Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-23
a. rnexpeeted Failing on I'm the For.
.,sn pemand. and Heavy 0vsrpro.
Ascsisn from too many MILLS.

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AZ. demand. and Heavy Ovsrpro-
x.rsisn from too many Mills.
rs. r. Alta, Aog. 4.1
Tbs duIiness in the lumber business
,hst has prevailed for several months
- has been frequently reported in
~ commercial news of all the papers,
"a II ID still botkering both the manu-
ssctnrers aud retail dealers. For some
sssys manufacturers and dealers real
lssa handsomely from lumber, aud their
s.osoerity resulted in the establishment
u many new mills in this State and in
the Puoet Sound region, with the conse
nuepce OF over production and depressed
narksts. The Puget Sound lumber is
tne finest and hardest white, while Cali.
ioynia produces the softer pine and red
vood. The trade is virtually divided
mo the two classes of Puget Sound
nanufscturers and California redwood
manufacturers. The State mannfactur-
srs in January, 1880, organized under
he name Of the Redwood Msnufactur-
ers Association, the object being to reg
uIsts the supply and influence prices
With view TO legitimate business pro
tsetion. All of the members are mill
ospers, most of them dealing only In
osrao lots, selling to the yards here, who
IN turu sell to contractors and supply
he general retail demand. A few mill
owners have not come into the associa-
ton, but practically the organic ltion
controls the business, and for several
days IL has been
x.op rrua Apurrrc1a
To devise means to relieve the present
aeursssion, and.to avoid similar de-
preston next year. Its members, who
own some thirty-six lumber mills. with
as aggregate capacity Of about $4,000.
900 feet per year. are as follows: Hobbs,
Wall 4 Co., A. NJ. Simpson j. Bro, John
Vance, Falk, Hawley * Co, California
Redwood Co., Mckay d Co, Dobbin &
Carson, Flanagan. Rrossman d Co., MI
nor, Kirk d Co., Chandler, Henderson Il
Co., Humboldt Lumber Co.. Wages Greek
Lamber Co., Ten Mile Lamber Co., III.
Barto, W. X. Miller, Andrew Markham,
H. Wetherbee, Caspar Lumber Co., Men
docino Lumber Co., l.. K. White, salmon
Creek Mill and Lumber Co., II. h. Itch
enor d Co., Silas Coombs, Graham IL Co.,
Gualala Mil Co., JAS. Nevlan, Duncan
Mill Co., Doe, Kimball d Co, Samuel
Baker and the Riverside Lumber Go.
The President of the Association il j.
G.Jackson and the SecretaryE. l.. Alien.
Previous efforts on the part of the asso-
cation 70 keep up prices for the season
have been viewed with some displeasure
By the lumber consumers, who generally
formulated complaint that the combi-
nation savored of extortion. On the
other hand the mill men claim that
without a combination mill composition
would be so great that prices would be
cut bslow the figures of legitimate bust
bess profit, and the result would be an
over production and trade stagnation 30
great that many business failures must
follow; such an unsettling of business
being harmful to other commercial and
public interests. The immense timber
mpply of the State opens the way TO
this danger.
HAsTY sPEcuLAToRs
Could erect mills, cut millions OF feet
cf lumber more than the demand. and
lhen, unable to realize the amount of
heir investments, they wonld be oem-
pelled to dispose of their cut at less
Than cost, not only running themselves,
bot badly damaging all other msuufso
sarers. The mills now in the Associa-
ZION have cutting capacity good deal
befond the demand, and for some
nonths they have been reducing their
product. In July Q reduction of Is per
cent was ordered. and on fuesday the
rsduction was ordered to continue
through September. The total lumber
output for 1889 Waa an follows: