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HARDWOOD RECORD 



mand. Quotations for the better grades are 

 i.igh. For wide sizes the prices range between 

 ?120 and $100. For ordinary sizes tlie figures 

 are : Firsts and seconds, $G0 at the Ohio river ; 

 No. 1 common, $36 ; No. 2 common. $25 ; No. 3 

 common, $17. Basswood remains firm and the 

 same is true of chestnut. Ash is quiet and the 

 demand is faliing off. Hiclsory is quiet and 

 steady. Other haruwoods are unchanged. 



CINCINNATI 



Generally speaking, the conditions surround- 

 ing the Cincinnati hardwood marliet are unsat- 

 isfactory. It may be said that the market in 

 "spots" is fair, but the uncertainty of the mails 

 oauses a feeling of dissatisfaction ; one day th.^ 

 orders will be plentiful and then for a day or 

 two slow. Then again, there is no stability to 

 the prices, as those paid by consumers for the 

 same grade vary from $2 to $6 per thou- 

 sand. Another feature of the market at this 

 point is the number of small millmen or lumber 

 manufacturers that canvass this section and sell 

 their product direct to the consumers. This, in 

 a measure. Interferes in local conditions. 



Quarter-sawed oak is in good demand, espe- 

 cially for common and better, with the prices 

 strong. Good, wide stuff, well figured, is scarce 

 and is held at fancy prices. There is con- 

 siderable narrow stuff offered, which is readily 

 disposed of. Plain white oak is in fair move 

 ment, with the stocks about equal to the de- 

 mand. Red oak, plain and quarter-sawed, is 

 meeting with a good demand, with indications 

 of more tielng sold to customers who formerly 

 demanded white oak. Chestnut is receiving on:y 

 fair attention. What was last year a good 

 market for long one's and two's, tie eastern 

 building trade, ia not drawing very heavily on 

 this market. Sound wormy is meeting with a 

 steady sale for good grade, but the prices re- 

 ceived are said to be unsatisfactory. Ash, for 

 carriage and wagon-makers' grades is receiving 

 satisfactory attention, while the stocks are said 

 to be about equal to the demands of the trade. 

 Thick white ash for wagon-makers is not plenti- 

 ful, and the prices are said to be strong. Hick- 

 ory is meeting with a fair movement. Pop- 

 lar is the leading attraction in the market, 

 the movement being good for all classes, with 

 a good demand for clear, wide panel stock and 

 box boards ; the buying for the automobile 

 trade is strong, with a steady sale for all of 

 that class produced. The medium grades ar'- 

 moving fairly, with a little doing in the 

 low grades. Red gum is meeting with a fair 

 demand, with a steady improvement in the mar- 

 ket, especially In the buying for the furnitur.' 

 Industry ; gum is being used by the desk makers 

 for drawer sides, and sawed thin for interiors, 

 while it is also being employed for interioi- 

 finish in large offices, bars and banks. Walnut 

 is in good supply, the stocks in this viclnify 

 steadily growing, but holders remain firm in 

 their views on prices. 



TOLEDO 



AH kinds of hardwoods are moving readily 

 at good, figures. Both quarter-sawed and plain 

 oak are in active call, with no more supply 

 than is necessary to meet the increased demand. 

 Elm is wanted considerably recently for use not 

 only by hoop and stave concerns but by auto 

 mobile manufacturers and furniture plants. 

 Good grade birch continues exceptionally scarce 

 and prices are strong. Some claim a strain of 

 weakness has developed in the basswood market. 

 but the condition does not appear to be general. 

 A fair volume of basswood is being marketed at 

 figures which have shown no decline for some 

 time. Outside demand for hardwoods is brisk, 

 in fact rather more firm than the local call, 

 which, however, has been getting better all the 

 time. A Bice export trade is reported with 



Canadian points, and shipments from this port 

 have been more than ordinarily liberal. The 

 demand for house finishing materials and floor- 

 ing is persistent, and this has had a tendency 

 to hold the yard trade well up. Maple flooring 

 is not by any means plentiful, and other ma- 

 terials are being substituted in some cases. Box 

 materials are plentiful, but there is a live mar- 

 ket for ail that is coming in at good living 

 prices. Receipts have been at least normal, 

 and shipments for the most part prompt, except 

 in the case of some Ohio and Michigan hard- 

 woods which through scarcity have delayed the 

 filling of orders. Local stocks are in good 

 working order and assortments well filled. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Weather of the last two weeks has been more 

