The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07


son Counties.
Ex-Sheriff d. G. Oyster, of Ridp-
way, and Hon. Alfred Short of North
East, Erie county, compose the firm
of OYSTER & Short. Hon. Alfred
Short. of North East, and w. II.
Horton, of Brockport, Elk county, the
firm of Short g. Horton. The Key
stone steam saw mill is located | miles
south of Ridgway and is operated by
Oyster & Short. At the mill 3000,06O
feet of pine boards are sawed and wait
inr flood, of the above amount about
300,O00 feet remain to be RATED, the
recent heavy snow fall having caused
a temporary suspension of operations.
The mill is still running day and
night turning out thirty to forty
thousand feet of boards every "a hours.
At this mill there is about 5000, 600
feet of stock (pine logs Oh hand,
which will be sawed out during the
summer and piled ready to raft-in the
next spring This mill has a ~ inch
saw yet they have logs that even this
big saw cannot cut without good
deal of chopping.
The Brocllport water mill, Short &
Horton il situated near the keystone
mill. The whole buSines of stocking,
manufacturing aud running the lum-
ber of this firm is under the direct
SUPERVISION of w. II. Horton, whose
good Judgment and business qualities
are we'll known. Mr.. Shorts Interests
in Erie county prevent his giving any
attention to the business Of the firm.
Here they have 10000 feet of pine
boards, sawed, RATED and all ready
to run as soou as there comes q flood.
Besides the boards RATED they
have 1000, 900 feet of pine, and about
500, 00) feet of hemlock stock, which
the mill night and day is transform
ing into boards at the rate of twenty
five to thirty thousand feet every "a
hours. This will continue during the
summer, and the boards manufactured
will be piled up ready to raft-in and
run next spring,
Messrs. Oyster & Short also have
l00,0 900 cubic feet of pine square tim
her equal to 100000 feet board
measure. all RATED in and ready to run
near the Keystone mill.
The two mills will have about 5000
900 feet of boards, besides the square
timber, and it will require about two
market. The keystone mill will
turn out l25 Toby four and five plat
form pieces; the Brockport mill about
100 RATS. Besides there will he 35 or
40 RATS of square timber before spoken
of. The wears harvest of the two
firms will yield the neat sum of $780,
900 or very close to that amount. o.
course out of this sum comes the eX
penses, after deducting which there
will still remain snug profit, as a re-
ward to the enterprising and wide
awake gentlemen who have interests
in the firms named.
n. NJ. Brockway has the contract
for running the Keystone mill lum-
her. He has two sets of shauties on
| the RATS "a sets consisting of O cook
shan,y and mems shanty). These
| shanties are all shingled and battencd
| making them very comfortable.
| They will easily accommodate 100
men. The size Of the cook shantieS is
l6XlS feet, that Of the mems shantirs
! lGX40 feet. Short & Horton also have
a set of shanties on their lumber large
enough to accommodate all their men
during the running season
The Galusha water mill, 16 miles
from Ridgway and miles up from
the mouth OF Little Toby has recently
been purchased by Oyster * Short
This mill has been thoroughly over
hauled, and fitted up with Stearn's
automatical fractional leadblocks, land
gang edger 1t is intended principally
for hemlock lumber, of which the
firm have 900 acres standing in easy
access to the mill, of as fine hemloch
as ever grew Operations will com
mcnce at this mill in week or so
! About / 900 600 feet of hemlock stock
is now ready for the saw.
Hczekiah Horton has a steam mil
in Warsaw township,J Jefferson county
where he mad" 100000 feet o
pine boards, chiefly manufactured on,
year ago and during last summer. II;
hauls his lumber six miles to the Ga
lusha dam, where all is now RATED
ready and waiting for Il Hood.
j. >. Hyde has in 2,000.U0J feet o
pine stock at his Brandy Camp steam
mill, which mill was burned down
and recently rebuilt. Owing TO tn
burning of the mil! only Il sluul
amount, perhaps l0O, GOO feet have bcel
sawed this season. The boards ul
hand at the time the mill was con
, stunned have been hauled to Ridway,
; distance of Il miles. The $50, 90
feet of stock will also be hauled t
Ridgway when manufactured.
\. Il, Lane, near BrUckwayVi!le, Il
| his mill Oh Ruttlesnake creek, a snaI
, stream which empties into Li;tl
Toby at the above named place, man
ufacturcd during the year past l,oOU
GOO pine boards These were sold {
= Sampson Short, of North East, VIII
{ loads them on the cars 1T Evergree
Station on the Low Grade railroad,
distance of six or seven miles from til
mill, for shipment to market at pitt'
burg
Al0nzo Thurman, at his mill on tn
Toby, two miles above BrOckwayvi!l
has 300, 900 feet Of pine boards to tai;
to market this spring.
John Alexander at Brock wayvill
will run about | 900, 900 feet of pine.
: J. l.. Ellis, will have about 10000
5 feet of pine.
p. Smith, in Warsaw township hG
100000 feet of pine, which he hau
; six miles and RATS in at the Galush
: dam.
, The above figures include about Il
the lumber manufactured and to
run out of the Toby this spring e2
: cepting few RATS run by difierel
: parties amounting in the aggregate
= perhaps 500 900 feet
In our next issue we propose to prt
. pare and print an article on the lun
j bering business of the Clarion river {
t far as it relates to this vicinity. w
? will he under great obligations to lun
. bermen aud Others who may kindl
furnish us with facts in regard to til