Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-16
THE TRADE OUTLOOK.
Allegheny Tanners Supplied Far
Ahead in Bark Lines and
PRICES ARE TENDING LOWER.
The Lumber Trade Is Dull and Hemlock
Quotations Have Been Cut.
YANKEE INVENTIONS In ENGLAND
PRICES ARE TENDING LOWER.
YANKEE INVENTIONS In ENGLAND
OFFICE OF THE DISPATCH,
PIrTSBURG, TUESDAY, March

PIrTsBuRG. TUESDAY, March Is.
The bark question is one of interest to all
manufacturers of leather, and in an indirect
way to all consumers of the same. Prices
of bark last season were about the highest
on record, chestnut oak reaching to $40 90
to SO 80 per cord and hemlock to 81 90 and
81 80 per cord. Under the stimulus of high
prices unusually large quantities were peeled
last season, until supplies became so large that
areaction followed, and prices have been on
the decline for the past few months Allie
gheny tanners are more heavily stocked up
with bark that they have been these many
years. The ma jority are better stocked than
they ordinarily are in August or September
As a result prices are now SOC to 81 90 per
cord less than at this time last year.
A year ago chestnut oak bark was SELL
ing at SO to $40 so per'cord, and now the
price is So to 50 So Hemlock is now slow
at S6 50 to 81, q decline of soc from prices
of a wear ago. The business of peeling was
overdoRe last season, and this season we
are having the natural reaction. Large
quantities of last wears peel are being
pressed on to markets. The bark peeling
time usually begins about the beginning of
April and continues to June 1. As old
stock is still on hand in larger quantity
than usual, it is plain that the new peel
will be curtailed.
Lumber and Bark.
Lumber is in close sympathy with bark,
and when the former is dull, as it has been
all the past year, bark never fails to follow
suit. Bark is but a small factor in the value
of tree, and hence with lumber a drug, the
bark supply is likely to be very much cur
tailed the present season. The bullock is
not slaughtered for the hide, but for the
meat and so the tree is not cut down for
the bark. but for the wood, and as long as
lumber drags bark cannot be brisk.
The movement in lumber is slow. Mills
are not buying freely for good and sufficient
reasons, namely, the large amount of car
ried over stock and the uncertainties of the
future. Hemlock lumber is particularly
dull at reduction of 80 cents per thousand
from prices which prevailed in the early
part of the wear. The rates for 215 to inch
sizes are $40 90 to SO so per thousand.
White pine lumber is also dull. with a
range of S14 90 for common, up to $50 90 for
uppers. Well seasoned hard woods are firm
at the same prices as prevailed for the year
past.
Green stock is very slow at decline of
81 90 to 81 80 per thousand in the past few
weeks White oak has the lead in hard
wood lines and cherry and poplar come
next in order of demand Common white
oak well seasoned is in fair demand at
SIG 90 to 500 90 per thousand, and wagon
oak at sos 90. Cherry is scarce and sells at
a range of $40 90 to SO 90. Clear dry pop
lar is in good demand at S25 90 and culls at
about one-half price.
Yankee Inventions Abroad.
The London correspondent of the Chicago
Hide and Leather has the following in the
current issue:
We still continue to look to American in
ventors for the best finishing machinery.
Messrs. Pearson & Benrion of Leicester,
have just secured the agency for an Ameri-
can triple reel-burnisher which is said to be
the best machine of its kind in the world.
Great credit is certainly due to the makers
States for the ever increasing number of
Improvements and specialtes they are con-
stantlv bringing before the trade. We for
our part, are anNious to adopt them as
quickly as our American cousins In fact
the british boot and shoe manu- 'acturers are
leaving no stone unturned to keep abreast
of the times.
American leathe continues to keep well
to the front in our markets. In 1890 the i'm.
port of foreign leather into Great Britain
was S3l.1 AGO. and IN 1891, S33, 246, $50; these
are the highest figures ever reached, and out
of this total the greater part was from the
United States. The sales of American
leather have followed pretty closely those of
the home product: supplies having been just
about enough to meet the demand.