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HARDWOOD RECORD 



no retailer is showing any disposition to stoel£ 

 up as he did last fall. Hardwood mills are uni- 

 formly busy and all millmen show a disposition 

 to crowd their plants to the utmost and many 

 of them are putting on night shifts. 



The tendency of prices in hardwood is steadily 

 upward, and although the market is not yet as 

 broad as many wholesalers expect it will be in a 

 few weeks, yet it is improying in a way which 

 looks mishty good for'spring and summer trade. 

 In fact, it seems now rather to be a question of 

 getting stock dry for early summer delivery and 

 getting cars ready for carrying off this stock — 

 than to get more orders. 



BOSTON 



In the market for hardwood lumber trading is 

 gradually becoming more active and prices are 

 considerably firmer. All dealers admit that it is 

 much harder to find suitable supplies than it 

 was a few weeks ago. Mills throughout the 

 West are closely sold up so far as dry lumber 

 Is concerned. Several local dealers state that 

 it is hardly safe to make sales of lumber today 

 unless one knows absolutely that he will be able 

 to get the lumber. It is stated that western 

 consumers of hardwood lumber have been freer 

 buyers in many instances than their eastern 

 competitors and that they have been willing to 

 pay better prices than could be obtained here. 

 Manufacturing consumers are fairly busy. The 

 piano trade is active and in some instances 

 plants have been operated evenings in order to 

 get orders out on time. Manufacturers of in- 

 terior house finish are fairly busy and better 

 reports are coming forward from furniture man- 

 ufacturers. 



The market for quartered oak continues very 

 firm. Owing to the high price of the latter, 

 plain oak, Michigan brown ash and birch are 

 being substituted with good results. The mar- 

 ket for plain oak is considerably firmer. More 

 business is reported in cherry and prices are 

 firmly held on a high level. Whitewood con- 

 tinues in very good demand and prices are ex- 

 ceptionally well held. Cypress of the better 

 grades is also firm, with a fair volume of busi- 

 ness. In the market for North Carolina pine a 

 little steadier tone is now reported. 



BALTIMORE 



Though some of the local hardwood men report 

 business slow, others declare that the volume 

 of their transactions is steadily widening. Some 

 dealers express the opinion that quotations on 

 some of the woods and grades have been ad- 

 vanced too much and that this has had a ten- 

 dency to check the demand and has created a 

 situation of uncertainty as to the ability of the 

 manufacturers to maintain values where they 

 are. The mill men think they will be able to 

 do so, and the utterances of such men as James 

 J. Hill, who maintains that the railroads of the 

 country will lie simply overwhelmed with busi- 

 ness by the fall and winter of the present year, 

 would seem to bear out such a claim. At the 

 same time it is to be said that a very fair 

 demand prevails, and good prices are being 

 realized. The offerings from the mills show a 

 disposition to adhere firmly to the advanced 

 figures, and there is comparatively little varia- 

 tion in the quotations. But it is also evident 

 that on a number of items the lists are quite 

 moderate, and it should not be diflJcult for the 

 buyer and the seller to get together. 



The offerings of common stocks are yet rather 

 free, but some improvement has also taken 

 place in this direction, and the indications are 

 that a further upward movement will take place. 

 Some of the yards appear to be fairly well 

 stocked, while the assortments of others are by 

 no means complete. The furniture factories are 

 still buying in such quantities as to indicate 

 that they are having a good trade, the makers 



of low-priced goods being rather busier than the 

 plants which turn out high-grade wares. 



The export situation is without important 

 changes, the movement showing less vim than 

 was expected early in the year. This is due in 

 part to the uncertainty of the political outlook 

 in Great Britain. This feeling of unrest nat- 

 urally has an unfavorable effect upon business 

 generally. 



- INDIANAPOLIS 



The local hardwood market is strong. The de- 

 mand is excellent and prices are gradually ad- 

 vancing. It looks as if this would be an extraor- 

 dinary season for hardwoods, and manufacturers 

 say prospects have never been brighter. 



Building operations are exceeding all previous 

 records in the history of the city. Vehicle and 

 automobile plants are working to full capacity. 

 Hardwood logs are coming in without great dif- 

 ficulty in prompt transit, and manufacturers are 

 turning them into lumber and veneers as fast 

 as working full time and over time will permit. 

 All grades of oak are especially strong. 



CINCINNATI 



March proved to be tlie mildest in weather 

 conditions ever known in this vicinity. Business 

 conditions trotted a dead heat with the weather. 

 In the hardwood market there is an apparent 

 lack of animation that seems unaccountable. 

 Many reasons arc advanced, and among them it 

 is pointed out that the month of February was 

 very busy, which was unusual. The financial 

 situation shows that money is plentiful and 

 easy at the banks, but there is noted the fact 

 that collections are slow. Some of the cooler 

 observers are of the opinion that the slowness is 

 <>nly temporary, however, and was caused by too 

 much ambition to boost prices, and the result was 

 that consumers have held off. Since the open- 

 ing of April there seems to be a better feeling, 

 and it is asserted that before the close of the 

 month everything will be up to normal, and thai 

 the future will be busy. 



Poplar commands the center of the boards as 

 the leader in the transactions in hardwoods. 

 There has developed a great scarcity of box 

 boards, which is attributed to the buying for the 

 automobile trade and the efforts of mill men to 

 furnish the class of poplar boards that is de- 

 • manded. The buying for the automobile trade 

 has become a very marked feature at this point. 

 Good, wide, clear panel stock is attracting strong 

 inquiry. Grades suitable for furniture and kin- 

 dred manufacturiug industries are plentiful, with 

 a fair movement. Low grade is plentiful, with 

 good selling to the box manufacturers. Quarter- 

 sawed white oak of good figure is readily sale- 

 able, while the stocks on hand and available are 

 said to be far from suflicient to meet the de- 

 mands of the market. Plain white oak is said 

 to be growing scarcer, and prices are very firm. 

 Red oak, both quarter-sawed and plain. Is in good 

 supply, but there are indications that the grow- 

 ing scarcity of white oak is making red oak a 

 stronger feature of the market, and it is freely 

 predicted that prices will be forced much higher. 

 Ash is receiving much attention from buyers for 

 the wagon and carriage industries, and there is 

 a good demand for thick stock, well seasoned for 

 wagonmakers' purposes. Hickory is meeting with 

 a fair demand from the wagon and carriage 

 trade, especially for wheel and spoke, pole and 

 shaft stock. Red gum stl'l continues to show a 

 steadily increasing growth in the demand on the 

 market, and there is evidence of more attention 

 from manufacturing consumers. Red gum will 

 be found on more stock lists as the days go by, 

 says a large handler of this class of lumber, as 

 he pointed out the largely increasing number of 

 consuming manufacturers who arc using it. Wal- 

 nut stocks continue to increase, and the confi- 

 dence of the holders in the opening up of the for- 



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