The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-22
THE SOUND As SEEN ABROAD.
Minneapolis Lambcrman Tells Of
Western Advantages.

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The iasr OF the Minneapolis delegation
TO return from the West coast VAS w
l. Garpsater. OF Carpenter FIournoy.
szys the Mississspps Valley. Lunberrnan-
As the lumber and siingle business on The
Sound Is Il. little Ike a Kaleidoscope, the
latest news from there is the Mos ac-
citrate. At rse time Mr. Carpenter started
Esst weather conditions We're a good deal
more favorable than they had been at
any time before since the first of the year.
TIE ahlngie mills had all started running
ard were doing taesr utmost 10 make
enough shingles TO supply the prospective
demand. While business has been good
all the year 80 far, and there has been
large amount Of buying, consumption has
hardly commenced as vet. He says that
the better element Of the manufacturers
il trying - keep the prices down until
there Is enough business To warrant g
decided increase In prices. Mil men are
asking from us TO $50 per thousand at
the mills. though there MAS a tendency
for time to make them higher. The fir
mills are all busy and the water mills
are enjoying an especially good demand.
The foreign shipments have been large
for some months and the eoastwise trade
ia now improving, For a time ID looked
as though the latter trade vas not going
10 be as good as the manufacturers wanted
10 see. California is one OF the best mar
kefs under ordinary circumstances and
there was promise Of Very Dry season
there. At the time he left. however. they
were having heavy rains and conditions
We're much improved thereby
Nearly all the fir mills. both on salt
water and In the interior. have enough
orders ahead at the present time to keep
them busy fer the next thirty TO sixty
days. Mr.. Carpenter says II Is not likely
that there Will hs many Il there are any
large mills built in the interior. The small
mills keep moving farther into the timber
and are most OF them only put in To saw
heavy tlmhefs man Will put up q
cheap mill where there Is a good body
"a rr4t4 k.F ha Ill n "a
logs over skid roads He will saw ont
the timber all around The mill and then
move 10 a rev location. He thinks this
will go on for some time There Is a vast
amount Of timber yet 10 be opened up.
and they are only saving what - most
accessible These small mills are the
money makes al the present time. as they
are Ftln al q comparatively small expense.
ard thelr product finds "A ready market
Mr.. Carpenter believes tina, the Sound
country is the place for q man with a
small amount ~ capital TO make money
for the next few years az least a man
can do as much business there on S1to
or $4,000 capital as he can here on several
times that much. He can get his timber
duct of ha mill for cash, when Il Is load
ed on ears. There Is "A lot Of timber that
has not se; been opened up. Railroads
are being built into the timber and every
one os them "Opens up new possibilities
The larger mills set their logs over these
roads and the smaller ones follow them
a wonderful change I'm Seatti, and Ia
coma during the pass two years. The
boom commenced during the first Of the
klordike excitement and il has continued
While the excitement over the gold coun-
Try has subsded 20 "A very great extent
there are StlIl good many people going
north. MIR Carpenter WIS away from
home fer about two months Mrs Car
penfer was with him during the irst hair
Of his stay in the Sound country.
one OF the dangers that annually threat
en- the West coast market. particularly
the @h!ugle market. H. the undue conf
5ence III the markets ability 70 soar be-
yoni reasonable attitudes. says the same
paper Any season promising AT is start
"A reasonably syhod trade sempis s0Ine
spectators 70 discount profits by maniuu-
t3iing TIE market for quick ana uncertain
returns This manipulation dae= rot al
ways accomplish sts designed end l4ut too
oFttn trade as heau punched and az a
whole shortened because ~ this speculative
spirit. SUCH trouble was looked Cor this
spring chiefly fer the reason tha. the ga
rantsy ~ tse mills operating Was shprt-
elft-s hy SHOWS apd rains. while thu Vry4s-
pefitN e the coun'Ty t0reshhaawed a large
demand Hut thus far shs market has
hsrn h1ta steady a a point wAHrv there
as rrui1l for MI conservative Ynanufacture~s
ard dealers. Humora eere rife a fgw
weeks ago shat cedar sanufas would adj
vssncr - So - or - c~ a ea-ceut rnsp Re-.
F8Ta summer, hUt thl4 IS uu, likely To- he
Safply il catching up with demand ana a
msre steady tene ia apyatcr. tn the mar
ket
Whro the promise far qu.ek returns AM
eHcrWvus profits "a rot "a rosy ss II has
been Ia tAe uNi cnsiu.sy 0f tbs parsnc
81, 49, So me Sumter aa seingle
AnaU-sTN rs cNAostrs utgst sx%-lint teEtt-
jlasfe tgaziness. The 1aes} consumption is
dosing m sr@ THAN AZ ctAfF cor !iGiare ia
ifst De market safa good fcs-n ana keep
u't.'R aHsy Railroad hui13ar on tAe seasf
&l - }asxr sht< season: tisr general AslR
irG 1fF8s p~titffsa4 80 Ne excellent Whi5e