The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1902-03-19
WHITE. PINE !
IS SCARCE.


vancel $3 to 81 per Thousand fee t
making present prices for the best
grades from S75 to $50 per thous-
and feet. A year ago the price
was $50 for the best. All other
lines OF lumber have advanced in
price recently, but none so mlch
as white pine. The price is so
high at present that builders are
substituting for it, wherever pcssi-
BILE, yellow pine and poplar. The
cause of advance is said by both
| lumbermen and builders to be the
great scarcity Of trees, and all
agree that steps should be taken
to enact a national forestry law
for the protection of the forests,
providing for the planting of new
trees and prohibiting the Telling
OF trees under a certain size.
A builder and contractor says:
The present scarcity of white
pine and consequent advance in
prices is due to the wholesale de-
pletion Of the forestsin the north.
west, from which most Of our
white pine lumber has come. No
provision has been made for the
future. 1t takes 80 years for a
white pine tree to reach maturity.
The scarcity. | fear will continue
until a new crop OF trees grow up.
Building operators throughout
the country will be retarded this ::
summer. Large buildings will
have to remain unfinished.
This paralysis TO building ope-
rations will not SO badly affect
smaller structure or dwelling
houses, whorin the ordinary stru-
ctural shapes are used, bat will
be felt especially by the contract
ors putting up bindings that re-
quire special shapes. They are UNI
able to get promises for deliveries
on new work from the mill earlier
than December.
All the mills are ahead with
orders for bridge work and other
contracts. The plate mills, which
furnish rivcted work, are able to
promise deliveries only within
three months. Orders placed
months ago for structural shapes
and plate work are just now being
delivered. Large orders for special
steel work, unless placed months
ago, cannot he had ut any price.
This condition. the cotractors say
will almost stop large building
operations this summer.
For Sisco's Release
l. Irving Handy made application
before Judge Sprnancc, sitting as
resident Judge this morning, for the
release Of George Sisco from the Fer
riS,Industr'al School. Rule TO show
CAUSE made returnaOle on Friday
morning was granted and the case
will come before Judge Spruance
on that day.
Some six or eight weeks agOGeorge
SiSco. son Of Lee Ssco escaped from
the Ferris School of Wilmington,
where he was an inmate, and return
Ell to Smyrna and was spending the
time with his grandfather lie WAS
not allowed to cnjo; his liberty very
long, for the authorities OF the inSli-
tuition, informed Of his whereabouts,
scnt Detective Bullock to bring hi m
back.
The boy was arrested and placed
in the Smyrna lookup to await the
hour Tor taking the midnight train
back to Wilmington. The dctes-
tive called on Constable Jones for
assistance and IN taking the boy
ouA 'be HGl sOulE lNlC' lCICESN ~ oh
Charles W. Siscoe, who didn't want
his nephew 10 leave. 1t appears
that the whole family is opposed to
the boy being at that institution
and they naturally arc making
every effort to get him out. lie
was ordered there by his mother
who lives in hester. The boy was
taken back 10 the Ferris School.
Then the boy $ relatives consulted
Mr. Handy and hence the proceed.
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