Show FREIGHTS TOO HIGH The Same Rates from Portland to Denver as to Salt Lake George P Holman who represents the North Pacific Consolidated Shingle company com-pany of Tacoma and the H R Duniway Lumber company of Portland Oregon has been in tho city since Saturday He reports a larger demand for stock this year 1 than over before Stocks appear to be very short ho said and I have never known anythintr like the demand though I have been coming here for five years Among the now firms here are Morrison Merrill S Co from Wyoming and the CareyLombard Lumber company the latter lat-ter concern having a large number of yards in Kansas We have had a very severe winter in Oregon and the heavy floods have caused a delay in shipments which partially par-tially accounts for the shrinkage in stocks here The freights are rather against your city the railroads making the same rates to Denver as to your city The freight from Portland to both Denver and Salt Lake is 40 cents per hundred Green lumber will weigh about three and a half pounds to the foot and dry lumber about two and three fourths pounds |