The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-13

NN'Np W houston, as did great maLy
2thers who came yesterday. to attend the
| ltg ola scq1aiiltances and making lew
.Ses' - reporter who saw him during
sne gay ne SAID that business conditions
were good ana that tia umbermen IN l. >
| secuon OF the country were all uusy.
~
! Mr.. J. l.. Thompson, OF the Thompson
Tucker Lumber company, with headquar-
ters at Willard, Texas, was among yester-
days visitors TO the City. Mr. Thompson
toId newspaper man who questioned him
uuIshg the afternoon that his mill had
maue expenses but the manner Ia which
ne maze the reply indicated that posi-
profit.
Messrs. Harry L. Monroe and James 7.
Taylor of Dallas were among the banquet
visitors who registered at the Rice yes.
terday. Mr.. Monroe represents one OF the
largest electrical concerns In the country
/ as Portland Cement company dallas Is
az right said AIR Monroe 10 a Post man
Yesterday The census didn't give US the
largest population In the State, but those
/ OF US who know just how big the city
really is and how important a commercial
/ point II Is don't allow a little thing Ike
az an S eltes on the part Of the census bureau
DR.. W. A Knight. State veterinarian,
has just returned from about a weeks trip
through the Texas Panhandle country. hay
ing been called there in his official capac.
ity to Investigate a disease that is preya-
lent among the live stock of that section
While passing through Armstrong county
Dr.. knight stopped of al Goodnight where
C0l9nei CHARLES Goodnight has large herd
OF buualoes. The doctor went out to the
/ ranch and had look at the big animals,
/ counting fifty In the bunch that he saw
/ Colonel Goodnight also has a fine herd OF
Hereford cattle on the ranch
DR.. knight said that the live stock
throughout the Panhandle are 10 excellent
which he was called 10 investigate. That,
however, is nothing serious Il being merely
local disorder. with low percentage OF
deaths. The ranges are all good and ideal
weather prevails throughout the whole
country up there.
The Post of today erred slightly in stat
ing that Mr.. r. H. bowman Of New Or
leans was the manager of the Cameron
Lumber company" remarked a friend of
hir. bowman yesterday LAS matter
Of fact, he has no connection with the
Cameron company now, although he was
formerly in charge OF Its business at Waco.
He is now the cypress magnate Of Louisi-
ana, owning and controlling more timber
and mills than any other one man. he
. is comparatively q newcomer into the do
main OF cypress but be has made wonder
full progress. He is now operating the mills
of the Bowie Lumber company, the 3eaneg-
cite Lumber and Saiuglc loJpL my, lin red,
the IBERIA Cypress company. limited, and
Des Allemands Lumber company, lin
panies. He Is also largely interested in
and draws from the Whitecsstle Lumber
output Of the Creole Cypress company NJ
Alemands and the Houna Cypress com
pany at Hou!na-
"Mr. W. w, Cameron is president OF the
w,th headquarters at Waco and pine mills
Mt Earon, talTnonat Angelina, RocAand
and oCher points"
Mr. George a Smith. secretary of the
Southern Lumber Manufacturers assocla-
ton, with headquarters NJ St Louis, was
among the banquet guests Il have done
a considerable amount of travelling in Texas
In the past" remarked Mr.. Smith to a
Post representative yesterday afternoon,
but Of late the work Of the association
has been such as to demand my whole at
teutlon In my office and as result have
not been In this section Of the country for
some years. This trip is quite an oppor-
tunity for me or course practically all
Of the manufacturers in this State and
Louisiana are members Of the association,
but most of them send delegates when we
have a meeting and | don't get TO see the
heads OF the various concerns. All OF them
seem to be here today and l am enjoying
meeting them.
st Louis is making very extensive prep.
arations for the worlds fair in 1903 re
marked Mr. Smith during the course of
general conversation. There is no doubt
In the minds Of the people OF st, Louis
and best thing OF Its kind ever held in
America. In addition to the arrangements
that are being made for the fair proper,
| the city Itself is taking some steps which
will prove advantageous all around. The
! old town won't look like II used to when
the fair begins; The amendments to the
recently will enable some very extensive
| improvements 10 be made and, on the
whole the people of st. Louis are glad of
It, even though the expense will be some
Of beauty by 1903 and will be prepared
| to entertain everybody who comes to the
| fair
| Mr.. ]. z Defebaugh Of Chicago was one
of the three prominent lumber newspaper
men who came to Houston to attend the
banquet. Mr.. Defebaugh is editor of the
American Lumberman, the weekly journal
which grew out of the consolidation Of the
old Lumberman and the plmberman. lie
comes to Texas rather frequently, but he
has not been in Houston for two or three
years.
Unusually prosperous conditions prevail
all over the country" he said to a Post
interviewer who saw him while he was
enjoying an after dinner cigar IN front
of the Rice hotel yesterday. Everybody
seems to be prosperous and happy and
am Of the opinion teat the prosperity has
a sound foundation and that It win last,
i or course there have been some unfavor-
able features In evidence during the past
! year, chief among which were the death
OF President Mckinley and the shortage
| in the corn crop Of the country. but on
the whole conditions have been emnently
satisfactory. Il has been an exceptionally
good year In the lumber business. In fact,
! iumbermen have had things their own
way 10 large extent. Prices are good and
| there Is an active demand for nearly all
kinds OF lumber, Hard woods have not
been in as good demand as usual, but i
look to see considerable hetterment be-
tween now and, say, next February. The
| demand for home consumption has been
about the same, showing that the people
| Of this country are paying as much attea-
! ZION 10 interior decorations, etc, as usual.
The lack OF export demand has been the
| unfayorsble feature. The cause is not diff
dcult 20 get at. England has been n the
/ ihroes Of a great war Her expenditure