The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-08

whitehall.
For several years the lumber business of
this place has been assuming large proper
/ lions each year, and to-day Whitehall
ranks among tho largest lumber markets in
/ firms here who are heavily engaged in the
business, they having several hundred
/ thousand dollars invested and keeping con-
/ stantly on hand millions of feet Of lumber,
mostly Canada spruce and pine.
( W " COON.
Among the pioneers OF the business is
W. w. Cook, ESQ now at The head Of the
I firm Of Cook Il Son, who established him
self in business here in 1885, aud who con-
tnued in the business alone until 1862,
when he associated with him lis son, undcr
the firm name of Cook & Son, which firm
| is still in operation. The firm are heavily
engaged in selling dressed pine and spruce,
having frontage on the lake Of 200 feet,
which extends back quite Il distance from
| the lake, giving them ample facilities for
the slowing away of any quantity Of lum-
Der, and affording ample room between
each pile for teams 10 pass.
The lumber is all procured by them in
Canada and brought to their docks on
boats, and they frequently have OH hand
100000 feet.
This lumber is all dressed by them be-
fore sent to the market, for the purpose Of
which they have on the ground one of the
largest and best constructed planning mills
| in northern New York and one that is
surpassed by few in the country of its
size.
TIE MILL.
The mill proper is built of brick, is l00X
% feet in size, and is provided with a
trancept 100X23 feet, in which are placed
the engines, boilers and fuel room, the
Whole being covered With a corrugated iron
roof. Every door and window being sup
piled with iron shutters, the floor being of
stone, and is perfectly fire proof, and if a
fire should originate in the yard, no dan
Adjoining the mill is a lumber shed
100x60 feet, in the yard is a
dry shed, 130x60 feet. In the mill are seven
different planing-machincs of the latest
pattern each machine being capable OF
doing the work of three machines as they
were originally built, they being so con
structed that by placing the timber on one,
it being stood on its edge, the board is
dressed on both sides and matched by go
No through the machine once. They also
make all kinds OF mouldings, and are pro-
vided with machine for making clap
LJaids, it being capable of making two at
a time. The power by which the machinery
is carried is furnished by Tufts steam en-
CINE of eighty horse power, the steam fol
which is generated through two tubular
boilers, thirty-two feet in length, and. con
nectcd with them for the purpose of draft,
is chimney l0l feet high. The mill is
provided With one Of Cameron's steam
pumps and an abundant supply of hose,
which will reach to any part of the mill or
yard; the water which supplies the boilers,
and which would also be used in case of a
fire, being drawn from the lake
Connected with the mill is a railroad
! working on double gears. and running to
the lake, on which the lumber is placed
and brought to the mill and yard. The
! mill was built from plans furnished by ".
. ". Cooke, .Jr., who. rs the firm had two
mills destroyed by fire, thought that he
would have one that would not burn, and
admirably has he succeeded.
/ The firm do q business of about s350,
900 employ fifty men in the mill and yard,
I the pay for them eacl, month averaging
$4,000
The firm are rated amongst the heavy
men OF the place the senior partner has
already accumulated a handsome fortune !;
the other members are rapidly doing the
same, and such We hope will be the case
with Mr. Roiiin G.. Cooke, who has the
superintendence OF the yard and mill, and
who is one of the best of fellows.