The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-01
GOOD LUMBER YEAR.
The Yellow Pine Sent to All Parts
of the World.

Savannah has handled it's usual
large amount of yellow pine lumber
during the past season, which has gone
largely to Northern ports. 1t is ex-
pected that the exports will
continue to show an - increase,
for the reason that build
ers have not yet found a substitute
for the yellow pine to compare with
1t in point of cost and durability.
Probably the feature of most inter
est, and certainly the latest develop
ment, has been the interest shown in
foreign countries in the yellow pine.
Railroads in Holland have become in
terested in the yellow pine crossties,
and to determine their suitability as a
substitute for the Baltic and White
Sea pine crosstieS. parties in Amster-
dam have ordered from local export
ers several consignments of ties with
a view to laying them in that coun-
try as test. 1t is desired to find
their durability, how they will stand
the climate and their comparative
merits with the tie now in use. Moth
ing definite looking to the exporting
of these ties upon large scale has
yet been accomplished. 1t is stated,
however, that if they compare well
with the ties now in use Savannah will
nave a good chance for this business
an view of the understanding that the
prices quoted have been sufficiently
anterest ting to warrant the Hollanders
in experimenting with American ties.
Lumber for South America.
South America continues to show in
terest in Savannah's lumber market,
and the year witnessed a number OF
large shipments. OF course, most OF
the yellow pine for South America goes
through Gulf ports, so that Savannah
cannot hope to make very material
inroads into that business with the
freights against this city. Many of the
towns of South America are being de-
veloped railroads are being built and
kDther construction going on, which
calls for large supply of lumber, and
it is being furnished by the South.
From a local standpoint conditions
in the lumber market have been uni
formly satisfactory. There have been
no erIatic prices, and the scale of the
Georgia Sawmill Association has been
maintained, and generally adhered to.
The demand has been an even one, and
sufficient to keep mills throughout
Georgia, Florida and Alabama pussy
Raise in Lumber Rates.
The feature in transportation during
the year was LnS CLASH belWSSh llS
Georgia Sawmill Association and the
various railroads carrying lumber out
of the South Atlantic westward. The
railroads sent out notice of an increase
In freight rates, which the lumbermen
claim they had no legitimate right to
enforce, and an injunction was sworn
out before Judge Emory Speer at Ma
con.
The matter is now in the courts
awaiting final adjudication. The raise
in rates is claimed to have been the
result of an understanding between the
railroads, which the lumbermen in turn
claim is illegal The sailing movement
of lumber out of Savannah remains
quiet. as the steamers carry consider
able of the product. Approaching the
close of the cotton season and the fill
ing of contracts by the steamship lines
for hauling lumber, the movement by
steamers decreases for the reason that
they advance rates to point that
makes it Improbable to shippers to use
the boats altogether. The business then
goes in schooners, and by October or
November they will probably have
large possession of it. The steamers
cater mostly to the cotton business.
and at the end of the cotton season