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December 6, 1919 RECORD AND GUIDE 579 MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES to be able to start upon elaborate new programs early next spring. Advancing material prices are seem¬ ingly no bar to building activity at this time. The market has been very active during the past week or so, with prices advancing all along the line. Dealers as well as buyers are more concerned about the developing scarcity of supplies than they are about advancing prices, and the situation is likely to become a serious im¬ pediment to the future of tiie industry un¬ less immediate steps are taken to increase production. The coal shortage and the restrictions upon the use of fuel is a seri¬ ous blow to the building industry, as it will retard the production of material im¬ mediately required for the fulflUment of the programs now outlined, Conimon Brick.—The New Tort whole¬ sale market for Hudson River common brick experienced an intensely active week with a total of thirty-two barges arrived from up-river points and thirty-eight loads disposed ofi, for distribution through¬ out the Metropolitan district. The price is firm at $20 a thousand, and it is now thought by the trade that the advancing price tendency has been checked and that the market price will be stabilized at the IN THE METROPOLITAN MARKETS Plaster Boards Delivered at Job alte In Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens: 17x2Sxl ]7x48x % i3x36K ^ i2x36x % t2x36x ^ la In. la. In, (0.35 0,32 0.21 0.21 each each each each In.................. 0.23M oach Delivered at job In Manhattan...... .$1.86 to $2.26 perou. y %-ln.» Manhattan delivery. 3.2& per cu. yd. Bronx delivery...... 8.50 per cu. yd. ft. Bnlldlnff Stone- Indiana HmeHtone, per cu. ft..., Kentucky limestone, per cu. ft., Brier Hilt sandstone, per cu. ft... Qray Canyon sandstone, per cu. Buff Wakeman, per cu. ft Buff Mountain, per cu, g'orth River bluestone, eam-face granite, per Sout h Dover marble mill block), per cu. ft White Vermont marble (aawed). Mew Tork, per cu. ft.............. ft per cu, Bq. ft........ (promiscuoufl ft. 11.21 1.86 1.60 .96 1.60 1.60 1.06 1.00 2.26 8.00 Structural Steel— Plain material at tidewater: cents per pound: Beams and channels up to 14 In..........................$2.72 to ------ Beams and channels over 14 In, 2.72 to Angles. 3x2 up to 6xS........ 2.72 to Zees and teea................ 2.72 Steel bars ................... 2.62 to to Wholesale prices. New Tork: Yellow plnCp merchantable 1906. t, N. r,: o. b.. 3x4 to 14x14, 10 to 20 ft___$47.00 to|65.00 Hemlock, Pa., f, o. b.. N. T., base price, per M......... ------to Hemlock. W, Va„ base price, per M ................... ------to (To mixed cargo price add freight, $1.60.) Spruce, Eastern, random cur- goes, narrow (delivered) .S50.00 to$<10.00 Wide cargoes ............. 50.00 to ti0.00 Add $1.00 per M. for each inch In width over 12 Inches. Add $1.00 per M. for every two foot over 20 ft. In length. Add $1.00 per M, for dressing. Cypress Lumber (by car. f. o, b., N. T.); First and seconds. 1-in.. $68.75 to ---------- Cyprefis shingles, 6x18, No. 1 Hearts ............... 17.00 to ---------- Cypress shlneles, 6x18, No. 1 Prime ............... 15.00 to ---------- Quartered oak............210.00 to ---------- Plain oak ............... 95.00 to 100.00 Flooring: White oak, quart'd, select. 190.00 to ---------- Red oak, quart'd, select,. 150.00 to --------- Maple No. 1.............. 80.00 to ---------- Yellow pine. No. 1, common flat .................... 70.00 to --------- N. C. pine, floorlnff, Nor* folk.................... 65,00 to ---------- Window GTflHs— Ofllcial discounts from manufacturers' lists: Single strength, A quality, first three brackets ..........................79 % B grade, single strength, flrst three brackets .........................79% Grades A and B, larger than the flrst three brackets, single thick.......7ft% Double strength, A quality...........80% Double strength, B quality..........82% LInaeed Oll^ City brands, oiled, 5-bbl, lots.$2.12 to------ Less than 5 bbls............. 2.15 to------ Tu rpen tlne^ Spot in yard, N. Y., per gal.- l.«8 to tl-75 $20 level for some weeks at least. Th« demand for common brick maitnains the intensity that has marked the past month or more, but producers and dealers are of the opinion that sufficient brick is in sight to supply all reasonable require¬ ments. Prom the higher reaches of the river it is reported that manufacturers are preparing to send in their final tows of the season. There is no ice in the river but heavy snow around the Kingston dis¬ trict last week decided the producers to rush what they could to the city. There is a goodly amount of brick still to be shipped from the Haverstraw and New¬ burgh Bay districts before the river is closed to navigation^ so that consumers have no cause to worry about a faminle or even a serious shortage_ The fuel situation has been somewhat relieved of late> and brickmakers are now burning green brick In greater numbers than be¬ fore this season. Summary.—Transactions in the North River common brick market for the week ending Friday, December 5. 1919- Condi¬ tion of the market: Demand excellent: prices firm and unchanged. Quotations: Hudson Rivers. |20 a thousand to dealers in cargo lots alongside dock. Number of cargoes arrived. 32; sales, 38- Distribu¬ tion; Manhattan, 13; Bronx, 5; Brooklyn, 15; New Jersey points, 5. Tin In 1818. Tin is one of the few highly useful metals that are practically not produced in the United States proper. The output of tin from domestic ore in 1918 was only 68 tons, nearly all of it obtained from placers in Alaska. The tin imported in 1918, as metal and in concentrates, amounted to 82,854 short tons, the largest quantity yet brought into the country in any one year. Deposits of tin ore are found in Cali¬ fornia, Virginia, North Carolina, Soutk Carolina, South Dakota, Washington, Ne¬ vada, and New Mexico, but the ore at some of them contains so little tin that it can not be mined with profit. Tin concentrate from Bolivia wag handled at four tin-smelting plants in this country, which produced from It over 10,000 tons of metallic tin, A report on tin in 1918, by Adolph Knopf, has just been published by the United States Geological Survey, Depart¬ ment of the Interior, as a chapter of Mineral Resources for 1918 and can be obtained free of charge on application to the Director of the Survey at Washington. Let WHITE Build It of CONCRETE These Nationally-known firms: Swift & Co., JuUus Kayser & Co., Standard Oil Co. of N. J.. Texas Co., Crane Co., Pathe Freres Phono¬ graph Co., General Motors Corporation, and Dixie Drinking Cup Co. "Let WHITE build it of CONCRETE." Could you desire any better recommendation ? hlNOlNEEi^J) & CONTRACTORS FOR INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS f m ■■';•:■'- ■.■■■:..■> ".:■■■=:•