Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-10-01
The Puget Sound Lumber Mills.
The gigantic forests of Puget
Sound have fed for more than .

The gigantic forests of Puget
Sound have fed for more than .
quarter Of century ravenous saws.
and filed hundreds Of snips and
still the hum goes On, still the teeth
of steel sink into the trunks of huge
trees which have been dragged from
valley and mountain slope in answer
to the Unsuitable demand of man,
and still ships laden with the spoil
outride wave and tempest, and bear
the products Of the forests Of Wash
ington Territory into foreign ports
In financial point Of view
THE LUMBRRIN0 INTEREsTs
OF the Sound are vast; in . CONNER
cial view of these interests reach to
the ports OF China, Mexico, Califor-
mia and the islands of the seq; in .
local view they hold out the banner
of welcome to sturdy. honest labor
and build hundred Of homes. 4
description Of one Of these busting,
noisy, milling ports sufices for . de-
soription, with slight variation in d.
tail, of all. Each ono is psrvaded
by the busy hum of industry; each
has its mammoth mountain Of saw
dust in the foreground, its struggling
piles of unsightly slabs, its huge
piles of various kin de- Of lumber, II
great
BOON OF DRIPPING LOGS,
Its ships loading At the wharvss, ito
new vessels upon the stocks, willis
over each and all floats the resinous
odor of new lumber aud the eternal
din of tho remorselsss saws ~ they
devour with noisy gusto huge relies
Of tho forest prirneval. Three hun
drsd thousand feet Of lumber per
day il the record which the Port
Ludlow mill will reach when the
new building is completed. AThs
Puget Mill Company here expect -
realize the proud boast Of having NJ
largest saw mill in the world. The
work Of putting in the foundatioD
for this structure, building wharve1,
etc.. is going on. In the shipyards
. handsome pilot schooner inst ready
to launch. bexutiful pleasure yacht
approaching compilation, and the
KEEL or A BARKExrIHS,
40 feet long, recently laid. indicefe
the industries in this line. 1he
force Of men employed hAs,a vide
range. Tho sturdy axmsn whole
cate camps in the depth Of the forest
and fell trees throughout the drip
ping gloom of northwest Winter:
tho teamsters who drag the unwisldy
trunks to the water side, the rafte-
men who steer the logs down Over
rapids and through tortuous channsls
to tho waters OF the Sound, ana
thence by easier sailing until safely
secured in the Z
BOOM AT THE MILL;
The men with pitch begrimsd hands
and garments who bring them II
reach Of the saws and gauge and
convert them into lumber; tho hande
that bear this into the yards and loan
it into vessels, and the crews thae
work these last over stormy seas 70
destined ports, all bear their share
in the prosecution of this vast and
important industry. while over. all
tho financial wisdom that establishes
and directs these varied movements
towers, making for itself compet-
ence while giving employment e
hundreds who can only labor when
directed by q sagacity more pene-
trating than their own. The
CHIEF DANGER
In filling the Wholesale lumber de-
mand is that the forests of Western
Washington will be swept from the 4
face of the earth. A contemplation
of the inroads made upon them dur
ing third of a century suffices to
foreshadow the fate that awaits them
if greed does not give place to .
wisdom that would rtay its rapacity.
CREAM PUDDING SAUCE Gas given BY
Marion Harland). One pint OF
cream, four table-spoonfnls powder
ed sugar, whites OF two eggs beaten