time, little or no hardwood has been loaded or is in transit. 



There is an insistent and increasing call for wide, good poplar, 

 especially in the automobile trade. Values on this class of stock 

 have gone as high as $150 per thousand feet in several of the im- 

 portant automobile manufacturing centers. 



Oak of all varieties, in both plain and quartered, of high grade is 

 daily securing an increased price. Stocks in first hands in shipping 

 condition are undeniably short and there is no telling what price 

 either good poplar or oak will reach before new dry stock goes on to 

 the market. This state of affairs is inducing substitution to a marked 

 degree, and the good end of Cottonwood and red gum is having a 

 reflected increased value, 



Eed birch and hard maple are growing scarcer day by day with 

 slightly increased values. 



Basswood and the other northern hardwoods are doing very well. 



Miscellaneous southern woods are in fair call at good prices. 



With the country released from the clutches of zero weather, there 

 is going to be a demand for hardwoods that will tax the facilities 

 of the entire mamifacturing and jobbing trade, as well as the capacity 

 of the railroads to carry the business. 



Interior trim, door and flooring factories are fairly busy to busy, 

 and there is an expectation of an excellent trade in these lines for 

 months to come. 



The veneer and panel manufacturers report increased inquiries and 

 the placing of a considerable volume of new business. 



The trend of the times seems to be toward an increased capacity 

 for the production of hardwoods and hardwood flooring. 



Chicago the Greatest Lumber Market 



The magnitude ot Chicago's interests as a lumber distributing 

 center as compared with those of any other city in the country is 

 demonstrated by the statistics of the past year. The total receipts 

 for 1909 were 2,584,512,000 feet, against 2,053,639,000 feet for 1908, 

 an increase of 530,873,000 feet. Chicago shipments for last year 

 were about 2,000,000 feet greater than those of 1908. 



Receipts by lake last year were heavier than for the last three 

 years and amounted to 381,444,000 feet. The Illinois Central leads 

 in the list of railroads delivering ear shipments, bringing in 580,838,- 

 000 feet of lumber to this market; the Chicago & Eastern Illinois 

 brought in 562,675,000 feet; Chicago & Northwestern, 29,5,262.000 

 feet; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 284,414,000 feet, and the Chi- 

 cago. Burlington & Quincy, 180,332,000. The remainder of the re- 

 ceipts were divided among the other roads. 



Eastern lines carried out of Chicago .ibout fifty per cent of the 

 lumber shipped in or passing through the city. There is no record 

 to show the proportion of building woods and hardwoods involved in 

 these receipts and shipments, but possibly a fair estimate of the 

 hardwood receipts would be approximately 1,000,000,000 feet. 



