The Orange Leader, Citizen-Record Consolidated (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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SHIPMENT ron FEBRUARY, 1*05.
The Orange Lumber Company—■
l í ................ 1,530,858
tei ............................ 326.400
Lut¿her & Moore Lumber Company—
By rait—Rough .............. .*...... 372,661
- Mfe-Dressed ... :'¡......... f.... . .2,888,787
w*ter : . -.............. ,. 612,477
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The Southern Pacific system hauled from mills here in"'
274 cars of lumber, the Orange ft Northwestern
cars, total 402 cars, against 480 cars in January
ar. In February, 1804, only 351 cars left here,
shipments from above mills, for January of
were 6,086,. 552 feet. February deliveries, 1904.
,644 feet, but in this was included 1,591.307 feet
from the Ktrby Lumber Company's mill! Last month's
shipment from that mill are not available for this week's
report
Manufacturers at this placo have been'greatly cheered
by the favorable weather of the past ten days and ship-
ments for the current Week show more lumber loaded out
than was Bent-from this station during the same length of
time since January 20. It was given out as February pro-
gressed that deliveries in that month would fall short of
those of January, even after discounting the difference In
working days, but those who are well advised believe there
will come enough business from the interior, as soon as
ds begin to get firm and dry, to absorb all of
tbat miils hold for that trade.
•ou8 inquiries are at band from the North Atlan-
of which ask for prices on large blocks of house
building stuff, while material agents for Northern railroads
are calling for ties and stringers; some of them to go as
far up that coast pa Maine. A.few want delivered prices
others ask for cost along Bide ship at Bablne Pass. This
season of the year lumber is a class of carrying from Gu#
porta that can be handled at a profit by sail vessels, as hi
surance is easy and winds mofe regular. while storms, in
the Gulf, through the Bahama channel and off Hatteras.
are far less frequent than in the fall, yet, for reasons, un-
derstood by shippers, better rates are .given to Mobile
Oulfport and Pensacola/ difference in distance eliminated,
be secured out of Sabine or Port Arthur. With
practically the same at all important shipping
ports west of Appalachlcola, this works a hardship on ship-
pers west of the Mississippi, and has often stood in the
way of much profitable business; for 50 cents-to a dollar
difference in freight and 10 to 121-2 cents additional insur-
ance cuts out moat of the margin on á thousand feet of
merchantable pine; where extra'lengths or sizes are in*
duced. The ground is drying out slowly, but with no mora
rain it-will be several days before satisfactory skidding oso
be effected. Inquiries are- plentiful, H. 8: Filson, sale*
manager for that plant, says. He ¡further stated that even
under the most favorable conditions it would require more
than sixty days.to clean up his order books, and he is
attempting new business except where it will , dovetail
advantage with back orders. He is having a good demand
for oar siding and car roofing; kiln dried saps are wanted
for export, but Be confirmed nothing, in that grade this
week, and may not accent more of it for a fortnight or
moré, owing to unfinished engagements still on hand.'
Requisitions for railroad ties aggregating-110,000 pieces
swung into the Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company's offices
this week, but that mill has as much Off that kind of work
contracted for as it can clean up between this date and
Máy i, and reluctantly laid down its hand. There is other
sawing looming up and mills see improved prices in the
hand writing on the wall, which removes the pang that, in
dull times, nearly breaks the heart of a manufacturer to
see a "fat take", go out of his office on account of a time
limit that bars him. Prices are stiff, with an upward tend-
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special prices are fixed that cover freights. R wo W ^ glad to win up against. One called for .,750,000
Kiln Dried Lath.
Birkit Patent Sheath
ing Lath.
Manufacture Any
Product Obtainable
From a Pine Log.
