Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-01-05
NUMBERING NOTES.
From lumber trade journals.

Of lumber uas advanced the little item OF
$40 per thousand since II year ago, it
being Quotable at $50 per thousand as
against $40 last gear. The scarcity OF
logs is the cause OF this advance.
Commissioner Hermann thinks that
ii he can have an allowance Of S4o. 900 he
can finish estimating the timber that has
been estimated once or twice or three
times before. That is, he could finish
estimating it Tor this season. OF course,
it will have to be estimated again next
year and the year after, but that amount
is all that will be needed at once.
The price OF fir lumber has recently
taken Il jump Of about dollar per thnns-
aud. While the slingle mills have been
obliged to shut down because Of the fall
ing off in orders and the consequent dan
yer OF the bottom falling out OF the
market. the fir mills are all working over.
time and can then hardly keep up with
their orders.
Over in Michigan they are talking of
the beet sugar industry as the mos, prac
teal one to take the place that will be
left vacant in few years by the lumber
industry. They say that they have Ger
man population that understands the
culture Of the beet. cheap coal from the
mines OF the state, water communication
to distributing points, and money to
make the industry a success. In addi
ton to all this the state has offered a
bounty for beet sugar that is sure to give
its manufacture a start.
Representative Brownlee, of Ohio, has
introduced IL bill! in congress to gran.
salvage for logs found adrilt in naNigable
waters Of the United States. 1t provides
that the owners of such logs shall pay %
cents each for logs less than so inches in
diameter and 50 cents for logs over 30
inches. Bunches of 80 logs, in raft, are
to cost the owner 10 in salvage, and 10
cents for e,ch log owe, that number is to
charged This bill is doubtless devised
to cover cases Ct drift logs on the Ohio
river, about which there has been great
deal OF squabbling, some fighting, and
much litigation
Reports from California are to the
effect that the long drouih in that state
has been broken by copious rains, from
Oregon to Mexico. This has greatly re-
vived the courage of all traders in the
the lumber trade Business is now fairly
good in both fir and redwood, and pros
poets for next spring are considered
bright. Foreign demand in Washington
and at Portland, Ore, continues to make
an outlet for heavy Shipment The ear
trade into the interior is being also well
maintained until the holidays. The red
cedar single mills are more generally
shut down than last wear, and good re-
suits to the market are expected on this
! account.
A new water tank has been invented
by Chief Engineer f. II. McHenry of
the Northern Pacific railway, which
promises to cut Oft almost wholly the de-
mand for tank lumber tor railway water
tanks. This is IL small submerged tank
in well or water pit, the tank holding
only enough to fill Il tender. In this
tank is piston head on top of the water.
Steam Is forced by pipe upon the top OF
this piston head pressing upon the water
and forcing it up through Il pipe TO the
tender This saves n"t emily the costly
representatives @oN SO common bnt in
many eases save, also Il man to care for
the task and all pumping machinery,
Fourteen Of these Iiayc recently been put