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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1924)
Wednesday, May 7, 1921. THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PAGE SEVEN DEMAND DULL FDR LUMBER l'inun(l Tor lumLur, by Hit' building Industry and lnuiiuiuclur Inp consumers, contlnum lu be r' Htrlctrd by the backw urdm-tui uf spring wt'iitln r. Tin; record of building iienuilH, however, ahows I lie fundamental Hirt-DKih of the market. Bays the American Kitrn burmaii, Chlr-ago. Imriiiff Ihe first throe inontliH of i Dili there were more penults tuk-n out, and for a Ittrgex amount, thun for Hit? cor responding TtrHt iimrtcr of any jirovioiiH yiiur In Hie hlalory of the I'lilled Slults. The urno producing rctfious hIiow no exceHs of production, ho that absence of iicLMiinuluted Htocks 1h u factor In the market's t rn tfih.' b'o r the f 1 rat I h ree months of 11124. HU Identical Southern l'lne Association jt.Hlii Hhowt'd shipments uiuountiiitf to Its.G'j per cent of production; West Coast Lumbermen's Association inlit shipments of l.tilS million feet lor the first sixteen weeks or the year showed u comfortable exeesy over the production of 1 . 5 1 J mil lion feci. Total nationul loading of forest products for the ended April 12 amounted to 7G.olt cars, 7U4 cars under I hi total for Ihu veeli ended April 5 tin; de crease w as si it, lit, amounting to only about 1 per cent. Orders booked durintf the week ended April 12 by all the HU mills report ing to the National I. umber .Manu facturers' Association were S7 per cent of uctual pruductioa; booking by Southern I'ine Association mills were Do per cent, and by West ('o:isl I.umbernien'H Association mills, !u pur eent. of output. Recently there have been scat tered reports of concessions in prices, but undoubtedly these do not indicate, a fcenerul weakening in the market. When progress in building was rularted by bad weather, retail yards, very fully stocked, cuased buying, and cars in transit had to find sale at u sacrifice; transits now are fewer. Southern pine mills have found In exports an offset to slow domestic demand; March overm.-tia Hhipments showed an increase of 4G.2 per cent over those of February. - West (.'oust mills are meeting I he pres ent lull by curtailment, for they lake the stand Uiul production at lower prices is Impossible. Coast, producers 'illd present ex port trade slow, though prospects for the imniediutae. future are ex ceptionally good. The dullness of Hi" southern 'allfornia market Is balanced by i tier caned consumption In the northern part of the SI at it, but tlie- quarantine established against California is affecting the movement of lumber through lis ports to ArlxunfL and other inland markets. As ('oust mills continue to refuse low price business und lire determined against accumulat ing surpluses, curtailment of out put Is general. Loggers are un willing to produce at a lows and, to meet the general weakness of Hie Jog market. 1'iiiret -Sound loggers will close- down Ihelr camps de("in Ilety on May I, and will probably be followed by British t Columbia milts. i The outstanding feature, or tin: hardwood market is th revival of fot'ign demand, which icoim s op portunely, and offsets Hie dermis" in takings by Ihe autoinoblb- and furniture industries. The Amer ican Overseas Forwarding Co. has bookings totaling uboul eigiit'n hundred cars the largest amount ever had on its books while pros-, peets are for a further expansion1 In foreign takings. Prices are rather weak and reduction have! been made In Items for the ilium y- J tic market. Construction Indus-1 tries continue to lake lurgei amounts, the flooring factories be- lug still behind on (heir orders. .Hardwood men are rirm In their 'belief that Improved weather will bring a deeirbd slrenKlhening or the market. STABILITY OF POLAND CAUSED BY INTEGRITY GKNRVA (AP) Poland, lke Austria and Hungary, Is pi nig gling with the problem of financial reconstruction und, according to Ant nine Wlc.nluwukl. the Polish member of the permanent eco nomic advisory committee of the League of Nations, Is slowly win ning through the united und patri otic efforts of thopeoplc and gov eminent. Mr. Wlenluwsk! emphasized first of all that bolsheviKin has no chance in his country. Th dan ger period of llMO-ao. when bol shevik propaganda was at .Its height, had definitely passed, in his opinion. At the end of last year II took 6, otto, 000 polish marks to buy a dollar and the entire ecn. no ink- life of the nation wts threatened. A big deficit appeared In the bud ire t. Aunlvlmr drastic I remedies, the government decided to fix the payment of all taxes u: gold francs. This system was In augurated on the, first of the year 1 und is working well, he said. Moreover, a tax on fortunes Is ex . peeled to yield 4uu. 000,000 gold francs by the end of 1926. An other step lo be tak''n soon will be the creallun of a bank of issue haM-d on the same 'principle as the Austrian bank arranged by the league of Nations. . ... Mr. Wleniwski went on: "Wo have roughly stabilized the Polish mark at 9,oon,uuu to the dollar. It I:; est I mated 1 hat the Polish peo ple, I h rough fear of t he further depreciation of the local currency have put aside gold to the value of ? 