Texas Line Yard Concern Buys Six Hundred Cars of Lumber

The South Texas Lumber Company, of Houston, Texas, a big line yard lumber concern of which J. M. West, of Houston, is President, has just made the biggest purchase of yard and shed stock credited to any retail lumber concern in the past several years.

They bought from the Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company, of Orange, Texas, approximately 12,000,000 feet, of about 600 cars of yard and shed stock. The Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company isa lumber manufacturing and wholesaling concern. The purchase consists of about 11,m0'@ feet of Yellow Pine cut attheir mills, and about 1,000,000 feet of Douglas Fir which they carry for wholesale purposes.

The lumber will be sold through the big string of lumber yards of The South Texas Lumber Company. News of the purchase has spread much sunshine in the Texas lumber industry, where it is looked upon as a definite sign of the times, since J. M. West is credited with being a wizard, at business prognostications.

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