The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-18
. Finance, Real Estate insurance q.
of Finance

II \.
 American Lumber in South America
 Claims and controversies over mea- ,supements are the disturbing feature of the otherwise satisfactory lumber trade the United States is now doing with Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil declares a report on the Lumber ] NHszrl1ets of the East Coast of South l America just issued by the Bureau l Of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, of the Department of Commerce These disputes arise principally in connec- ton with shipments of southern yell How pine which makes up the bulk of the. lumber sold to the east coast Of Sonfh America This great districtS simp6ftss annually 565 million, board feet of lumber of which 349 million feet are yellow pine from the United States The total lumber consump-5 lion Of the three countries is 735 mill lion board feet
 Argentina and Uruguay, although about 1000 miles distant from the United States, constitute virtually an ! ssurning field, so similar are market sc6hddtions. For more than 10 years t86 per cent of all lumber going into oommerce in the two countries has coxne from the forests of North Amer ica, and nearly 96 per cent of the i'm i ports, 4SXCluSIN0 OI L4OS0 EAEO4A OAACA South American countries, is credited to the United States and Canada. These figures might seem to indicate that I the markets do not warra mt investiga- tiQny but the opposite is true, accord f11k to Special Agent Roger E. Sim 4 is not only possibility of further I e-<tendfng ttle markets for American i lumber, &but there is a necessity of calling attention to conditions pre-ju- dicial to the interests of American lumber and to certain comp etitive for ces operating to lessen demand and afEect future consumption.
 In 1914 the imports of lumber into i Argentina amounted to 21O, ,851s000 feet made up as follows; Yellow pine, feet; white pine, 30,410,000 feet; Spanish cedar 11,800,o00 feet; South American hardWoods 15,15 630, ,o00 feet; oak 2,445, ,O00 feet: Doug1es fir, 8, 800. 900 feet; ashs 43O, ,000 feet; Para Ina. pine. g. soc, 900 feet; walnut, 225,00o feet; mahogany, HOO feet. Tn other words. 1t is necessary to buy abroad most of the soft foods so necessary in nearly every community. Yellow pine is very generally appreciated and comes almost entirely from our south ern ports Spruce is imported prin- 1 cfpally from Canada, although impop- tant shipments are made from Bos- ton Until 1911 there was no out i sHdde counpettzon with North American srauce, but between that year and the outbreak of the war Austrian spruce became arHimportant factor. Over 70 per cent of imports of white pine comes from Canadian forests, but is shipped mostly from Boston Ship ments from Boston have been the rule for so many years that consignments from other ports are considered in ferfor. Douglas dr, of course, is imported from our western coast. So far as price isa concerned, it competes on about equal terms with southern yellow pine
 Yellow pine isl the principal export frofF the United States and every in- porter interviewed by MT. Simmons in Argentina and Uruguay emphasized the fact that claims over measurement discrepancies were the greatest factor promoting dissatisfaction and discour- aging the importation of this kind sof lumber. The yeIlow-pine industry should take up the matter through it's associations. the report declares
 and see to it that the faults of the prezent system are removed or thai
 some better method of making and
 guafant teeing nleasure rement is adopted
 The cost of measuring a steamer car
 go in Argentina and Uruguay is $35(
 and there is corresponding cost fol lsinni1ar work to the exporter or luIn-
 herman in the United States. Togeth. CT these sums are more than sufh
 to insure accurate measur ements. Thas
 Americans can measure to suit ths
 txade in South America is demonstrat <4ed- by the fact that our western export Eers have no trouble at all with theil
 customers on the west coast of SoutI
 America
 II In Brazil the lumber situation i
 rather complicated. writes MT. Sim
 mons. The virgin forests are un
 measured and contain untold varietie
 of tall trees of fairly large diameter
 Yet Brazil is importing 50 million fee