The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-11-29


Business to-day was fairly active, and
the streets presented a more pleasant
appearance than for several days past
THE FORESTS OF THE UNITED safes.
United States Economist: Among
our greatest need timber is one Of the
most necessary to our citizens 1t
forms part of every house in city or
country. 1t is directly or indirectly
part of almost every manufacture, and
the cost of the house Of every citizen
depends upon its price. Lumber is I'M
like any other article Unlike the
crops of the farmer, which may he pro-
duced year after year, a second crop of
timber is never expected from the same
land Ouriron ore being inexhaustible,
the production Of the metal may be
stimulated to any extent. The more
| there Is made of it the more can be
made. The same IS true of the manu-
| features Of wool and cotton, or of those
articles themselves. Looms, sheep and
cotton plantations can be almost indef- |
nately multiplied. But not so with |
I our forests and pine-timbered districts. |
/ Timber Is absolutely essential TO the |
/ construction of shlps-an important |
] branch OF national industry and ele-
lurnt Of greatness, compelled to face
tine eagar competition of the whole
world-yet the supply of timber suita-
| bic for ship building has been so re-
duced IN the United States that con-
gress should prohibit its expectation
The now well known fact is that we are
rapidly exhausting, largely by reck-
less and imprOvident waste, our sup
T,i1 of = l,gr. ~ 80
The demand for it increases at the rate
Of 30 per cent year, and even those
who are interested in high prices and
immediate sales OF what is left of it ad-
mt that III 20 years or sooner building
timber viii be extremely scarce, and
that III many parts of the country, yet
supplied III part from their own soil,
It viii have entirely disappeared. 1t is
stated on good authority that more
than $4,000 establishments, employing
10000 persons, and using material to 5
the }3O,OUO,oOO a year, are engaged in !
tie United States in manufacturing l
articles entirely from wood, in addition !
to more than 100000. persons partly !
on wood or using that mate !
rial to the value OF S6,000,000. No coun- ;
try can be or has been despoiled of
her timber and tiOurlShGd. l
PLACING COTTON ORDERS. \
1t is said that the Gotten mills OF :
this country and Europe are now :
pretty well supplied with raw cotton,
enough to keep them employed for
some time, and that they will not send :
out any orders soon unless they can be d
filled ut prices satisfactory to them L
selves. And this would seem true, for
our buyers here claim that prices are Il
above the views of spinsters and that y
hey can fill no orders now being re- d
'eived at present figures. If it he true s.
h"t spinsters have a supply on hand to 4
I'M them through until after the new b
ear and cotton continues to l
!rrivo il large quantities at !
III the ports, the demand \
nay not prove as active as n
many anticipate, and it will be difficult y
o ma!ntHiu present prices. 1t is
ssertcd, however, that the crop is
,ciug marketed very rapidly, and after q
few weeks at furthest the receipts Y
viii fall otfbelow those of the last two h
ears. There Is an uncertainty about ia
hc crop this year which will encorage q
pccuIatiOu, and as cotton is now being III
ituI i'Hi"i'u ny w an StTttt pTohtrS, IL | l'
depends alone upon their interests and pr
rtlms whether it will advance or ii
Decline IN price. Fl
Up to last Friday Waxahachie had ii
rccIyrd 1920 bales and shipped H. !:
$50 bales. Brennan has received mp 81
% this date about 5000 bales il,
An estimate at the agricultural de d.
,artment at Washin ton allows that IL
per cent. of tue acreage of Texas c,
would supply the woill with cotton. q
Take the country over, the average .
.ield of wheat is about 20 per cent N
ess than last year, which will amount t.
II round numbers, 10 nearly 5000OO,- CT
MO bushels, and that the corn crop g
viii he about - per cent. of the crop N
# 1850. cl
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