Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-23

were burned with all their contents:
also 1--WE dwelling houses. Loss over
$100. 600. Six hundred men arc
thrown out Of employment. Tho
saw mills were not injured. The IN
surance on other buildings is light.
The business of the place is crippled.
if not entirely destroyed for year to
come.
A northern settler atfLake George,
Fla, wants employers in that state
TO try Chinese labor for the reason
care nothing for permanent employ
Inent, having a damaging habit of
leaving their work whenever steam
boat ride. or any other attraction is
presented.
Across the water devices are often
adopted which would do credit to Al
ingenious Yankee. Timber floats are
constructed TO take the place of docks,
in order to avoid the dues imposed,
a1d one at Queenscosough. Eng, has
been recently brought into service
for the receipt Of lumber. mainly
pitch pine.
A North Carolina darkey Vas agree
ably astonished. recently, at behold
Ing lot Of gold coin roll out of an
old log he was splitting. There were
70 eagles in all. and it is thought the
money had been 10 the tree about a
quarter Of q century. II the trunk
was always that way. there must be
some valuable siumpage around that
section.
The yearly consumption of Baltic
and Swedish wildwood deals and
boards is immense in England. The
wood has become popular, and is
adapted for various uses to which
some time ago it had not been put,
and for which in fact often rejected.
Prices are at present low. but hand
lers hold stocks in their yard. regard
Ing it profitable to wait Tor higher
prices.
A man living on the Ocklawsha
river, Fla, wanted to build house.
and shipped shingles to cover it with
ill the way from Maine. when right
in front of the premises plenty OF cvp-
ress grew to make shingles for half a
dozen such houses. But the darkies
could aot be induced to rive shingles
in the hot months, besides the water
melon season was on, and politics bad
to be discussed.
An accident befel an hosting
machine used for taking logs out Of
the lake, on section f., town 10, north
of range west, Mich. and owned
by Wells, Stone s. Co. While the
men were at dinner, the frame some
how burned away, and the apparatus
tumbled into the lake. 1t will cost
some $1,000 TO put the machine in
repair again, it is estimated. The
circumstance is rendered dOubly dis
cOursging from the fact that all but
about 500, 900 feet of the logs had
been taken from the lake.
In England. objection il raised as
to the method of binding the bundles
of lath exported to that country.
The most Of them are bound with
wire, which corrodes and causes the
bursting of the bundles, which are
subjected to rough treatment on the
other side. String or unwoven rope
Is preferred.
Cadillac, Mich, has been putting
faith in scheme to build new rail |
road to touch at that point, but the
enterprise seems to have hung fire
and at last accounts the railroad had
not put in an appearance, the Cadil-
lac folks decided that ii 1t did not
come on the next mail, they would
build it themselves.
A Bradford, Ont, farmer set opt
maple trees in 1S42 which now meas.
ure 81 inches in circumference. He
has white oaks. between 60 and 20
years old, that measure nine feet in
circumference. It would thus ap-
pear that, with proper attention to
planting trees, there need be no fear
that future generations will lack tim-
Der.
It Is said that there is pine enough
on the Ontonag0n river, Lake Supe-
rior region, to keep one mill running.
at the rate of %, OO0, 900 q year. for
100 years, or 5000. OOO. 600 feet on
the river. There are liable to be 20 |
mills erected In that district, which
according to the unknown statisti-
cian, would clean up the pine on the
Ontonagon IN six yeara.
The grand Rapids. Mich, Furni-
ture Company has bought 900 acres
OF heavily timbered land in the vici-
nifty Of Maucelona, Mich, mostly
hardwood, for the object of using up
the timber in its factory. That is
the way wood manufacturers are TAX
ing time by the forelOcx. for they
know that the timber will be scarce
by-and.by. And yet settlers in that
part of the State think tina: the heavy
timber on their lands is q nuisance.
and slaughter and burn 1t merely TO
get It out of the way. They will find
where they made . mistake some.
Tina