The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-29
|oRANGE MARKET
q ,xrErx A COMPARATIVE
LY DULL ONE.
pecn Tied up Mt sabine
s,,gbt Improvement in
4 ,otcrior business.

80. May 2S.--The past week
comparatively dull one in point
ais by water as majority OF
!. sent away the latter part of last
not yet been discharged at sa-
rho supply of barges Is linn
delays of this kind are some tines
y. The mills have had less
curing cars this week than for
us mast, though, and rail ship
:. heen very good. All of the
,ort Interior business about the
- week. with slight improve.
or two instances. While this
!, little duh just now all the
,nrsrs claim that 1t is very much
!, II was this time last year and
Improvement over the usual de-
M the farmers are busy with their
!, one or two of the mills rail-
,.rs we're reported not to be as
/. veelx as usual, but others report
,smaud and shipments being mace
~, No foreign orders have Teen
,his week, the prohibitive ocean
a,s making it impossible to ac-
.au,,s that we're submitted. as
~ that the demand is all right,
ra eyporter who had on file an
i September delivery was asked
.a.,omer this week II he could not
siysry in July at an advance o'er
agreed upon, The gentleman has
I. matter under advisement and il
s,n be secured at the right figures
ysry will probably be made. While
has become prevalent in some
! that on account of inability tt
toreign shipments the coast mills
become loaded up with an oyerald us
stock. the mills at Orange do not
p,e such a contingency, but, on the
= figure that with the close o. the
ii come such demand for materla
kubs and other points outside tina
Nh he small chance of the inferior
becoming overcrowded, or of price!
linz as low as at present.
Bancroft Lumber COMPANY repor
hooked several new railroad orders
Eek and are shipping out yard stool
hloug. They have finished the YES
M we're loading at Sabine Pass snt
made no water shipments this week
! they have q large lot OF meteria
and ready to go as soon as othe
arrive.
Lutcher & Moore Lumber compau,
the American schooner Tofa from
Pass yesterday for Perth Amboy
cargo Of material for the Norh
10 Elevated Railway of Chicago
are now loading the America
Ter Ralph NJ. Haywood with materia
same place,
pretty good evidence that the mill
hnge are not frantic to rush thei
Bal on the market an order for owe
No feet of stuff TO go to the interio
teeiyed early in the week and &
b list prices, but had not been &C
when this was written.
mill OF the d. r. Winga.e l. IN
bmpany was shut down for a day G
Bic week making some minor repairs
esumed operations Wednesday morn
Id is again turning out an iInmens
lty Of yellow pine lumber.
re has not been so much complair
The mills this week about a scarcit
n. the railroad furnishing them
about equal to the demand ar
ents are thus greatly facilitated.
Iutcher G. Moore Lumber compar
eted the cargo of the barge Hei
this week and sent her to the An'
bark Emma at Sabine Pass,
Lutcher &, Moore Lumber compar
fhe barge Sabine down to Sabine Pa
Saturday with cargo of Germa
IS for the Dutch steamer Leonora.
barge NJ. 7, Jones is being loaded 4
Wingate Lumber company's wharv
material TO 20 into the cargo of Il
steamship Leonora, now loading
e Pass.
Orange and Wlngate Lumber con
have two lows of square limb
up and ready to 20 to Sabine Pas
Fcing to the Swedish ship Margueri
fns to the Russian bark Ceder. whit
complete her cargo.
0 Gilmer received an order for l
o' yard stock this week to go
roma. Pretty good for a. dull seaso