The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-03
THE ORANGE MARKET.
TRADE PARALYxED ny THE RE,-
CENT STRICT QUARANTINE.
Cars Moved by Men and Mule Power.
Tugs Kept Rusy--Health Ccrtih-
Gates CostIy Luxurics.

Der traffic by rail. The empty cars left |
In the mill yards when the switch engines
and yard crews were laid on were loaded |
and pushed to a side track by hand. or |
where 1t could be done. pulled out by mule |
power and empties placed back by the same !
method. until when the switch engines |
were turned loose on the mill yards yss-
terday morning they found $50 cars on
tracks here loaded with more than 2.000,U00
feet OF Orange manufactured lumber and
ov0.0oU shingles, Mil men were prepared
10 receive wires csnceling eome II the many
bills that haa been on hand for the past
fortnight. but so far there has been less
impatlence displayed by retaii men than
was anticipated, and the cars that were
pulled out yesterday will do much TO stay
any disposition TO complain that may have
been growing up In the country. THIS
month would have led any preceding month
of this year in railroad shipments had not
tho fever developed on the Mississippi
coast, and as 1t is the output OF lumber by
that route will foot UP well In all grades
OF material usually sold from here. AS
has been previously mentioeed there has
been less done on water than was mapped
out at the beginning OF the month. due
to the catastrophe that overlook shipping
at Sabine Pass on the 18th inst. The
of that date have been floated and repaired,
hut no tow boats have been put In to take
the place OF the ]. v. Guillott cand John y.
Smith that went down. Tho tugs Fannie
and Annie Laurie, that survived the gale.
have been kept very busy and have pulled
a large number OF sticks OF square timber,
both hewn and cawn. to deep water. The
tug Nellie has found all she could do In
towing sawlogc from Nibletts Bluff to the
mills OF the Lutcher & Moore Lumber COM
pany at this place.
Travelling men have found cold comfort
In their efforts to get from one yard to
another In the Western counties. ]. J, Ma
lone wired his people that Health certifi-
Gates at 81 each cost more than board;
trains have subsidized and so have II He
pulled into Austin on a mustang pony ana
will remain there until there is reduction
In the price OF health certificates. G. L.
Hannah rounded up at Waco and wired the
A. Gilmer offices to the same effect. The
State has not been so free from drummers
IN active service during the past thirty
years as it has been during the closing
week In September.
The mail that reached here yesterday
morning contained many orders, not alone
from Texas but from Mexico, Oklahoma and
from Kansas. Several OF them are ten
days old and wires have reached the mills
in the last few days. from parties who sent
some of them, asking that their goods be
rushed. The letters to hand yesterday
morning were required to make clear what
orders were referred to In the kilograms.
Mills Will make every effort to catch up.
and II the Southern Tactic railroad can
find cars on which to load the material,
only few days Indulgence will be re-
CURED to put out such stock as may have
been called for in letters delayed In the
mails.
The Wingate Lumber company sent down
TO Sabine Pass Tuesday the barge Jean
nette Jones, loaded with lumber to com
plete the cargo OF the ship otterspool, now
loading at that port. The otterspool had
| the misfortune to drift into a reef the day
| after the storm at Sabine and was COM
| PEELED to take off part OF her cargo before
| she could be pulled off.
The schooner Clara A. Phinney arrived
| at Sabine Pass last Friday. and is being
| loaded by the Bancroft Lumber comnay
with material to be shipped to Coatza-
| coalcas The barge John McKinnon with
| part OF her cargo was towed to Sabine Pass
| by the tug Fannie Tuesday.
| G. Bedell Moore left here Tuesday on
| the tug Fannie for San Antonio via Sabine
| Pass and Galveston. This was the third
| effort Mr.. Moore had made to get to the
| Alamo City. and his friends here are curl
| Gus to know how he Jared after he reached
the Island City. He will pick UP costly
collection Of health certificates en- route.
The Lutcher & Moore Lumber company
,.;oJ Col Do ~
week to repair the schooner Gertrude A.
Bartlett which was injured in the re-
| cent blow here. This mill will furnish
her cargo. which is to go to Mexican
rort.
A. II. Saxon, with his pile driver Sabine
and a Grey OF men, has been engaged this
week In peeling big lot of pilng on the
Louisiana side OF the river above town.
The pling are to be used at Port Arthur
in building piers and were sold by H. G.
Buriew and George II. league.
The schooner Jessie Lena sailed from
Sabine Pass last week with $780, 900 feet O!
lumber for Coazacoalcos. Mexico. This
cargo was furnished by the Bancroft Lum
Der comnay. and comprised the first ship
ment ON the bill being cut by them for the
| MeAican Soutneastern railroad.
A. Glmer's mill oaded the schooner
Susie last Tuesday with a cargo of lum-
Der ard shingles for Cedar Bayou. Coast
wise shipments are the only kind that
have been made this week on account
OF the stoppage OF trains.
The Lutcher Moore Lumber com.
pany shipped 449,ss9 feet Of lumber. con-
sisting of thirty-seven car loads. yesterday.
This had accumulated during tho time
we were quarantined against the west.
George II. league OF Port Arthur placed
with the Sabine Tram company an order
for 500 piling which are to be used In
building the dock at Port Arthur. Deliv-
cry is being made this week.
H. @. Burley secured an order for 500
piling for tho Port Arthur docks. which