The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-14
THE PASSING THRONG.

P. A. woolley came down from Woolley yes.
terdsy to attend the meeting OF the Single
Aanufacrurefs' and Deslers' Association, wnicn
meets today. ''One of the questions which will
be discussed at the meeting" said be, us snas
OF allowing the Eastern jobbers . better rate
than to retail DEALERS There IL considerable
diversity OF opinion among the members OF the
association ON this subject Some take the view
that BY giving the jobbers difisrent'al rate We
give them a club with which to beat down our
prices. Those who take this view say that mas
much Is We make the best shingie In the world,
aud as the public have come to appreciate it,
merits, we don't need the jobbers to sell our
product. We can sell them ourselves and DO
our own tobbng from here. Now believe in
the live and let live policy. think that the man
who takes fifty cars OF shingles ought to have
little lower price than the man who
only takes one car load. That 10 q commercial
rule common In all lines OF business. But
don't believe in allowing the tobbing houses to
90 into the market and undersell Us to the re-
taller ii the latter should prefer TO buy directly
from the manufacturer. II the jObber will not
bind himself not to cut the association prices,
think no concession should be made to him.
had nine men out on the road last year besides
being out part of the time myself, aud ! know
OF some cases whore jobbers have uudessold my
prices. don't take any stock in this big talk
about starting mills OF their own out here and
can't make shingles any cheaper than we can,
and for one say let them come. will give
any one who wants to put up mill . site free
OF charge"
c. II. Guion, assistant manager OF the Chicago
Lumber Company, of Omaha, 10 stopping at the
Rainier. II have come out here on . little
pleasure trip" said he, land thought would
look up the shingie business while here. Your
shingle sells easily on its merits now, though
only three years ago, when We received our first
Car load. it required hard work to make sale.
We had that car load on our hands for six
months. and although II cost US more than the
pine article we had to let it go for the same
price. Last year We sold 275 car loads without
making any effort at all, and expect to sell about
500 car loads this year. We now have 100000
cedar shingles piled up IN our yards
which we bought last fall and during
the winter. Omaha does the largest
lumber business of any city on the Missouri
river. Our house alone did business last year
OF million and quarter. and there are four or
nve other wholesale houses which also did .
large business. l think there 10 q growing
market for your cedar siding, but there 10 one
thing about that which the trade does not take
kindly to. and that 10 your manufacturers cut
them in all lengths from ten feet up. and they
are sold in assorted lengths. Carpenters In the
east have become accustomed TO using siding in
lengths of not less than sixteen feet, and it is
not easy TO get them to use different kind"
". n. Porter, travelling agent for the D. H.
Hammond Packing Company, who is stop
ping at the Occidental, said yesterday. re-
garding the recent rapid rise in meats OF all
kinds: 1.-THE cause 10 due 10 the floods in the
Western states last spring, which drowned many
litters of pigs. and the result was a great scar.
city of hogs in the ialL Not only 10 mess pork,
lard and all hog products 100 per cent. higher,
but live nogs have advanced in equal proper
ton. Beef and mutton have also advanced in
sympathy with pork. The former 10 about 20
per cent. higher, and the latter little less than
20 per cent. This 10 due to the greater demand
for these meats ON account OF the higher prices
for pork. Anoth factor which entered largely
into the upward movement was the removal of
the restrictions from our pork by Germany,
France and Austria. which increased the foreign
demand Our firm has perhaps cleared mill
ion dollars by the advance In meat prices Long
ago our agents and buyers reported q scarcity in
the pig crop, aud the house stored most of its
product. merely selling what they had to to
keep their customers going, but refraining from
pushing sales. We now have immense quanti-
ties in our cellars and warehouses;, on most OF
which We will double our money"
W. J. Carney, tho Chicago lumberman, who 10
on the Sound for the purpose OF buying lumber
coma yesterday, where he is stopping at the
Tacoma hotel. speaking OF cedar shingles yes
terday, he said: 1.-THE only fault can find with
your shingles - that they are too good. Once .
mau's roof IL covered with them We have NO
moro business with him, whereas In the pine
single trade We do the entire business over
again every five or six years l am taking back
home with me some single which have been
on a roof at Whatcom for over thirty years.
They are Is good - new, with the exception
that the weather has worn away their ex posed
surface about one-fourth of an inch. At this
rate your shinge would last forever, barring
the mere friction OF water. In regard to the re.
duction in fir shipments eastward, do not see
how it can extend Your market very much.
You already have good trade in the East on
dimenAion lumber, bridge timbers and long
stuff generally, but that comes to you because
we cannot get it In the East The reduction to
intermediate points, however. will extend your
trade west OF the Missouri river"
f. v. smslley. proprietor OF the Northu EFT MAG.
axine, of St Paul, accompanied by A. K. Greenig.
his business manager. 10 in the city, stopping at
the Rainier. He has been spending several days
in the down-Sound country investigating the
cedar shingle industry. which will be the sub.
ject Of a special article in his magazine. "Puget
sound 10 going to roof the United States" said
he. ''When one considers that a cedar shingle
will outast dozen pine shingles. he will sec
that he could get his pine shingles for nothing
he could not afford to use them, because the
mere cost OF putting on dozen pine roofs would
amount to more than one cedar roof. The shin
gle industry is grea, thing for your state, and
is already making her more prosperous than
many states to the east OF her, where all lines OF
business are dull. II is pouring 5000 900 year
into your state, and it benefits all branches of
trade aud labor, from the logger to the banker
James Hart. OF Chr stopher. was in town yes
terdsy He reports that about twenty inches of
snow fell, bu, 1t disappeared rather more rap
i'd than here. In his opinion the snow will
have done good deal Of good for the crops.
The last three years there has been green win
ter. There was . shortage in hops, hay and
potatoes. while there was almost no fruit at ali.
The snow will do the land great deal OF good
by giving it . rest and killing of millions of
grubs and other vermin.
Bush Morgan, one of the worst outlaws In the
mountains, was murdered Friday night by some
unknown man near Huhbar springs. Va He
ha1 murdered seventeen men.