The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
LUMBER TRADE GOOD
DEMAND GOOD AND STEADY AND
PRICES ON BETTER BASIS.
BIG DEMAND FROM WEST
RRoUGHTfABOUT by THE ACTIVITY
OF CAR BUILDING PLANTS.

This Has Cut on from COastwise
Shipment Through Savannah =
Large Part of the Stuff That Form
erly Went That Way-PrOjecteG
Large Building Operations Fol
lowing Presidential Election Has
Helped Demand and Stiffene0
Tone Even at Higher Prices.
The yellow pine lumber business
after a very disasterous slump in val
ues that lasted without interruption
from the early spring of the present
year, until some few weeks ago is now
again i'll a very satisfactory condition
as regards both demand and the price
basis, and the coming year holds out
only the brightest prospects for con-
tinuance of this condition.
The improvement made itself felt
first in the increased demand from the
interior and the West and came in
large part from the car builders
whose plants having accepted con-
tracts for thousands of cars hurried
on the market within a very short
space of time found themselves under
the necessity of buying very large
amount of lumber and getting it quick
ly if their contracts were to be filled
on time. That the demand for this
class of supplies was urgent is shown
by the fact that many of the presi-
dents of these car building plants
themselves visited the yellow pine belt
in this state. and this vicinity in or
der to place their wants before the
dealers and mill men and urge hurry
work in delivery.
Demand and Prices Better.
This naturally cut off from coastwise
shipment a large quantity of lumber
that had previously gone to the East
ern cities through this port and the
lessening of the supply, together with
the increased building operations that
, have been projected since the presi-
Dental election, has increased the de-
! mand for all kinds of lumber and at
the same time hardened the tone of
the market even at the higher price
level that has recently been reached.
The volume of business coastwise
has as yet shown no very material in
crease, though large orders have been
accepted by local lumber men and
nedNy Will 20 IOIWdTQ III the
near future. Already two such ship
ments have been arranged for, one of
some $4,000 feet of yellow pine will
be taken by the David to New Bedford,
Mass, within the next few days. 1t
will be shipped by the Granger-Stubbs
Lumber Co. and will be used in build
ing cotton mill plants. Another order
of almost the same size will be ship
ped also on the David to New Bruins
wick. This will be shipped by Mr.. ].
A. Calhoun.
Boon to Mill Men.
The demand for car material comes
as a boon to sawmill men, as they can
use in getting out this stuff timber
that otherwise would be valueless or
practically so, and in using this class
of timber they in no wise interfere
with the cut of dimension sizes.
The better tone to lumber has reach
ed all branches of the trade for even
cross-ties, which for many months have
been very dull, have recently not only
shown a frmer tone under the increase
of demand, but are daily expected to
advance in price from that at present
paid, 40 to AZ cents, to As cents and
1t is a question whether even at this
advance the supply will equal the de-
mand. The fact is that owners of tim
Der are unwilling to manufacture ties
at this basis when the timber that
must be used for that purpose is of
probably twice the value when cut into
dimension sized lumber.