The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-06-15

restrict the output and the increase II
districts where timber is more plentiful
! will not offset this.
The season closes with white pin
prices remarkably firm, and manufac
turers generally have no doubt tina
these prices will be maintained through
out the winter season. The reason TO
this belief is that stocks at the principa
distributing points are not at all heavy
| While considerable stock will be carried
! over the winter at leading lake ports, {
marked scarcity is reported at a number
| of places.
| In the northern hardwood section con-
| dittons are more favorable for logging
and it is expected that at these places
the input of logs this winter will be
quite heavy. Dry stock, however, 1,
very scarce, even at these points, and ii
is not believed that there can be a sur
plus in any Of these grades for several
months. The fact that a large part Of
the output for next season already has
been contracted for is a marked feature
of the situation, this general anxiety on
the part of the buyers to place orders for
future delivery and to contract for the
mill output being accepted as evidence
that they expect firm market next
year.
Northern birch as furniture and fin
ishing wood is making a rapid advance
promising it a permanent place among
the hardWoods. Manufacturers general
ly agree that birch has been sold more
readily and in larger quantities, this
year than ever before, all available
stocks practically having been closed
out. The growing use of mahogany in
the manufacture of furniture and for in
terror finish has created demand for a
cheaper wood which will finish to resen1-
Bile mahogany. Birch is admirably
adapted to this purpose, and in giving it
the mahogany finish the color is made
uniform, thus obllterating the dlstinc-
ton between dark and light birch
whereas a few years ago buyers gene
rally demanded red birch, with possibly
very small percentage of white, while
the nearly all white was rarely called
for.
The state land commissioner has made
several very heavy sales of hardwood
timber in the last month; in fact, these
sales have exceeded those of all the rest
Of the year. 1t is reported that private
tracts in the upper counties of the lower
peninsula are selling rapidly.
Gordon Murray, for fourteen years
prominent in the management of the at
fairs of the Metropolitan Lumber COM
pany makes some rather gloomy predic-
tons as to the future of the lumber in
dustry in the upper peninsula. He ex-
presses the belief that the heaviest own
ers of pine will see the end within five
years, while not few will exhaust
their supply Of pine within the next two
years. Then, he says will likely follow
the cutting Of all available hard wood
and hemI1ck, th9 magnitude of which, as
an industrial interest, must be adjusted
to the increased demand and new condi-
TONS as under present conditions III
would make a poor showing is a success
sor of thesdispppearing pine industry.
At best he tfinl@, not one-half of the
machinery and equipment now en-
ployed could be utilized in the hardwood
business. All investments in hardwood
enter prises, excepting possibly the mat
ter of stumpage, relatively would be
larger than in the pine, and the tenden-
cy of the business, therefore, would be
to pass to the control of the stronger
financial combinations to the exclusion
of the weaker. In any event, Mr.. Muir
ray concludes it mainly rests as a pro-
blem of the future.
The hauling Of logs from the Georgian
bay district to Michigan is by the bag
Doom system. Rats containing five mil
lion feet of logsreach are brought safely |
across the lake.
Many Canadian logs cut from Michi- !
gan mills We're hung up in the woods
owing to the spdd6n disappearance of |
snow. It is estimated that in the Geor-
gian bay district about one hundred and
fifty million feet of logs will be cut this |
winter 1t remains to be seen if the en-
barge placed on this industry by the
Ontario legislature is enforced. If en-
,orcement is attempted, owners of the
ogs will test its constltutionality in the
Should the law be sustained the
market value of Canadian logs and
;trimpage will be destroyed. as Ameri-
ans will not go into Canada and manu-
'acture lumber when there is duty Of
.wo dollars on every thousand feet sent
nto the United States. Chicago Record