The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-17


The large cargo mills are all busy with
orders some Of them turning down orders.
Others paving demuTrage. but n spite of
all thess healthy conditions prices are low,
and the only thing higa is the grades.
Some Cargces that so foreign as merchant
able for s., would pass for no. l and No.
stock Ia the car trade and bring 30 per
cent. more money.
Interesting study. September reports show
ol9 cars OF shingles shipped from Wash
nGton during the month. which : seven
cars less than the Corros ponding month of
1874 ana fifty-f0ur less than August Of this
year
The total shipments OF shingles for the
nine months of 1875 * 1855 cars, as
against I4i57 care in the corresponding
months II 1884,. These figur bear CUT the
prediction that the total snp'nents Of
shingles this year VIII reach 2o,n0 cars
over 3,@0,C@b1 sh!nglee
During the four months OF this year
June. July, August ard September-there
were shipped from Washington S,o28 cars,
an average OF 2,nj9 per month, "a cars
more :han In the corresponding months Of
1891. y hon prices were ruling high.
The Increase in lumber shipments from
this year than that Of shingles. The nine
months show i35 42i,@ 90 fe-t, as against
- $4,000 feet in the corresponding months
The shipments Of both lumber and
shingles In September Of this year vii, be
q surprise 70 the LHmberman readers In
view Of The Ger shortage which prevailed,
.he Northern Pacific alone carrying ,9os
The following letter 70 the Lumherrnan
from the Eagle Sh.ngrie Company. Of Ham
.lton, Wash. tel-S q outraEes being per
petrated ana the lack II means 10 punish
the guilty:
About a month aeo We had occasion
70 discharge some refractory weavers and
hey Stra!gA'way made a bee 3ine for our
MIL ana spiked our double block and cut
some betting. We 9 nmunicaieH with the
prosecuting attorney u this county. who
told us that Their was 70 law on our stat
ute books thar covered The 0ffense
charged. He saw some of the wearers,
ana they admitted fhr o5fruse hut moth
ing could be done. We have since touD 2
out thAt 4 mill az Mount Vernon was also
spiked. and there has ben many similar
cases. r seems thar there Is no recovery
a. law where an attempt - 90 damage =
charged II our case he miScTeant
dropped 1 bicycle ball into the double
block. hUt W got wind Of u and took <
oUt b.F1re starting the machine again
/ W mink L would b we = yodr lumber
jcIy1als w08l3 star. rl'lory ana thus
advertise ne parties. ard W. further thin x
thar no Iawsuite woGG lay agalns- SD
! journals when. rs II our case, the parties
| admitted the offerse.'
TIE time Tor trc annual shutdown %
/ ,1a Single mills 2 approaching The
! LuraHarn1an mas taken .1e initiative % OBJ
tain from he mis- ar agreement =, s3is-
pend operations fo- Two months n o-ri@r
- prevent a GerUoTa1E3 tl00 a. the East
EN- market on this ylhject i says:
"An who have IRE good ot tha sh.ngle
manufacture A. heart .n1orSe the shut
i ing down proposition. !. was only 4 par
/ tai SUCCESS last year. bJ, SSH II id some
/ sG-1s.on an6 Wrf,I IN what f. cac - hr.as
M mills .1t9 she movement J. rtzIZes
/ re 1ss .e4ltas. KrowS al about the lack
. OF good 1s-ta. has been tod over and