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IN THE SMS
Commenting on the coal situation
in the states, the Christian Science
Monitor, of Boston, says:
Coal prices are advancing at an*
alarming rate everywhere in the
United States. This statement has
reference to the bituminous as well
as the anthracite article. In New
York, the quotations of egg and nut,
the popular domestic sizes of the lat
ter fuel, reached $12.50 a ton on Tues
day, with an upward tendency, the in
crease per ton in a single day being
$2.00. Certain persons lay the cause
to “prosperity.” Prosperity has cre
ated an extraordinary demand tqr la
bor, they say, and the prifce of labor
has therefore advanced. This, of
course, is not true, since the mines are
operated on a contract scale. There
has been, no advance in miners’ com
pensation recently. Other persons at
tribute the advance in the price of
coal to an increase in freight rates.
The principal haul of anthracite coal
is controlled by the coal railroads,
which also control the mines. Other
persons attribute the shortage of coal
at distribution centers to scarcity of
cars, in part resulting from the diver
sion of coal cars to other shipments,
notably to the carrying of ores. The
fact that the Great Lakes will soon
close for the winter also is said to be
a reason for tremendously increased
shipments of anthracite to the west at
this season. But the Great Lakes close
every winter. There is nothing ab
normal in the western demand.
The one outstanding fact is that
the coal mining industry is so man
aged, or mismanaged, that it fa>’.s
once more to meet reasonable public
requirements. The operators have
produced less coal than consumption
calls for, or they have failed do get
their production so distributed that
consumers can obtain it in requisite
quantities and at fair prices. The plea
of “shortage” is not new. It has been
set up scores of times in the past to
justify extortionate prices. Always
the responsibility is shifted to the
shoulders' of labor, or to lack of
freight cars, or to high freight rates.
As a matter of fact, however, the coal
operators control the entire situation,
since, as has been shown in numerous
suits brought by the federal govern
ment, and, according to the charge
made only a few days ago by the
.United States attorney-general, the
mines and the railroads, in combina
tion, monopolize practically the entire
coal-producing area of Pennsylvania.
I The coal and rail combinations evi
dently have it in their power not only
to regulate output in the monopoly’s
interest, but to determine how many
cars shall be employed in its distribu
j turn, and what the charge for hauling
■ shall be.
The area of the coal fields of the
: United States, according to the gov
j ernment geological survey, is 450,
! 43!) square miles. The estimated
; available Supply of coal in the coun
[ try is 3,538,506,328,000 tons, with
I quantities in reserve in unsurveyed
districts that are practically beyond
present computation. Coal should be
one of the cheapest of commodities in
the United States. Whole states and
whole sections are underlaid with it.
Yet, what with existing monopolistic
combinations which control railroads
and access to markets, competition in
production is next to impossible. The
“big fellows" in the coal mining bus
iness can eliminate the small intru
der.
FUR BEARERS BRINGING
VERY HIGH PRICES j
Trappers will be well paid for then
time and efforts this winter. An un-'
usually -good demand and high prices j
will prevail for fur-bearers. Every j
member of the fox.family is popular
and bringing high prices. Fisher is
a close second and ■ the price is cry!
high. It will take millions of musk
rat to satisfy the American consump-:
tion. The Hudson Seal Coat is in
the height "of its popularity. Ameri-;
can dyers are enlarging their shops
to increase their capacity for seal, i
dyeing more muskrat than ever was!
known. Every fur-bearer collected in
this section will command high mar- 1
ket prices.
URGES CANADA TO
GET SET AND PUT
CORNER ON TRADE
OTTAWA, Nov. 10.—Get Canada
all set to jump in and corner the
cattle trade at the end of the war, by
bolstering the farmer financially now,
that he may have an adequate stock
of cattle in hand and be ready to
stand up for big demands.
This was the advice of John
Bright, livestock commissioner to the
Dominion royal commissioner.
“With the war exterminating Euro
pean cattle,” he said, “the whole
world mu§t look to this continent for
its supply in the years to come. There
is no reason why Canada can not be
prepared to get the big part *of the
trade if she is ready.”
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“Europe will need a billion dollar’s
worth of lumber the first year after
the war,” asserted Dr. Edward Ewing
Pratt, chief of the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce, department
of commerce, in an address Wednes
day afternoon before the forest indus
try conference, at Portland, Ore.
“There will not only be an opportuni
ty to sell lumber, there will be a duty
that should not be shirked.
“If the war should end in Decem
ber, which is hardly likely, and lum
ber imports into Europe should in the
meantime show no increase, there
will be at the close of 1916 an esti- !
mated deficit in the normal European j
lumber supplies of some $400,000,000.;
This is entirely outside of the great j
additional needs for lumaer due to i
the actual destruction of the war. No j
one knows at present the amount of |
lumber that will be needed by France, j
Belgium, Poland, and other countries |
which have suffered directly from the !
war, to replace ruined buildings, rail-;
roads, bridges, etc. There can be lit- ;
tie doubt that this amount will run ;
into large figures and that hundreds ;
of millions worth of general purpose j
lumber will be called for as soon as
the great European struggle is ended.
It has been estimated in Europe that j
at least $400,000,000 worth of lumber
will be needed for this purpose. Add j
the $400,000,000 deficit in the normal
demand. This seems to indicate that
a total of $800,000,000 worth of lum
ber over and above the usual demand
of $580,000,000 will have to be sup
plied to Europe by the lumber-pro
ducing countries. Allowance must be
made, of course, for buildings that
will never be replaced. Allowance j
must also be made for curtailment of
consumption due to enforced" econo
my. Three hundred and eighty mil
lion dollars would seem ample for
those purposes. So it seems likely
that in the year following the war
there will be a demand for a billion j
dollars’ worth of lumber in Europe.