1 20,000.000, but their confi dence being restored, they are now beginning 16 sell their dollars and I have ael tially offered t he state l2,uoo.oo(i gold which the state has purchased at the prevailing rate of exchange. Our economic life is slowly but surely adjusting Itself In a healthful manner." . . CREEK HERS RUNNING HIGH To Ucitauie Norway's Capital CHKISTIANIA. f AIM The constitutional' Committee or the Storthing will report favorably on changing ihe name of the Nor- iwegian cupitul from Chrlstianla to I "Osle. says thy uewspapcr Na tlnnen. 1 VNIO.V. Ore. (Special) Cath erine creek is very high as a re sult of the" recent warm days. There" was very little snow 'on I ho mountains during the winter but Ee.erul fed Ml in March and nearly seven feet la reported on some of (he mountains which feed Catherine.' The Junior high school play "Hooky Kord,' was repealed at the. gym Saturday . night, which added several dollars to the fund that 18 being raised to . provide the banquet or the seniors this year. The senior cluss being large and the Juniors few in number, they are having to put forth on extra effort to secure enough money for the feed. Ir. O'Connor who suffered a. slight paralytic stroke last week, was reported some better though stilt confined to his bed. Kxcuvatlou -and ' cement work have started on the new . filling station Jut north of the Presby terian church on Main street. Mcrtun Davis will bo the man in charge of the concern. Ben Knight went to Portland the lust of the week, to lake down a load of stock for delivery at the Portland Stock yards. Me-mbers of the. L'plcopat church are planning to have the. building painted und otherwise repaired and varnished Inside, Jtnlph Morgan, former teacher in the Imlon school, was here Sut urduy to attend the track meet. Instances completely severed. The burs on the 0 itside of the wall had not been disturbed, the war den said. T h e w a t v r was d ra I ne d f r o t i tl.e flume today and the severed bars were repaired. The identity or the convicts -who tampered with the burs Is not known defi nitely to the prison officials. . CONVICTS PLAN HltP.AK HALKM. Ore, What probably van planned as a wholesale de livery of convicts from the state ircnllcntiary here whs frustrated by guards at the Institution today, according to Warden A.- M. Hai ry in pic, ' Tho conilcts had selected the ptlson flume as their-avenue of escape. It wan discovered by tin guards that the inside barn on the flume" where it entors the wall en closing the prison yard had been I nt and In some Inntimcn com- National Park Surrounds Active Volcano uf iJi.ven SAN PUANCISCO (AP) There will be four main en trances for government roadways into Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California, it is announced liere by Civorge K. Goodwin, chief civil engineer of the National Paris Service. Surveys for the park roads and trulls have been virtually com pleted, said (Goodwin. They will open up one of the mosi pictur esque und scenic districts In America, lessen peak being the only active volcano In the Pulled States. Objecls ofinterest fur the first roads constructed will be the lake region In the southeastern ccrner of the park, the Cinder cone and Ha lava fields, the devasled urea swept by the eruption ol May, li16, and the magnificent but little known KiiiKH Creek ( 'anyou wil h lis geuilike fulls in tho hem-t of the pari;. IILLETO TRY TENNIS M A XV 1 LI ,K ( Special ) A t en nU club is being organized at Max ville. A court is now under con struction and It Is expected H will be ready in about two weeks. Many jouug people aro Interested in the game. A number of young prop! of Maxville Attended the dunce ul Wallowa Friday evening, J. McMullen, assistant munagor of the Ho wman-1 Licks Lumber company, who has spent the past two weeks In Lu Grande und Spo kane, Waah., returned to Maxville recently. Mrs. Laird und Mrs. Mcltoe gave a dance lit tho !og Cabin Thurs day evening. Kveryone had u good time. Mrs. N. WPkes and daughter. Miss Hnael Slone, who hit.ve. been seriously ill for several weeks are able to be nut again. The llrudshuw, Lewis and Oood by rnmllles went on n straw ride to Wildi-at canyon, aboul six miles from Mewille, and had mi I'll day picnic Bun day. They returned homo late In the evening. - William Poundy and family, of Wullowd, spent the day In Max ville visiting relatives and friends recently. . Mrs. Jewel Thor gave a dance at her borne Huturdny evening.' A good lime was enjoyed by all. Dr. Tenbrook apunt Saturday at Wallowa. 1 S. H. Houston, of La Grande, la in Maxville for a few days. - Mrs. Clem Nuuls, who has been very seriously ill for a week or more Is now Improving slowly. RF.AI) TflH CIJISKIFIKD ADH p 'r ' : if TIRES TIRES .TIRES Hw It ever occurod to you what an eipenao It U to buy a clieap-niade tire and mbo? 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