Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-08
REVIEW OF LUMBER TRADE.
Demand Is Now Steady and Mills
Have 0rae-- Ahead.
YELLOW PINE WILL HOLD ITS OWN
saw Mills on the Knysee-A Rumorcd
Cut Mt substantiated-In-
auiry From Egypt.

from dealers have been fewer the past
week than heretofore, but the lull is not
at all disturbing. Farmers are picking
their cotton and preparing It for market,
and hence have no time to devote TO
farm improvements. Within three or
four weeks this activity in the Held Will
have passed, and with the good money the
farmers will receive for their cotton they
will look after tho necessary building
and repairs Manufacturers are still
well supplied with dealers orders, how
ever, and are just now laundering after
large additions to their planer and yard
order books. There has been some little
demand from the Northwest, but nothing
10 what is expected to develop in the
course of IA month. Mills are more at
their ease in cutting timber bills than they
were six weeks ago, the rush and hurry
having subsidized into n steady demand.
Generally speaking the mills have saw
ing orders ahead and are, of course, bid
ding on other bills that are being offered
almost daily. Prices are being well main
tanned.
Shingles arc scarce and are hard to
get at the recently advanced prices.
YELLOW PINE PRICES FIRM.
A week or two ago the Northwestern
Lrmberman announced In an editorial
that Southern lumbermen were making
secret cuts In the price lists and there
was danger that all sorts of prices would
soon he made TO buyers. The story
was evidently fabricated by some bear"
with large orders to be placed and was
imposed on the Ium German in the hope
that its publication would cause some
thing of II stampede and cut in prices,
thus allowing the purchaser TO get in ON
the ground floor. Investigation concern
ing the report was begun and it was de-
NelOped that there was no truth In 1t.
In correcting the previous article, the
NI..tVsa
of September IA appeared an editorial
article under the head of yellow Pine
Prices Threatened in which the state
ment was made that well known menu
bers of Southern manufacturers ass0cia-
tions were making secret cuts in the es-
tablishcd list. The integrity with which
the official prices have been observed
has been q matter of watchfulness and
Jealous concern, not only among the Of
floors but all the individual members of
these organizations. II transpires that
In the particular instance noted the mem
her of the Lumberman's staff who was
responsible for the declaration was i'm
posed upon, unwttingly, perhaps, and Is
4 utterly unable to snbstantiato the state
ment by amy evidence worthy of
credence. Careful investigation made
since the publication of the article rc-
fcrred to developed nothing to show that
any member of either of tho yellow pine
organizations has made any secret cut
4 In the list, or that yellow pine prices
q have bee nthreatened. On the contrary,
they seem to be remarkable firm In tone
4 and fact and the Lumberman gladly
4 makes this corrective statement in JUS
4 tice to itself as fair and impartial
journal, and to the manufacturers whose
y interests are at stake" This correction
4 of the Lumberman is testimony to the
frmness with which Southern lumbermen
4 are adhering to prices.
WILL HOLD ITS OWN.
Il 1t is thought by some that the recent
n decided advance in the price of y-ilow
81 pine, conincdcnt with a reducti,,7 10
n freight rates from white pine manuiup
N turing points into competing territory in
Z the Northwest, would result not only In
b present decrease of orders from Omaha,
n Kansas City and other cities, but that
y the effect would be to bar yellow pine
IN from those markets. Such, however, has
Il not been the case, nor will white pine
" long continue TO be aid down in that
territory ut the present low rate. In
M formation from Onlahu states that no
purchases Of white pine have been made
II with the view of supplonting yellow pine,
g md the further statement is made that
tho old rate of freight will be restored
IN the coming week. Orders from the
Northwest have not been large, but they
p were not curtailed by reason of the re-
duced freight rate from the white pine
i country; hence the uneasiness expressed
u by a few yellow pine manufacturers that
they would lose valuable trading terri.
4 tory is unfounded
SAWMILLS ON THE KAYSEE.
M The Northwestern Lumberman of last
~ week, in Its correspondence from this see
S ton, makes the following reference Il
& new mills on the Kaysee road: Gap
M tain George w. Smyth of beaumont
4principnl owner of the Sabine Tram, the
most important logging road to Orange
!, has had the surveys made for a large
mill to be located at Buna, on the Kay
Nsee, in the midst of his great umbeI
belt. This is within ten miles of Cal
mill. Aud Hon. John III. Kirby, who il
Nice president and general manager OF
the Kaysee and also head of the TeNni
Pine Land association, and Texas and
Louisiana Pine Land association, which
owns and controls more pine lands ii
Texas than any other company, is clear
Ing the site for his big mill at Silsbee"
,f4 A BIlA UMONT ZIMMERMAN.
M In the course of write-up of thu
Texas Tram and Lumber company's plan
In this city, the New Orleans Lumber
ence TO Mr.. Guy III. Mallam, the sscre
tary of the company:
lf 1T would never do to write of tn,
Texas Tram and Lumber company with
out mention of its secretary, Mr.. Guy
III. Mallam. II was the desire of thu
journal TO present to its readers a pic
lure of Mr., Mallam, whose systematic
rnd intelligent conduct of the bushes
81 this great company, combined with
charming and modest personality, hn
Gone much to bring about the record o
success here detailed. Mr.. Mallnm |
Louisiana boy and spent his boyhoo,
hnd younger manhood days in New Or
n leans. He is ably assisted by Messrs
Keith and Long in his work. the ofhc
work moving with the utmost system
Ind dispatch. Mr.. Malam is prominen
fgure in all Southern lumber gatherings
f4Shere his public-spirued interest In al
fairs is always directed toward the gen
eral good of the trade"
8# TURPENTINE DISTILLERIES.
M There is n turpentine plant locate
hear Westlake, La, that is being sue
sessfully and probably operated. III
Herald says; ''rhe work of putting u
The cups was begun March %. this veal
Dwing TO the lateness of the season, II
cups We're put UP after May 81. In tha
lime, however. with an average of 81,
seen hands per day G0,O00 cups wer
placed in position. The yield and produC
of these cups TO date is 1852 barrels 9
Hpirits Of turpentne and $40 barrels q