Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-09-20
ID ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 90 1873


anchorage is easy anywhere in the bay, whi' b
affords ample room for ull the shipping in u 9
world Besides. back OF the town about hall
a mile, Ia beautiful. deep. fresh water lake,
three miles long.-and from one 10 q hall mile
In width. The level Of the lake is eighteen
feet above The level of the ocean, and 80 situ-
aied that canal could he made with very
little expense, from the lake To the by, there.
by enabling vessels ot the larges, burden TO
enter fresh water port, which is always pre-
ferable and very desirable, as fresh water kills
the barnacles and ocean wood worm, both oi
which are not only great annoyance 10 vcs-
sci owners, but do thousands of dollars worth
damage every year East of tiiis lake-Dwam.
isb-ten miles, there is a large deposit Of coal
which has been opened, showing win ten
feet thick, four ieet Of which. was told Iy
Gen. Tillon, Chief Engineer In Tacoma, is free
from sulphur and will make iron. There is q
narrow guage railroad from Seattle out 10
these banks-cars being ftrri.d across the
The Dwamsh lake and large quantities "f this
coal have been dug and shipped To San Fran.
cisco, where it demands $i4 II ton.
The next great point of interest is The Pert
Gamble Mills, 42 miles down The Sound from
Seattle. The milling company here is ,roba.
bly, the largest in the world. Thirty three
million feet of logs were purchased and put in
their booms last year. The company own
10000 acres of heavy fir timbtred lands, from
which they have never crt slick. They can
buy the logs at about the cost Of cutting and
hauling, and thus save the c0mpauy's timber
TIL the article is scarce and valuable On an
average, thirty millior feet Of lumber is saw
ed per year. Their mills, however, have lie
c,pacily of saving three hundred thousand
feet per "a hours but only one of the two
mills at Port Gamble how ruIs all night.
Their usual amount is two hundred and ten
and two bundled and twenty Thousand feet
per day o. "a hours, The company buys only
the best logs and pay SIS per NJ for hem. TIE
logs are lowed 10 the mills by the company's
Jugs Lumber is worth at the mills so per
NJ. Good trees make from five TO n thousand
feet The mills can and do saw logs ll0 feet
long, and 80 and 80 feet are common lengths
There is something peculiar about the SAWS
tla do this amount OF work il is gang of
saws made in Scotland, and unlike any others
in America. 1t cuts the logs in a continuous
linc as they are drawn up from the water.
Two huudred and twenty-five men are en-.
ployrd directly In and about tn mill, or on
the "spii; :" also, they employ two hun lred
men as loegers, besides the company owns six
ships, and six harques, which register l2l 1863
feet tonnage and have Carrying capacity Of
1900 tons, Til average numl, rot m,n rm-
are alsu ktpl busy. which employ twelve men.
Port Townsend The last mill on The Sound,
IL ,hpultic same as the Port Gimhle mill, on
y on II smaller scale aNd is one hundred and
twenty, miles from Olympia, ss
The length Of Puget Sound, which has two
thousand miles of coast, as it has u thousand
bays and islands is one of the most wonderful
as well as BEAUTIFUL sheets OF water in The
world y 4t1 ,us.-
You are tired aud so are we, but before we
let you go, lake one look, from the ground
between Olympia and Sieiiacoom. There to
tue southeast, bursting on tue horizon, is the
grandrs picture you ever saw. What ARE
these towering peaks of grandeur, those mon
umcnts OF subIimily, marking with their
snowy whiltness the silent volcanoes home
Yes, in those tents of snow who car tell the
fires that are raging? Only He who reads the
hearts of rner; only He who made them. The
ilree snow covtrrd peaks we see, are first and
nearest us, MT. Rainier, 1880 feet high, and
The highest in the. Cascade Range. Nexl two.
Mt. 81 H,iens. 9,T50 feet, and Mt. Adams, 9,57O
feet, all between forty and seventy miles away,
hut seemingly so near that il is la rd to refrain
from reaching out our hand to touch them.
cannot give you an idea OF these mountains
you must see to appreciate; words too iamely
describe that which awakens every feeling
tilling us with pride, as we read their mighty
>plendor-as we look on thee, oh! Mi
Rinier, crowned hero OF the Cascade Rang
towering high above your fellows.
Yours, OHIO.
Tacoma. Washington Terry, Aug 30h.