Show MILLS OPERATING IN FULL Oregon Lumber Company Is Preparing Prepar-ing to Fake Charge J of Some Big Contracts lon Charles W Nibley of the Oregon Ore-gon Lumber company was in the city yesterday having just returned from the northwest where his company is operating so extensively The gentleman gentle-man stated that while orders were not numerous the plants of the company are operating in full and with the surplus sur-plus of lumber and ties on hand the company is prepared to take care of some heavy contracts should any turn up The water in Powder river is becoming be-coming low and i is probable that one of more of the mil will yet be forced to close until there is an increase The country in the neighborhood of Baker City is now dryer than it has been for many years and In consequence conse-quence mining and business operations opera-tions are being greatly hindered by the lowness of the streams This is especially true with the placers and the milling plants which depend upon the foW of the streams Speaking of the general condition of the lumber business Mr Nibley stated that the lightness of building operations in the sections tributory to the eastern part of the state of Oregon has caused avery a-very material decrease in orders for building materials and this added to the lack of railroad construction makes the business in which his buiness company com-pany is engaged in very light on net earnings The Oregon Lumber earning company com-pany is supplying some of the railroads rail-roads of the west with ties on their last years contracts but there are few new agreements being entered into in-to Such fe not the case with the mills mis of the ijbund country however for I there the foreign trade is ever on < the increase and the mills are operating to their full capacity night and day Much lumber is being sent to South Africa and Australia where mining operations are in full swing There is also a go6d demand for building ma terials in Southern California ng The Sumpter Valley Railroad company com-pany which operates the little system that brings the logs from the moun tins to the mills of the Oregon mou Lum ber company is extending its line six miles into new and promising lumber agricultural and mining territory terrior Some of the grading has already been done but there is a delay on account of the failure of the Union Pacific faiue Pacifc to make a delivery of rails which the Sumpter company has purchased from the big company on condition of the approval of the courts interested It is anticipated that the construction work I will have been completed before the i i end of the season I |