Show NO REDUCTION OF FURNITURE PRICES hardwood dealers report curtailment of timber output the question will there be a dt dp line cline in prices of furniture 7 is asked ery cry often remarked M milton ilton poulsen of the richfield furniture co to the reaper this week and thinking it of sufficient interest inte resit to the public we would like to present an answer to the question though the reaper our opinion is there will not be any decline in prices in proof of this we give some figures gathered eath cred by lewis Do dosten secretary of the hardwood manufacturers association the figures are the result of a canvass which was undertaken on the zd of december to ascertain the conditions pr ealing at the hardwood lumber mills ahse fh se reports are from mills and show that the normal monthly production of these mills is f feet L et and that their production has been cut to feet or a monthly reduction of about ga per cent the figures have been compiled by districts the sharpest reductions have been made in the nashville memphis and st louis districts the chief product of the st lonis loins and memphis districts is oak oik with gum and cottonwood occupying a secondary position here the monthly output has ber been n decre about 75 per cent in the Nish nashville ville and eastern tennessee districts the reductions ionn is ag and 72 per percent cent respectively in wisconsin and michigan the PC c niage of reduction is 65 per cent in kentucky and west virginia the curtailment has been 62 po pe int i nt in ill ohio and indiana the curtailment is about 15 per cent these are a re tho the chief hardwood and other fu furniture lumber producing districts of the united states tile the figures have been gathered when pr production wib was at the minimum A haigwood haid wood lumber producer in a position p position to know writes rhe fhe universal opinion of the produce is of hardwood lumber seems to be the very heavy curtailment of the supply will hold 1 to their normal level in epitac of the somewhat iome what slackened blackened demand until there is fuller assurance that both labor and material will abe be pro rare aired d on a materially lower level in 1908 than in 1807 there will be neither to list the goods lower nor to discount the list it may as well be understood nt at the outlet that the furniture manufacturers are going to I 1 blind pat on prices 11 |