The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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ORANGE. TEXAS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1964.
I. J. LUTCHER,
Presifeni.
E. W. BROWN.
Vice President.
W. H. STARK.
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Secretary-Treasurer
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WITH TflE LUMBERMEN
A visit to the various mill offices yesterday
1 found everybody, Irom office boy up to general
manager, deeply engaged so opening upand book-
ing or rejecting orders, posting books, closing up
annual reports and getting everything iu shape
for the new year, ‘ which has opened so auspic-
iously for the lumber trade. Ordinarily, from the
middle ot December until the middle ol January
thedemaud, especially for yard stock,-goes off
considerably, the Christmas beJfd*y» and the pre-
para! Ions for the new year serving to hotd back
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ORANGE, - TEXAS.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Famous Calcasieu Long
Leif "Yellow Pine
OfllUS
(Hans
‘purchases, but such does not seem to have been
j thjl case this season, as maatifi'cfurersall report
{that they have experienced no diminution at all
m demand and they are sorely put to it to sup-
ply from their broken assortments the require
meets of their customers. One sales manager
was asked il the recent advance In prices, about
which so much *ha» tyeen said ana written, had
had any effect ou the demand and he replied that
it had not affected it in the. least, as orders were
still coming ip the usual volume, Indicating a
season ot present and prospective prosperity
throughout the country generally hitherto un-
known.
At none of the mill yards is there anytning
like a complete assortment of yard stock in ship*
pinggondition. stucks being; badly broken every-
where, and, as remarked last week In this;dp
lartmcnt, mills, not only at Orange, but through.
>ut the yellow pine belt, could easily put in six-
ty days in just filling up broken assortments,
eyen though not another order was booked in the
meantime. Especially is the demand from Texas
good, retail yards throughout the state contin-
ually calling for lumber and becoming impatient
when shipments, for any reason, areuefayed be-
yond the tijne in which they expect deliveries
o,be made *
Considerable publicity has been given of late
to the Southern Manufacturers Association prices
... nrnmnlwated at St. ...j___7L ♦
w© Manufacture Any
+*^|| Product Obtainable
From a Pine Log
ivy Joists and Yard
Orange Lumber company makes one _
lievein magic, indeed, so quickly arei___
and -improvements made in the way of
shads, dry kiln, etc. Yesterday a big ore
men were found at work preparing the foai
tiou tor the big water towejv another crew
at work on the new dry glTn, while otherS|§||^__
building tram extensions. Manager Panu«yiillill
said to the reporter, “we are almost tbi ,
now and I expect by tbs end of this moot)
have the plant complete in every respect.'11.
plant has the most elaborate and complete »U
tern of waterworks that could be devised:/:mm
milling plant. With six inch mains and tour
laterals permeating every part of mill and 4,
with water supplied from two big elevated tai
apd five powerful pumps, located at dig
points about the plant the system of fire pro!
tiem m.aqout as complete asconld.be devh
rhe mill has settled down to its regnlarstfidlU.
now and is turning out some of the finest baja$P®
tis
sawed lumber in this section.
Reports received Tuesday from Logans port,
La., were to the effect that the river was then at
a stage of IfHHeet, but was slowly falling. Pur. V
tiler rains, though, would put the old Sablneona »
rampage in that section.
Warner, of New Orleans, representing
the Lumbermens Mutual Insurance company,
was an Orange visitor Tuesday, visiting the saw
milling plants, ■ r^aBS*Si
The Miller-Link Lumber company this week!
completed the shipment of’a bigSchedule which!
they are sending to a Cubin port. The last lotj
was sent down first of the week on the barge _
Hoo, goin^to the achooner Hldda Feore, wh;
loaded at Sabine
Pass.
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ssua.** ras* ilSRSiSS
n full below. He said:
There is no argument necessary Mr
mne to be made as to why prices of lumber have
advanced steadily in the last t *0 ‘“f
One has but to cite every other commodity used
by the consuming trade, from com and whe*t
marketed by the Western farmers, to the, iron
and steel turned out by the Eastern rolling mills
Increased cost of manufacture, increased wage*
S3SSIB&T5*W«® uviog fern
fines; intact, we believe that 1905 has been the'
A prominent visitor air the mill
Week was G. 0. Ooss, of 8t. Louis, of
Uo«s Lumber company. This is a new
it, the lumber trade, havlog been recently
*ed. The members of the Arm are C R.
Waco, and bL C. Goss, of St. Louis, both i
;aye been connector. sorqetimy will
Camemn company, of Waco. Mr. UOSf i
that the recent advance in prices has r
buying to some extent in their tetritc#t/
St. Louis, but be thinks the lull is only
rary. Mr. Goss had with hlpi some im
schedules which he placed before
mills here for figures. , %
banner year when everytliibg was almost prd
portionatelv Increased in value and there Is no
Soubtbut what the country as a whole is more
prosperous than ever before. tend pi_____ _ ,m„, ____________...._„
Baft
J. H. Trimble, of-the Bouthetn P»
company, of Rock Island, III,, sf
the lumber manufacturers in
and placed some nice bpdnfiy
Texas but wbo are doing dusip^j ln Texas, we
can say that you -wofflmRtno two exactly alike.
In tbealike, but what cornmod-
- fltfmtbere on the rnafket todajrJ^at is man u lac
tured by more than oi|e concern
eral is hot
fn/^Kennon, ot j
pany, with headc
as an Oran
with him some specif,
assistance irom milts i
eral is %ot very
Itaye the habit of j
M
tin the gen
Lumbermen
ue of their
the demand
Therefore
1 thing are
u You will
n to sus-
A gentleman,
card- bore the name
ker, dropped fnto i
stated that he Wa*
au elegant home J
ing contracts *
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The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1906, newspaper, January 12, 1906; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth644286/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.