Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-09-09
DEFEAT OF LUMBERMEN'S CON.
TENTI0N PROVES EXPENSIVE.
All Mills Represented in Pacific Coast
Observation-Disclosures ASSOCia.
fiOn and the Shingie Mills Bureau
Must Pay Railroads Nearly Four
Hundred Thousand Dollars.

SEATTLE, Sept. S.-Lumber and
shingle shippers from Seattle, Grays
Harbor, Bellingham and other points
throughout the state, represented by
the Pacific Coast Lumber Manufac-
turerS' Association and the Shingle
Mills Bureau, owe the Great North
ern railway, the Northern Pacific
railway and the Canadian Pacific
railway $35S, 1862. This is divid-
ed among the railroads as follows:
Northern Pacific, $2O3,75146;
Great Northern, $147,311.75; Ca
madam Pacific, by the B. B. & B. c..
railway, $7,133.51.
This sum stands for rate difference
undercharges due the carriers from
shippers on shipments moving be-
tween November 1, 1907, and October
IA, 1908. The liability of the ship
pers has been approved by the ac-
counting officers of the carriers and
by A. F. Specht. secretary of the
1umbermen's freight rate committee
for the purpose of an adjustment and
release of bonds to which the Pacific
Coast Lumber Manufacturers AS
sociation and the Shingle Mills Bu-
reau are parties, as well as a few sup
Elementary bonds.
The list of sums due the carriers
will be filed in the United States
circuit court as soon as possible and
a release of the bonds covering the
rate differences will be asked.
No less than 404 lumber and shing-
lie firms in the state owe the carriers
rate differences. Some of the mills
owe sums exceeding $4,000 and more
than score of the claims pass the
$4,000 mark. E. l.. Cowgirl, Bel
lingham, owes the carriers $7,342.-
Il. This is the largest claim. The
Sobey Manufacturing company, of
Ballard, owes the carriers Sc, ,761. .O9.
The Three Lakes Lumber company
owes $6,571.S6; the rate differences
due from the Northwestern Lumber
company, of Hoquiam, aggregates &c.
302.94; National Lumber & Box
company Of Hoquiam, $5,716,61;
Weyerhauser Lumber company, Ev-
erett, $4,55O.79; Schawger & Net
tleson, Inc, Seattle, $3,399.25; Park
er-Bell Lumber company, Seattle, $5,-
796.75; Seattle Cedar Lumber Man.
ufacturing company, $3,722.96; Pu-
get Sound Mills and Timber company
Seattle, $3,444.14; Miller Bros. Lum-
ber Co. ,Bellingham, $3,597.46; Nc
Laughlin-Taylor Co., Ballard,$3 L.
57;Hoquiam Lumber & Shingle COM
pany, $3,3424O; Grays Harbor Com
mercial company Cosmopolls,
S4,229.97; Eastern Railway and
Lumber Company, Centralia, $4,-
43S.S4; Doty Lumber company, Dry
ad, $3,767.2S; Chehalis Co..
Littell, $3,65192; Atlas Lumber and
Shingle company, $3,534.4S; Allen
and Nelson mill, Monohan, $2,490.-
AS; Ballard Manufacturing company,
Ballard, $2,039.66; Bolcom Mills,
Inc, Ballard, $2211.S9; Carstens &
Earles, Inc, Seattle, $2,719.09; Gil
max Shingle company, Blaine. $2,-
6OO.O1; Day Lumber company, Seat
tie, $2,6SS.21; Eclipse Shingle COM
pany, Everett, $2,240.56; Hazel mill
company, Bellingham, $3,214.2S;
Grays Harbor Lumber company, Ho-
Uuiam, $2,235.69; Kleeb Lumber
company, South Bend, $2,944.63;
Larson Lumber company, Bellingham
s2.O3S.G4; Mccormick Lumber COM
pany, Mccormick, $2,021.69; John
McMaster Shingle company, Seattle,
$2,03305; O'Connel Lumber COM
pany, Winlock $2,,014.6S; Preston
mill company, Preston, $2,316.O1;
Pacific National Lumber company,
Tacoma, $2,7G5.19; Vincent & Ow-
ems, Anacortes, $2,050.40; Willapa
Lumber company, Raymond, 50, ,164.-
~. Sank Shingle Co., Sank, $2,337,-
9S. All the other clans are for sums
less than $4,000. The smallest item
is that of $436, owed by the Wash
ington Red Cedar Shingle company,
of Kelso.