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HARDWOOD RECORD 



LOUISVILLE 



lu spite of the worst weather of a bad winter 

 — heavy snow and rains — the condition of the 

 hardwood marliet in general is very good. Local 

 Qt'Clers feel that nothing but the weather is 

 keeping the business down to where they can 

 handle it with their present forces. Reports from 

 all over the country indicate increased building 

 movements and locally the permits are breaking 

 all records. Low grades are still moving about 

 as last month and there is not much fear of them 

 piling up in the last two years. Prices are firm 

 ou all high-grade stuff with quartered oak and 

 poplar moving best. There is hardly a doubt 

 but that the prices will make for a new level 

 with the opening of spring building operations. 



ASHLAND 



Although the weather conditions of this sec- 

 tion have been very unfavorable, large amounts 

 of lumber have been loaded. Prices remain firm 

 and, if anything, are increasing, and a great 

 many orders are being received by the various 

 manufacturers for immediate and future ship- 

 ments. Inquiries are plentiful and buying is 

 being done on a more liberal scale. The railroads 

 continue to buy a large quantity for immediate 

 and future shipments and buy mostly all grades 

 of lumber at more satisfactory prices. 



Hardwoods are in good demand from gources 

 the manufacturers have not heard from for some 

 time. This especially refers to lower grades and 

 is also noted that the furniture and retail manu- 

 facturers are laying in a large amount of stock, 

 getting ready for the coming spring and summer 

 business. • 



Quartered and plain red and white oak is in 

 good demand. The better grades are scarce. 

 Poplar continues to be in very good demand, espe- 

 cially in panel stock. 



ST". LOUIS 



A noticeable improvement has taken place in 

 the hardwood situation during the past few 

 weeks. The volume of hardwood business has 

 been better, and instead of the better grades of 

 hardwood being exclusively called for. other 

 grades are also being bought. In fact*, the de- 

 mand for the lower grades is getting better all 

 the time. No. 1 common plain and quartered oak 

 is in particularly good request. This is also 

 true of poplar, ash and gum. Thick ash is also 

 in good demand. Maple and hickory are showing 

 in;provement. What is worrying the hardwood 

 producers is the fact that there may be a 

 sc&rcity of dry stock, particularly poplar. Other 

 woods are not so short, although all of them 

 will run short, it is feared, before the spring 

 buying season is over. Because of the advance in 

 prices of upper grade stock the lower grades are 

 being bought more liberally than would be the 

 case otherwise. 



MILWAUKEE 



There is a decidedly better tone to the hard- 

 wood trade and dealers say that it is the be- 

 ginning of the heavy spring business that is ex- 

 pected. While dealers about the state are not 

 ordering as heavily as they might, they are send- 

 ing in some favorable inquiries and there is every 

 indication that stocks are unusually low. Sev- 

 eral wholesalers predict that should the build- 

 ing season open with a rush there would be a 

 genuine scramble for stocks. The traffic situa- 

 tion is gradually clearing up and shipments are 

 much easier. 



The most favorable feature of the Milwaukee 

 situation is the lively demand from the sash and 

 door and interior finishing plants. Manufactur- 



ing plants in general are placing some good 

 orders for stocks. The increased demand and a 

 shortage of stocks in some lines has resulted in 

 several advances in price. Shop grades of birch 

 and basswood are higher and advances have been 

 made in plain and quarter-sawed oak. Poplar 

 is also higher. Dry stocks in some lines are far 

 from being as large as they might be. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Interest in wholesale circles here now runs 

 largely to the prospects for future supply of 

 northern hardwoods. The dealers have made 

 th(,'ir southern contracts and are pretty well as- 

 sured of stock from that direction except as to 

 shipment, but they have not made full arrange- 

 ments for birch, basswood, elm and maple and 

 are proceeding cautiously. Birch is almost out 

 ot the market already and will be for consumers 

 until about July 1, which puts a fancy price 

 on everything in the birch line. The mills have 

 maiked up the price on their new stocks and do 

 not seem particularly anxious to contract even 

 at the advanced prices. The wholesalers are in 

 no hurry, either, as they think the supply is 

 going to be abundant when it does come. Just 

 now birch in all grades is higher. Even the 

 No. 3 stock is running low and is held at firmer 

 prices, which do not please the boxmen and other 

 consumers. Basswood culls are still dull and are 

 the weakest spot in the market. 



Southern oak, which is the main dependence of 

 oak con.sumers, is in fair supply, but held at 

 strong prices. Plain oak is firm at $53 here and 

 quartered at $85 to $87. Maple is also looking 

 up. and the flooring factories are using large 

 qnautities of it. The sash and door factories 

 arc buying intermittently. They do not like pres- 

 ent prices and it is taking time to educate the 

 trade to the necessary advances in hardwoods. 

 Coimlry buyers are coming into the market more 

 actively now with calls for wagon stock, flooring 

 and other staples for yard supplies. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



The market is strong with an excellent move- 

 ment. Dealers have not been as busy in years, 

 handling stock to the mills and thence to 

 customers. The trade is taking everything of- 

 fered at strong prices. It is estimated that 

 deals have been closed since the first of the 

 year for more than 60.000.000 feet of maple to 

 be cut for this season's delivery. No. 2 common 

 and better maple is a ready seller at $22 to $23 

 and extra thick is higher. The stock of bass- 

 wood is limited. There has been less doing in 

 beech than in any other wood, but it is also 

 picking up. Birch is strong and not in large 

 supply. The offerings of ash are small and 

 more could find a ready sale at about $30 and 

 $32. Trade in elm is improving. No. 3 hard- 

 wood stock is selling at fifty cents to $1 higher 

 than it brought thirty days ago. The trade in 

 flooring is active and the plants are moving 

 large quantities. 



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The hardwood situation in the Detroit dis- 

 trict is strong and healthy in most respects. 

 Maple and birch are particularly active, with 

 dry stoclv practically unobtainable. Most large 

 manufacturers state that they have contracted 

 their sea.son's cut both of maple and birch. 

 Basswood is also being picked up closely and 

 there is a good demand for this wood at last 

 year's prices. Beech is the only northern hard- 

 wood dragging in this market. Very few sales 

 liave been recorded in the past six months and 

 there are large dry stocks awaiting buyers. 

 Manufacturers, however, hope that the stiff ad- 

 vance in prices of maple and birch may lead to 

 an increase in the demand for beech. 



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