, 1882-07-28
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
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up by Newton II. Chttoudrn, who
recently mulo a tour OF the Sound
country:
PORT GNN8LE.
Tui, port. the headquarters OF TIN"
Puget Mil Co., one of tine largest III
the world. i, situated ON Il tine harbor
about two and three quarters OF Il
mile long and three quarters of a
mile wide. with steep but not high
shores. bordcred 10y Il sandy, pobbiy
beach. This is the largest mill town
ON thr Sound, containing a populu-
tion of 600 people, church, school
house. store, hotel, and many com
portable residences. About l00.OOO
feet of lumber are now manufactured
here daily, employing a fore" OF loo
men at the mills alone, and fleet OF
twenty ships and vessels for It's snip
mpnt. The timber lands owned by
this company are variousl y estimated
from 25O.00O to 100000 acres, Two
miles and half beyond, on the road
to Port Madison, | visited the pleasant
h )me Ct Mr.. Winfield 5. jameson
He is owner of large body of excel
lent timber, and engaged extensively
in logging, having cleared upward of
thousand acres He employs at
present some forty men and thirty
oxen. getting out an average OF 4O,OOo
feey daily. Here | saw the base OF
the tree from which the spars OF the
Great Eastern were taken. de also
showed me BIB. cannon ball cut
from a giant fir tree in 1864, where 1t
was thrown by the war ship Massa-
chusetts, during fight with the lndl-
ans in 1855.
For several years Mr.. Jameson has
kept record of annual measurements
of a dozen fir trees about twenty-four
inches in diameter, when first meas
ured. 1t shows yearly increase of
two thirds of an inch for trees OF that
size. 1t has taken seventeen years
for fir trees to grow to nine inches IN
diameter. A few years ago he cut a
flagstaff for Boston lS5 feet in length,
but crooked road preventing It's de
livery in time for shipment, 1t was
used for other purposes.
PORT MADISON MILLS
Are under the superintendency of Mr..
q. A. Meigs. The town is situated
on the north shore of Bainbridge
island, and comprises about 100 build
ings including the mills, store, Port
Madison Hotel (Mr. Wist proprietor),
church, schoolhouse, and 300 peo-
pie. The mill is 334 by 60 feet, en-
ploys so men, and cuts from $4,000 to
100000 feet of lumber daily. The
company own about 10000 acres OF
timber lands which average about
10000 feet per acre; five vessels lthe
Tidal Wave, Vidette, Northwest, Oak
land and Coquimbol with carrying
capacity of 100000 feet each. San
Francisco and Wilmington are their
principal markets. The road from
Port Madison to
PORT BI-AKELY,
A distance of nine miles, is one of the
few good ones in Western Washing
ton. 1t passes through some of the
fin est timber | have ever seen, many
of the trees girting over thirty feet,
straight as an arrow, and Il hundred
feet or more to the first limbs. The
Por5 Blakely mills are situated near
the south end of Bainbridge island,
which is about eleven miles long and
five miles wide The mill is 44O by
Is feet, with a boiler house GA by l3O
feet. provided with six engines OF
1910 horse power, two double circu-
lars, two gang saws, two gang edgers,
lath mill, planers, &c, One hundred
and fifty men are employed at the
mills. and 250 more in the logging
camps. About 100000 feet of lumber
ara manufactured daily. They ship
ped over seventy vessel loads in 1881.
Quite a fleet are now loading at their
wharf. The town contains about 500
people. church, schoOlhUuse, and Il
good hotel, the Bainbridge (Messrs.
Sackman u CO. proprietorsl. The
ship yard of Hall Brothers, who have
built over thirty vessels on the Sound,
Is located here.
THE ,rSALADY MILL,
Situated ON Wildly island, with a
daily capaclt. Jf 5000 feet, cuts an
uuDllY abOut 3 3DOOUO Mr. IZptt wiz q