The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-08-04
THERE HAS BEEN RENEWED Ac-
TIVIrY IN THE SOUTH THE
PAST FEW DAYS.
With Renewed Demand Prices Have
Gradually Increased and Condi-
tions Are Rapidly 5ecom-
ing Improved.


tculated reports from nearly all the
lumber districts of the Atlantic and
Gulf coast states from Virginia south,
the Southern Lumber Journal, of Sa-
vannah, in its issue of Saturday, takes
an optimistic view of the situation in
lines. In this article the Journal says:
"Frcm tabulated reports to the
Southern Lumber Journal, covering
the states of Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi, it is shown that
a general awakening has taken place
and a revival of trade in the long and
short leaf pine districts of the south
during the past thirty and sixty days,
carrying All advance i'll prices any
where from S1.00 to $500 per thous-
and feet This is in part accounted
for by the general revival in business
along all industrial and commercial
lines, rekindling of fires in factories,
mills, iron and steel plants, as well as
operations generally throughout the
6lCaL llliIill5 ICSloIlS vi lIC
In the meantime railroads and car
builders have quietly emerged from
their hiding and are placing orders
for southern pine car sills, decking,
lining and other material of this char
acter. Dimension lumber of both the
long and short leaf varities are mov-
Ing with greater freedom and at bet
ter p 'ces, while cypress is holding
its own. Gum, poplar, ash and
other woods are doing fairly we'll aft
er long siege of depression. From
markets up north and out west, like
New York. Philadelphia, Pittsburg,
Boston, Providence, Buffalo, st. Louis,
Kansas City, Louisville Cincinnati,
Indianapolis, Baltimore, Toledo and
elsewhere the reflex action of the inn
proved order of things at the south is
apparent and prices are responding
accordingly
Continuing the Journal further on
says:
From the best information we can
obtain by personal contact with the
manufacturers of lumber from Vir-
ginia to Florida during the past few
days and buyers at the north, it is
now a fixed fact that lumber trade
conditions are gathering strength and
volume WITH each rising and setting
of the sun. Ordinarily this is the pc
riod when many of the operators take
their annual vacation and no special
effort is made for business. This year,
however, is an exception to the rule,
in that many of the manufacturers, as
well as several of the dealers have
been practically en- a vacation for sew
eral months. The fiscal year ending
with June 30 has passed and July
has come with it's distribution of hun
dreds of millions of dollars in divi-
dends and other profit-making ar
rangements, while the business Of the
past year has been brought to a close,
satisfactory or unsatisfactory, as the
case may be.
with new enterprises starting up
afresh after long shutdown with a
full quota of hands, the great iron md
olSSl lidulS anu COKE OVENS IN tle
mining districts being now in fulI
blast, railroads and other corporations
taking back hundreds Of thousands of
laid-off men and money more pfentieal
the skies are daily Frightening. Crop
prospects in every part Of the Unite1
States, north, south, east and Weir,
were never before so full of promise,
and it is now patent to all that tie
railroad and transportation companies
are going to be taxed to their utmost
to move these crops. Confdepca is
being rapidly restored in all parts Of
the country, banks show an abundance
of money on hand, and everything
points to a rapid resumption of bust.
ness in all commercial, Industrial end
manufacturing lines. such as should
produce in the very near future o nor
NAL state of business conditions. The
present output Of the mills, however.
is ample for all purposes until the new
order of things gets well on Foot End
it would be better for the trade if he
idle mills of today would remain clos.
ed until demand evens up with sup.
plies"