The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-01

As ore Of the features Of today's issile
the posT-IzTeIIisKseKE presents in
statistical form The record Of tho Puget
sound lumber industry for the past year.
Little comment Is necessary. The facts
are summed up rs follows:
IMnaber nanufaetssed 10 1850. feet = esIfs9 e5l
Lnmhes manufactured ~ ISIS, feet.s. 49,, if5
increase. .......................... - 10, 7es
While the production OF lumber pre-
scented no new features during the year,
the marketing of the product varied In es-
eentiai particulars from the year before.
There was a slight falling OF in foreign
shipments. and an extraordinary increase
In the local demand. iiy s'localn il Is in
tended 10 mean the supply for Eastern
Washington as well as Puget sound. Car
goes to ports outside Of the United States
in 1sas amounted 20 81 las on last year 10
81 i280s5. decrease OF $56.Ol2. THIS was
due entirely 10 the scarcity OF tonnage. It
happens that during the past eighteen
months ocean ffeights have been ahnsTin-
ally high on the Atlantic coast and the ee.
mand for tonnage sharp. aud ship-ownsrs
naturally send their yessels into the NEST
profitable trade. Any other freight Is bet
ter than lumber for first-eiass ships. Orders
for lumber from Australia, south America,
Mexico. the Hawaiian islaeds. and other
countries which have been our steady GUS
toners are as plentiful as ever. and not
min which reaches out for foreign trade
bat has had 20 decline orders for the sim
gle reason Of lack Of transportation taciIl-
ties This scarcity OF tonnage has been
partially met BY the large mill companies,
who have sent 20 foreign ports such coast
ing vessels as they cruid spare from their
respective fleets. A glance over the de-
tailed list of cargocn will show that there
were sent "off shaFe" many vessels. even
down to small schooners, which hitherto
have piled oaiy between California and
Puget sound. These could well be spared.
for there has been no revival OF the South
ern California boom which. in the spring
OF isos, kept tfu mills running night and
day. and 40 prospect FOR such revival.
Whether the supply of tonnage for foreign
ports will he araple during the coming
year Is prohlemsacal.
II il we'll knewn that no lumber in the
world equals ptFet sound tir IN the et,n-
straotion OF bridges, warehouses, freight
cars and buildings which are required TO
sustain great weight. nor IA there such SER
yiceahle lumber for ships decks; and
wherever this lGmher il introduced there
springs up demand which soon becomes
permanent The newest customer for
Puget sound & the cityof Tendon. England.
AZ last the most conservative Rritisher has
been forced 90 admit that our fir for certain
purposes exeels sli ether lumber, and he
pays the price. together with the freight
charges for haul Of 1890 miles. Until
last year Puget sound had shipped only
two cArgesS 70 England's metropolis. and
these we're clear stuff Last year the ship
merits weTp nine eargoes. mostly Ne. I
mercasasahle and the remainder clear To
what use the London buyers pat the him.
Der i not known 20 the millownefs here.
A fair share oi eargees has been made un
ot deck plank and iiooFiug, but great
part ~ tac orders consist OF sticks from
i6xts to s4xai ard from 81 to a. feet ieng.
hesc are yvsaWsd after reaching their dies
tfnstinn. bat al the mslI managers Inter.
viewed hy tbe pesg-iSrKttlUxScsR con.
feSsesI complete ignorance ~ 70 the use to
which the heavy stHa WAS pat Az asree
that the demand IRON London viii prob.
sesy he Is stesdy ia The tut8Fe as from san
Francisco. Honolulu, Melbourne, Ruenos
Ayfes or Valparaiso.
the Disastrous ores whieh DESTROYED The
business districts el seattle. Spokane falls
and Eglensbaee and eaused a demand that
had 10 10 met Immediately, the cal for
humber for building purposes throughout
che state If Washington waS the Largest
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