Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-08

THE LrMBERMAxB ColEMy.
Staple & Covell lately sold 1880 acres
OF pine land In Newaygo county, Mich,
river, for &l55.O66.
The cut of the Chaudiere mills, Can
ada, viii be unprecedented this wear
An average of 1000, 600 feet to the mill
Will be turned out, or q total of 1000.
OO feet for the season.
4 curious double pine tree Is said Il
% growing near the line Of Green and
jackson counties, Miss. Two distinct
trunks rise from the ground, and units
% feet above, foeminQ one solid txunk
round and symmstxieal.
Tho Chippewa Logging Company a
Kan Claire, Wis, has bought from vii.
liam Griffin. Of Troy, N. Z, about A.
10000 fest Of pine standing upon land
on the Little Elk and on the west forl
OF the Chippewa. The price was t120,.
LudinRton, Mich, hemlock bark sella
IN Milwaukee. Wis, at $8.75 . cord, and
hundreds Of cords are seeking . market
from that hemlock- producing point.
The Bay City. Mich, sawmills are for.
hidden 70 blOv their whistles BY city
ordinance, while those in West Bay CITY
are privileged to blow their smoke.
stacks down IL they want TO. Il il Z
side blow at Bay City that makes the
latter mad.
The Canadian Pacific railway from
Thunder Bay to Rat Portage Is being
operated by the contractors Manning
Macdonald, McLarsn 4 Co. The lum-
Der rate from point to point Of the CON-
pleted section of road is $66 per Cal
load OF 10000 pounds.
The Cutler d Sayidge Lumber Com
pany, Grand Haven, Mich, has decided
to erect a shinRls mill. The main bull
ding will be 4Ox64 feet, with an addi-
ton for fire room. Its cutting capa-
city will be from 200, 900 to 25O, 900 shin
giles . day, and will employ from 10 to
80 hadks.
A large spool finishing fa-toIy il to b
erected by the WillImantic Thread Com
pany upon a tract of 5000 acres Of
white birch, in Maine. About 800 mon
will be employed. The practice has all
along been TO saw the timber into blocks
in Maine, and transport it to Whitman
tic, Conn.,, to be finished.
Daniel McBeth, of Eau Claire, Wis,
has purchased from Russell Sage, OF
New York. 800 acres Of pire land in
township 80, range west, the price paid
being $500. or about $15 per acre.
The tract contains about 100000 feet,
which makes the stumpaQe 8. In 1867
the land was bought for 80 cents an
acre.
At Anderson, Ind, ]. j. Rulga has q
heading factory that is considered the
best arranged in the State. It is fire.
proofed inside with sheet iron. The
dry-kiln is 150-horse power, and has a
capacity of 10000 feet. Four acres of
ground is employed in stacking head
inRs, and $50 hands are employed.
TT. Butter6eld, of Minneapolis, and
E. b. Grandin, of Pennsylvania, recent
ly sold 10000 acres of pine land on the
waters of Chippewa river, Wis, to the
Valley Lumber Company and the Em-
pire Lumber Company, both of Eau
Claire, Wis. The timber Was estimated
at 5000 600 feet, and the price paid was
$85, 900.
Healy, Felt & White, of Montross
have cut 1900, 900 feet this season, 500,.
600 feet more than ON last season, while
the production Of lath and shingles hal
been double that of last season.
The other day sale a 1OO, OO0, 900 feet
of lumber was made by Duluth, Mimi. ,te
Winnipeg, Manitoba, parties at $l7. Or
account Of the magniioently cheap rail.
road facilities, tho lumber sells fol
twice that figure when laid down at it,
present destination.
A car laden With lumber broke from q
train at Flssherton, Ont, and the line
to Markdale being down grade, the cal
soon gained speed of fifteen miles an
hour. An engine. sent in pursuit, cap.
tured the runaway twenty miles east Of
Aarkdale.
In England, 40 in this country, con
siderable wildwood is made into pulp
for paper making. Redwood is not
suitable for pulp. az it does not impart
tho proper color. The English pulp ID
made from the timber Of Norway and
Sweden.
Tho Oscodo Salt 4 Lumber Company,
Of OscOda, Mich, has it's railroad In
successful operation up the river, and
by means Of the locomotive there ID
being put into she South Branch an Az.
era9e Of 125, 600 feet Of logs daily. Sew
eral camps viii soon be running.
Through the Kewatin, Canada, dis
trict, or in the limits around the Lake
Of the Woods, logging operations prom
ise to be lively. The Kevatin Lumber
company intends putting in from 10000.
600 to 10000 900 feet. Large numbers Of
ties and poles will also be gotten out.
At Oshkosh, Wis, moro dwelling
houses have been constructed tho pres
sent than in any two previous seasons
and yet 100 more tenements are wanted
to accommodate the incoming p0pula.
ton. Rents have advanced twenty Ave
per cent. within year, and are o0nsid.
cred too high for labOring men.
President B. H. Weldeman, Of the
Tittabawaseee Boom Company, 6aQi.
nav, Mich., was caned S12b worth thu
other day, BY the employees Of the com
pany, who wanted TO commemorate the
fact that there had been rated 436, OQ
pieces moro than on any previous season
for the same time.
At West Great Works, between Ban
COR and Oldtown, Me-, on the Penob
SCOT, tho PenobecOt Chemical Fibel
Company il nov constructing one ol
tho largest pulp mills in the country
The building u being erected Just below
WIN. T. Psarson & Co.'S saw-mill. and
is 346 feet long, with an engine hOus'
win b used Tor making palp.
Peter 0erlach q Co, Cleveland. O.
are making large machine foe savins