The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-14
1.nb.rmen Unable 20 Accept
Laree Demands From Orient.
TONNAGE NOT PRocuRAsLE.
I rs,iA Advance In the Price Of Pa
.ino Coast Lumber Predicted ~
~ 81 the Largest Export Firms
n ss 81 TIE Coast-China and Russia
- Tor : supply That Can Only
- secured In This District.

Il !. Palmer, general manager OF the
virSnriA Lumber and Manufacturing Com
Inv. 81 vancouver island. one OF the
icrceSt export lumber concerns on the Pa
IN coast. Is at the Rainier-Grard. The
ssmpSny u composed entirely OF Ameri-
- capitalists, and several Of its members
~ AZ the Weyerhauser syndicate, now
s6rotjating for 100000 acres OF Northern
P1636c timber lands In this state. IL
rx1ncipAl business Is done with the United
Emsicrn. Australia, South Africa, China,
Ssnsn ana Russia It's lands on vancou-
- isiand number 10000 acres, on which.
ssoroxfmateiy, there Is between 7.0o0,00o0o0
se6 600o,O0o,0 900 feet Of standing fdr.
n IN interview last night Mr.. Palmer
axn advance in the price OF Pacific coast
humber IS Indicated. and 1t is almost certain
IN There is not the stumpage on the
G1Sst that Is generally supposed. We nave
4 CAR Of timber that cannot be secured
snyWhere else and must be had. II dare
& Yssf Of Ar on our books at this time
dom the Orient, but cannot scrape up
isnnase to carry them anywhere on the
~! sS have orders now for export that
WI Keep us running day and night until
3tlno next. OF these four orders, amount
~ to 100000 feet, go TO the United King
DIN; nlne orders amounting to lasOogO
lSSf FOR Australia, and two orders, for
9S130o0 fsst, for South Africa. BY June !
next these viii all be on the. water Of
u whole amount, probabY 100000 feet
2iSncse 4 ordinary Australian and South
African specifications.
I'VE have already shipped e,0o0.o00 feet
q ne Chinese government this year, be-
several srs snip ip loads ssy, e s Me re sed
~ tender on 1000 000-f0ot order because
n t tie present time there is an order for
.cSS III va delivery IL at viadivostok, Seeking
{ Ra1iAo coast mill IT IL common lumber
N railroad construction work at Vladivos-
tn and Port Arthur. But this is not all.
fsrine Al order for 100000 feet Of ar.
and no one has accepted 1t. There Is still
much larger order being offered from
uentstn for railroad work In Northern
bsr Tor cars. There are other large orders
being offered manufacturers on the Coast
from the Orient, but we can't accept them
On account Of lack Of tonnage, and In
We are now paying on shipments to Liver
pool % ehillings. or about SO thousand
Tor freight charges.
Y ne reason Ts;s why Pafc co r1cs
thy are receiving. All It requires to adj
vAnce the market IL for them to ask. and
now d the season for lumbermen to get
Nnet profit there 10 in the Coast trade.
A1y eleven yearS experience In the lum-
NJ buslness have never seen trade so
GOOD There ID going to be no let UP for
lnng time TO come, and say this with
1rm conviction that lumber on the Pa
( ~ coast will make big jump In the
neAf future.
Ne can load many more ships than we
~ on the Pacific coast and pay a rate
nat win make the business profitable.
un, and only then, will We be able to
Acc1lt the immense volume OF orders that
y being offered, unsolicited. by Russia,
China, Japan and the United Kingdom