“This huge demand for lumber will, j
I believe, be largely for general pur
pose lumber for temporary construe- j
tion and rebuilding, wood paving
blocks, rough construction timbers of
all kinds, railway ties, car lumber, etc.
There will no doubt be a continued and
increased demand for the finer grades
of American lumber, particularly
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hardwoods, for undoubtedly the stocks
of lumber in Europe have been ex
hausted, as have the stocks of many
other lines of manufactured goods.
“It is easy to anticipate what coun
tries will compete for the privilege of
supplying this lumber. We can not
expect to do all the business. We shall
be lucky if we are able to do even a
major part of the business. In the
year 1913 we shipped more wood pro
ducts than any other country in the
world, amounting to a total of $115,
000,000 worth in all. jn the same year
Russia shipped $88,000,000 worth;
Sweden, $84,000,000. Austria-Hungary,
$68,000,000; Canada, $50,000,000; Fin
land, $47,000,000; Germany, $26,000,
000; Norway, $24,000,000; Roumania,
$5,000,000. The total European ex
portation, therefore amounted to $392,
000,000 and the combined Canadian
and American exportation amounted
to $165,000,000, making a total from
these, the chief lumber exporting
countries of the world, of approxi
mately $550,000,000. Of course, all
this lumber did not go to Eurtfpen.
Sweden, Norway, Germany and Aus
tria shipped lumber all over the world,
but naturally the great bulk of their
output went to Europe.
“In direct competition with these
countries, so favorably situated, the
United States exported to Europe,
chiefly to the United Kingdom and
France, over $50,000,000 worth of lum
ber and its manufactured products. Of
the seven European countries that .ex
ported lumber before the war, five are
combatants and naturally their wood
cutters are at the front and their lum
ber export business at a standstill. No
figures are obtainable for the 1915
exports of lumber. We know, how
ever, that many of the Russian mills
and mill- stocks in Poland and in the
vicinity of Riga have been destroyed.
We also know that the rebuilding of
Poland and Western Russia will ab
sorb Russian energies for some time
after the close of the war. We know
that Germany is using up her forest
reserves; we know that Norway has
long been overcutting her annual
growth. We can therefore safely pre
dict that the greatest European com
petition will come from the mills of
Sweden and Finland. These countries
are icebound during six months of the
year, usually from October to May.
The lumbermen of this country can
readily see, therefore, the possibilities
and the responsibilities that lie be
fore them.”
Having outlined the great demand
for lumber that would come into ex
istence after the war, Dr. Pratt dis
cussed ways and means of marketing
the American product to the best ad
vantage. The recent formation of
the Douglas Fir Export Sales Com
pany was a step in the right direction,
he said, as there is an absolute neces
sity for presenting a united front to
the united front of buyers that will
be found waiting.in Europe. The pro
posed investigation of European mar
kets for lumber by experts selected
by the lumbermen in co-operation with
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce was also commended as r
step in the right direction, and a de
tailed explanation was given of the
methods that are being employed to
get the- right men for this highly im
portant work.
In concluding- Dr. Pratt outlined
what the government has done and
stands willing to do to help the lum
ber industry take advantage of the op
portunities that will soon be present
ed.
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EXPORT REM
IS SURPASSED
Still another export record has been
broken. The total Value of goods
shipped out of this country in Septem
ber was $512,847,957, or $3,000,000
more than for August, when exports
first passed the half billion mark for
a single month.
Exports for the 12 months ending
with September were in round terms
$5,000,000,000. The precise figures
announced by the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce of the depart
ment of commerce were $4,971,945,
883, as against $3,177,764,184 in the
preceding 12 months and an annual
average of $2,453,000,000 in the five
years preceding 1915-16. Our exports
of domestic products in the month of
September were larger than those
for the entire fiscal year 1875, the
closing year of our first centenary.
September imports fell off sharply
from the totals of previous months,
having been $164,128,604 in value, or
less by $35,000,000 than those of Aug
ust, less by $82,000,000 than those of
June, the high-record month, but
larger by $18,000,000 than the month
ly average of $146,000,000 for the
coresponding month during the past
five years. For the year ending with
September last imports totaled $2,
307,766,567, compared with $1,681,
298,913 last year and an annual aver
oge of $1,725,000,000 for 1911-1915.
Of the month’s imports, 71.3 per
cent entered free of duty, compared
with 71.6 per cent in September, 1915.
The favorable trade balance for
Septemper was $348,719,343, being
$200,000,000 larger than for Septem
ber, 1915, and $332,000,000 more than
that for September, 1914. The 12
months to September 30, 1916, show
a favorable trade balance of $2,664,
179,316, compared with $1,496,465,271
last year and $342,714,840 two years
ago.
The net inward gold movement ag
gregated $85,713,799 for the month
and $456,032,344 for the 12 months
ending September 30. Last year the
figures were $40,028,459 and $206,
440,761, respectively, the net inward
gold movement having doubled in one
year. September gold imports were
$92,562,940, against $42,062,449 last
year and.$2,761,590 two' years ago*
September gold exports were $6,849.- |
141, against $2,033,990 last year and i
$21,887,202 in September 1914. For'
the 12 months ending with September,
gold imports aggregated $568,952,044,
compared with $283,336,809 last year
and $57,447,170 in 1913-14. Gold ex
ports for the 12 months were $112,
919,700, compared with $77,896,058
one year ago and $175,376,109 two ]
years ago. _ I
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