The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-19

Eastern Jobbers Want to Handle Our
Goods-Will Start Mills il Necessary.

Eastern Jobbers Wan. to Handle Our
Goods-Wiu Start Mills il Necessary.
TAconA. Jan. ls.-IspeciAl War has been de-
ciarsd by the Wsyerhaussr representative and
combination o! Eastern jobaers on the Wash
tngtou and Oregon shingle trust which now
controls the red shinsls output OF the Pacific
Northwest
The shingle trust managers positively refuse
TO sell shingles 20 Eastern iobbers, aud the
Wsyerhause, people and the Eastern ioboen
declare that the trust will be sony If IL does
not John c. Hill of ST. Paul. representing
Hill Co and Weyerhauser, says they Will have
shingles. and intimates that mills may be es;so-
hshed 70 furnish them. He SAYS the only way
TO sell red cedar shingles in the East is 70 stock
Eastern yards with them. This the aningle trust
will not do, because It claims that by doing i.
the "shyster' !oooers OF the East viii be given
81 opportunity 70 demoraIizs the trade By cut
ting trust prices. Tie trust may so East Itself
and fgh. she iobbers IN their owa territory.
On the other hand representatives OF Chicago,
Omaha and other shingle and lumber firms in
the city today announce that II they cannot
contract direct with the mills here for their
supply OF cedar shingles they will put Up their
own mills and ''bus." the shiagie trust Local
jobeers who control the single trust claim
that they cannot be driven ont OF the market,
because they control the single output The
Eastern ioboers, however, are confident thai.
with large stock of white pine and other luTn-
Der to sell az heavy discounts in connection
with tneir shingles, the Washington and Ore
gon trUs: cannot compete with them
Another feature OF the fight is scheme which
Nj Hill Is credited with having worked out,
providing for a transfer OF shingles IN connac-
ton with the Minnesota transfer, on the basis
OF terminal rates. In thi. way ca Iioad lots con-
signed TO Weyerhauser, for instance. would be
shunted OF slde:rack alongside OF car be-
n Ea in he fserf
TO which the shingles are 70 60 While all such
cars are 10 be consigned to the Minnesota Trans
Ter, and are subject TO shipment 20 other parts
OF the country, yet the shingles thus consigned
may not be actually sold until they arrive 81 ST
Paul or Minneapolis, or even ten DAYS later, as
the transfer arrangement contemplates that
length OF time, II necessary. IN which 10 send
the goods forward. But when the shipment is
made-aad here Is the rub-they 90 forward at
terminal rates, just II they hsd been consigned
to the distri bu'ing poin. the moment they left
Puget sound.
The local jobbefs are ready 20 set up howl
should anything Of this sort be done They say
they viii make it SO hot for the Northern Pa
elfc or any other road attempting it that NJ.
Hilfs scheme viii be dropped Ike ''red-hot'
stove. such action, they aver, is clearly cater
Ing to individuals. and shuts out the general
public from entering into its benefts- Orig
InaIiy the Minnesota transfer scheme was
planned by President J. J. Hill, of the Great
Northern. and the Northern Pacific people here
say !! will, in connection with the shingle busi-
ness, solve the car famine, which the past year
prevented the shipmen, OF 1000 car loads of rel
cedar shingles East Besides, by the transfer
arrangement cars are returned promptly, and
this, railroad men say, viii bring about reduc-
ton. in freights
Trust managers say the Eastern iobbers are
very "slick' in their methods. For instance, il
is said they will offer to the entire output of
the manufacturer OF red cedar shingles at a
fixed price, and then by some tick regarding
weights o: prices they will in the long run
skin" the mi!lman. The iobbers in the shingls
trust say they have advanced money TO the MILL
men. and are virtually keeping them on their
feet and protecting their interests by keeping up
prices. While the bats OF the Eastern jobbers
are sometimes tempting, they say ii is to the in
terest OF the miilmen, especially the small ones,
to stand by the local iobbers.
Besides, the Eastern iobbers will cut prices on
cedar shingles in order 10 work Off . supply OF
white pine. They do not cut the price of cedar
shingles in some respects, but they do give big
discounts pine lumber sales in connection
with cedar shingle sales
John C. Hill left this morning for South Bend,
in company with a party OF Eastern mill people.
He will probably return here Saturday, before
going East. He concluded his talk on the
shingie fight thus:
II the association does not allow Eastern job
bers to handle its goods il viii be sorry for it
before the year is out some capitalists may
get in and stock up Eastern yards and bust
them Up
This is what the trust managers term a
"bluR" They, however, are arranging to meet
the "blu6," so called. By sending out men TO
start up yards for them in the East TO offset Just
what Mr. Hill threstens