The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-18
|IaGGERs ARE ANGRY.
|<~thern Pacific Advances Price
Of Stumpage.
pnlpPs IS UNDER FIRE.
If Lower Prices for Legs.
ssupsgs IL EsissA-A shut
xewn May Be the Result

=, the ioggers Of the Sound
- are complaining bitterly that
- - Handicapped, not only by the
- ~ the tariff on lumber. burt by
.sga.sce In the price Of sturnpage on
- lands. which has been ordered
n rnspps, the new general land
N-..~xsoner Of the Northern Pacific
- and DO not hesitate to charge
q. resr,oz with seeking 20 cripple the
- b,,ssuess OF Puget Sound IN or
= :, foster MS own interests IN the
- n,x.ness In British Columbia
= northern Pacific land grant In
- every alternate section within
.ss-<.nalIy the whole timber belt tribut-
. - the upper half OF Puget Sound,
.ha CONSEQUENCES is that loggers
- Al hsasfnnss there without buying
s-'--.err Pacific stumpage, for the cost
3 ..s-xsnx 10 the intervening sections
-.~n be prohfbifory. Before Mr..
sst,r~' appointment the price charged
: the Northern Pacific for sszsnpage
- % 10 50 cents per thousand feet, at
s.re when logs were selling from S.
nxa. The price has now been raised
!. ii p~r thousand feet. while logs have
ss,sen % $3.50 and s..
axns lovrers do not stop at charging
~ phtppe' action in making this adj
.sara 10 his misunderstanding OF the
s.uafson and being guided In the price
- places on stumpage on Puget Sound
~ me conditions with which he IL fam
slsar IN Wisconsin. but they assert that
~ = largely interested In an Eastern
svn8srate which owns over 100. coo acres
~ the finest timber land on Vancouver
island. as well as a large sawmiil. A
considerable portion OF this land is on
.be waters edge, 80 that logging Ia
su,pse ard eostiess. According to state
usrts said TO have been made by Mr.
phlpre, the cost of this timber TO his
0psscafA will not exceed 10 cents per
thousand feet. while on Puget Sound. at
ur. Phspps' prices. timber. together with
rzi transportation to salt water. costs
DE logger from si75 20 s2.2 Thus the
difference In favor OF the British Column
Ia syndicate Is the difference between
tfze figures. leaving the item OF high
q priced labor out OF the question.
The loggers OF the upper Sound are
prtlcuariy indignant that such AN adj
vzncs should have been made at the
present time. when they have Just been
bought into direct competition with
Canadian lumber, by the free lumber
ection Of the new tariff law. and when
he British Columbia miilmen are invad-
ng the California market. They claim
that If the advance Is insisted upon.
k1ey will be compelled to close their
camps and throw several thousand men
ess Of employment. Just at a time when
sAear business II beginning to show
hgas Of revival. They condemn tho pol
kY OF the Northern Pacific as suicidal.
STAINING that II will throttle the freight
'Fsi'ic of the road, and by shutting down
tAe logging industry eventually damage
ess'ness generally. They call attention
. the fact that while the price the Nor
'hsrn Pacific Is now asking for stumpage
amounts 10 from $50 70 $50 an acre and
toe bare land is worth fully s. an acre.
Northern Pacific lands are assessed at
eaiy about s. an acre. and some of them
TAX Of appealing TO the legislature to
save tae ASSESSMENT raised.