The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-19
BUILDING MATERIAL.

BETTER facilities are offered lumber dealers
mere for receiving their supplies from the mills
than IN former years, and the consequence is
that stocks are large and well assorted, notwith-
building purposes in this city Trade to the
country is better than in any former season.
Our brick kilns are still enabled TO supply the
growing demand made upon them, but how long
thls may continue is yet to be determined. The
shipment of doors, sash and like material isnow
very heavy, There have been heavy sales made
to the west and other directions of paints, oils,
lime and cement and the orders are daily in
creasiIg.
To-DAY's QUOTATIONS.
BnIoE-At the Silns to 80 kiln run.
sIoHE-At the Dallas quarries, SC per cubic
foot II for foundation; l6 for wall and rs fol
dressed front
LuaIER-Yellow pine, rough 50 % per 100
dressed flooring and nnishing, e IS; 2. ceiling
e. Il ceiling. e So yellow pine
siding e. white pine ceiling, 81 rs FIST
common; white pine siding, first common, O. 50
poplar, dressed both sides, So5 rough walnut,
SIPS TO l5o. Common DOORS 81 so to u.s. sash, o. .
70 20 as TO size.
PosTs-Cedar, sl2 So Boise d arc, SIS.
LATHs-sS 50@4 per thousand.
sHIEGLEs--iellow. pine, So 80 TO 25 white
pine, s. so to s. 90. Cypress, No. l, S.; No 2,
81 80: No 5, IS IS
oEMENr . Rosendale, IS rs; Louisville. sS co.
Portland, IS 90.
DRAIN PIPE-3 inch, lGc per foot inch, 2Cc
inch, size; inch, 4oo; S inch, Soc
PLASTER PARIs--Per barrel, siD4 so.
HAII-Per pound, 71sc.
CEMENT FLUgs-6 inch, S7kc; inch iCo; 6 inch
ceiling joint 81; inch cap, soc; inch cling
Joint, 81 25 finch cap do COO.
MIXED PAINTs--Ready for use and all colors
VI 25@l IS per gal. All the tested and standard
makes are on sale by Dallas dealers
WHITE LEAD-strictly pure, 81 81
81 80; benson car lots SOC; per barrel, q Is;
Dallas, In lots, 20c per bushel 25c.
The New York Tribune says; "The market
value of timber lands in the lake region has
doubled since the publication of the census bul.
letin maps, in which the startling fact was set
forth that the white pine supply OF the country
would be completely exhausted in dozen years
This fact would seem to Indicate not only that
the accuracy of these statistics is accepted with
out question, but also that the most providcnt
lumber dealers had failed to comprehend how
swiftly the devastation Of the pine forests was
going on. No other wood on this continent Is
| so easily shaped by the ,pOl of the workman to
such varied use. The redwood of California ap.
proaches 1t more nearly in quality than any
other, being light durable and fine. grained
wood which works smoothly and splits true
! But California is long way from from eastern
markets, and in recent bulletin the amount of
accessible redwood standing in the census year
| along the coast range from Oregon to Santa Cruz
is estimated at less than 260O0 goo 600 feet board
measure. AT the same date 20, go 600 coo feet of
merchantablc white pine was standing in the
| lower peninsula Of Michigan alone SO that the
relief we can hope for from the Pacific coast is
comparatively Sight 1t should be added that
California enterprise has not been behind the
older states In deysing means for obliternting
| their timber trees. They have even been more
wasteful in their methods of saving and work.
Ing 1t is no uncommon thing to see redwood
tree containing l5OOO feet or more Of lumber left
| to decay on the ground, or TO feed the next fire
which sweeps through the forest, simply be-
cause slight twist in the grain prevents 1t
from splitting readily and squarely into railroad
ties. Animals which gnaw and browse are
turned loose to help dtvourng fires sweep away
not only the timber, but the soil ITSELF for in no
other country do the conditions which pro-
duce destructive torrents more generally prevail.
Here are mountains, high steep, and covered
yearly with unknown depths of snow To strip
their TANKS OF protecting trees aud shrubs is to
encourage floods to wash every particle of loose
earth into the valleys and scolr the rocky skel.
etons of these long ranges bare