The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1906-08-09
Tells The Morning News That
Brunswick Dealers Don't
Know The Business
i@4 - W.
WHEN This PORT LEADS WORLD
ouackenbush Says There Is no Great
Demand for Ties, Prices Have
not Advanced and Thinks he
Knows It All.

In the Savannah News of yester.
DAY, there appeared long article
relative to the item printed in that
paper from Brunswick a few days ago
the same as was published in The
News concerning the crosstie situa.
uon at present in this state.
1t SENS that the writer of the Say.
annah article got all of His informa.
ton from one, Claire G. Quackenbush.
wen known in Brunswick who buys
ties for George s Baxter & Co. at Saw
annah.
In the interview Quackenbusb says
the story that ties are selling in the
woods at 81 cents is unreasonable
which shows how little he knows
about the situation. Instead of 81
cents ties are now selling at So. OF
coure, and anybody connected or any.
one acquainted at all with the cross.
tie business knows that this does not
mean that the local people pay the
freight It means that they are pur.
chased in the woods by buyers and
shipped here at that price.
Again Quackenbush informs the
Morning News that the competition Is
not any greater, which again shows
how little he keeps UP with his bust
ness, as the formation of one new
firm in Brunswick the other day makes
the competition the more keener,
The article in the Savannah paper in
part says:
THE dispatch to the Morning News
yesterday from Brunswick relative to
the condition of the crosstie market
caused considerable discussion among
lumber and tie merchants yesterday.
THE story that 81 cents is being
paid for ties in the woods seems un-
reasonable" said one dealer lSayanf
nah is paying Sc cents delivered at
the port The freight on ties varies
but an average of at least 10 cents
a tie must be deducted from the cut.
tcr's receipts.
The idea of anybody paying 81 cents
In the woods and then bearing the
freight charges is absurd, and It car
not be true. Neither is the competi-
tlon any greater than it has been In
the past. II has been usual thing for
buyers to go to the tie camps and
make contracts or to buy ties out
right, but they are bought always
subject to inspection at port.
Mr.. Claire G. Quackenbush repre-.
renting G. 8. Baxter e. Co., in Sayan
nah, said that such reports were like.
ly to disturb the trade because of the
false impression 1t would be able To-
create.
The price OF ties is standard" said
Mr. Quackenbush. "and II Is true that
the price Of ties is at the top-notch
now, but this is due not to the sharp
competition, hut that several months,
ago the price Of lumber took a rise
and the price OF ties went up with It.
1t was harder to get ties at that time
=" ''NiJ pViSoh Will any KIM OF TIM
Der could convert 1t into lumber and
get more than he could by cutting
ties"
One OF Brunswlcks leading cross
tie dealers was seen by a News re-
porter yesterday, and when questioned
on the subject he said:
Your article, think, was exactly
right. except that we are now paying
5S cents for ties"'
Brunswick, being the biggest cross.
tie port in the world, is naturally In
position TO know the crosstie situation
and the article in the Savannah News
was probably printed for some other
purpose than the effort to make the
| Brunswick story out as false.