The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-27
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BUILDING MATERIAL,

BETTER facilities are offered lumber dealers
here for receiving their supplies from the mills
IMAM IN former years, and the consequence Is
mat stocks are large aud well assorted, notwith-
standing the heavy drain made upon them for
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
tnis may continue is yet TO be determined The
shipment of doors, sash and like material is now
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.
oreasing.
To-DAY's QUOTATIONS.
BRICE-At the kilns TO $40 kiln run.
SToNR-At tho Dallas quarries, 30 per cubic
loot II for foundation; i6 for wall and Is for
dressed front
Get over "a feet in length: & 30. Matched snd
dressed flooring and hnishiug, g. rs; y ceiling
81 ceiling, 81 So yellow pine
SIDING W white pine ceiling, 81 rs 'frst
common white pine siding, first common, s. so
poplar dressed both sides, S55; rough walnut,
20 . 90 as to size.
Posrs--Csdar, sl2 80; Boise Fan, SIS.
LATHs-6S 5OG4 per thousand
SHlNGlFs--Ycllow.p pine, IS SO to 4 81 white
81 50; Nos, s. %. :"
osMEsr . RcScndalc, So rs; Louisville, IS co.
DRAIN pirR-s Inch, l6c per foot 4inch, Io
inch, size; inch tOc; inch, SOC.
PLASTER PAms-per barrel, si@S4 so.
HAm-per pound, 7hc.
CEMENT FLuEs-6 inch, S7Ilc; inch lv,, inch
ceiling Joint 81; G inch cap, soc; inch eilins
Joint, 81 y; inch cap do, 6Oc.
a. MINED fAiNrs-Ready for use and all cOlors
VI 259l IS per gal. All the tested and standard
makes are on sale by Dallas dealers.
WHITE lARAD-strictly pure, q 81
a, LihS-Ooopered Austin, Il per barroh bulk
" b0; benson car lots, 90c; per barrel 81 "a
Dallas In lots. !Oc per bushel 25c
The Press and Tribune OF st. Paul. Minnesota.
In an article suggested by the recent investiga-
ton OF the land frauds In the Duluth land dis.
,roh explains mat the irregularities In the dis
pohlton OF northern Wisconsin and Minnesota
pine lands through loose application Of the
presumption laws, were winked at for years be.
cause pine had not become so valuable that
lumbermen competed for its possession. "The
area OF pine lands In tho northwest only a few
years ago seemed relatively vast the competitors
for the timber 20 few, and the risks of ito lun-
disposing OF them easily passed without much
scrutiny or complaint But the narrow belt OF
pine In this state and Wisconsin, on which ali
the Immense prairie regions of the northwest.
with their rapidly swelling populations, are now
dependent for lumber, has become recently so
valuable that the time has passed when The
means by-which lumbcrmon aud others have
heretofore acquired possessions ofthem can pass
unchanged. II cannot DO positively asserted
that the pre- -emption laws may not serve use-
iul purpose when applied, as they were intended
TO be, solely 10 agricultural lands, but the PEG.
Pie OF the notthweN will no longer tolerate the
frauds and perluries by which the public do.
main has been 80 long md Systematically rob
ped OF hundreds OF thousands of acres Of pine
timber al mOrelv nominal nrirps ~