Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-12-05
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1t Is estimated that the United
Annually consumes about 10000
net, OF charcoal, 20 per csnl. of VII
employed IN the manufacture of ir
Timber Is plenty through Arkansas,
ana log houses scarce. Savmills are
round IN almost every township, and j.
Is much easier to erect frame than log
houses.
Pork is high, and lumbsrmen are fall
Ing back on beef. The British Cana
dlan Lumber Company recently 70.
ceived 80 head Of cattle for the shan
ties OF the company.
Work on the Frederickton, n. B..
oooms has ceased for this season. There
are no log1 left TO be RATED out. Las
season there vas quite Q large uumbe,
frozen into the boorns.
The building Of the dam ct Mile
Lace, MIMI, has been stopped by the
forcible Interference Of some Chippewa
Indians, who regard the encroachInsn1
ON their property hostilsly.
A new kind Of engine, for uss on
tramways, 10 being constructed at De.
pere. Wise. It is claimed that the new
device Is capable of pulling 1900 feet
OF logs at the rate Of 1--WE miles an hour
The Saginaw Barrel Works has a
grease box department., where 50 boys
have become experts in making boxes
Aids are getting SO scarce in Saginaw
that girls are being put at the business.
A railroad official says that fully 2OO(
men, within ten days, have passed
through Bay City, Michigan, on theil
way from CanAdn to the pineries
That does not look like scarcity OF
hands in Canada or Michigan.
Among the facilities of paper-mill
company at Appleton. Wis, Of which
Kimberly, Clark Il Shattuck are mainly
interested, are wood-pulp mills, which
have "a run of stone, and turn out L
tons of dry pulp daily.
A match factory ia being talked of al
XuskeR0n, Mich, with considerable
prospect Of realization. A capital OF
$4,000 is wanted. and factory
capable of turning out 500 gross q day
which would employ IS hands.
H. H. Mullen will put In 6OO, 900 feet
of pine from his homestead in Taylor
county, Wis.,, at $7.25 a thousand
bringing him tho snug sum OF
$3.50 for timber which he wishes to 70
move from his farm, anyhow. This il
better than prairie farming.
When the new mill of the Gratwick
Smith & Fryer Lumber Company, at AT
Sable, Mich, is completed, it is though
that the aggregate out per season a,
that point will be as high as 225,OOO ,OO(
feet of lumber, and may reach 10000,
600 feet in 1885.
Flanders d Sons, the heavy butter
tub makers of Parishvillc, New York
are about adding to their manufactory
the making of clOthes-pins and butter
boxes. They will use hardwood in bott
instances, a large quantity Of whiof
grows continuously.
Forestry experiments in the East hAvl
demonstrated that planting the seed il
successful where transplanting fails
Several small groves have been pro
duced in that way, and pines are bein{
introduced in fragme ntary way OF
worn ont farms.
At Bay City, Michigan, though ship
ments of lumber have been heavy dur
ing the season, largo amount is pilst
on the docks. and if November SHOULD
be an open month, SO that the mill
continue running, there will not b.
room enough to pile tho output.
The Portage, Manitoba, railway i
now in the hands of the Sir Hugh ALLAH
syndicate. Work will be pushed alonl
tho line vigorously, SO az to oomplet
the road next fall. Running privilege
over the Canadian Pacific between Port
age La Prairie and Winnipeg have beef
obtained, and the latter city will be th
ca stern terminus.
The right of way Of the Arkansas an,
Louisiana railroad is being locates
ixc.cov->-e.sss-s>< TDs:..-e.SO- No'
:niddgh the southwestern potion o
Arkan sas. A big tree was encountere,
that almost equaled some of the gigan
tic Rrowths Of California. II stood at ,
point near Washington, and measure,
B feet in circumference. It require,
the combined efforts of six men, work
ing for nearly eight hours, to lift it on
of the way.
A. b. Long d Sons, of Grand Rapids
Mloh., are operating on tract in Me
costa county, having begun cuttinf
there last May. They have five miles o.
logging road. and expect to put into Si1
Lakes near 6O.0O0, 900 feet Of pine, bank
ing this season 100000. Lately they
cut tree from which they made eighi
logs. each 16 feet long, and one IL feet
in all lao lineal feet of merchautable
logs from that one tree.
The blast furnace company at Fond
du Lao, Wis, operates eight charcoal
kilns along the line of the Wisconsin
Central railroad, six near Marshfield
eight at Hewett's side track, six at An.
burndale and eight at Miliadore thirty.
six in all. The coal is made from five
foot wood, for which $1.5O per cord, de.
livered at the kilns. IS cents in the
woods. Tho GOAL 10 shipped to Fond do
Lao. where the furnace consumes 400.
O00 bushels annually.