The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-23
BUILDING MATERIAL,

The Northwestern Lumberman saws,
Every day the fact becomes more apparent
that walnut in Indiana, once the great
walnut state OF the union, is getting very
scarce. Men who are rs competent to Judge
as any say that the standing walnut in that
state does not exceed 100000 feet, and
much OF this will not coMc into market
right away, as it is held by farmers who
are able TO keep it, and do so with two
objects in v'cw-the trees on their farms
beautify them, and they think that as wal
nut becomes scarcer it will command still
higher prices. In sections which once pro
duced the finest walnut timber, the lumber
cut from the logs now runs 30 per cent. TO
culls, which shows that the trees which can
be got at all have been closely picked In
the earlier days of the state, walnut was an
eyesors to the settlers. 1t caused them
great amount OF trouble, because when in
| log heaps 1t was consumed with so much
difficulty. Had some of the finest trees
been allowed to remain, their worth to-day
would have been more than the farms on
which these trees once stood are now worth
| yet 1t IS not to be wondered at that the
early farmers did not consider the prospect
i've value OF the wood. They thought it
| plentiful everywhere; moreover the groves,
Ill great part, were obliged TO give way in
order that living could be obtained from
the SOIL. Not many years ago the largest
trees went begging for buyers ut So and 81
each, which now are worth 500 to $3.50
each, and even higher prices than these
have been paid The most valuable use to
which the settler could put the wood was
in making rails and for this purpose, as a
matter OF course, the finest, straightest
grained trees were selected. The trees that
were not of this kind were put into the log
heaps and burned. There are any quantity of
walnut rails as straight as a gun-barrel, in
Indiana, that have served in fences for forty
years or more, and they are rs sound to-day
as they were the day they were split. In
fact, walnut rail will last until the weather
beats 1t into atoms. They rarely rot, and
without much doubt many of these rails
will, in time, find there way to market, cut
into convenient sizes, and the cabinet
maker who uses Them will have the salts
faction OF working very choice wood, and
he will have no cause to grumble because
1t is not thoroughly seasoned.
T0-DAY's QUOTATIONS.
| DnloX-At the hlns to $40 kiln run.
SroNE--At the Dallas quarries, SC per oGbio
loot II for foundation; ID for wall and Is for
dressed front
LumBHR-Yellow piue, rough % 90 poy 100
feet over % fee, In length. ~ 2j. Matched and
dressed flooring aud finishing, 60 rs; u ceiling
~ \ ceiling O So yellow pine siding a. white
| Phio uohlhs, 10 W. ufhl common -, second com.
mon 27t white Pine siding, Hrst common.
" III; second common, . 90 poplar siding a,
clear, S25 90; poplar ceiling, "a 20; ash
and walnut flooring, 800 per thousand,
poplar. dressed both sides, $780, rough walnut,
Sl2S 10 lSG Common doors 81 so 10 90; cash. 81 Is
| 10 B 90 as TO size.
sHINaIes--Yelow. Pine, IS so TO 4 rs; white
pine q 80 to g 90 Cypress, No. !, IS; No z
81 So No Is 20.
CEMENT - Rosendala IS rs: Louisville a. "a
! Portland, Sc So
DRAIN PIPES luch, 16c per foot inch, 2co;
6 Inch, S7Sc; inch, 40c inch, Soc
CEMRNT FLuEs-6 Inch, S7ho; Z inch 40c; 6inoh
ceiling jolntsi inch cap, SOC; inch calling
lolnL 81 IS: finch cap do COO.
MIXED PAtNTs-Ready for use and all colors
VI 0Otel S. per gal. All the tested and standard
makes are ON sale by Dallas Dealers
WHITE LRAD-Strictly pure, 81 so
LIMH-Coopered. Austin, 81 per barrel; bulk
u 20 benson car lots, 90c; per barrel 81 Is;
Dallas, In lots, 20cs per bushel $50