The Orange Leader, Citizen-Record Consolidated (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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ft' r another week of favorable weather manufacturera
rt very satisfactory Increase in shipments along all
Uotli railroads' have pulled fully one-third more cara
mills in this vicinity since March lat than they have
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from the same loading grounds up to the same
in* February, and quite aa many as they handled dur-
He firjat third of January. Some roads were shy of
for certain kinds of tonnage for a day or two, but drills
keeping quiet on that subject lis they find other stuff
jter hooks that can be serit forward and avoid loss of
They have sticfi a variety of sawing In reach that
day 1b fully occupied, and with continued open
her this month promises to make at least a full
ge In rail deliveries, also a fair showing of water
ents. Logs of, almost any dimension called-for here
n booms near the mills, and for the price some pretty
d long pieces can be, gotton on exceeding short notlée.
t*Veek the Leader told of a lot of big stuff then going
a mill at this place. Today, Fred Swales, the contrae-
o Is building a dredge boat here for Charles Clarke
of Galveston, placed an order for six pieces 70 feet
<81 inches at the top. This big stuff is for use of the
after It goes Into commission, and will be utilised
dying posts. Tbftt dredge has* consumed 250,000
feet of all heart clear framing and planking, to get which
the'mlll cut more than 1,000,000 feet. The latter fact Is
only mentioned to"explain why lumber for boat building
high and to Indicate the care a constructor observes
Inspection of such material as he accepts. Mills
that there Is more money In sap (les at $8.50 than
ilp "builder's schedule at 127.30 per'thousand. Steam-
ecklng at $60.00 per thousand Is not popular at mills
the coast, owing to the severe culling it Is subject
it there has been an unusual call for this class of
recently, coming from both American and foreign
s. There Is nothing better for decking than long
w pine, though oak and Oregon fir compete In
healthy demand for yard stock and for dimension is
aa coming from northern and middle Texas, with
ise In requirement originating In the lower coun-
ie hulk of which Is for city consumption, farmers
¡together -too deeply engaged in planting, to spare
* 'construction Of housM J>J^ n to hulid fences.
with their woflt in many communities,
take much lumber before, the middle of next
month. The western portion of the state 1s In more evi-
dence at mills than It was last week, Since the grass on
pasture lands ajong the Rio Grande Is reported as un-
usually fine for this season of the year, fat beeves will
soon ^ome on the market, which will put a , good aupply of
money1 In circulation there, .and retal dealers all over that
country find that It is high time they were casting about
for something to sell; They have done a very conservative
business since last fall and required only light stocks
they now find yards sold down close and will aim to fill
out by the time ranchmen cash in enough cattle to crest'
a demand, for builders' supplies. Nearly all yards west
of San Antonio, and not a few on this side of the ancient
¡city, carry In stock lime, paint and general assortment
of builders' hardware, so that the buyer can have hla
elflc coast after supp
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paylnf a 65 and 60
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Its. If they get, a rebate;
ershávc been discreet enc
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to keep uij
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to keep the matter qu3
The Rail waV'Age. ma lies note of contracts placed i
first week In March for 437 paasengrcAaches. 634 fit
3,115, box cars. 6,535 steel cara, 6*.000 coal cars; tot t
booses sntl 294 locomotives, of course this represents i
a fraction of new rolling stock closed for since the
opened. Many large contracts placed in 1904 are still H
process of execution at large shops throughout the country.
Some claim to have on books enough work to keep men and
machinery going, to their full capacity, until th¿> cíose of Í
the present year; yet It Is safe to predict, that with a full
crop season, next fall will develop the same lack of traite-
portatlon that has embarrassed shippers .every year for
the last quarter of a century. To the sudden decline in
price of cotton Inst Octobeh was due the best supply of
flats and boxes that lumber manufacturers-had enjoyed
during the months of November and December, for more,
than a decade
riant is located 90 miles north of Houston, Texas, on the Houston
(Test Texas Railway, in the long leaf yellow pine forests of Polk coun-
tie equipment is a first class logging railroad, a modern saw mill, planing
and superior dry kilns. The facilities for supplying rough and dressed
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entire, house-bill fitted out at the lumber yard..
This week the Orange Lumber Company have been
shlppliig ties and timbers to Mexico, yard stock and
dimension to Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. New
orders are reaching here faster than shippers can prepare
and load material. Southern Kansas has shown greater
Inclination to take hold this week than it did at any time
prior to March 1st. The class of material dalled for Is not
always easily supplied, as short lengths of celling and
flooring are both going to the interior of Texas so fast
that stocks on mill yards aire already shotting weak spots
•nd complaints are heard at mills everywhere in the
Southeast regarding approaching shortage of many staple
lengths and thicknesses. Every buyer wants 1x8 drop
siding; in 2x4, short lengths seem to be going as they did
I year ago, and unless mills make more of them, the trade
at Missouri river points #111 be forced to buy from the
•agar pine mills of Dakota. They win get "knots and sap
galore, but consumers will often put very common frami.ig
into an otherwise expensive building, rather than wait
too long on a dealer to find just what they would prefer.
A party was in'the city Wednesday with an order for
railroad ties. He was prepared to close for 174,000, largely
square edge ties. He also wanted a big lot of assorted
lümber. The Lutcher ft' Moore Lumber Company accepted
& schedule of 50,000 ties thtk week for delivery near Phila-
delphia. at prices that will net the mill more than $12.00
vper thousand feet. The Orange Luniber Company Is getting
out a big lot of ties and stringers for a road'In Mexico.
