The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-30

Voorhees, says. IL seems 10 - the inten-
ton % force united support for is in eau
Gus aa9 limit debate IN both houses.
Another Industry which 10 attached by
the bill aud which 10 just developing IN
Washington Is the manufacture Of sewer
pipe and tirebrick and ornamental ware Of
the sarns materials Within the last few
years the Denny Clay Company has es-
tabIished an extensive factory of this
class of goods near this city, and it viii
be seriously affected By the passage of the
bill. @. W. Hummer, the manager OF the
factory. said OF ft:
aft affects Us most through the reduc-
tions on fire brick and the liner grades Of
pressed brick. The duty has been about
= per loo on fire brick, and it is pro-
Under such nianipu3s alton IS has been
experienced. this is virtual free trade. for
fire trick have . value according 10 grade.
and man might have a lot billed 10 him
q. a lower grade than the true one. and il
would be difficult TO detect the fraud
They are brought here in ballast and laid
down at q very low price. 50 that
IL viii be very difficult for rs
10 compete with them under practi-
wages- From what / have been able 70 see
from the dispatches, / an not sure whether
sewer pipe has been reduced. Ii cannot be
imported TO advantage unless nested, be-
cause it il bulky. bat | have seen il laid
down from China at Vancouver. b. C.. at
lower prices than We can make IL for. The
reduction from 90 TO As per cent. ad va
Jorem on ornamental goods 10 not likely to
affect as at all. as the trade is very limited.
IN fact has only been introduced by us. /"
Free wool will strike the wooI-growers of
this state, of whom there ara many both
cas-; and west of the mountains. The
tariff IS all that has prevented the WOOL.
growers of Australia, who have ranges
embracing a whole continent. from load
ing the lumber vessels from this coast with
wool. as they have loaded them with coal.
and laying Ii down on this Coast at prices
With which the American grower cannot
hope TO compete. Not only are the growers
injured. bat the Seattle Wooden Mill Com
pany. which has been building up pros
porous business both on the coast and in
the East. thereby furnishing labor TO
many persons in this community. will
suffer by the sweeping reduction in the
schedules on wooden goods. Thomas z.
Eyanson, the president of the company,
says the bill will ruin the wool business
in this state, As wool cannot be
raised at free trade prices. and 1t would
also destroy the local wool market. as he
would have TO depend on Australian or
Eastern wooI. though his object in To-
eating here was to be near the base Of sup
ply. C. L. Hibbard, Of Hubbard 4 Norton,
the dealers in hides aad wool, is of the
same mind, for be says:
IF wool is ON the free list the business
will be the poorest in the country. Wool
is now worth only about one-half of what
IL was last year. Putting il on the free
list will keep the price about 90 per cent
below the price of last year. Wool has
been going down to free trade price all
summer because of threatened free trade
until there 10 practically no price that can
be quoted.
The stock-raising industry, which is one
of the greatest in Eastern Washington.
receives q blow, for all kinds of meats.
prepared or preserved, are put on the free
list. Not only will the stock raisers of
British Columbia aud the Canadian North
west be able TO pack meat and ship it to
the Coast cities in competition with
American stock raisers, but the ship loads
of dressed beef and mutton which are
now shipped in frozen condition to En-
gland from Australia and New Zealand
will be turned to this Coast and will cut
OF the market for the great packing
houses, which buy the cattle from the
Western ranges. On this point Charles
Louch, of Louch. Augustine 4 Co, said:
II have not given the subject much
thought slpce the ball has been published.
but competition from outside countries
would reduce the price of hams, bacon.
etc, and consequently the farmer would
get less for his hogs. This affects the men
from whom the packer buys his live stock
in decided manner"
The fisheries of Puget sound are not
overlooked. for fresh fish is put on the free
list. and the fishermen of British Column
bia. who have a more abundant supply in
Fraser river than is found in the waters of
the Sound, could compete on equal terms
with those OF Puget sound in the shipment
oi frozen fsh to the Eastern markets.
A. w. Dunn, of Ainsworth Il Dunn. the
fish packers. said:
IF the duty were removed from fish II
would iniure the fish business here. IL
would put more fish in competition and
hurt the fishermen and fish dealers. Fish
would be cheaper. and at certain seasons.
when they are more plentiful in the Fraser
river. good proportion of the money paid
for fish would go to British Columbia.
There is not sufficient market ut the
present time for the fish caught ON the
Sound"
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