The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-07
Lumbermsn Will Cut on New
Cedar Next Year.
NEW RECORD MADE THIS YEAR.
Puget sound Single Mills Are IN
the same Condition, with Every
Prospect for u Larger Business
Next Year-Low Grade stock,
which In Previous Years Has
Besn = Problem, VIII De Cleared.

The year now drawing to close viii
leave behind record never before
equaled In the lumber and shingie bust-
ness on Puget sound Not only will this
DE true In the volume of business done.
but in the condition 1t leaves the market
for the beginning OF a new year.
Probably the most entirely satisfactory
feature OF the years business is the fact
that the entire product of Puget sound
mills has been disposed of. n condition
true for the first time In this state. Not
only Is this the case with the grade
known as clear" but all the lower
grades have found ready market. The
shingie manufacturers are no worse on
When the time for resuming operation.
after a sixty days shut down. has rolled
around on January II. 1900. the entire sur
plus stock of shingles In Washington Will
have been sent TO Eastern markets. and
the most satisfactory part Of II Ii that
they have all been sold at listed prices
One of the most prominent lumbermen
on the Pacific coast, in speaking OF tho
trade situation yesterday. said; '"The
prospects for the coming years business
and the business of the past year are most
satisfactory. In other years the great
problem with the trade has been to get
rid of the lower grades. This year all the
mills on Puget sound have come nearer to
selling their entire cut than ever before.
.'This year the demand for both lumber
and shingles has been very heavy. Be-
side this great deal OF timber has been
gotten out for railroads and bridge struc-
lures. The market in the fcast--ia& been
good. owing to an Increased demand
abroad. The export business from Puget
sound. at the close OF the year, will,
should say, be as large again as ever be-
fore. We have had some dificulty in se-
curing ships to carry away our orders.
S,,ct vrsr ha~ya hod 1oa vau RI
ing car shortage.
''This latter famine has. to a great ex-
tent. interfered with our local and East
ern trade. but we have the satisfaction
of knowing that the Coast lines treated US
equally as well as other lines did their
trade.
..While logs have recently advanced TO
$3.50. there has been an abundant crop In
the market and all mills have been rum
ming full time and shipping orders as fast
as they We're cut.
when the season opens next year we
will have no old stock on hand to get rid
OF, but will begin saving at once on new
orders, and at price that, while not
high, is entirely satisfactory to the trade.
We are already receiving orders for next
years shipment. which shows that there
is a good market ahead Of us and good
prices at the back OF II.
'.The single situation Is equally ~
promising. The mills will begin at once
on new orders at good prices The few
mills that have kept running after the
association order to close down will do no
harm. They have been working on old
and new orders, but are shipping as fast
as they can manufacture and win have
no surplus when the season opens. IT wat
the fact that they had no surplus that
made them keep open.
THE year 1899 has been q reoord-break-
err In the Washington lumber trade. but
we expect to have many more like it,