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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1921)
TTIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, POItTIAND, MAISCIT- 2?, 192f 1 E-CLASS L HELD UNPROFITABLE British Columbia Market Con tinues Stagnant. EXPORTS PREVENT CRASH Japanese Squares and Tie Timber in Demand, but All Other lines Show Weakness. VANCOUVER, B. C, March 26. (Special.) Catting: all one clas3 of lumber is not very profitable either to the purchaser or the manufactu -er, and the prices quoted this week for Japanese squares and tie timber evi denced the fact that side lumber still is bepiled and the export orders are paying for the stocks on hand. Hail trade failed to show any improve ment this week on receipt of the newB that a slight reduction had b-en made in freights, and the operators contend that a much larger slice will have to be taken from the trans continental tariff before business can be coaxed into the market. The Pacific west bound onfernce raised the lumber rate from this coast to the orient this week $3 ..he thousand, making the new rate 15. The Canadian Pacific ocean services responded at once, but tha'. company only had the steam schooner Mont eagle to take lumber and does not feel the change. The Blue Funnel company point blank refused to be bound by that rate, and while the Japanese lines voted for thfe rise they failed to quote it. The new rate ill make no difference in the west bound business for months as the outstand ing books on a $10 rate are so heivy that in many instances it will be Jjly or August before the new rate -lll be collected. Itlnny Mills Are Bony. Twenty-two mills are bury cutt ng on the 8.000,000-foot order of railv-ay ties for the Egyptian railways. The last stick of this order nas to be aboard the steamer on April 28, so the papers can go through the bank on that date. Japanese squares are In keen de mand as there was a feeling In Jaran that orders should be plaoed before the freight rates advanced and fix tures were made not only with the mills but with the steamers on a very large scale. China is calling fon lumber in large quantities, but this trade is confined entirely to the Dollar company, which cuts the sticks with its own mill and carries on the Dollar boits. Consequently this trade msans ll'.tle to the mills of British Columbia as a whole. The Walsh company of North Van couver captured an order for 1,500,000 feet of structural timbers to be used in Quebec and the Canadian govern ment steamers will carry the entire shipment. A few Inquiries are coming in regularly from South Africa, Austra lia and the United Kingdom, but the last mentioned market has been dead to Pacific coast trade for some time, buying entirely on the Baltic Spain and Mexico Markets. Both Spain and Mexico are interest ing the local lumber brokers and connections were opened this week between several British Columbia concerns and Mexican interests lor the shipment of lumber to the southern ports. Arrangements are being made by the new Mexican consul. Senor J. Favela, to have two lines of steamers plying through '.he Panama canal to and from Vancou ver call at two Mexican ports, one on the Atlantic and one on the Pa cific side. This will care for the small orders and charters will do the rest. Mexico is now ready for lurr.rer and negotiations are pending for sales at present. Spain is also in the mar ket on the ground that much of the southern pine recently shipped to that country was rusted and not up to specifications. Spain takes a'jut 610.nno.noo feet of lumber a year md tha Baltic supplies nearly three fourths of the aggregate. It is years since the home maritet haa been as brisk as at present from the small-house standpoint, and (Ms together with the prospects of the Lyall company, contractors for the new government arydock on Van couver island, wanting 7.000,000 feet of lumber in the near future, is giv ing the domestic trade a I'ttle blue sky. BhlnKle Trade la Dormant. There is some trade in lumber, but practically nothing, in shingles. A few orders have been plactd subject to reductions in freights, but shingle operators contend that the rate is not low enough, and by dropping it a few cents at a time It will keep the market back all year. "If the railroads would drop the rate 20 cents and say, 'Now tl'at stands for six months,' it would make a rush of business for u and for them," was the statement of C. A. Bourne, ( manager of the Dominion Shingle Products company, a firm which shipped a daily average across the boundary line last year of 30 cars of SX shingles. This grade of shingles Is weak now at $3 wilie perfections stand at J4.40. Cedar legs were quoted this week at from $14 to $18 and much more plentiful than last week. Fir logs are quoted at J15, $20 and $25, but the demand for timbers capable of making Japanese squares has been so keen this wek that it is almost impossible to secure logs of this class. . . : : . BEETLE TO BE FOUGHT TIMBERMEX PLAN" EXTEXSIVE WAR O.V PEST. Meeting to Be Held In Klamath Falls Soon to Outline Cam paign for Summer. