The Orange Leader, Citizen-Record Consolidated (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1904 Page: 1 of 10
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At all of tbe mill offices visited this week, the lumber re-
porter has received practically tbe same reply to bis query as
| to tbe state of tbe lumber trade: "We are snipping more than
we are cutting, there is a big demand for yard stock, ai advanc-
ed prices, but saw bills are mighty scarce," That just about
sises up tbe situation in a nutshell. Dealers throughout the
territory reached by-the mills of this section, and especially in
Texas, are clamoring for quick delivery on all new orders plac-
ed and are hurrying out shipments on orders placed some time
ago for future delivery. The mills are making strenuous efforts
to meet all of these demands, the manufacturers at Orange al-
ways making it ¿n especial point to give their customers the
very best and quickest service in their power. Stocks on the
mill yards are badly depleted in many lines, especially on 10,18,
and 20-foot lengths of dimension and on boards of the same
lengths, and prices on these items, as a consequenc admit of no
discounts, but customers miist pay full; list to get the stuff.
One manufacturer stated yesterday thatlfhe had five more
matching machines, in tfis planing mill be could keep them all
busy for the next twenty or thirty days getting out flooringand
similar stock, the orders for whicb had piled up on his books.
Another manufacturer stated yesterday that if he had the stock
& on his yard from which to make the desired material, he had
the machines to run it. It occurred to tbe sawdust man that ,
these tw6 might get together and keep things going in good
^he concensus of opinion among the manufacturers that
were seen this week is that the present demand is here to stay
and that it is not merely a temporary spurt that will soon be
ended. The manufacturer sees, in the presnt status of the trade,
tbesltuation passing out of the control -of tbe brokers, where it
has been for so long, and getting back Into the hands ráthe
manufacturers. When prices were so badly demoralised,^hé
broker rather controlled the situation, as be could take ah order
atan extremelylow price, knowing that in the scramble for busi-
ness he could find some mill that would furnish the material
to him at a price that would allow a nice margin.
Now, however, there is not such a disposition among'the man-
ufacturers to practice cut throat methods and the broker who
takes an order at panic prices finds that he In up against it, when
be goes to place the order at the mills, for instead of demorali-
zation among them he finds the manufacturer lined up solldly-
With a determination to maintain living pricess. This same con
ditlon applies to tbe yard man who also has been taking adyalJS8BH
tage of the demoralization tobuy lumber at his own price thaiU*
can now dispose of to thetonsnmer at a big profit.
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to command a good price, which will mean prosperity to the
farmers and consequent prosperity tqjbe tumber trade. % •
None 01 the manufacturers1 profess to be able to uuderstand
just why the railroads are not buying more heavily than they *
are, but they patiently await a time that they know must come
soon when 1he roads will be compelled to make extensive re-
pairs ánd improvements that; will require the use of ties and
other material in largequantities. The Leader man was inform-
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but no mill could bfe found that was willing, at this stage of the
game, to accept the order at the prices desired by the purchas-
ing road. It thé road actually needs the ties the order will «j
have to be placed sooner or later and it would be absolute folly
for tbe mills now to cfot prices to the quick just for the sake of
landing the order at this time even though their saws,are hun-
gering for big? bills.
The export trade in vellow pine has developed into an un*
known quautity, in other words, ft is nii.r Advices to local ex-
porters irowtheir correspondents abroad relate a state ot affairs
that Is anything but encouraging, Down, down, down, prices
have tumbled until at Liverpool the market price on sawn tim-
ber Is not sufficient to pay for the cost of tbe logs at the mills on
this side after all necessary costs and trimmings have beeb de-
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large average, but sawn timber is a drug on the market. Tbe
same is true, though in a lesser degree, ot primes, and local
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Is true, though in a lesser degree, ot primes, and local
ters are^Ubt endeavoring to do any great amount of busi-
ness. Only one shipment of timber ot any magnitude ^ going
forward trom mills at Orange and this is on an order placed
«ome time ago. Large consignment shipments from ports east
of the Mississippi háve served to overstock the foreign market
and run down prices, making it almost impossible tor exporters
to do business who ship only on orders and not on consignment
weeks In succession Is giving some of the mills an opportunity to
cleafc out their storage booms and get rid of all of the older logs,
and the booms will be in good shape to receive the immense
amount of timber now in the river that will come Out on the first
swell. Occasional rains during the past few weeks have enabled
loggers along the Anacoco and other streams to get a
deal of timber out into tbe river and arise of a tew feet m
Sabine would bringdown jfrfteen or twenty million feet of tim-
ber. /
• J. B. Beatty, recently appointed secretary of the Emporia
Lumber company of Houston, and one of the best posted lum* -jjogm
bermen in Texas, was an Orange visitor yesterday, spending.the
time between trains here looking after some important business
matters. The sawdust man of the J>ad*r met.Mr. Beatty at
the Holland hotel and had a most enjoyable half hour's conver-
sation with that gentleman. Mr. Beatty states that thei
been quite an Improvement in the lumber business and it
belief that tbe big increase in the demand foryard stc *
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Harris, J. L. & Ford, Arthur L. The Orange Leader, Citizen-Record Consolidated (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1904, newspaper, August 26, 1904; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183201/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.