Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-06-09
xsorr nnIs. LOGS, AND IuMsER.

TIE daily lumber cut at Wausau, Wis,
thus season exceeds 6JC.oOo. feet over 20
car loads.
Oscoda, Mich, mills manufactured
IL. 737 .336 feet of lumber during tie
month of April.
Nearly 10.OOC, 600 feet of lumber Was
shipped from Pensacola. Fla. during the
month of April.
The mills at Narineste, Wis, and Me-
nominee, Mich, are considerably ahead
Of their cut Last year at thist;ms.
A collection of japanese naples, num-
berina 80 species, were lately delivered
in Golden Gate park, 5. e.
A sale Of l,oe0,0 900 feet of logs was re-
Gently made by Saginaw TO uuske2on
parties, the purchase price being Sls,SO'
During the mouth Of April the Mich
iRan Lumber transportation Company
shipped $50 cars Of i1In0sr from AAus-
ksSon. Mich.
Lately q FIRE consumed 12,0O cords OF
wood, prepared for the charcoal PIT ano
owned by she Lexington d Carter, ky.,
County Mining Company.
More q Stow, of the Grand Rapids,
Mich., Furniture Company, have formed
partnership outside ths company u
erect sawmill at siancsiona. Mich.
A sale of 2,O0O, 0O0 feet of logs to a Mr..
Langford. OF Burlington, Wis, by Geo.
hay, of MIlivIlie, was made al elo Tor
tbs bst.sr logs, aud $40 Tor the second
quality.
Inc average cut of lumber per day at
Yo0mans Bros. d dVdglns mil, al VIM
Ca . Alxa
LJU,vvU rees, the wvrK ut one gang aud
IwU circulars.
Gentlenen of capital from New York
propose u eesabiian kinulIng WOOL
l4.ctofy, ana 4ro locking up a Bite ~
Wnitc Haven, Ia, foI supp.y Ot lumber
| aud Other pfeiiIniIiarioS.
| In u iracas In q miil at ThurlOw,
Urcen County, n.y., Onver otranse, liz
0wncr OI Snc Eiiii, STRUCK Nike Ural.
| WIN piece VI tiuioeF, tno yictim Cle0
from tue elects OF the DioG.
line ton. ii. Lngiemann, one of the
King iuInDerInen vi Siaiustee, ILIch., ID
!! ~ liio neat vi d new walei-w WORKS coni-
rauy, ofganiAeu " supply thai Guy Wall.
WAGER, w4In a capital "a s1vV,vUv.
Ziba Mestcott, of haIawah Falls, \.
T., while rolling logs INTO the pond III
llatJNc1o lnliI5, wa Crushed unuer I.
oU-incn SUCK, WHICH broke Las Jaw, tore
nis car ous, s.nu Diindcd nis ri..nt eye.
WORK has begun Oh tie Patten pulp
MIL, as hi.uAaunA, WIS. lAo sIfuC-
suro Will be aUxIU feet III Size. ana L.o
stories nIau, Wall lave Three VO-inon VIC
tOr wiieeio, ala 10 u si4-stons iIliI.
| Wan. Carson recently purchased 4, ;
JOJ,Uvu 1eei Oh Toys from Jonn Cioye1,
VI hudson, W., at tho Es.Lc OI Yij 4.
thousand III boom. Inc logs We're ol
sno Uess variety vi Willow rlver IIAlDer.
kyorson, Hiiis az Co.'S log-miIi, al
MuaAeoou, Micn., - supplied WITH ioSs
ciiougu " run " tao uiUnIns. L Ae D..s-
Xot factory .ilore Las made Al arrange
iHent " nave Its logs brought Ill py
rAli.
In the spruce woods between Mark
haInviiie aiia Inc bay snOre, Now Br0nS-
WicA, On May ~, TIC $40" Was tour Iecl
deep III tiIe wOuds. aild ilmue:nIen WeGe
anAiuusiy waiting tor d ram 10 liolJ tie
auisdncc.
john g. Brown, OF Saginaw, Mich, Is
one OI tho heaviest LUMBER luODer5 III
LLe country. LdsL winter ne operated
~ CAMPS, and put Ia IL total of IS 10, 30
Iost VI logs; that Is, he gave the COIN
nanu anu ~ Was uoue.
Joseph McNeely, OF Door county, Wis,
shVuiucreu his ak Oh Uecemoer > ana
uroppsd II On Aprli /. During that tIlnc
no hao cut ,u1o cedar, 40 AeiniUck TIES,
AID Joo posts, besides dong y lot vi
Otller work Oh pier, otc.
Forest fires have been raging to an
alarming oXtent III southern Arizona
and western new Mexico, the territory
burned over beng estimated al ~ squaie
miles, and the damage Ii linuuonse.
The tires are attributed to the indians.
| Lately Geo. Il. BAY agant for A. & 2.
Coburn, OF Name, SOLD u raft of logs al
La Crosse. WIS.,, comprising ,2oy. ~
ieet, Ut xi3 80 per Thousand, the total
tor the raft being $ly,2l7.91. The Fort
Madison Lumber Company was the pur-
chaser.
John Marks and others are putting
l2,OUO,OOO fee; OF logs into the Chippewa
river. Mich, by means of logging rail
road. They Intend to have tuI5 lot IN
by September, when it is intended to
shift the road 81 as to reach another
supply.
Tho tennessee Handle Company will
erect factory at Chattanooga, Tenn,
for the making Of 3UU dozen handles a
day. it viii be the largest concern Of
the kind III the South. J. &. Anderson
aid Frank Caldwell ire tine engineers Of
the enterprise. -
Canton, N. Y, is marked by many
line rows Of naples, and the people
thercabouts take "a great interest IA the
planting. MIR. Noyin, near Canton, ~
years ago, Set out u double row of ma
pies, half mile long, which now make
= grateful shaoe IL hot weather.
On May Is, Sterling Franz, head saw
yer In the Grand haven, Mich, Lumber
Company's shingle-mill. WAS killed In a
shocking manner. A slab caught on the
head-bleck, which caused him to fall on
the Carriage, and the saw passed through
his head, cutting OF two inches of It's
top. lie lived ~ minutes after the ac-
cident.
The Eau Claire, Wis.,, Lumber CO., it
Is stated. has contracted to furnish to
Close Bros. d Co. lumber for the build
ing Of 10O houses, an equal number
Ut barns, and al equal number of gran
| "AsSSs "AA w 70 pus uP IA AoWa. where
the company is estabilshin,, colony ON
a large tract Of land owned by 1t in that
| State.
Two ash knots, weighing 1,I50 and
1,49O, pounds were recently shipped to
Now York. They are steamed, which
softens them and dsvelopes their color.
and then used in exceptionally fine We
neering. Persons who are experts in
judging what knots are of value, make
considerable by going about looking for
them. These two we're from Caledonia,
N. Y.
There il tree in Chester, N. H.. the
circumference Of the trunk being II feet,
and the distance from tue ends of tho
limbs on ono side To those on the other
is 30 feet. The trunk is hollow. The
tree VAS planted in 1872, ON July Alb. by
Dr.. West. Il was cut by HIM for a
walking stick, and on reaching home
he stuck It into the ground in front
Of tho door.
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