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Show 'FRISCO DISASTER NOW SHAKES LUMBER TRADE Entire Readjustment of Business Busi-ness Conditions Must Follow, Fol-low, Says Authority. ST. LOUTS, May S. According to a report re-port by Secretary Smith at today's session ses-sion of tho fourth annual convention of the National Lumber Manufacturers' association, as-sociation, the destruction of San Francisco Fran-cisco will cause a shake-up In tho lumber trade. Tho report In part follows: Abnormal Conditions. "Had this report boon written a month ago, It would have been posslblo to say that tradu was moving along In well-established well-established channels In practically all localities, but the recent appalling disaster dis-aster In California, has brought about abnormal conditions on the coast, which will turn large quantities of lumber from its customary course and cause n. readjustment which will have an effect oit the entlro territory west of the Mississippi Missis-sippi river." |