 or less unfavorable to the hardwood trade of this 

 vicinity. Orders have not come in as fast as 

 they did a month or so ago. The situation, how- 

 ever, is doubtless only temporary, and conditions 

 are expected to improve as weather conditions 

 become more favorable. Prices have not suffered ; 

 in fact, they are quite stiff, with indications of 

 advancement. There is a particularly good de- 

 mand for all grades of oak, poplar and mahog- 

 any, the latter for vhieer. It is reported that 

 manufacturing plants using hardwoods have taken 

 on fairly large stocks in anticipation of advancing 

 prices. 



NASHVILLE 



The local lumbermen can recollect months iu 

 the year that have been better for them in a 

 business way than the present month. In fact, 

 it is stated that the first half of May to 

 many of them has not held up to expectations. 

 While the volume of trade is not as large as 

 some weeks ago, still the market is regarded 

 as being in a healthy condition. Values are 

 steady and shipments are being made to all 

 parts of the country. Heavy tides in the river 

 caused by the incessant spring rains have kept 

 the local manufacturers on the jump looking 

 after receipts of logs. More than 7,000,000 feet 

 of lumber has come down and more is on the 

 way. I'ractically all of this timber went to throe 

 large firms. 



High-grade oak, wide poplar and high-grade 

 birch, maple and basswood are reported as be- 

 ing very scarce. Chestnut, ash, gum and hickory 

 are reported as moving particularly well. Only 

 the lower grades of the hardwoods are dragging. 

 Increased building has been quite a boost to the 

 lumber business in this section. The automo- 

 bile industry is daily becoming a greater fac- 

 tor in the lumber market. The demand for 

 wide yellow poplar is very active. 



CHATTANOOGA 



The demand for hardwood in this section is 

 rather quiet of late. Only a small amount of 

 stock is being moved and this mostly in grades 

 of common and better oak, poplar and chestnut. 

 Quartered oak is not in as good a demand as it 

 was earlier in the season. Plain red oak is being 

 moved more freely. Wide poplar is sold up to 

 the saw and at good figures. Some low grades 

 in oak and poplar are being sold locally. 



The weather has been detrimental to the build- 

 ers and the planing mill men are not overly 

 rushed with orders. There were no tides of con- 

 sequence in the Tennessee river this spring and 

 the log supply of the river mills is very un- 

 certain. 



LOUISVILLE 



GIBSON 



TALLY BOOK 



The local market for hardwoods is in good 

 condition, and though things are not as active 



This three-lhrow tally ticket cover is made 

 from aluminum^ and accommodates four tally 

 tickets — 4ix8^ inches in size. 



Folds compaclly to less than one-fourth inch 

 in thickness and fits side or inside coal pocket. 



Gives large area of four tickets for compli- 

 cated tallies, or straight grade can be made 

 on one page. 



Accommodates any form of tally ticket desired. 



Special, patented, triplicate tally tickets supplied, 

 printed on waterproof paper with carbon backs. Tallies 

 made on these tickets are unalterable. Their use en- 

 ables the inspector to retain triplicate, and forward 

 orieinal and duplicate. Duplicate designed to be 

 attached to invoice. 



These tally books are perfection for durability- 

 covenicnce, accuracy, and for systematizinE the inspec- 

 tion and measurement of lumber 



Patent applied for on covers. Copyrighted, 1910. 

 Triplicate TallyTickels patented. 



PRICE LIST 



Aluminum Tally Covers, each - - $ 1.00 



Aluminum Tally Covers, per dozen - - 10.00 



Patented triplicate Tally Tickets (slock form) 



per 1,000 10.00 

 Sinclesheel manila (stock form) Tally Tickets, 



per 1,000 4.00 



Specimen forms of Tally Tickets mailed on appHca- 



■ tion. Covers sold on approval to responsible concerns. 



Manufactured by 



Hardwood Record 



355 Dearborn St., CHICAGO 



