The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-20
SHOWS ABILITY
 ID COME BACK
MOBILES EXPORT MARK EFT SHOWS SUDDEN. SPURT FROM ONE OF THE DULLEST OF WEEKS TO A MOVEMENT OF 4,193.000 FEET OF LUMBER AND 1928. .OOO FEET SAWN TIMERS

Mobile The lumber trade at this port has displayed the ability ito come back during the past week, making a record that would be ereditable during mid season. The previous week the aggre- gate of the yellow pine movement from this port reached S92, 900 superficial feet, this representing the amount of lum- Der that was exported during that week, there being not a single stick or foot of sawn or hewn timber So far as records in the possession of your core spondent shows 1t was the smallest week in several years. This week, however, the outward movement of lumber reached 4,193,OO0 feet; sawn timber 1626,000 feet, and hewn timber 25. 400 cubic feet-prac- tieal evidence that the export yellow pine trade at the port of Mobile still liyeth.
 Of the aggregate of the outward move ment of lumber little more than one half went to Cuban ports, the week showing marked improvement in that di- rection, also; for the Cuban trade has been enjoying a kind of slump for sev- eral weeks past and the outward move ment has been very small compared with weeks when the trade was good This falling off in the Cuban trade has been due to an overstocking in the principal ports, the Cubans having more lumber than they could use for the time being. The same state of affairs prevails in the Porto Riean trade. due 10 the same causes-an oversupply.
 The most marked improvement ln the foreign trade has been in the South American trade and this trade is now fairly good. The outward movement dur ing the past week consisted of one cargo forwarded in the Norwegian bark Ceres, which cleared from this port during the week with upwards of 100000 feet Of yellow pine lumber and about 25,0oo pick cts for Montevideo. There arrived dur ing the week two steamers-the German steamship Upplands, which has just re- turned from Buenos Ayres, and the Brit ish steamship Mars, which came here from Argentine-both of which are now loading here for Buenos Ayres. These two steamers will no doubt carry up wards of 100000 feet of yellow pine lumber to the River Platte
 In the interior trade there is a fair amount of business reported, considering it is the dull season of the year. Prices on heart material have advanced slight ly in this district. A change in the sys- tenn of buying by one of the important feeders in this district has resulted in putting or an equality all the mills which have seven cent freight rate per hun dred pounds into Mobile, with the result that prices at the mills on the New orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad have advanced. The car companies con- tjnue to buy very sparingly and the prices on square edge and sound car material are down. No. 1 and No. , common boards are firm and the supply is about sufficient to meet the demand.
 The outlook a>>the present time is that business Is going to move along smooth ly at it's regular summer pace There is a fair amount of business on the market and with the exception of heart and car material. Is moving along very nicely just now.
 The sawn timber market shows no im- movement. though the outward move ment of the past week was markedly large for this season of the year, being over a million feet. There is promise that this movement will continue, for in addition to several steamships now in port loading sawn timber, there were two new arrivals today, the Twilight coming from Pensacola to load here and the Cayo Gitano coming from New or leans. both being moored In the river for timber cargo.
 The sawn timber trade is characterized by shippers as a kind or hand-to-lhout nronosition now, with very little demand from inc other side. There are num- her of mills cutting sawn, but there ap- hears to be no reproduction, nor are there any stocks accumulated al th1s nort Most of the timber finds It's way to this port by rail, and Is loaded lnto vessels almost immediately upon afriVai' Recent sales were made at 23 cents on a forty-foot basis.