Salt Lake Herald | 1899-07-30 | Page 10 | Lumber Goes Up

I LUMBER GOES UP Another Advance In Price Scheduled For Tomorrow Minneapolis linn July 29The Times will say tomorrow Lumber will advance another 50 cents straight on Monday this being the fifth marked advance In price It has been many years since there was such a demand de-mand as the present season has shown and even with the advancing prices the demand continues to exceed the supply In the case df the elevator builders who are using cribbing in great quantities there seems to be an end of things and It appears that they wIll SOOn have to resort either to the higher grade cribbing which is almost too expensive for the purpose or take to steele for elevator building There have been but few years when so much avtivity has been shown in the elevator business This is partly attributed to the growth of new towns along the Great Northern In uortherr Minnesota and the Annapolis St Louis In the southern part and partly to the execellent heat prospects this season