The Orange Leader, Citizen-Record Consolidated (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, December 30, 1904 Page: 1 of 12
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in the long leaf Yellow Pine forests of Polk County,
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A newspaper reporter who attempts to spend any great
amount ot time around a lumber office looking for news items
lust at this time is not apt to receive a great deal of attention,
nor does he expect it, for every person • about the office, from
office boy to manager, is deeply an<| busily engaged now in the
task of closing up the year's work, ryshing out all of the ship-
ments possible, taking inventories, entering up accounts, bal.
ancing books and preparing for the annual statements that are
to show how much money has been made of lost during the
. ear now rapidly drawing to a (¿ose. Just what the ¡record wül . -
Sawdust man is not able tQ say, but having kept in pret-
uch with the business during the year, he will vent-
prediction that the statements Will be much more satis-
au were anticipated ninety days ago and that they
re favorably wjth the statements of last year. One
th^t inventories will certainly show, and that is that stocks
of lumber on the mill yards are much smaller than they have
been at the beginning of any of recent years and it is believed
that, mjlls at Orange will go Into the year .1905 with stocks
forty per cent smaller than were on the first ot January, 19Q4.
There have been several contributory causes to this state of
affairs, the principal cause being the small production for the
past three months, caused by salt water, and the big demand
tor lumber that the-mills have enjoyed during the same period,
shipments in all that time largely exceeding the cut. The mill
tax assessor, oh his annual rounds, will find smaller stocks of
lumber and smaller stocks of logs in the booms, on which the
county can collect taxes, this time than for imany years past,
though if the rains that have fallen this week had com! a fort-
night or more sooner, he would have reaped a harvest in asses-
sing timber in booms, for be would have found them full and
overflowing. Mills go Into the hew year with prices'of lumber'
on a reasonably satistactory basis, though they are not as high
as conditions would seem to justify .
Up to a few days before Christmas, all of the mills at Or
angehad made exceptionally latge shipments fojr the month,
but since that time the shipments have fallen off considerably,
none of the mills having been enabled to put in full time since
Christmas. At some of thetnills almost the full quota of men
reported for duty on Monday, but owing to the absence of some
of the skilled labor the mills could not start up, at Qothers the
crews straggled in tor two or three days and it was the middle
of tbe week betore things got straightened out in good shape:
Some of tbe mills took advantage 'of the holiday season to '
make some needed repairs, hence the absence ot crews did not
cause them any. serious inconvenience. The rains of Monday
and Tuesday made it almost impossible for planing machines
to work air dried stock and made car loading a hardship, so
that, altogether, shipments for the closing week of the yea#
will not abow up in very good shape.
While manufacturers did not anticipate a very lively de-
mand for lumber during the (holiday season, they have been
gratified ith the number of orders that have come to hand,
while inquiries received, for January delivery indicate that
dealers expect to get real busy, early in the coming year. A
feature of the demand | during the past week has been the
strong call for tbe upper grades, of flooring, ceiling (and finish.
The call for these items has been so great that stocks are bad-
ly depleted, especially in the short lengths, 12s, 14s and 10s,
Ming largely in demand. The entire northwest is now fast in
- the'grip of King Winter, blizzards and snow storms being the
order of the day, putting to rout the 7 carpenter and mechanic
for the time being. For this reason manufacturers do not ex-
pect much call tor lumber for outside work until weather con-
ditions are somewhat ameliorated. Texas is still buying liberal-
ly and the demand promises to become quitegurgent early in the
new year.
Local exporters report no new business since last report,
:es of conditions abroad would indi&te that there
' will be a revival in. this trade that will bring about the .placing
ot many schedules for spring delivery. It consignment ship-
ments could be kept off Of tbe 'm^rket on the other side for even
S, very short time, there would be a marked improvement in
the expor^demand that would put money in the pockets of ex-
porters and manufacturers. -With the coming ot the oig supply
of logs that will be brought out by the recent rains, mills at
Orange will well prepared to meet the expected spring de-
mand for export material and will b'e in position to fill almost
any schedule that may be offered. *
Quite a large amount of barge and ship building lumber is
beldli gotten out by mills at Orange just now,, in order to supply ,
the needs of the big dry dock now being built here, as well as for
the work of the regular ship yards and for the big barge that is
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being constructed here for Clarke & £fo. For this class ot work
all high grade lumber is required atfdtbe specifications, in many
instances, are quite difficult. ,
Reports that have come to mill owners aqd managers
Orange from the upper Sabine this week have been of a most
couraging nature and all of the manufacturers are wi
smiles of satisfaction over the prospéct of a big rise
Sabine that will effectually clear the river of the salt watei
has proven such a disturbing element for the
ninety days, and -will brlng out an immense amount o
The local rains of Monday and Tuesday did not affi
water situation at all, mill men re
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Harris, J. L. & Ford, Arthur L. The Orange Leader, Citizen-Record Consolidated (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, December 30, 1904, newspaper, December 30, 1904; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183218/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.