HARDWOOD RECORD 



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favor an opening up when the proper time comes, 

 and conditions in general bacls this up. 



NEW YORK 



The local hardwood market continues to show 

 firmness as to values, with good stocks scarce, 

 but low-grade quite plentiful. There is a fair 

 amount of lumber moving in both the wholesal.; 

 and retail channels, although buying has not 

 been as active of late .as was hoped for. The 

 local manufacturing lines are quite busy. The 

 piano trade is picking up. automobile trade is 

 very active, which, with the fair amount of trim 

 and novelty work, is giving a very fair degree 

 of activity in the local manufacturing trade. 

 The yards as a rule have been carrying fair 

 stocks during the spring, but the demand has 

 been sufficient to somewhat deplete supplies and 



Woodworking Plant 

 Timber Lands 



A company ownine saw mill and two handle factories, 

 with complete equipment of best modern machinery 

 and 2,400 acres of land, on Railroad in Mississippi, 

 where frciKht rate is favorable, wishes to sell its 

 entire holdings. The fadories are now running and 

 payine dividends. The Plant includes storehouse, 

 boarding house. 32 cottages, etc., practically the entire 

 villaEe. Of the land one half has been cut over, but 

 still has a large amount of tie and other timber, the 

 rest has been denuded of some white oak, but still 

 contains about 6,000 feet fine oak, hickory, poplar and 

 gum to the acre. The land is very fine for farming. 

 This is a splendid chance for a moderate investment. 



M. V. RICHARDS 



LAND AND INDUSTRIAL AGENT 



Southern Railway, 1367 Pennsylvania Ave. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



WE WANT TO MOVE 



600,000 feet dry 4-4 Brown Ash 

 EDWARD CLARK & SON, Toronto, Can. 



Greenbrier Lumber Co. 



Manufacturers 



White Pine, HemJocIv and Hard= 



woods, from our own lands. 



Pine and Oak our specialty 



NEOLA, W. VA. 



BLUESTONELANDUUMBERGO. 



White Pine, Oak, 

 Poplar, Chestnut 

 and Hemlock Lumber 



WHITE PINE AND OAK TIMBERS ON 

 SHORT NOTICE 



RAILROAD TIES 



We own our own stumpage 

 and operate our own mill. 



Mill: GARDNER. W. VA. 



Sales Office: RIDGWAY, PA. 



it is expected that the next thirty days will see 

 quite a revival in purchases. 



The wholesale market is remaining firm by 

 reason of the scarcity of good, well-manufac- 

 tured stock for prompt shipment, and before new 

 slocks become available for the market it is ex- 

 pected that there will be suflicient increased de- 

 maud to assure a permanency to values for the 

 balance of the year. Stocks mostly in good call 

 are plain and quartered oak. poplar, ash, chest- 

 nut and birch, w-ith a scarcity on certain desira- 

 ble items and the balance of the list holding 

 firm. Low-grade stock is plentiful and more or 

 less subject to competition, but nothing has oc- 

 curred or seems likely to occur to force any 

 radical change in the existing prices on any 

 grades of hardwoods for the balance of the year. 



BUFFALO 



The Buffalo lumbermen are not trying to push 

 trade much, as they do not find it pays to Jo 

 so at this time of the year. 



People who have good lumber of any sort can 

 sell it fast enough, but it is a fact that most 

 yards have very little of it. Low grades as a 

 rule are moving very slowly, although one hard- 

 wood yard recently was reported to have dis- 

 posed of half its low grades. 



There is no change in the price of hardwood 

 lumber ; the stiff asking prices at the sawmills 

 would make it impossible for any to go down. 

 Everybody wants oak, and if it Is not to be had 

 in the cut wanted it is hard to get either birch 

 or chestnut. It is generally reported that pop- 

 lar is not so strong as it was, but this market 

 is not aware of it, for the poplar that so many 

 want, thick cuts, is never in stock to any ex- 

 tent. It is not likely that it will be while au- 

 tomobiles are so popular. Maple is about as 

 hard to get as anything, but some yards are now 

 showing a good lot of four-inch from Canada. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The backward spring has naturally had a de- 

 pressing effect on business, and as there is al- 

 ways a general slacking up of trading during the 

 summer months, and the accustomed exodus cf 

 merchants to the country and seashore has al- 

 ready begun, there is little hope that trading 

 will acquire any degree of activity until fall, for 

 which period prospects are more promising. The 

 handlers of the better grades of hardwoods, seem- 

 ingly, have been doing a profitable business of 

 late, and these have had some difficulty in sup- 

 plying the desired goods. Although there has 

 been a fair volume of high and low grade lum- 

 ber moving, orders have been' admittingly more 

 or loss spasmodic and there is noticeable a de- 

 cided decrease of vigor in trading. The interior 

 finish, sash and door and flooring concerns, have 

 had a creditable season and building work prom- 

 ises well for the rest of the year. Furniture 

 factories have declined in output and therefore 

 are disappointing, but notwithstanding a shaving 

 off here and there of an anticipated voluminous 

 prosperity, the majority of business men are op- 

 timistic as to outlook. 



