The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-13
|IUlBER MARKET REVIEW
REGULAR Weekly Report Of the Con-
/ ditlon ,ot Trade.
1HH DEMAND KEEPS Up VERY WELL
Cestsnuea Call from the Northwes' Il
Even surrrisinK--Tcxns Dealers
Doing Int Little.

pcanmoud, Texas, February line ue-
usud from dealers at all points Keeps UP
well. although there has been nothihR
~ brIskncss about the yard stock market
with,n the past ten days. The continued
call for stock from the Northwest mas peen
somewhat surprising. as IT was 'housn'
tbe winter season would almost entireis
check building operations but >nnslnk
from the number OF orders still comins
10 hand from that section cold WINDS. SHOW
ana sleet have lost their power to enureiy
stop business, Perhaps the yardmen are
stocking nm in anticipation OF an carry
snr,nc trade, but at all events they are puy-
Z, q freelv. Texas dealers are not In the mar
rat ~ anv extent, but as they are carrying
Ipbt .stocks they Will be forced TO pus
should there be even II slight reViva, OF
trade. Immense quantities OF railroad pl,is
are Offering, and they are OF such Vulic.s
ms /, take nearly the entire iog, leaVihs
comparatively little for the YARD. seyerh,
good siaed export bills have been placed
here within the past ten DAYS ana the mus
ara figuring on other schedules that nave
been submitted for quotations. Inc mar
kct ii, on the whole. in healthy condi-
ton.
There is reasonably good demand for
shingles but the stoth IN sui'iN'N"N -
the demand. +tst t.-t
YELLOW PINE IN THE NORTHWEST.
Persons connected with the lumber busl-
ness in this section know Of the decided
extension Of their trade into the Northern
fields and feel the benefits that have ae-
crued tbcrefrom, but II any one not as'o-
ciatcd with tho trade entertained DOUBT
that yellow pine had made its way iar up
into the frozen. North, such doubt would
disappear upon reading tho plant of the
Mississippi Valley Lumbcrnlan. when ls
printed below. Tho, article reproyes me ,.
railroads for making rates that render IL
possible TO sell Texas and Louisiana pine
In the Northwest in competition with whlte
pine, pleads with tho roads for RELIEF ana
threatens them with some counter attack
II they do not speedily correct the alleged
jnenuality in rates. The article rs n ton
fession that the competition of southern
pine is damaging to the white pine inter
csts but while this may be so the lumber
consumers of. that section are receiving
benefits over which the I,umberrnan should
generously rejoice. IL should ut lenSt re-
frain from complaining this early, for the
movement nf yellow pine northward has
scarcely begun. The dealers IN that section
have not yet become acquainted with South
ern lumbermen or with the morits OF their
products, and hence the demand from the
States mentioned by the Lumberman has
been limited, But where given chance to
prove its usefulness yellow niue grows In
favor. and with tho continuance of ia
vorahle freight rates It's consumption
throughout the entire Northwest will large
ly increase. For the rates that enable The
whole yellow pibe Interest west OF the Mis-
slssppi to ship Its product into remote
Northwestern markets the manufacturor'
are indebted To the Kansas City. Pitts
burg and Gulf railroad.