The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-19
FALL BUYERS
HOLDING BACK
Strike Situation Shows Little ii Any
rovement-Strikers Hold Meet
ina and Aro Addressed by Priest,
Who Pleads for Law and Order.

Reports from all over the yeilo"
pine field indicate that the improve
mcnt in demand which became no.
!. ticeable about a month ago distinctly
ygains headway. From Texas mills
come the most encouraging reports
the increase of demand there being
reflected in better prices for a good
many items on the list. Hardly less
favorable are the reports from Ala
bama mills while the feeling expressed
at the recent meeting of the Georgia
and Florida Saw Mill Association was
that yellow pine prices having reached
the absolute bottom now tend upward,
that lumber between now and fall can
NOT possibly be purchased at any re-
cession. and that in the fall is likely
to come a two or three dollar ad-
vance.
There is no considerable volume of
buvine as vet for the fall trade, but
there has ceased to be holding up
oH orders for stock needed until every
mill man in the business can be heard
from on prices. Buying by the re-
+oiIers against the expected fall de-
I mand will not be felt in any marked
degree for month yet. The retailer,
.esneciallv the retailer throughout the
northwest is very prone at this sea-
CON to keep one eye on the weather
and the o.her on growing crops. So
far he has not been able to see any
thing entirely favorable with either
ave. While nothing approaching to n
serious menace of the crop prospect
has developed, growth Of all the main
crops has been retarded by un-
settled weather. In some sections
there has been too much rain and In
others not enough, and in the one
nlace there is no assurance of the
rain ceasing or in the other OF its be-
,irrinp The average conditions OF
Growing crops reported for July was
q, not up to that of a year ago, but a
V little better than thea ten year aver
age. Throughout the northwest the
wheat crop will be fully as large as
last wear, but not up to what it ought
to he in view of the high prices and
+bo increased acreage. The corn croE
throughout the northwest and west wi
ho LARGE possibly approaching a
hummer crop. Throughout the soutf
cron prospects have been very varl
o,,e The boil weevil in the southwes
is at work on the cotton crop, too lit
Ho rain in Texas has hurt wheat
corn and hay, while too much rail
in the southeast of the Mississippi
river has seriously interfered with al
farming operations. Particularly ha
+broebing throughout much Of the win
for wheat belt been interfered with
os has also the harvesting of ha,
oror which otherwise is very good.
II is obviou therefore, that nothin
in the crop prospect has stimulate
buying. The rise in the general vo
hme of business of the country ma
called for a little more lumber eac
month than dvring the month before
and the buildi operations have COZ
timed unabated. The improvement
in yellow pine buying is almost sol
" attributable to the feeling abor
prices. That they will not be lower
nearly a certainty. Whether or nc
they will go much higher will depen
upon the production. Along the lin
of production the reports are not alt
gether favorable. From Texas it
reported that a number of mills thf
have been shut down are gettin