The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-15
AMERICAN LUMBER
Tho Demaud for All Grades Is Enor.

Tho Demaud for All Grades Is Enor.
nous and Increasing.
In the fiscal year of 1886 the exports
OF forestry productR, OF which lumber
was, OF course, the chief item, amount.
eu TO $2O,O00,00O. In 1897 this had
risen to $40,0o0,00O and from present
indications the export will exceed this
year $50.000,000. Lumber dealers every
where throughout the country report
that the demand for all grades of luIn-
Der is greater than at any time in the
recent years. Yards are running night
and day, with two shifts of laborcrs
loading and unloading. Every sort Of
a Seaworthy vessel that can be hired
or bought has been pressed into SER
vice by the lumbermen on the great
lakes. and ocean shipments of lumber
from southern parts are enormous.
Exclusive of furniture. the value
OF which Is an inconsiderable item in
America export commerce, the chief
shipments of American lumber are to
England and Canada, and OF timber
sawed and hewn, t. England and Ger
many. Information has reached Wash
HhSton That the Canadian lumbermen
are urging the propriety Of putting a
TAX on lumber coming from the United
States into Canada. American logs and
lumber are now admitted free. On the
average 30,000000 feet of logs are cut
In Minnesota and Wisconsin every year
and re shipped to Winnipeg. The ium.
hermen of western Ontario and eastern
British Columbia say that under the
Dingley law lumber is taxed 50 per
thousand feet upon entering the United
States and they ask the Dominion Par
Lament to levy similar duty on Amer.
can lumber entering Canada The ex-
ports Of Canadian lumber to the United
States during the fiscal wear or 1897 S
amounted to nearly $4,000 900. includ.
ing logs and pulp wood. Canada i'm.
ported American lumber Gncludng
logs last year TO the value of about
one-quarter as much.
The chief cause however. Of the en-
lar%cd American lumber market and of
the increased prices for American for
eStry products does not arise from the
extensive trade between this country
and Canada. hut for the increased local
demand for American lumber forbuild-
Ing purposes. There has been n great
boom In building operations through
ont the United States during the first
six months Of 1900 rs compared with
the first six months of 1898. The rate
of increase Is fully 80 per cent. The
cities showing a large increase are New
York. Cleveland. Kansas. Boston. New
Orleans and Toledo. Washington. Mil
waukee, Chicago and Minneapolis show
n large but a lesser proportion of in.
crease, and the only American cities
which, to July l, fell off in the building
record " a year We're Philadelphia and
Louisville
It is estimated that $200,00O.UOO was
expended in building operations in
American cities in the first SIX months
of 1899, a considerable item of such
expense being for lumber The wood
now shipped from the South Atlantic
Statrs-Virgina North Carolina and
Gcorgia-supplies many American re-
Cuirements in building and finds. too, a
ready sale abroad.
Among commercial men. II Is said
generally that, iron excepted, lumber Ia
the hest business barometer. Bridges.
trestles. cars and horses are built in
good times. With the Improvement in
business there is an Immediate demand
for lumber. and II need he no cause Cor
surprise that the American lumber
market Is booming New York Sun.
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