The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-05-18
PACIFIC COAST LUMBERING.

The San Francisco Bulletin Of recent
date furnishes the following concerning
numbering interests on this coast:
So far as estimates can be made, the
sugar pine mills having connection
With San Frsncisco could manufacture
about Al DOC. 900 of feet annually, max
ing . grand total Of over $50, 0OO, 600 of
feet. exclusive Of what might be turned
out BY the Sonoma County mills along
the route of the North Pacific Coast
Railroad. It is probable, however,
that not more than one-third the
amount of lumber estimated above
will be manufactured for the San
Francisco market and foreign export,
IS the present prospects OF the trade de
not warrant the large productions of
previous years: and i. is believed that
Yearly all the exporting mills
on the coast will this year
manufacture much less than last
year. The amount of business done
will depend largely upon the amount
Of logs on hand at the several mile.
Those having none in boom will not be
likely to get out any lumber. Besides
tho mills enumerated, there are numer-
Gus mills scattered along the coast and
dotted throughout the State which
manufacture tor purely local consump-
tiOn. These are COMMONLY Of smaller
capacity than the exporting mills, and
are frequently of portable construction.
erected for temporary use in small
bodies of timber. The lsrgest pine
mill on the coast is at Port Gamble,
Puget Sound. owned by Pope s Talbot,
and the largest redwood mill at Eureka.
Humboldt Bay, the property of D. 3.
Jones & Co. Besides the San Francis
co and other home markets. there is
large foreign demand for Pacific Coast
lumber. The Puget Sound mills offer
the best facilities for shipment Of lum-
bsr BY deep water vessels Dickson,
DeWolf & Co., WEIGH & Co.; Hanson,
Ackersou s Co., Renton, Holmes 4 Co.;
j. w. Grace & Co.; Adams L Taylor;
Pope & Talbot. The first two firms,
shipping from mills ct Barnard Inlet,
British Columbia, are the principal ex-
porters Of Puget Sound lumber doing
business in San Francisco. The foreign
countries TO which lum Der is extensive
ly shipped include Chile. Peru. Mexico,
Australia. Sandwich Islands, China
and d ban. 10000 feet is On ap-
proximats estimate Of the foreign sx-
port of lumber from Puget Sound, not
including the shipment from British
Columbia ports. for 1878. The esti.
mate from the books of the American
hrms in this city shipping direct.
There is also considerable lumber re-
shipped toforeign ports from San Fran
cisco, of which no account is to be had.
and which is enormously reckoned in
our annual home consumption. Most
of the lumber brought to this city
comes by water. In the Puget Sound
and Oregon trade. vessels are employed
With carrying capacities ranging from
$50, 900 to 1000. 900 feet The bark
Cassaudra Adams, owned by Adams s.
Taylor: Top Gallant, by Renton,
Holmes L Co., and the ship Sagamorp,
belonging to Pope & Talbot. have each
carrying capacity of fully 1000, 600
feet. Trinidad is the only redwood
por: of entry shipping by deep water
vessels. Redwood is brought to this
city chiefly by scbooners carrying from
$4,000 to 24G. 900 feet, and by rail and
transit lighters from Duncan's Mills.
Russian River. Tho number and char
acter of the vessels engaged in the
lumber trade 10 20 constantly fiuctuat-
ing that It 10 impossible to give any list
ofthem which would be either accurate
or satisfactory.