The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-01-05
Price of Logs Advanced.

Merchantable and flooring logs OF
short length were yesterday advanced
50 cents and long logs, measuring over
seventy-two feet, 81 per ONE Thousand
feet. This is the second advance gin
logs within sixty days and was the re-
suit of meeting of the leading log
gers of Puget Sound held yesterday IN
the offices of A. H. Anderson in the
Union Block says the Pr. AS a FUR
Their outcome of the coming together
of the big lumbermen the Puget
Sound Lumberman's Association, with
S. G. Simpson as president, and A. H.
Anderson as secretary, sprang into lie
S. L. Hall, Mark Draham, NJ hazel
Earles, N. c. Haley, F. R. Perdieton,
Edward English, H. L. Mcdonald and
]. H. Bloedel were chosen for the adj
visory board of the association.
Ninety per cent of the Puget Sound
log output, Secretary Anderson stated,
was represented at yesterdays meet
ing.
"And," he continued, "the unani-
nous and enthusiastic concurrence OF
every delegate present in the action
taken indicated a determination on
the part of the loggers to hereafter get
something out of their product or to
close down their camps until such
time as reasonable price can be OBJ
tanned for their timber and their labor
The agreement to sustain the price OF
cedar logs was made out of sympathy
with the noble struggle made of the
Shingle Mems Association and here
after these two great associations pro-
pose to work in exact harmony OH all
matters tending to secure reasonable
return for their products.
ga preliminary meeting of the log
gers of Puget Sound, was held in the
early part of last November in the Of
fees of the Mason County Logging
Company and the Simpson Logging
Company, at which time the price OF
logs was raised so cents per thousand
on all rades of short logs and 81 on
length over seventy-two feet. This
meeting was unanimous and enthusi-
astic because in the face of prosperous
conditions in every line of industry in
the country, the loggers Puget sound
were depicting the forests and making
no money.
"The causes for such a condition OF
affairs were easily explained. Steel
and iron that enter largely into the
equipments for the loggers were
doubled and in some instances trebled
in value. The prices of supplies were
advanced fully Is per cent. and the
cost of labor enormously increased, Sc
that the loggers of Puget Sound made
more money receiving 81 so two years
ago for merchantable logs than they
can make at the new price, namely sc
for ordinary merchantable logs"
1t was voted by the association te
maintain prices as follows:
Lengths forty feet and less: Mer.
charitable logs, per thousand, Sc; Sc
lect merchantable logs, $3.50.
Merchantable long timber-42 to sc
feet, inclusively, 81; 50 to 60 feet in
elusive So 60 to 70 feet inclusive SO
u to 80 feet inclusive Sill; 80 to 81
feet inclusive $13; 80 to 100 feet in
elusive SIS; 102 to ITO feet inclusive
$17; 112to 100 feet inclusive $40.
Mixed quotation-Flooring logs, PEI
thousand $3.50; long decking logs, 81
to so feet inclusive $3.50; common
cedar shingle logs, Sc; spruce logs, tn,
same as fir logs; hemlock logs tht
same as No. 2 logs; boom sticks, S!
each; chains SIS each; swifters $40 pc,
pair.
Boom sticks, chains and swifters fol
each raft are to be charged separately
from the logs and to be credited wher