PITTSBURG 



Business in Pittsburg lacks regularity more 

 than anything else. It is doubtful if the oldest 

 wholesaler can remember a time when business 

 was so spotty as during the past six weeks. A 

 good day will be followed by a three or four 

 days blank and a good week a small oasis in 

 the midst of a veritable desert of non response. 

 Mails are very unsatisfactory. Salesmen on the 

 road are doing all they can to bring in business, 

 but the yards persist in buying only for the im- 

 mediate needs and there is practically no ad- 

 vance buying being done by either yards or rail- 

 roads. The past week has shown more activity 



in railroad buying. Some big requisitions have 

 been going the rounds but the orders have not 

 been placed. Speculative buying is almost en- 

 tirely absent in this district, which accounts for 

 much of the dullness in the yard trade. 



The best trade reported is with the furniture, 

 implement, handle and carriage factories which 

 are taking pretty good lots of hardwood at good 

 prices. Automobile demand is the best single 

 feature of the market and dealers in wide pop- 

 lar are profiting thereby. High-grade white oak 

 probably comes second in popular demand and 

 general satisfaction among the trade. The call 

 for maple is somewhat better than a few weeks 

 ago and hickory and ash are also very good 

 sellers at better prices than have prevailed for 

 several months. Sound wormy chestnut is hav- 

 ing just a fair movement while spruce seems to 

 lie selling regularly for boxing purposes espe- 

 cially. 



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BOSTON 



The market for hardwood lumber is generally 

 quiet, but manufacturers are as firm holders as 

 they ha%'e been at any time. Manufacturers of 

 veneers are quite busy and for the most part have 

 a fair amount of unfilled business on hand. Desk 

 manufacturers are doing more than they were, 

 but the interior house finish concerns in this, 

 district are not as actively employed as usual. 



An increased number of inquiries is noted in. 

 this market for plain oak. Quarteret] oak is in 

 rather moderate inquiry and the demand for asli 

 and elm is dull. Maple, particularly in thick 

 stock, is in good demand and full asking prices 

 are reported as being paid. Basswood has been 

 selling with considerable freedom and inquiry 

 continues good. Cherry and walnut are not in 

 active call, due in part to the high prices ruling, 

 A fairly active demand is reported for chestnut. 

 Cypress is generally well held. 



BALTIMORE 



The hardwood trade has not undergone any 

 decided change during the past two weeks. Good 

 grade stocks sell readily and command acceptaWe 

 prices, but the lower grades move slowly. Com- 

 mon poplar has undergone considerable accumu- 

 lation. Many yards carry large stocks, having 

 bought them when the outlook was regarded as 

 promising for an unusual business. It will hard- 

 ly be denied that a somewhat more cautious tone 

 prevails in the trade, and that even the yards 

 which did not lay in liberal supplies are not 

 disposed to buy unless they see a chance to 

 place the stock. Everyone is holding down as 

 much as possible because of the railroad rate 

 situation and other developments. Most of the 

 hardwood firms here report that in point of 

 volume at least their business has not dimin- 

 ished, but there seems to be less confidence, and 

 reservations are implied, if not expressed. The 

 better grades of poplar are holding their own, 

 all desirable stocks being taken up with avidity 

 and at attractive prices. The high grades of 

 other woods are also absorbed with much free- 

 dom. The trouble is with the low grades, which 

 do not move at such a rate as to ease the 

 situation. Foreign buyers are rather more hope- 

 ful than the home trade. They show a gratifying 

 interest in supplies. The inquiries are sufficiently 

 numerous to indicate a better feeling and ex- 

 pectations of a good business are being enter- 

 tained. 



CLEVELAND 



Business with the hardwood dealers in thia 

 territory has been only fair during the past 

 month. There has been a sort of a drop in busi- 

 ness of all lines within the past month or two. 

 Building operations keep up well and an Im- 

 mense amount of hardwoods is being used in 



