The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-04-03

I 1t grieves us to learn that the
price Of lumber and timber at Pitts
burgh, this spring is lower than it has
been for some years. We have heard
of no better offer for square timber
than eight cents, while our lumbermen |
counted confidently on fourteen cents.
Some have purchased it here at eight |
cents and run it below at a cost per
haps two cents, and find themselves
out Just about what it cost to run it.
The only explanation we have heard
as to the low price of square timber is
the small demand for barges on ao-
count of the depression in the coal
trade, the numerous failures of coal
men, and the consequent sale of barges
at assignees' sales, at perhaps halftheir
cost. AS our square timber has here
tofore been largely used in the manu-
facture of barges, this will, of course,
account partly for the depression in
prices. Our lumbermen, generally,
have been to q considerable more ex-
pense than usual in putting in their
lumber and timber during the past
winter, on account of the scarcity of
snow, and all counted confidently on
getting enough more than the usual
rates to pay them for the extra ex-
pense incurred. We presume that
those of our lumbermen who are able
to hold their lumber and timber, will
do so, but there are q good many who
are obliged to sell at whatever sacri-
fee.
LATER.-Since the above was in
type one of our large lumbermen has
informed us that there has been a
slight advance in prices, and the pros
poets are that further advances will
occur before long. 1t is to be hoped
that his surmise is correct one.
The matter has been figured down
to fine point, and it has been found
that a man can go to the Paris Expo
sition, stay a month, and return home,
all in a respectable manner, for five
hundred dollars. Now this compli-
Gates matters again. We had esti-
mated the expense at one thousand
dollars, and have economical, starved,
frozen, suffered-coaxed, threatened
and terrorized our patrons to get that
-amount scraped together, and now we
are in quandary whether to go and
stay two or three months alone, or to
pick up some poor editor and take him
along. We find it terribly inconyen-
lent to have more money OH hands
than our expenditures call for. If it
wasn't that we feared our friends would
Shut US up in an asylum, we would be
tempted to pay our debts
Mr.: j. @. Sweeney, who, with the
aid of his school, gave very enter
tanning and successful exhibition last
, fall, has had programmes printed al
this office for "another of the same,
with an entire change of performance
to come off at the Clarington Church
on Friday evening, 10Th inst. Prof
, Cannon, who did much TO make the
other exhibition a success, has been
engaged for this one also, and we have
no doubt that the exhibition will be
well worth the price of admission, II
and % cts. We hope that all the sur
> rounding neighborhood will patronizC
this exhibition Of home talent.
The Woods Heirs, of New York
who put down a we'll on their tract ID
Tionesta township last fall, have made
arrangements to put down two more
i wells on same tract, operations to com
9 mence forthwith. The tract contains
u 1900 acres, and is situated between
+ Tionesta and Little Tionesta creeks
& The we'll drilled thereon last fall got
b fair sand but no oil to speak Of Tn
i public can rest assured that thi
+ tract, at all events, will be thorough,
) developed. We would feel better i
all Dur unimproved territory were helC
G by men who would give their person
g al attention to its development.