St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-13
Or zuates at Chautauqua--The Bonds
Sold WelI--A Member of Parlta-
nent Speaks.
Inr,ber Dealers I'm Council.

I.ur,bcr Dealers I'm Council.
Manufacturers of lumber from various
sections of the Northwest met in the read
!ng-room OF the Merchants yesterday after
noon to discuss the general situation OF the
lumber trade, the shortage this season, the
prospective shortage and the advlSaolllty OF
raising the prices The main object OF the
gathering was to form large lumber poor
which shall govern the price OF lumber IN
the future. B. F. Nelson Of Minneapolis
presided, and Col. Plat b. walker was
secretary, and besides these the following
Wee present:
s. G. Hall of Hall Ducy, W. H. Laird OF
Laird-Nortou Lumber Co., Gebhart BONN a.
7. Hodgens of Youmans Bros q hodgens,
Chas Horton of the Empire Co., H. L. Jersey
of the Hersey-Bean Co., j. P. Grlbben a. "
Flournoy, agent for Hersey & Bean, y: "A.
Torinus and VIM. Chalmers of the 81. Crol K
Lumber Co., James Kasson OF JEFFERSON q
Kasson j. E. Glass of Glass " McEwen'
ph,llip Reilly of the John Martin company,
E. r. Sumwalt, T. II. Shevlin OF Hail u Ducy,
w. L. Bassett of J. B. Bassett & Co., q. ID.
hatcy of S. G. Cook 81 Co., John OXenIord
o. b. P. Russell s. Co, H. NJ. Glenn, manager
OF the Saltwater Lumber company, u. NJ
De Laitre of Eastman Bros. s. Co., 5. q. COOK,
u. Joyce of Lyons, Iowa, Z. K. Lar1oro
Of the West Wisconsin Manufacturing
company, c. A. Bovey OF East
Imam Bros. s. Co., W. d. Gilbert and ID. II.
Gilman of Burlington; Ed w. Durant, ). D
O. bilen and John G. Nelson of saltwater; ..
u. Aierriman of Merrman, Barrows CO.,
W 3. Hill of Hill & Hessinger, G. A smith OF
c. a Smith g. Co., and II. +. Brown OF Min
ucapulis.
The discussion of the situation and pros
ge;s developed the fact of very large
shortage in the lumber output from Mus
u..une to Lake Superior as against last
year. The prices, however. are from 70
cents to 81 better, but with prospective
shortage this season OF 1000, OOO, O00 feet
of both logs and lumber at the close.
1 statement submitted covering the st.
rox district showed lumber cut during the
:ason of 'S4-'S5 to have been 200, 600, 600,
tie amount remaining over in the booms i'll
50 to have been 40, 600, 900; total, $50, O00,-
OOO feet. The amount
PUT THROUGH THE BOOM
: ~ las 231, 600, 900 and the amount on
and in the late spring of 'S5 was So, 000,-
80 The total amount of $3.50 was 2S5
lrillIons, the amount on hand in the spring
uf 'S6 was 1000, 900 and the amount run
through the boom in 'S6 was 1877, 600, 600
saving about los, 000,0 in the boom,
Jan and river.
The logs in the lakes for market to date
stlount to 1S, 900, 900 and sthe amount of
I,ss owned by mill-owners is Al, 624, 500.
This leaves the amount of lumber on hand
$500, 600 feet with possible II, 500, 600
set yet for the market.
Mr.. Walker states that in the Northwest
G!ere have been 800. 900, 600 feet burned this
year. and there is 800. 600, 900 feet burning
ZIP on the Wisconsin, Black. Chippewa and
Mississippi rivers which cannot be possibly
got down this year.
Z motion by E. w. Durant was carried,
appointing committee to consider the pro-
:,fiety of advancing the prices of lumber,
ID arrange list, and to report at an adj
,ourned meeting of the lumbermen to be
held at the Merchants hotel at 3 p. H., Aug.
IL, the committee to hold meeting at 10 a.
II. that day. The chairman appointed as
the committee Messrs. Durant and Hersey
of Saltwater, Gribben and Reilly of st.
Paul, Merriman and Bovey of Minneapolis,
Owen and Humbird of the North Wiscon-
sin, Moon and Ingram of Eau Claire, Hodg-
ings and Laird of Winona, Paul and Cole
man of La Crosse, Stockwell and Gardner
of Lyons, Ia; Wadleigh and A. Lamb of
Clinton, Cable and Linksley of Davenport
Weyerhauser and Gould of Rock Island and
Moline, and Hershey of Muscatine. Nelson
and Shaw of the St. Louis river, z. B.
Walker of the Red River, and Howe and
Leavitt of the upper Mississippi.
Mr.. Walker says the situation is serious
one, and that the prices will have to be ad-
vanced from 81 to 50. He did not think
the advance would fall short of So.