Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-25
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saineiss per day.
Drives to the exten. of 100, 900 Co
ieet have been safely Hoated In ARGOS
took county, Ms.
N!ne hundred car loads OF lumber
Were shipped from Hoiton, Nuskepo,
county, Mich, last year.
a footing Of the seasons lamber ship
ments from Bay City, Mich, recent,
made, showed 17s, 30, al fest.
Since 1877 thirteen saw and planning
MUS nave been burned at Green Bay
wisconsin, and in the immediate viciui
~.
HsmIock bark at Stephenson, Mari
nesse county, Wisconsin. IL worth q q
cord. ~ cents lower than this time Las,
year.
The Orange, Texas, mills are turning
OUT, IN aggregate, about I,010,UO fest OF
iuWosr aud oyer 2,UJV.QV0 shingles %:
day.
Greensboro, Ky, has a curious freak OF
nature IN the shape Of catalpa branch
growing oat Of ths side of large locus,
trse.
| Considerable hemiock bark is handled
at Sturgeon Bay, Wis. While there is
no especial price for 1t, il brings about
| 50 per cord
A floating log go: into the wheel of
the tug Ben Drake, while running up the
river at Pesdtigo, Wis, June y, and she
filed and sank.
A tramway Is to be built at an early
day from LAKE. Dora to Lake NJ iton, in
Orange county, N. T., by St. Aia.r
Abrams d. Summeriin.
teneers are active and command good
prices In most markets, especially in the
East, and fancy buris are eagerly snap
ped up, az "a usual thing.
A new mill is 10 DO built on the shore
OF Clam Lake, Mich, between Cadillac
| and SunnysIde. The logs TO be cut are
owned by Marthinson d. Haskins.
At Saginaw, Mich. carpenters are
driven harder than their nails, and yet
there are not houses enough erected to
! accommodate ali who desire tben,.
Louis Sands mill, at Manistee, Mich,
has new engine, new burner, anu
another gang will soon be added. Tne
mil now cuts l2J,VJ0 feet OF lumber
day.
Brush fires in the vicinity of Isbpe-
ming, Mich destroyed several thou sand
coras of wood belonging to the Deer
Lake Company, and 5UO cords belonging
10 other parties.
A vessel lately cleared from L. G. Fe-
ter's dock, East lake, near Manistee,
Mich, With a cargo of l,j0O.OC) feet of
lumber, shipped tor England. The load
sold for sp5v,lUO.
A jam of logs above the boom at
Grand Rapids, Mich, caused the over
flow Of much farming land along Grand
river. Above the boom the logs were
piled ID to ~ feet high.
On June 90, the steamer Astrubal, of
London, 1871 tons burden, with a cargo
of cedar from st. John, N. b. coliided
with an iceberg, and went down. of
Point Lance. The crew were saved.
A man named Dixon was recently
found dead under two hemlock trees
that had fallen on him, at Stephenson,
Wis. He Was supposed to have been des-
titute, but 1927 was found on the corpse.
An adobe building at San Antonio,
Texas, $50 years old. has been torn
by settlers from the Canary Islands.
good and sound.
The lumber and timber that reached
Pittsburgh, Penn, by recent rise in the
Allegheny, amounted to 20,00O,0UO feet
The drive realized-for pine boards, SIG
to S22 thousand; hemlock boards, $3.50
to Sll thousand.
Kate klavacurd, a Bohemian woman,
while gathering shsyings at Soper Il
Ponds planning mill. Chicago, crawled
under cross-cut saw, and had her head
cut open SO IN to expose the brain, her
recovery being doubtful.
At James McIvor's mill, Sherman. los
CO county. Iich., q man while trying to
nut belt on the pulley that ran the
& II dstOne, was caught and whirled
r ,und several times, breaking his legs
and otherwise injuring him.
David Stevens, while engaged on the
Gilchriss creek drive, Alpeua county.
Mich. took refuge under tree to avoid
thunder storm. While there light
ming stroke killed him, thus here wing q
wife and two children at Port Huron.
Trees often present strange phenome-
M. On the Yubi, one mile below Down.
ieville. California, grows Il mysterious
stunted pine tree with thrifty habit, out
Of the solld rock. 1t was about three feet
high twenty years ago-it is that hight
still.
Nicholas Smeader. at Grams mill, Ca
dillao, Mich. had his left leg broken
above the ankle, through an injudicious
movement, upon u carriage, which was
In motion. The limb was broken last
fall in about the same place in the same
manner.
Forty thousand dollars worth of spruce
chewing gum is gathered in Main 9 every
year. The clear, pure Jumps nre worth
81 pound. In the large mill cities Of
Massachusetts the girls consume enor-
nous quantities, one dealer selling $l400
worth in year.
The An Sable and Oscoda, Mich, .um-
Der showers got on strike recently, de-
handing 10 cents per hour, an advance
of five cents. But a. the vessel men
would not fudge an inch. the strikers
only held out day. and then went to
work again at the old rates.
ed at Campbell's mill, at st. John, N. B..
got caught in some logs. June 18th. and
had one leg torn of nj the knee, and the
otiicI tofIioiy buhHtoto. LIE uCnA was
cut in several PLACES. and his body bad
ly bruised. He will probably die.
The sawdnst war at Plsttsbure, N. Y,
was terminated by the vacation of the
injunction which restrained the throw
ing of dust into Saranac river from Tur-
ner's mill. During the life OF tho injunc-
ton the mill was at stand. but started
again when the legal bar was removed.
Tho people Of Kansas, under the for
cstry laws of tho State, have planted
$500 acres in trees, the cottonwood be-
ing most abundant, and growing most
rapidly. Some COCO acres have been
planted in black walnut. which il is ex-
pec,ed will give handsome returns in
eight or nine yeirs.
The need of tree planting in the coal
regions is felt to great extent. owing 10
the necessity for securing cheap supports
for the roofs and roads in the mines,
wood props being in extensive use. espe
cially from pitch pine, tho favored wood
for these purposes, on account OF
strength and durability.