The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
LUMBER MARKET !.
HOLDING STRONG
uNsoLD STOCK MUCH LESS THAN
IN OTHER YEARS.
Out of the Year Will Show Material
Decline and Will Be Quickly Alb
sorbed-Red Cliff Company Only
Shipper at Present and That in Small
Lots.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi, Dec. 24.-Ihere Is dlHereht
feeling in lumber today than what prevailed
here in the early summer. and. indeed, most OIL
the year There is question but that all
that is likely to be made the coming year VIII
be quickly absorbed and that the cut of the
year will show a material decline from the pre-
ceding season. Not much Is being sold just now
few small lots go off now and then, but
nothing to be shipped till next spring except in
the case of the Red Clif Lumber company, which
Ia shipping occasionally in car lots
Actual totals Of unsold stocks on the market
at Duluth and Superior can now be given, as
thov existed week ago, when the various In
ycntorics were taken, tho there have been sales
Of small and odd lots amounting to say i'ooo
900 feet since then. These figures are IN the
nearest even hundreds of thousands, as follows
Feet.
srlit Rock Iu,nher COMPANY Il. SOC, 900
Minnesota Log & Timber Company oo IA,
s,mo ot IT &, V mill. Goo. coo
r oerrn T,mher COmpany 900 ,O0D
Hines Lumber Company at Murray ou o,o
A,ra. sroitb &. Co S....... i 1900 600
Red Cliff Lumber Company. ......... LOO ooo
S,,Irth foo Comnany ny...... 200 600
The total Is as near 80, 600, 900 feet at this
time as can we'll be figured out. 1t Is mere
drop in tho bucket, and one good eastern yard
would take it all easily enough. Ihls does not
figure the stocks at Hayward, Ashland, Baraga'
Ontonagon, Cloquet, Scanlon, Ely, Tower. VIZ
rInis or at other interior points. which are
tributary to Duluth, and which Duluth brokers
sell and inspect. These stocks If Included
would largely increase the amount for sale In
this region, but at best, and figuring these all
in the total is very much less than In former
years. 49,,
Tho A1ger-Sullivan company, of which John
Mulen of Duluth is managing director, has just
bought 2oO 900 acres of yellow pine lands II
Alabama for SO an ncre. The company owns
some 800 900 acres of pine lands along the south
prn border Of Alabama which 1t saws at 1T
new plant at Century. Fla, and has enough OF
the stump to operate It's large mills for twenty
6vc or thirty years.
State Meeting of Hardware Men.
The annual meeting of tha Minnesota Retail
Hardware association will be held at Duluth
Feb % to % inclusive. The headquarters o
the associnti tion will be at the Spalding hotel, an'
tho sessions will be held in the aud1encerooT
Of the Lyceum theater.
All railroads entering Duluth are making spe
claI rates--one fare for the round trip Is ex
pected-and all the hotels are guaranteeing
special price. 1t Is expected that the atten
dance will be about 800. The program com
mittee has already mapped out its work Pres1
dent A. r. Stebbins will be in Duluth after tn
holidays and assist in closing up details.
It Is hoped to make this of the very bes
meetings the association has ever had. AS
wholesale hardware point, Duluth leads in Min
nesota, selling more goods than either OF tn
two larger cities