These mills declined a big order that the buyer was ex-
tremely anxious to place here; he desired delivery to com-
mence at once and continued rapidly. With so much other
work ahead of them it was decided not to attempt the
contract. It is evident that much repair Work will be put
in on road* beds in the Southwest during the coming sum-
mer and fall. Last year roadt all. over the continent sus-
pended every expense account that was possible, with the
object of 'keeping earnings up to a dividend paying basis.
A' fj'ciit many strong companies succeeded in getting tracks
In good repair before the slump in stocks, and came through
the season of ¡light earnings with few accidents; but there
have occurred numerous wrecks on other lines within the
past eight months, that experts trace to lack of proper
a* mention to defective ties or neglected trestle work.
A most, encouraging feature that Is cheering shippers
Just now Is the activity displayed this season by nearly
•11 roads in the Increase of rolling stock. Car builders
and locomotive works réport heavy contracts, and this will
account for the .scurrying of purchasing agents through
lumber manufacturing centers for the past few months in
anxious pursuit of car siding, decking and long sills. So
' ¡that when long leaf *HiÍÍ¡Íff
F. H. Farwejl, sales manager for the Lutcher ft Moore
Lumber Company's offices, made a tour of the Lutcher ft
tMoore Lumber Company's pine lands In Eastern Louslana
a few days ago. Walter Thompson, Who is building the
big dry dock here, went^wlth him. They mounted horses
at Fields and too ka zigzag course through the forest; In
the course of three days they saw so many big trees that
tfiey decided that there was not a finer growth of long leaf
ploe on the top side of America; and everyone who has
traveled through that stretch of woods coincides with them.
The horses were sure-rooted enough, but the ground was
soft, tree roots bobbed up continually, and the* uncertain
footing and stumbling of the poor beasts made the ride a
bit tiresome, but both gentlemen have, with the aid of a
little arnica liniment, have entirely, recovered from sore
muscles, and propose to make another trlpt through the open
roods after the ground dries out, which will make the
trip safer riding and more comfortable for the horses and
riders. Besides riding on horseback and qn long cars, these
gentlemen took long walks., They visited thy big turpen.-
tine orchard that the Lutcher ft Moore Lumber Company
has Installed 12 miles ¿head of the logging road, where
they saw 175,000 big pine trees already boxed and making
a d^lly yle]d of sap, that will soon be converted Into tur-
pentine, wood oil, alcohol and other by-products. These
trees will be tapped for three consecutive years, when the
tram will be extended to the field and the orchard logged; .
then the, turpentine camp, wlU aévance further into the pine
forest ancTopen up a new orchard.
Experlencáfr many years in the Carolinas, Georgia
Alabama andTÍoflda* teaches that to ble?d a pine tree for
three years does not In the losst Imnatr the tensile strength
nor the durability of the lum' «r cut from it. Timber tents
made by government experts in different species of long
snd short leaf pine proves' conclusively that none of the
value of the wood for outside work Is lost, while.or build-
ers and cabinet workmen concede that for Inside finish It
takes á hard oil finish better and retglns the shade longer
than lumber out from trees that have never been tapped.
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The Panama Railroad wanta 200,000 feet of 2x8 and
up to 31 feet long; 118,000 feet of 1x4, 7, 8, 10 up to 3$
feet long and 400.000 feet of 1x12—20 to 40 ft long, all for
quiek dispatch along side Of steamers of the United "Fruit
Company's line at New Orleans or Mobile, cash on receipt
of bill of lading. The.chief brumb of comfort that mills
on this side of the gulf derive from such specifications
is in the fact that they take Just that much material out
of consumption in home markets. The managers of the
ateamship company have agreed to carry lumber to the
Isthmus at the same ra,tes that sail vessels heretofore
charged, which has given them a practical monopoly for
both the canal and for the railroads of lumber tonnage on
the Atlantic end.
Exporters here report an unusually quiet week; Inquiries
are coming, but they have so many engagements already
booked, with mill prices stiff and threatening to advance.lt
is thought the more prudent to confirtn only such orders
as they can load out before mills set figures up «gain-
There is a healthy, but not excessive demand for pitch
pine in England and on the continent; yet buyers Insist
that -heavy shipments for this side would demoralise values
and bring heavy loss upon importers at all foreign ports.
Mills near the coast are so taxed with sawing for home
markets they cannot find room for hurry export business.
They .accept such -sawing as will not Interfere with sched-
ules for nearby business, and this does not always meet
requirements of oversea shippers, who often find Unneces-
sary to hurry stuff to ship's side, and are forced to get
enough to fill out with at Inland manufacturing points,
which, owing to tardy railroad transportation, have often
thrown vessels at out, porta on demurrage, and involved
heavy loss upon the exporter.
Cuba is a good customer nt mills on the gulf coast
east of the Mississippi; Immense quantities of low grade
material 1s absorbed by that trade, and owing to regular
sailings out of Mobile and Pensacola are enabled to realise
a profit on a class of lumber that often proves a heavy,
drag at mill yards less favorably situated.
Mexican dealers have been buying heavily in this market
recently, and railroads down there are calling fop more ma-
terial; mines asked for a big lot of long timbers this Week,
and expressed a willingness to meet the views of sellers.
The steady and inevitable advance In values, at. all yeilow .
pine milla, Is doing much to 'stimulate saw mill building
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4n Mexico.
Manager C. F. Pannewltz of the Orange Lumber Com-
pany, caa give the weather bureau mah aCes and the Joker,
and then beat him all out on reliability of reports,; he. gets
gets his work In afters the thing has happened, hence never
has to revise statements. "íhls week he bás reporta from
his lieiitenants at no less than five Important river points.
At Burr's Ferry a quick rise followed recent rains, and at
landings between that place and Agrade the Sabine only
liked two feet on Wednesday of reaching
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The Orange Leader, Citizen-Record Consolidated (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1905, newspaper, March 17, 1905; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183227/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.