Heavy Joists and Yard
G. BEDEL MOORE, President and Treasurer,
J. E. ORADDOCK, Manager.
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MANUFACTURERS
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LAURELIA, (Polk County) TEXAS,
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lant is located 90 miles north of Houston, Texas, on the Houston,
fest Texas Railway, in the long leaf yellow pine forests of Polkcoun-
e equipment is a first class logging railroad, a modern saw mill, planing
and superior dry kilns. The facilities for supplying rough ánd dressed
, railroad ties and timber aré among the best,
cently quotations were made on a big schedule of the
tér, that mills in this vicinity are in position to supply
reasonably short notce. ,
Oklahoma, the Indian Territory/ Southern Kansas and
portions of Nebraska will use an Immense quantity of lum
ber the coming season and, if the West coast people
frighten railroads hauling California redwood, Oregon fir
and Washington cedar info that 40-cent rate, for which
they have been fighting so hard the past year and a half,
a fight between yellow pine and fir must follow In the
district named, while mills in Wisconsin, Mloblgan and
Minnesota will have a like competition in the Dakotas,
Northern Nebraska, Western Minnesota end Iowa. Rail-
roads should do something, by lowering rates, for mills In
the yellow pine territory; carriers in the North Are sure
to go to the rescue of white pine, spruce and hemlock, and
In that way help to hold the middle west for the manufac
turers who have so long looked after the wants of that
thrifty people. It may not become a popular w^r for rail-
roads East of the Rocky mountains, but unless they make
common eause with manufacturers the effect upon their
tonnage going into the field staked off for conquest, by the
Pacific coast mills Is obvious. Any man who has taken *
little time to figure out the amount of hard cash that saw
mills have paid on lumber sent Into that wide stretch of
country every year since settlers began making homes in
the wild lands of the West, knows what roads Bast of the
Rockies have at stake.
The Lutcher 4 Moore Lumber Company confirmed or-
ders for prompt shipment of two large wholesale bills this
week, on January 10 list, that will be delivered at Missouri
river points. Another mill received án open order by mail
last week, but. before it got here a ! wire dune naming a
price made by another mill. The parties here Advised the
buyer to close with the other mill; nothing further wub
heard from it until yesterday when a second letter came
urging the manufacturer to ship, which is understood to
mean that the mill offering a lower price did not'have dry
material ready for Shipment, at least enough to meet the
requirement. At the Orange Lumber Company's mills
there are well filled booms of logs that have recently come
in, and for several days cars have been going away with
big long sticks on them. Tuesday a lot of railroad trestle
material 12x12-43 feet long pulled out from here; yesterday
orders cameJor another shipment of the same class of ma-
terial. That mi^ 1b getting out some large average sawn
pitch pine for Robert Morgan, who loaded parcel lots into
two foreign steamships at Port Arthur, for European de-
livery, and who is getting a shipment of deals and sawn
timber ready for a steamer due at Port Arthur within the
text fortnight This mill has given much attention to ex-
port sawing since 1886 and knows the importance of for-
eign classifications, when making up a schedule.
Out at Che Lemon Lumber Company's mill sawing has
been pursued under the same disadvantages that have been
so often mentioned recently in connection with plantía rely-
ing on the daily input Of logs. Teams* struggled under such
disadvantages that less than half the normal cut of the
plant was turned out, and, to that extent, in r6ugh lumber
and framing February shipments from there have been re-'
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Exporten reportno new sales, but they are hurrying
shipment on timber,! deals, primes and kiln dried gaps, „
taken last month.
A curious feature, that has developed within the past
few months, is the, high prices mentioned in trade papera
as common at. Pensacola, Mobile and other points on the
JDsst side of the Oulf, yet when mills in this vicinity, re-
sponding to inquiries from would-be buyers located there
on a baslB of said quotations, the almost invariable answer
is that they can do better at Alabama and Florida ports.
