Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-25

At Erixson & wiley's camp near Ash
land, Wis., a few days since double
OK team hauled a load of logs which
scaled 1850 feet.
Logging on the Penobscot. Me. has
progressed with little interruption this
season; 125,oO0.coo feet having been
banked.
One tanner near Peterborough, (Ont.
has $1,000 worth Of bark on hand and
30 cords coming in. The price paid
there Is 81 30 to s cord.
1t Is stated that Boston capitalists
have purchased the heiniock bark on
500 trees in the Adirondack region,
New York, and will strip the trees and
carry OF the product.
The first American vessel built at Lake
Ere was constructed at -Four Mile creek.
near Erie, Pa IN 1897, and was called
the Washington.
Manitowoc. Wis is slid to be one of
the busiest ports on the lakes. The yes
Sci business there has increased IS per
cent. within short time.
The Nashville Cooperage Company is
erecting a three-story building for the
purpose of making all kinds of barrels,
and il Is intended to turn ont 500 of the
various kinds per day.
On the farm of Nelson futile, at
lonia. Mich the growth of q walnut
tree was closely observed. 1t grew from
the seed. struggling along unaided. and
In 80 years it had reached good size.
IL measured two feet IN diameter at the
butt. 1t was cut down this winter, and
II is thought it would have grown third
arger with proper care aud cultivation.
Railroad building is on the boom in
Canada, as well as through the United
States. As an instance In hand, 1t Is an
nounced from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that
the Canadian Pacific Railway east has
had about 81 DC J ties gotten out for
its use. There have already been for
wardsd some 10000 ties to the end of
this year, as we'll as sufficient steel rails
and other material to fully equip Is
miles of new road.
Thomas O'Neil. a tesTc.er employed
in one of the camps of the Gratwick.
Saith d Fryer Lumber Company, at
Otsego Lake, Mich. hauled on March
I'D. with one team, three loads three
and half miles, which scaled 42S6. g.
295 and l0,i37 feet respectively. The
logs were all 16 feet in length, being
drawn on one pair of sleighs. The
camp men were ready to wager boom
against bunch of tooth-picks that tie
last load hauled was the biggest one
ever coaxed out of the woods by one
team of horses.
So many persons have met with adj
versity while fondling buzz saw that it
has become necessary to check curiosity
in some manner, much in the way that
it is policy to inform tho public of the
advent of fresh paint on the side of a
building. At the mill of c. Loop Il Son,
at North East, tPa.) there 10 placed
above the boss saw sign bearing the
following legend. which expresses vol
unes: Please do not take hold of the
saw while it is running." But precau
tons are very often of no avail. Some
people will insist in having finger in
the pie.
Big hauls seem to be tho rage, and
every day or to another biggest haul of
the season turns up. At st. Ignace,
(Mich.) John Spence recently hauled
with one team of horses, 10 and 20 years
old respectively, from the skids TO the
banking ground, over a road of smooth
ice, a distance OF two mites, $500 feet of
logs. There were Is 20-foot logs in the
load and one that was Is feet long. The
sleigh-bunks. used were bulit, and the
logs selected, for the occasion, the at
tempt being made for the purpose of
seeing what the old plays could do.
Second hand goods bought and sold
nv Ralas 4 EruSh Cherrv street be-