The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-12
BEAUMONT LUMBER MARKET
THE FALL DEMAND. 1T is rns-
DICTED, WILL. NE LARGE.
Price List win Not Re Raised, it Is
Now Believed, Except In special
Cascs--Rcvicw of the Market,

| beaumont. Texas. August l1.-lt has
been predicted in these columns for some
time past that the demand for lumber
this fall would exceed anything seen in
the lumber business for many years. Tho
predictions were not merely the opinions
of the writer, but we're based on informal
tion obtained from many sources und con-
ditions, which to one who can see into
the future and determine what the signs
foretell is as plain as the handwriting on
the wall. The fact that this is Nation
al election year might under some condi-
lions make one slteptical as TO the future,
but there are other underlying conditions
which have a far more powerful en--t
upon the lumber trade than does politics
in Texas. Texas people have wisely come
10 the conclusion that this State is going
democmtic. ana there is no use tearing
the clothes and making great upneavai
in business over the me questions OF tho
merits of the candidate, This is con-
dillon which makes the political questions
of little moment to the man who is really
Interested in business Then there are
other underlying conditions which point
nmistakably to a prosperous lumber
business this fall and winter. The great
est OF these is the wonderful Improvement
and industrial expansion movement which
has seized upon the ambitions and hopes
OF the people of Texas. Progress Is
abroad and there cal be no progress
without building material, and il building
material is demanded the saw mills OF
Eastern Texas will be busy. Crops are in
good condition in the great northwestern
part OF the State and the farmers have
been enabled to sell the produce OF their
labor at a price which will enable them
to make improvements. These conditions.
1t Is urged, are the underlying reasons
why the lumber demand viii be good. And
now comes the report that the demand
from Texas interior points has already be-
gun and that during the past week the
orders which have been received from the
yard dealers throughout Texas has been
something phenomenal. This demand Is
coming largely from the northwestern part
OF the State and Is a healthy, earnest ef-
fort to secure eek for the fall trade.
Prices this fall Will perhaps not be
raised to any great extent, except in spe-
ca cases. That is to say, there will not
be very material increase In the price
lists, though there will be a better dispo-
sition on the part of the wholesaler to
sell UP to the list instead of cutting where
particularly attractive business is offered
Large building material from the saw
railroad repair stuff, railroad building ma
terial, ties and car stock continues TO
keep pace with the other demand and say
mills have demand for all the timber stuff
the saws can turn out. Large quantities
of this material of course goes to Mexico
ana the western States, but Texas is using
as much. II not more. than any other
State in this section Of the country.
A good demand for yard and planning
mill stock with all the business which he
saw can handle is an ideal condition IN
the lumber trade and "a condition which
now prevails.