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RECORD   AND   GUIDE





July 27, 1918





CURRENT BUILDING OPERATIONS





DIRECTLY in line with the central-
ization in organization of several
of the other building material concerns
have come certain developments in the
brick industry. Under the auspices of
the War Industries Board a plan for
mobilizing the resources of the trade
wiU be carried through. Although the
details of the program are as yet not
specifically known, it is suggested that
they may include some system of divid-
ing the control and responsibility. Men
acting in the capacity of directors wiU
be chosen only by reason of familiarity
with the problems of the industry, and
capabilities of broadminded and fair
judgment both in the intcrests of the
country and of the trade. It is expected
that co-ordination with the authorities
in the questions of coal, transportation
and raw materials will give favorable
consideration to all brick manufacturers
will will give assurance of their product
going to supply government needs, or to
moderate or essential civilian uses. Co-
ordination along such lines in the brick
industry is regarded favorably by other
trade as well. The lumber industry has
put itself on record as welcoming the
new competition resulting from this
new move, as "intelligent" and there-
fore satisfactory. Moreover, such co-
operation among the dififerent branches
of the brick industry, will building the
foundations of an organization that may
continue and be of considerable benefit
even  after  the  war.

Better satisfaction exists in the lum-
ber trade since it has become known
that the lumber prices fi.xed by the Gov-
ernment will have application only to
the shipments made during the re-
mainder of that quarter. This ruling
will have a generally beneficial eflfect.
It will inake it impossible to submerge
mills with orders at the current prices
that cannot be shipped until the next
period. Moreover, unctratinty as to the
price will tend to make customers more
careful about placing orders. If it seems
likely that a certain mill in question wiU
in all probability, place their contracts
where delivery at current prices will be
assured. Thus an equalizing movement
n allotment of orders among the mills
will be initiated, which will have a dis-
tinctly favorable influence upon' the in-
dustry as a whole.

SUMMARY—Transaotions in the North River
brick market for week ending Priday. .luly
2G. 1918. Condition of market : Demand fair;
prices unchanged.    Quotations:    Hudson  Rivers.





.$12..~i0 to $13 a thousand to dealers In cargo lots
alongside dock. Number of cargoes arrived,
14; sales, 14. Distribution: Manhattan. 4;
Brooklyn, G; New Jersey points, 1; outside
points.  2.

Structural Steel. Production of all
kinds of finished steel is reported to be
practically normal, and deliveries are
being made ina more satisfactory man-
ner than has been possible for a long
time. Output of shapes and plates has
been particularly large during the past
few months, and it is e.xpected that some
relief will be aflforded ordinary con-
sumers, since the new priority rulings
will allow fairly free distribtition. Im-
portant contracts recently reported out-
side direct government requirements in-
clude 10,000 tons for the new Chicago
plant of the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
350 tons for the General Chemical Co.
at Baltimore, 500 tons for the Staten
Island Rapid Transit Raihvay. Demand
continues on a large scale, and orders
are being booked in advance of pro-
duction. Official prices for beams and
channels up to 15 inches are quoted for
the third quarter at 3c. at mill, Pitts-
burgh.





'Wire Product. Altho present output
of wire products mills does not amount
to more than two-thirds of normal, yet
Government requirements are not ab-
sorbing the entire production. The
surplus is being distributed to those
customers who are provided with pri-
ority certificatesn Demands continue
heavy, and the main difficulty lies in
procuring raw materials and in deter-
mining the opportionment of the lim-
ited supply. Prices are quoted $3.50 base
per keg for wire nails; bright basic wire,
$3.35  per   100  Ib.

Lumber. There has been compara-
tively slight activity in the Southern
Pine market of late, resulting in part
from doubt as to the precite method of
application of the maximum government
prices. Although the manufacturers
state that they do not object to the
$28 base, yet item prices are not yet
satisfactorily arranged and it is probable
that a hearing wiU be held before long
to reconsider the matter. In the in-
terim, however, shipments are below a
production which is subnormal, being
slowed  up  by  lack  of  necessary  labor.





BUILDING   COM

CURRENT wholesale prlces, prevatllng
on the Buildlng- Materlal Exchange
and elsewhere In the Metropolltan dlstrlct.
Allowances must be made for yard and
store prlces:

Note.—Price   changes   are   Indlcated  by
black-face type.

Brick    (Cargo   lots.    at    the    wharf.   to
dealers only), per M.:

For retall  prlces, New Tork, add cartage
plus 10 per cent.

North River common........¥13.50 @ $13.00

Raritan   common.............No quotatlon

Second hand common, per load

of 1.500  .....................$6.00®------

Cement   (wholesale,  1,000  bbls.  lots and
over. alongslde dock. N. T.):

Domestlc   Portland,   Spot......   2.60®------

Rebate on bags, returned, lOc. bag.

Rosendale   Natural   to   dealers,

wood or duck bags..........tl.lS®------

Rebate on bags. returned. lOc. bag.

Gravel   (500  cu.  yd.  lots  f.   o.  b.  along-
slde dock N. T.. wholesale):

1%   In.   (nomlnal)   ............$2.00®------

% In.........................No quotation

Pavlng gravel...............No quotatlon

P.  S. C. gravel...............No quotatlon

Pavlng stone................No quotatlon

Crnstaed Stone  (500 cu.  yd.  lots. f. o. b.
alongslde dock N. T., wholesale):





MODITY   PRIGES

Trap rock,  1%  In.  (Nomlnal). .$2.00@------

Trap rock, % In.  (Nomlnal). .. .   1.95®------

Crushed  limestone,  H4   In.....   1.70®------

Crushed   limestone,   %   In......   1.80®------

Buiiaine  Stone—

Indlana   limestone,   per  cu.   ft........$1.14

Kentucky   limestone,   per  cu.   ft......   1.50

Brier  Hill   sandstoné.   per  cu.  ít.....   1.50

Gray Canyon  sandstone,  per cu.  ft...    .95

BufP  Wakeman,   per  cu.   ft...........   1.50

Buff Mountain,  per cu.   ft............   1.50

North   River  bluestone.  per  cu.   ft...   1.05

Seam  face  granite,   per  sq.   ft........   1.00

S.   Dover   marble    (promiscuous    mill

blocks).   per  cu.   ft.................   2.00

White Verniont marble   (sawed), New

York,  per cu.  tt....................   3.00

I.lniieed OII—

City brands, olled, 5 bbl. lots..$1.82@------

Less than  5  bbls..............   1.83®------

Turpentlnei

Spot In yard, N. Y., per gal... .*0.68@$0.72

Ijumber   (wholesale prlces. N. T.):
Yellow plne (merchantable 1905. f.o.b.N.Y.1 •

8 to 12 Ins., 16 to 28 ft___$44.50@$55.00

14 to 16 ft.................   63.00®   75.00

Hemlock.   Pa.,   f.   o.   b.  N.  T.

Base prlce,  per M..........  34.50®------

Hemlock,  W.  Va..  base  prlce

per  M......................   34.50®------

(To mlxed cargo prlce add frelght $1.50.)
Spruce, Eastern, random car-

goes,  narrow   (dellvered)..   38.00®  42.00







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