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., March 26. (Special.) So far the war of local timber owners against the pine beetle has comprised only minor skirmishes in comparison with tbe campaign that is planned for this summer. Plans for effective warfare will be formed April 4 and 5 at a meeting here of owners of large timber tracts in Ore gon and northern California. Colonel W. B. Greeley, chief forester for the United States; George S. Long, Pa cific coast manager of the Weyer haueser Timber :ompany: and E. H. Cox of the Long-Bell Lumber com pany, will attend, with numbers of representative; of smaller interests in the infested area. The pine beetle has. been a thorn in the side of timber owners for years, but in the last three years its ravages have run into millions of dollars. Since 1911 the Klamath-Lake Coun ties Forest Fire association has been fighting the beetle in these two coun ties with the only method known falling infested trees, barking them and burning the bark. As the beetle tunnels between the bark and the wood and breeds new swarms there. this process destroys the insect in large numbers. Lumbermen expect to spend mucn money in the war, but the annual loss has reached such proportions that they feel that any expenditure will be justified if it brings the desired result extinction of the pine beetle. LINN FIGHTS PHONE RATES Stockholders of Farmers' Lines Co operate for Rehearing. ALBANY, Or., March 26. (Special.) Linn county was co-operating ac tively with .other' sections in the movement for a rehearing of the tel ephone rate question. The organization of stockholders of farmers' lines formed at the meet ing here Wednesday was getting in touch with similar organizations now formed or being formed In other counties and the city council of Al bany instructed City Attorney Mc Mahan to act with the city attorney of Portland and other cities in pro curing the proposed rehearing. The committee named at the meet ing has organized by electing E. H. Holloway chairman. The other mem bers are W. E. Watson of Crabtree and H. J. Mclnnis of Albany. Best grades coal. Prompt delivery. Pin nnrf Onnl Co Srtwv 3037. Adv Few more days and our special sale will come to an end. Oriental Rugs known the world over as the best floor cov erings, combining richness, durability and service, can now be had at Ridiculously Low Prices You will never have a better opportunity (and perhaps none as good) to have access to such a large assortment and variety of Oriental rugs of high quality and rare beauty at sacrifice prices, as this sale offers you. ATIYEH BROS. Corner Alder and Tenth Streets -MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII- Four Reasons for Buying Diamonds at Aronson's Wonderful variety of stock! Its superior quality! Exceptional buying facilities! Aronson's extremely reasonable prices! Women's Leather Purses Received ARONSON'S Washington at Broadway for men a manu- market 1t txu" Here are facts about the clothing situ ation the public is entitled to know. They will go a long way toward restoring that public confidence without which all the make-shift tricks of the trade are merely aggravations of the fundamental troubles. Signed: FAHEY-BROCKMAN. ," o man.,,. fall . comP "7 trie ,Prica ,te. . - l4?rinadei T Finest vu"". , i, repotW ' v(W- , ru-"o- , ifl ecw""-' . actual prices o, - Note that Fahey-Brockman's Upstairs Spring prices are lower throughout than the officially quoted manuf acturers prices for this Spring and that without need of so called "adjustment sales" or other business- penalizing tricks of the trade. Another Triumph -Brod for rockman's Upstairs Plan! As a further example of how the public ben efit from Fahey-Brockmans UPSTAIRS plan; we are again offering unexampled values in prm g Suits aid 0 as r)A Low y As oAlj 1 No Higher Than with the regular upstairs saving of $10 on every garment Which means that Fahey-Bro'ckman to day are selling in their three great UP STAIRS stores thousands of the finest made domestic and imported worsted and woolen suits and overcoats at a price that is officially quoted in Chi cago the hub of the men's clothing market as the lowest manuf acturer's price. Point 1. The second point is that while the man ufacturers are offering blue serge suits at $30 and standard worsted suits at $34; with the finest worsted suits made in America at $53 (all of these prices being "much below that of 1920") Fahey Brockman are retailing the finest pro curable suits and overcoats at from $20 to $40. 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