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Show SAXT IiAKE LtUBEU TBADE, J. G. Bryant, one of the direotorsof the second national baok of Salt Like, and ooe of the most extensive lumber merchants in that city, is now ou a business visit toTruckee. Mr. Bryant iniorms us that the lumber business at Salt Lake is already immense and rapidly rap-idly increasing. He estimates the lumber lum-ber required at that point at twenty million feet this year. Three-fourths of this will be obtained from Truckee and vicinity. A small portion of redwood red-wood lumber for finishiug purposes is shipped from San Francisco at a cost of $160 per car load, and a still less quantity is drawn from local points wahin a hundred miles of Salt Lake, and shipped by the Southern Utah railroad. The native lumber is greatly inferior to that received from Truckee, the trees from whence it is derived being be-ing small in size a nil short and stunted. Ready made sash doors and windows, with the glazing done, are extensively exten-sively shipped from Chicago. The reason why Chicago has been able to successfully compete with Truckee in furnishing Hhe last named articles to the people of Salt Lake and other por 1 tioos of Utah, is Lhat glass is so much cheaper at tho east. The Truckee lumber lum-ber company, for instance, which does a heavy business in shipping windows and sash doors to tho Great Basin, have to order their glass from Pittsburg; Pitts-burg; from that; place it is shipped through by railroad to Kan Francisco, and from thenco it is re-shipped to Truckee, the freight being exacted both ways. This adds considerable to the expense of sending doors and windows win-dows to Utah from Truckee. The only on-ly way for the Truckee lumber company com-pany to overcome this difficulty of double dou-ble freight on glaas would be for them to ship the latter from Fittsborg to Salt Lake or OgdeD, send forward their saBh, doors and windows to those points' and havo the glazing performed there instead of here. In this way Mr. Bryant suggests that Truckee can successfully compete with Chicago in the door and sash trade at Salt Lake. A visit to the principal lumber mills in this vicinity, and the forests from whence their supplies are drawn, convinces con-vinces Mr. Bryant that Truckee has a prosperous future, and that it must remain for many years the main source upon which Utah must depend for lumber and timber. "Truckee Republican." |