The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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The Lutcher & Moore
Lumber Company
MANUFACTURERS
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Leaf Yellow Pine
CUT FROM THE
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QUICK SHIPMENTS
GOOD GRADES
i BEST FACILITIES
Orange, Texas
With The Lumbermen
“We swear by it.
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“F'aultless most any way you look at it. It’s the same with our Flooring, Ceiling,
Siding and Finish.
Try' it. Others are pleased with it. We can do as well for you.
Two Mill* Producing 15 Cart
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MILLER-LINK LUMBER COMPANY
ORANGE, TEXAS
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Orange Saw Mill Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Yellow JPine Lumber
ROUGH, SIZED AND DRESSED
Oi facilitie* lor prompt ahipmcnt art better than ever before
We mlicit your inquiries and order*
Galv vSTon, Texas
Orange, Texas
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We Print for Lumbermen
Loading Ticket*
Scale Sheets
Price List*
Stock Sheet*
Bills of Lading
Punch-Outs
° Time Sheet*
Order Blanks,
Requisition Blanks
Car Reports
Letter Heads
Envelopes
Business Cards
With nee* type and a completely equipped plant, we guarantee highest
clast work and quick delivery. We aolicit your orden.
The Leader Printing Company
ORANGE, TEXAS
The lumber editor of the Leader spent a short visit the latter part of
last week most pleasantly at Retnlig, where the big saw milling plants©!
the Alexr. Gilnier Lumber company is located. Here is found one of the
most complete and up-to-date lumber manufacturing plants in the yellow
pine belt. Situated right in the heart of a magnificent domain covered
with long leaf yellow pine timber this plant is enabled to handle orders of
almost any description. The mill is logged by a standard gauge trass
road, the main line of which now extends out nine miles into the forests
from the mill. Everything about the plant is arranged for convenience
and economy in handling the product. To give one an idea of the kind at
timber cut from the forests owned by this company we might mention the
fact that on the timber tram, ready for shipment, we saw a magnificent
piece of timber, measuring 24x24 inches, all heart, which was being ship-
ped out as a part of z railroad order being filled there Mr. H. 8 Prison,
general manager of the company, is spending his vacation on the Pacific
coast, but is expected home next week. Dr. ] D Butler has a general
supervision over the business during his absence, while sales manager*
Max D. Almond, is taking care of that department in fine shape. Speaking
of the wide range of territory in which the product is shipped, he called
attention to the fact that shipments in one month were sent to New York,
Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas,
New Mexico, Nebraska, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Massachusettes. and across
the sea to Germany and Italy. W. A. Campbell is in charge of all the
shipping and has a sort of general supervision over the entire plant. Mr.
Almond, the sales manager, states that conditions are improving every day
in the lumber business. There is much better and more satisfactory
demand and prices are stiffening all the time. He anticipates a heavy
movement of lumber in the fall at more satisfactory prices than has
been obtained for the past eighteen months, the only thing to stand in
the way being a possible car shortage. ,
The lumber editor, in his perigrinations over the sawdust roads this
week, has encountered rather hard luck, insofar as digging up any items
of interest were concerned, for he found sales managers all so deeply en-
grossed in the work piled up on their desks that he didn t have the
temerity to ask them to give him any of their valuable time to discuss
the situation.
But this fact is eloquent in itself.
The demand for lumber is growing,better day by day.
Inquiries and orders are coming in bunches.
And right along with them are coming good size checks that are
causing the lumbermen to wear a smile that woa’t come off.
Lumber buyers whose needs will be heavy during the coming fall are
endeavoring to get under cover and place their orders now before the
market advances again, but they are not always meeting with success.
One manufacturer said to the writer the other day that at his plant
they endeavored to keep just about fifteen cars ahead on their order files
and didn’t care about a bigger accumulation than that, for they wanted to,*
be in position all the time to enjoy any advantages that might accrue to
them by reason of an advancing market
Other manufacturer# take about the same view of the situation and
are giving the cold shoulder to the man who wants to place contracts
at present prices for future delivery.
They arc all willing to take a moderate amount of business for im-
mediate shipment,—and, by the way, we note, too, that many yards are
urging manufacturers to hurry the shipments along, indicating that stocks
are low on the yards and the demand growing every day
The writer also casually noted, in his visits to the lumber offices, that,
answering inquiries and. booking orders, some items were scratched off
entirely because of the fact that stocks on the mill yard' of certain items
are getting very low On these items price* Have advanced very ma-
terially, too.
There has been a noticeable improvement in the export demand and ex-
porters arc beginning to get busy again, a number of nice schedules having
been recently placed with the mills here and at other points in East
Texas. _ I
Although much damage wa# done in certain sections by the recent
storm that visited the coast and some interior towns, the heavy rain* that
followed have much more than compensated for this damage by insuring
splendid crops, especially of cotton. No one watches the crop reports
more closely than do the manufacturer* of lumber, for upon the results of
the labors of the farmers depend very largely the prosperity of the lum-
bermen. All indications now seem to be favorable for a big harvest and
a consequent big demand for lumber
With the demand increasing, prices advancing and stocks on the mill
yards being reduced right along, everything now seems more favorable for
stable conditions in the lumber trade than has been the case for two years
past, a situation that is pleasing both to the manufacturer and the dealer,
though the scalper finds little consolation in those conditions.
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From the Beaupiont Enterprise we clip the following:
"Dr J D. Butler, president of the Alexander ('.timer Lumber Co of
Remlig, was a prominent visitor in lumber circles last night.
“In speaking of lumber Dr. Butler showed that he is quite an optimist.
“There i* no disputing the fact,’* he -aid, “that the market has of late
advanced from $1.50 to $200 per thousand Inquiries are coming in
briskly and the movement is picking up at such a rate that there is-
already some talk of car shortage in the fall when everything indicate*
that the lumber market will have greatly advanced The lumbermen are
all feeling better than they have at any time the past two years There
is little disposition shown to unduly increase production through operation
on night shifls, which would be a great mistake, and with the advent of
the fall months and the attendant revival of business, there should be
a return of prosperity to yellow pine "
The burning of the magnificent Browndell mill of the Kirby Lumber
company last week was a heavy loss to that company, and at one fell
swoop took thirteen million feet of lumber out of the market, every stick
of lumber on the yard being destroyed. The fire was the most detrac-
tive that has occurred at a saw milling plant in Texas for years, the saw
mill, planing mill, entire stock of lumber, several dwelling houses, and' the
Santa Fe Railroad depot being destroyed. It' is reported from Houston
that plans are being made now for the erection of a new plant upon the
site of the old one.
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F. H. Wilson, inspector for the Port Arthur Export company, ha*
been in Orange this week inspecting a big shipment of sawn timber
out from the mills of the Lutcher & Moore Lumber company. This ship-
ment, amounting to 2,500,000 feet is destined foe European points,
will go out from Port Arthur on the Steamship Asian, one of the lar
and handsomest combination freight and passenger steamers that has
visited that port. The entire cargo of 2,500,000 feet of timber will
stowed under her decks, »
A big shipment of hewn pine ties is going forward from
points oh the Southern Pacific railroad, the tie* being g-
points along the lower Sabine, towed down the river to
loaded on cart at this place.
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Ford, A. L. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1909, newspaper, July 30, 1909; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth646142/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.