Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-23


Nine trains are made up ct Cadillac
Mich. each day. The freights ar
mostly forest products.
1t is said that Bradner. Smith 4
Co. are talking about erecting an
other pulp-mill at Menominee, Mich
The American Plate Company, a
Niles, Mich, recently shipped 6OO, 00(
wood pulp butter plates to Atlanta
Gal.
An eastern firm has made q con
tract for 5000, 900 feet of walnut
which is to be shipped from the east
ern part of Tennessee.
Newton. Eds g. Co., are turning
out 80 barrels of hemlock extract pei
dat their factory at Nullet lake, Che
boygas, Mich.
The timber trade is 80 poor at Dub
lin, ireland, that one of the heavy
firms there suspended operations re-
Gently. from sheer lack Of business.
Manchester, Eng, Is likely to de
velop into an important timber port,
project fer q ship canal ut that point
being in shape to further that end.
The night crew, SO men, of the Mac
kinaw Lumber Company, st. Ignsce.
Mich. turn out IS. 600 feet of lumber,
the cut of the day RIM being Is, O0C
feet. So men being the crew.
In ocean traffic more steamers are
used for the transportation of lumber
AID timber than formerly. this class
Of craft being likely to supersede sail.
ing vessels in the carriage Of such
freight. TO large extent.
There is . fire tug at Saginaw,
Mich, which does double duty in
pulling vessels and RATS and a. q fire
engine. When an alarm sounds il
can steam to the place where the fire
is, and act as its own plug" and fire
engine.
Some stevedores at Racine, Wis,
who had agreed to discharge . cargo
hardwood lumber on July Is. of at the
rate Of IS cents per thousand, asked
for and received 40 cent, which was
refused.
Alger, Smith & Co.. of Detroit,
HarrisOnvi!le and Altoona, Mich. have
sent T. j. Millen to the northern pen
insula of Michigan for the purpose
the purpose of establishing a camp in
town AZ, range IA, where the firm will
will cut Ii, OOO, 900 feet Of pine lately
killed by forest fires.
The following figures show the
Toledo, Ohio, custom-house receipts
for June: 81, 08S barrels Of salt, So
SO7, 900 feet Of lumber, 33J, 600 shin
giles. 2. 124, 900 lath. 500 tons of iron
ore, 8, 492 tons OF hard coal. During
the month ia, $50 cubic feet Of timber
were shipped.
An English paper figures from the
statements made Of the shipments Of
pitch pine from the main southern
Port of Pensacola, Fla. that of the
amount thus shipped the United King
dom of Great Britain takes more than
the rest Of the world by 2,676,2lS Gu
bic feet.
Meikleiohn & Hatten are engaged
in the manufacture Of lumber and bar
rel stock at Manawa, Wis. Their
mill gives employment to 80 men.
They ship five car loads of heading
and slaves every day.
At the Bradford exhibition, Eng.
. Leeds firm showed q complete
plant for splitting and tmubling fire.
wood, the wood going 10 ut one end
and coming out bundled at the other.
This beats q sausage mill.
The Knapp, Stout s. Co., Menomo-
ME, Wis. is now manufacturing 500, !.
600 of lumber daily. at their several
mills. about ESQ, 900 shingles. aud =
correspondingly large amount Of lath,
pickets and other material.
Il is stated that the Pinkerton de-
tective garrison. at the MuskegOn.
Mich, mill and boom grounds, which
has been removed, cost the interested
parties $1,000. This Is expensive
protection, and the figure we'll repsys
the half detectives who drew
their clubs ON some 300 strikers.
The receipts at Buffalo, N. T.. BY
lake, show ~ follows for JuDe:-27,-
20l 900 feet lumber, 1856. 400 lath.
7,94l 900 shingles, 783. $50 slaves,
ESQ, 900 hoops. For the season up to
July 1, the figures are as follows
72, 4S8, 900 feet OF lumber, 1886. 400
lath, 1851. 900 shingles, 2,O46, $50
slaves, $50, 900 hoops.
Some English timber operators have
become infused with the spirit Of
forestry. and are interested in Amcri-
can walnut. It appears, however,
from the question Of an interested
enthusiast, that the seed Of the wal.
nut is scarcely to be obtained. and
those wishing to make the experiment
Of raising Q walnut grove do not
know how to start the enterprise.
At Sailing, Hanson d Co.'S mill,
Crawling, Mich, the other day, flve-
foot saw, running 100 revolutions per
burst. with great force. One
piece went directly upward through
the roof, cutting . rafter completely
of aud another cut ito way through
the end Of the mill, 40 feet distant.
No one was hurt.