The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-20
AMONG Big DEALERS.
Stacks of Lumber and Hundreds
of Cars En- Route.
AN EXTENSIVE BUILDING BOOM
The Demand This Year Exceeds That of Any
Former Year Finishing Lumber
Scarce.

The activity at the lumber yards is true
index of the large amount of building that
is being done this year. One merchant is
so busy that he cannot take but two meals
per day, while the others are doing thirty
ing business.
Salt Lake lumber dealers are up to the
times, and are replenishing and increasing
their stocks as rapidly as the lumber can
be transported from the Pacific slope to
this city.
a HERALD reporter made flying visit
to some of the big yards yesterday after
noon, and the sight Of builders clamoring
for lumber and the long rows of teams
rushing in and out the yards, indicate a
very active state in the lumber mart
SELLS & co.
said: We are getting in plenty of lumber
from three TO four cars a day. There has
been a scarcity of lath, but this will be
supplied in short time. The demand is
general and first rate, and we sell all we
can get. We don't get very much from
Oregon YET, almost all the lumber now
coming in being California lumber. You
cannot buy kiln dried lumner on the coast,
but we are now getting fine grade of this
lumber from Memphis, Tenn.
MASoN,& co.
Mr.. Mason is kept so busy filling orders
that he cannot find time to take but two
meals a day. The Office, was filed with
buyers, and the clerk was so busy that
THE HERALD could only get few words
of information.
Business is pretty rushing said the
clerk. 1--WE have eight double teams at
work and half million feet lying at the
depot, not having the teams to spare to haul
it away. We cannot get anything we want,
though we got in a few cars of finishing
lumber yesterday do not say anything
about this, or every lumber man in town
will be after US, as they are all out of it. J
We get in from eight to a dozen cars every
day and have fifty cars now at the depot.
We are going to open new yard at the
Utah Central and expect to start a small
saw mill and planning mill. We have also
the yard in the Sixteenth ward and a yard
at North Salt Lake. Cedar shingles and
lath are very scarce. just got in two car
loads of nice screen doors. 1t is building
boom and we are buster now than we were
in the middle of last summer"
TAYLOR, RoMNEY, ARMSTRONG & co.
''There is a great demand for lumber and
we have our hands pretty well filled to
take care of it. Before the bad weather
was over we found some difficulty in get
ting lumber, but now things are moving
Blong much better. We are getting in
several carloads every day. We have a
very good stock Of rough lumber but to use
a strong expression finishing lumber is all
used up Some of the places where finish
ing lumber was early obtained are now
without it. The demand this year is
largely in excess of last year People
seem TO be putting up more frame dwell
1ngs than ever, on account of the scarcity
of brick.n
SIERRA NEVADA LUMBER COMPANY.
''The demand is good, exceeding that OF
last year, to quite considerable extent
Think we will be able to get in all the lum
Der we want. We had more trouble last
fall. Every yard in town ran out of finish
ing lumber last fall, and it will take sew.
eral months before the market will be well
supplied with that line. There are plenty
OF shingles but there is no lath in town.
though in couple of weeks there will be
any amount of it. We have a small dry
kiln for drying lumber for our planning
mill but it is not large enough to dry fol-
general purposes. We have large orders
out, and many cars on the roadn
j. W. EARDLEY co.
This firm recently removed to Fourth
South street and have secured very con
venient yard on the line of street that is
properly an extension of Commercial
> street. They report a very large demand
for all grades of lumber and are doing then
utmost TO stock up to meet the demand anc