The outlook for large timber at Pensacola is discouraging
The Gulf Coast Record, of February 22, says-; "Pensacola
shippers are of the opinion that Mobile shippers are selling
too cheap abroad. * * * The timber supj^y at Pensa-
cola for the remainder of the sesfeon will not exceed 5 >
per cent of what It was last year, (feippers did not antici-
pate this and calculations have in some Instances miscar-
ried." Where exporters there have contracted for too mush
tonnage, or have been caught with too many boats for
quick loading, sellers have succeeded in forcing them .t<i
pay fancy prices to fill up with rather than have a bi#c,
vessel go on demurrage. Exporters here have anticipated
arrival of ships in which they had engaged space, end
hastened forward cargo, so as to.escape that much treaded
tax. Foreign trade papers report pitch pine arrivals light
at English and German ports, yet they insist that stocks
are ample for the limited demand.
J. E. Meglun, president of the Texas tk Oulf Lumber
Company, of Mexico City, was hete March 1. Though paso
the sixtieth mile stretch, and half way to the next no one
unacquainted would pronounce him more thán half a cen-
tury, and many would credit him with the fraction of «
decade less. He is quitjjksÉ^reas some much younger,
and makes 'frequent trJpSpjver Mexico and through this
country, looking after the interests of his company, with
always a "weather ey* on the piain chance" for a big tim-
ber contract from a railroad or a mining company. Besides
sundry smalletr apeeiMeations that lined his pockets this
trip were two, that áhy mil! with room on its order books
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et of 4x10-20, the other was for 78,000 railroad ties 6x8-8.
He had only recently placed an order here for 80,000 ties.
He loaded up mills in this vicinity a few weeks ago, sad
Wednesday was just back from Mobile, where he Baa a
large acquaintance with lumber manufacturers, and where
he placed some business. He left that afternoon Oh the
Oriole for Houston, where he was expecting to spend a dar.
and then start for Mexico. Mr. Meginn said that while
there will be only a few new projects in railroad construc-
tion advanced in the sister republic, durlnjf-the current
year, all of the old systems will push extensions, spurs and
feeder*. House building, too, will furnish an active de-
mand for sleepers, Joists, flooring, oelling and other inside
finish As nearly all houses have walls of brick or gtoné
with roof of tiles, little sale for weatherboards or'drop
siding is found, there. Mines, too, will absorb mnch lumber,
but they are* located where there are local mills, that cut
from native woods, the bulk of such ♦ requirements..
Mexico has been putting in some fair sized mlllls since
railroads decided to throw out short lines along foothills
and Into forests, also extending to mines, some of which
were heretofore believed to be practically inaccessible at
a cost that would make suoh pieces of track profitable;
but the rapid increase of tonnage that is being moved by
these spurs has done much to induce roads to add feedera
in many valleys that are rapidly filling up with fruit
farm s,sugar and cotton plantations. Cotton factories, too,
are finding profitable business in many parts of that Re-
public.
The Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company sent a tow of
twenty clamps of sawn Umber to, Port Arthur thiB week
that will be shipped to Europe by Robert Morgan, Jr., on
the Norwegian ship Regent that will carry 1,000,000 feet of
timber and lumber for him. He cleared the George Py-
man on February 28, for Liverpool, with 1,300,000 feet of
hewn and sawn Umber, primes, deals and kiln dried saps. .
The Russian bark Bonheur, 960 tons, Is due to load at Sa-
bine Pass for Mr. Morgan about the middle of this month.
William G. Addison, who for twenty-two years has occu-
pied responsible positions with mills at this place, died aC
De Rldder and was buried here March 1.. See full account
In another column. On |he day that the remains of Mr.
Addison were-laid to rest Ed Ellington, until four yean
ago. a prominent log contractor on this river, died at Kir-
byville, of pneumonia, and was parried there Maroh 2.
Both were popular members Of Hoo Hoo In good standings
the first 4462 the other 5296. f
O. G. Smith, of the wbods crew belonging to the Orange
Lumber Company, was in the city two days this week; he
confirmed the statement mentioned above ahd added that
the Sabine river is dropping out rapidly and much of the
timber that was pushed out of creeks last week will not
get here on the present rise.
W. E. Fall,, a lumber dealer, with an offioe at Houston
visited mill men at this place yeeterd«y.
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The Orange Leader, Citizen-Record Consolidated (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1905, newspaper, March 3, 1905; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183225/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.