The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-16
Methods and Membership Of the
New Lumber Trust.
PRESIDENT CLARK AT PORTLAND
Inspecting the Lines OF the Union Pa
cifc-A Large Whaieback steamer
to Be Built at Everett.

subsidy Of any significant sum as com
pared with the amount OF capital con-
trolled. The subsidy fund IS not TO exceed
$4,000 per annum besides q contingency
fund OF ) per cent, 10 be collected by MEN,
bers. Nothing is TO De done IN the matter
until the directors approve of 1t, and not
until the nine or ten mills in British
Columbia shall act with the association,
and accept as their lumber cut % per cent
of the total of the mills to be interested.
The directors referred to are to De named
at meeting Of ali the mIIlmen interested
at San Francisco, when e board oil nine
directors will be chosen. This board viii
fix prices, arrange forfeits TO be exacted Tor
selling below the scheduled prices. The
board will also adjust discounts. The pool
is to hold together until December 81, 1854,
or longer if desired.
The next issue of the West C0as, Lumber
man will contain their draf. 4or the forma-
ton of the association.
The manufacturing capacity OF fir lumber on
this coast is three times the demand: 1t is man
uactured and sold at positive loss; the object
of this agreement Is to unite in one body
which shall be called the spine Manufacturers
Association" for the mutual benefit OF its MEN,
beers, 10 reduce the cut 10 meet the de-
OF lumber up TO point that will insure rea-
sonsbls proit in the large investments In mills.
The price OF rough lumber shall be
$40, and OF dressed lumber SIC so, O. b. at point
OF shipment. Each mill 10 make its own sac
and handle It's own cut Any mill exceeding
the cut allotted to it will pay 10 the association
for each thousand OF rough 81. and for dressed
81, tor lsth 50 cents. Each mill must turn into
main Office difference between cost and selling
price
All the mills which it is proposed to in
terest in the association have been fur
nished with draft of the proposed asso-
citation, and allotment of the cut of each
mill, which is as follows:
"Pope & Talbot, Port Gamble. Wash 100. 900. 900
A. NJ. simpson, Hoquiam, wash. 80, 9,O00
'Renton, Holmes Co, Port Blakeley.
Tacoma Mill Co. Tacoma wash. $50. 100000
Wash ....................... 100000
Nv. j. Adams, Port Hadlock. wash. =. 2o,0O0,JOo
Port Madison Mil, Port Madison,
W ash 2,Uoo,UUo
mopolis, Wash. ...................... III. 100000
Gardner Mill Co, Gardner, Or. ....... 20 100000
California Lumber Co. Porter, Or. 23,0oG,00
sE. b. Dean & Co., San Francisco go. 100000
Preston & McKinnon, san Francisco. l5.1o9, Ooo
Sade Lumber Co., Hoquiam, Wash. 100000
New wha,com. wash. ............... 100000
ma, Wash. ........................ 100000
stinson Mill CO.. Seattle, Wash. $50. ls,o0o,09o
Wash -. ....::...:--.. 1s,Ooo.o 900
deem. Wash ......................... 100000
Wash. ....:..............' 100000
.Ciatsop Mil Co. Astoria, or. S00S'ojo
stetson & Post Mill Co. Seattle. Wash. 100000
Fremont Mil CO., Fremont, Wash. 800. $685.
Joseph Smith & Sons, Rainier, Or. 100000
North Pacific Lumber Co, Portland,Or. 100000
lrman & Paulson, Portland Or. 2,590,001
Wilson Bros CO., Aberdeen. Wash. 100000
Wash '............ '.................. 100000
Co, Portland, Or ..................-. 100000
Seatco Manufacturing CO., Bucoda.
WASH 5Nu,VO
Mills designated by a star 81 are at
present controlled by the Pacific Pine
Lumber Company. of San Francisco. The
total cut Of the mills so controlled is con-
siderable over half of the entire cut,
being AL 900, 900. with total allotment of
279 0Oo.0 to the other mills named.
Some of the small millowners are op-
posed to giving the Pacific Pine Lumber
Company the big end of the stick to this
extent. Another complaint is found in
the rating of the Port Madison mill ct
q, 000, 900 when 1t 1t is said this mill is
bankrupt and closed down. Otherwise
there appears to be no general com plaint.
On the other hand there is a united de-
sire for organization among mill owners
to the end that prices may be adjusted as
set forth in the draft of the proposed as
ISOLATION.
1t will also he seen that the st. Paul
nd mil IF 1if in Ani
in the list Of mills Secretary George
Browne, of that mill, said today to a cor
respondent Of the PosT-INTELLIGESCER:
While we cannot go into the combine we are
Just as anxious as anybody for an ssocIatiou TO
limit the output and give us II chance 10 make
something. There must DO a fair profit in this
business when so much capital is invested or
else We Will be doing business at a dead loss IN
stead OF at profit We wish to run orr mill in
dependent: This proposed retGliaiory tariff
which the Victorian government OF Austr ALA is
SAID 30 te considering, is simply TIE work OF
SON, dealers who have laid ~ big stock aud
new propose to s8ut out competition until they
can uu'oai
An import duty of SIS, or tribe more
per thousand has been under copsidcra-
ton for some time hy the Australian col
ony Of Victoria. ard 1t is 10 their tariff
that Mr.. Browne refers. Adyices lust at
hand from Australia show the lumber
market 10 ne very siagnant there, with 8
big stock on hand, some Of which is, by
the action of the elements, becoming use
less.
W. II. Hanson. of the Tacoma Nil Com
panv. said this afternoon:
There will b 10 big subsidy Cor small mills
IN ANY association thai may he formed We
know nothing o. the association here Our
hcu>ein Saa Francisco looks after any interest
ws may have IN that direction As for the -
Paul ard Tacoma mill, it q willing 70 coma
Iuto che association. blI i desires 10 run OF IS
own time
!: IS said here, in lumber circles, that
connections ny the s.. Pant and Tacoma
Mil Company wtth the Northern PAc!he
railroad render Il necessary FOR il ~ con-
tjnue work the year round. Percy H.
Norton, assistant treasurer Of the com
pany, says:
vcare at controlled ~ tAe railroad in this
70 ,,c:, aud Csn run out mill a. We please
PRESIDENT CLARK Al PORTLAND.