Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-30

General Barrett, Of Herman, MIMI,
has Get out %. 600 trees on bis farm
In Russell County, Kansas, there is
saw mill that saws soft stone into
brick which are said 10 be Of good
quality.
Building operations in New York
and Brooklyn for the first six months
Of the present year have amounted in
the aggregate Of cost to $s4. 0OO, GO.
Phinney, Fisher & Co. at South
Saginaw, Mich, manufacture oars,
their present product going to New
York. though they have shipped oars
10 all parts of the world.
A pulp-mill is being built at Reads
borO, VT. by Newton Brothers, of
HolyOakc, Mass, that will cost. toge-
Their with the construction of the dam,
$2OO, 900. Seventy Italians are en-
ployed in the construction.
The Fort Edward, N. Y, Board of
Health wished tOremove the accumu-
latiOn of sawdust and driftwood in
the river there, and to do so, pourdo
kerosene oil ON the mass and set il on
fire. The stuff burned briskly for 2
days, presenting the novel spectacle
ola river on fire.
Paper can be substituted for wood,
converted into picture frames, and
cOlored like walnut, cherry and the
like. Bedsteads are fashioned out of
paper and are very beautiful and last
ing. A house can literally be con-
structed of and furnished with every
convenience out Of paper.
1t is expected that the four manu-
factories OF Montgomery. w.. will
turn out 400. 900 butter tubs the pre-
sent season, of all sizes. A larger
proportion of 10, 90 aud 30pOund
tubs are called for than usual. The
material for hoops has become ex-
hausted in that region, and is now
brought from Michigan.
A Muskegon dog looked on circu-
lar saw, and was plagued by its song
of derisiOn. He made An attack upon
it, and the fight was lively for q few
seconds. When the dog threw up
the sponge and retired from the ring,
one leg was sawed of, his throat cut,
his nose split. his teeth nearly ali
gone, and he had suffered other min
or damages. He managed to crawl
out of the mill to die.
The West Branch drive was turned
in the main PenObscot. Me-, August 1.
1t consisted of IS, OOO. 900 feet, and
was driven by 100 men under thedirec-
ton of James Smart, of Milo. From
that point it had 63 miles to 60 before
reaching the Penob;cot boom, which
it was expected 10 do by August 10.
The usual time of driving from north
Twin dam to the boom is 16 days, but
this season it has taken 20 days.
Mr.. George L. Palmer. Of Palmyra,
ILL.,, has recently been South pros
pecting for timber. Hc will locate
portable mills near Sylvia, N. G., on
the mountain sides, erect planning
mills, etc., that will be run by water
power. He will manufacture ak
handles, wagon and buggy stock, aud
various kinds of building material.
Mr. Palmer explOdes the idea that
none but an angel" can handle this
mountain timber, and says that every
tree can he handled probably.
There have been built at the Chica-
60 works of the Pullman Palace Car
Company. since their establishment,
q little over year ago, 345 cars of
various kinds. Of this number, 133
we're passenger coaches, SO palace
cars, and III freight cars. This,
however, includes only the new cars
turned out, while as much, if not
more. work has been done in repair
ing and rebuilding old sleepers; the
number of these in the shops con-
stantly averaging so or 40. The Chi
cago works have q capacity, for build.
ing about 1875 cars at one time. The
sleeping cars cost, on an average,
about $14, 900, making the value Of
the 80 cars turned cut at the new
shops about $500, 600, while the cost
Of building the 1872 passenger coaches
was about $99O, O0J. an ordinary pas
senger coach costing 1900, The
average cost of q freight car being
500, the 1917 thus far bailt at the,
new works cost about 1874. 900. This
makes the grand total cost of new
cars turned out OF the Chicago works