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Published In the Interest of Ha>.rdwood Lumber, Americak.n H8Lrd\vood Forests, Wood Verveer Industry, Ha.rd\irood Flooring, 

 Ha^rdwood Interior Finish, Wood CKemlca.Is, Sa.^v Mill a.nd Woodworking M&cKlnery. 



LIBRA 



Vol. XXX. 



CHICAGO, MAY 10, 1910. 



No. 2. 



Published on the lOlh and 25lh of each month by 



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Coming Association Meetings 



NATIONAL HABDWOOD LUMBER ASSOCIATION. 



The next annual meeting of this organization will be held 

 at the Seelbach Hotel, Louisville, Ky., Thursday and Friday, 

 June 9 and 10, 1910. 



F. F. FISH, Secretary. O. O. AGLEE, President. 



NATIONAL VENEER & PANEL MANUFACTURERS' 

 The semi-annual meeting of the National Veneer & Panel 

 Manufacturers' Association will be held at the Southern 

 Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday and Wednesday, June 14 

 and 15. 



P. B. RAYMOND, President. 

 E. H. DEFEBAUGH, Secretary. 



General Market Conditions 



There has been no particular eliauge in hardwood market conditions 

 during the last fortnight. A few items, like the good end of poplar, 

 notably wide stock; firsts and seconds and No. 1 Common red and 

 white oak in both plain and quartered, and firsts and seconds red 

 gum, are in aotive demand, but the general run of lumber products, 

 especially the coarser end, is dragging. 



In New York and Boston business is far from good, particularly 

 in the box. end, and the situation, while better than in these cities, 

 is not alluring either at Philadelphia or Baltimore. 



The furniture manufacturers, upon whom the hardwood trade 

 depends to a considerable extent for its market, is rather in the 

 dumps. The call for medium and low-priced furniture is fair, but the 

 trade in high-class goods is lagging. 



- The makers of office fixtures, cabinet work, etc., are fairly busy, 

 [but few factories have much business ahead. This is not only true 

 jn Chicago, but in Grand Eapids, Eockford and the minor centers as 

 jrell. The furniture people are rather optimistic over the situation 



and think that as the season advances there will be an increased 

 demand. However, furniture prices are ranging low and the margin 

 of profit is comparatively small. 



Building operations in the Middle West generally are as heavy or 

 heavier than they were a year ago, with the result that business with 

 the hardwood interior trim and door people is good, as also with the 

 hardwood flooring people. Flooring manufacturers have cleaned up 

 a good portion of their maple and oak surplus stock during the last 

 few months, and, with but few exceptions, have stopped accumulating. 

 In Chicago, building operations are at high tide, and the year prom- 

 ises to show the completion of more office and flat buildings than 

 were built during the phenomenal year of 1909. 



The financial situation still remains fair although there is a decided 

 tendency toward a tightening in the money market, and discounts have 

 advanced a good one-half per cent, during the last fortnight. 



On the whole there is nothing alarming in the situation and with 

 better weather than has prevailed of late, it is reasonable to presume 

 that trade will settle down to normal conditions with an increased 

 call for a good many varieties of lumber that are somewhat slow in 

 demand at the present time. 



The good end of maple and birch is in about as good call today 

 as even the foremost of the southern woods, and in some instances 

 firsts and seconds birch and maple are being shipped from this year's 

 sawing. 



The veneer and panel people are busy, but working on old orders 

 at comparatively low prices. 



The handle trade shows but little activity; still there is a fair 

 demand for both hickory handles and broom and mop handles of 

 maple, birch and beech. Prices are still ranging low. 



A Declaration 



There is a rumor, emanating from a small element of a leading 

 hardwood association, which has been systematically put forth and 

 fostered at recurring intervals during the last five years, to the effect 

 that Hardwood Record is an enemy to this association. The Record 

 desires to declare *imphatically for once and for all that it is not an 

 enemy to this or any lumber association in existence, and by no pos- 

 sible chance, either in speech of the editor or in matter appearing in 

 this journal, can any such deductions be made. The Record has 

 nothing to do with association politics, and has never published any- 

 thing that could be deemed adverse criticism to hardwood association 

 policies, save in the one particular that it has urged upon all of 

 them the unification of their several sets of inspection rules, as this 

 is the alleged basic principle on which every one of them was founded. 

 There is no more excuse for the continuation of more than one 

 standard of measurement and' inspection of hardwood lumber and 

 their application than t-here would be in a variety of United States 

 weights and measures. Thus far and no farther has Hakdwood 

 Record uttered criticism against prevailing hardwood association 

 methods, and in common with every other honest lumber newspaper, 

 it will continue to attempt the conversion to fairness and common 

 sense of the small unregenerate portion, which constantly block 

 this aim. 



If a vote were taken by the members of every hardwood lumber 

 association in the country, ninety-five per cent would be in favor of 



