. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. August 1, 1919 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 45. Why Western Lumber Prices are High There is an Absolute Shortage and Yard Stocks Cannot be Sold Below Costs This Year "In calling on retailers we find there is some criticism of Western manufacturers and wholesalers for not protecting and supplying the Eastern market with stocks, which owing to low prices exist- ing in the past, Eastern retailers ^ j^^m were induced to buy. Numerous articles have ap
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. August 1, 1919 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 45. Why Western Lumber Prices are High There is an Absolute Shortage and Yard Stocks Cannot be Sold Below Costs This Year "In calling on retailers we find there is some criticism of Western manufacturers and wholesalers for not protecting and supplying the Eastern market with stocks, which owing to low prices exist- ing in the past, Eastern retailers ^ j^^m were induced to buy. Numerous articles have appeared m your l^ll l^H publication and others regard- I^H ing increased costs for logging and the manufacture of lumber, but these reasons do not appear sufficient to satisfy buyers that Western manufacturers are en- titled to the present level of prices in order to make a profit on their operations," said Mr. Hugh A. Rose, of Toronto, representing Mason, Gordon & Co., in a recent interview with the "Canada Lum- berman. Hugh A. Rose, Toronto, Ont. "Supply and demand really reg- ulate prices, and at the present time there is an abnormal demand," continued Mr. Rose, "throughout the United States, and American buyers have come into the British Columbia market and have overbid Canadian wholesalers for all lines of stock, with the result that in spite of the fact that the Prairie markets are not taking their normal supply' of lumber, there is an absolute shortage of all lines of stock at the mills in British Columbia and many of the mills are oversold for some weeks to come. This in itself is a justificatioii of high prices, but one of our friends has put the matter up to us in another light. "The sales manager of this mill says, that unless he can sell at prices equal to >those paid by American buyers he is not doing jus- tice to his principals, and points out, that prices this year are not averaging as high at the mill as last year. He gives th
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