The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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E. W. BROWN,
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MANUFACTURERS OF THE FAMOUS
Calcasieu Long Lea! Yellow Pine
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Our Logs
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NUMBER 16
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WITH THE LUMBERMEN
The Lumber Reporter's Peregrinations
Over the Sawdust Roads
timbers dressed four sides to 14x32
RAILROAD MATERIAL A SPECIALTY
OUR Í1I LLS
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Orders Numerous and Lumber^ acaree.
Rica Harvest Excellent. " ' v'#;. - 1 ' '§&
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The lumber situatión this week toujd be fully summed up in a
very few words, to-wit: Orders are numerous, lumber is scarce
and shipments are Jbeiow.tbe average. Every mill office, visited;
by the lumber reporter this week, has reported an abundance of
orders and an increasing demand for lumber ifrom all sectionsj
but every one of them is in practically the same condition regard-
ing stocks. There are no stocks on hand at any of the mills, com-
paratively Speaking, and for this reason some very desirable bus-
iness is being turned away almost daily. The special feature
in this immediate sectioh this wfeek, seems to be the increased
demand for lumber from Louisiana and South Texas points,
where an immense rice harvest is now being garnered. The
heaviest yield in the history 6f rice culture in the Louisiana-Tex-
as territory is being laid low by the hundreds of binders now a-
work in the fiélds, and the building of barns and warehouses for
the accommodation of this immense crop, is calling for thousands
of feet of yellow pine lumber that the mills of this territory are
being called upon to furnish. The experience of rice farmers
last year, taught them a valuable lesson when, for the lack of
sheds and warehouses in which to store their rice, a large pro-
portion of the crop was destroyed after it was cut and the bun-
dles shocked. A conservative estimate places the loss of rice,
after it was rut last-year, at nearly two-thirds of the total crop.
The loss will be obviated this season by the building of ware-
houses and barns, in which- to store the rice while it is being
threshed and made ready for the mill or the market. Some of
the mills report large shipments of lumber this week into the
coast country about.Bay City, where the cultivation of rice has
developed into such an important industry.
Car Situation Satisfactory., Popular
Official Resigned.
The car situation has been all that could be desired during the
past week. There have really been more cars available than the
mills could take care of, owing to the limited amount of stock an
the yards in shipping condition. Rail shipments from Orange
for the first half of September are going to fall considerably be*
low the average and the prospect at present is that the ship-
ments for the month will not aggregate as much as the ship-
ments for August. The lumber manufacturers at Orange as a
unit express sincere regret at the resignation of Assistant Super-
intendent- McDonougb, of the Southern Pacific railroad, under
whose direction the car service department has been operated for
some time. Mr. McDc&ough has striven at all times to give lum-
ber shippers prompt and efficient service, realizing that this
meant increased business for his road, and it has not been his
fault that at times the supply of cars available was not sufficient
to meet the immediate needs of the shippers. The relations be*
tween lumber shippers and his department have been very pleas*
ant and, ás stated before, the manufacturers of Orange sincerely
regret his resignation and trust that his successor will be as
faithful as, he in looking after the interests of patrons of the road.
*Be>th Southern Pacific and Santa Pe cars have been furnished in
amiple supply this week and shippers have had no complaint on
that score, the trouble now-being lack of sto¿k with which to load,
the cars after they are switched into the sidings. " —-
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J. E. CRADOOCK,
MANAGER.
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MANUFACTURERS OF
Long Leaf Yellow Pine Lumber
LAURELIA (KikCuty ) TEXAS.
The plant ia located 00 mil^s North of Houston,
on the Houston, East and West Texas R. R.,
leaf Yellow Pine forests of Polk County,
equipment is a first-class ogging railroad, a
iern Baw Mill, Planing Mill and superior Dry
•for supplying rough and dreaaed
and timber are among the beat.
Orders Cover a Wide Range
of .Teritory, North and South.
Orders coming to the mills in this section now cover a wide
range of territory and shipments of lumber have been dispatched
fromjnills at Orange within the past fortnight as far south as
the southern coast of Mexico and to the north almost to the
northern boundary of the United States. A pleasing feature of
this is that wherever the long leaf yellow pine lumber of this
section is once introduced, there it secures a firm foothold end
becomes a staple commodity that nothing can well replace.
Yellow .pipe to-day is being sold regularly in a territory that
once people would have hooted at the idea of its ever reaching.
Changes in the past few years, however, have been swift and
permanent, and conditions in the lumber trade, especially, have
experienced an almost complete reversal. Yellow pine is also M
being extensively shipped from this section to eastern ship y¡
where it has been found to give extraordinarily satisfactory
vice as ship decking, and few of Uncle Sam's battleships are r
constiucted that do not contain a liberal proportion of long
yellow pine in their make-up.
Export Business Quiet. High
Prices Prevail.
There has been absolutely nothing doing this week in the
of'export lumber shipments from. Orange. Some sawn til
and some prime is being manufactured by mills here on cont
but no shipments of either have gone forward this week.
porters claim that it is impossible now to transact any bur
on the other side, owing to the slow demand there and ipea
porters are not endeavoring to close up any cargoes until there i& |
an improvement in the situation. The big demand for other
classes of lumber that can be manufactured from the same a
terial has caused manufacturers to keep prices for sawn timt
and for prime close around the top notch, but this does not reall
represent the market on the other si$e of the pond. Report
from Mobile state that contracts are being made there for prim«
at $24 and $26, and similar prices prevail at other points ale
the coast, but at the~same time exporters here claim that
cannot pay these fancy prices and ship lumber under pr
conditions. Contracts at this figure are¿evidently being made <
the strength of a future demand that may materialise and
not. At thp same time they are the prices that are being
and mills in this section are indifferent whether they secure
business.or not. :
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Johnnie Bonner and the Hoo-Hoo band from Lufkin have
a decided hit in Buffalo, where the Hoo-Hoo Annual convened <
Tuesday jnporning. A dispatch from Buffalo contains the pl«
information that J. S. Bonner was elected a member of
píeme Nine for the ensuing year, being placed in the
position of Junio&Hoo-Hoo. The Hoo-Hoo band of
also chosen the ofticial band of the Order. T
In the South and in Teias, particularly, will be .
'his action Of the Annual, for no more popular man is t
anks of the Order than "Coal Oil Johnnie BoBnw"-
;he Bonner Oil Company.
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Ford, A. L. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1903, newspaper, September 11, 1903; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183123/m1/1/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.