Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-29
ruE LunsERuAx.s COLUMN.

Inc cut Oh lumDer al Tic Iouk tutiiS Vi
Ashland, Wisconsin, is 225,OOO feet per
day.
In the Grand Rapids, Michigan, fur
niture factories there are $50 men en-
ployed.
The total lumber shipments from the
port of Muskeeon, Michigan, last week,
was IA. 1885,
P. Hasen, of Josco, Michigan, recent
ly sold some pine land to George Moor
man for 5000. which originally cost
him 900.
During the mouth Of June 755 car
loads of lumber were shipped from Ca
diIlac, Michigan, the freight charges
amounting to $1,000.
At Saltwater, Minnesota, the boom is
running out logs at the rate of 100000
feet per day. Log shipments are large,
mostly Of last winters sale.
A sale of 10000 feet of black ash lum-
| Der WAS made at Rochester, New York.
at SIG a thousand. Another sale was
reported of two hundred thousand. at
$l5.
There is such a boom in building at
Duluth, Minnesota, that there Is Difficult
| ty in getting sufficient lumber to prose
| cute enterprises. Stocks do not go a.
begging in that market.
| The total estimated value Of buildings
| in New York city, for which permits
were granted the first three months of
the present year, was $40, 49,, 600. This
aggregate represents 94 new struc-
lures.
The Canada papers contain items
about bags of seed of the soft maple be-
ing sent to the Manitoba country, to be
planted, and sometime there will be ma
pie groves all over that part of creation
| A smash-up occurred July Is. at Pack
: Woods IL CO. q mills, at An Sable, Mich
I igan. which kept the mill idle for sever
al DAYS. The line shaft and engine
crank we're broken, and the piston burst
the cylinder-head.
Tree stories are now as plenty As fist
, yarns. The following is the last: "A
, tree was recently felled near Kalkaska
in which WAS found growing. about sew
enty feet from tho ground. a goO5eberry
bush Of quite large size and full of bios
3 SONS"
At Duluth. Minnesota, the Ohio Cen
trail Barge IL Coal Company is buildin!
< 4 huge dock. and in order to have thu
n work go through on the rush. the order
r for timber have been divided anon.
. several mills. 1t is proposed to fiuisl
the first section of three hundred feet II
@ sixty days, if the thing is possible. Th'
: total waterfront length of the dock 1
200 feet.
Cherry, OConnor & Co., of Nashville
Tenn, manufacture furniture and wag
| L.. Ia Ipan F.y.s
d ments New buildings have been erect
:. cost Of 10000. They have on han,
$4,000 worth of hardwood lumber.
3 During the last fiscal year 100000
k acres of Government land was sold. ant
: the railroad companies disposed OF Z.
:. 100000. Most of this land passed int
~ the control OF actual settlers. If tn
e country il increasing prosperously no
i body need be surprised when he take
q into account such vast expansion of cul
= tivated area.
:. H.G. Brown b Son are doing bris
business at the steam mill in Yves
Paris, Ky. manufacturing chairs ant
bobbins. They have labor saving ma
chine of their own invention which take
up all of the shavings and waste WOO
!, from the lathes and planer and carrie
: it to the engine room; takes the lumbe
> from the saws and delivers it to the tur
o ners. The bobbins are put in barrels
3 and by machinery are taken to the dr.
!, house.
The original rafters of Westmipste
Hall were of Irish oak. In early days al
. idea prevailed that Irish wood was a sor
? of sacred material and proof against al
Objectionable reptiles. The venerable
: Btde lays it down that timber from Ire
y land hath virtue against poison,
!. and after tho earthquake of Lisbon tt
: King Of Portugal specially importe
Irish oak. presumably from some belle
in its b.es sed qualities, for magnifi
a cent new church.
Lumber operations in Florida are cor
!. Quoted on the following rivers an
streams among other important ones
Okeechobee. kissimmee, CalOosahatch
= ie. Appalachicola, Chessehowiska, Chit
J, tohatchiee, Choctawatchee. Echaskotee
!. Fahkahnatche, Finholloway, Homosas
"a, L,ckapOpka, Oclockonee, Oclawaha
y and Withlacoochee. II all these stream
!, are not operated on they should be. l
y the above names were turned into log
and sawed into boards, the result woul,
demonstrate how feeble and inadequat
;, are the census returns III an emergency
!. About the poorest way of expressing
!. satisfaction that disagreeable expedi
a ency has been disposed of in the hang
ing Of the assassin Guiteau, and to sho,
o relief thereat. il to hang the murdere
/ in efiigy, and to make circus out of tn
= affair. The boom boys at Alpena, Mich
igan, like many another set of foO!is
mortals, carried out such proerame
a But while their taste is to be deprecate,
the thOroughness which character ize,
the work Is to be commended. After tn
hanging they held an inquest over tn
remains, by proxy, and dumped it int
a the river.
I'll Mr.. r. X. Wlnans is erecting a resi-
o dencc in Baltimore. which is said to b.
Il the finest private house south of New
: York. The house is C feet front by
!. feet deep, and it is to be five storie
: high, with sloping mansard roof. Tn
y style is French renaissance, and the ex
: terror, when completed. will resembl,
: very closely an old Belgian or Frencl
: chateau. The interior of the residenc
: Is to be AZ magnificent as the fancy O
tho owner can make it. Ii is to be O
; satin wood, red oak and ebonizea cherry
: inlaid aud carved, and in each room
, there are tn be costly beveled mirrors
: The hall will run the full length of tn
Z building, and upon its ornamentatio,
and decoration alone are Ia be expende,
$4,000. The cost of the entire buildin,
and garden will not be less than 500,
900.