Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-22

Chattanooga, Tenn, will have q spoke
and felioe factory.
Three new saw mills are in process Of
erection at Decatore Ala
Reports come from all over Kansas
that trees planted this spring ars doing
exceedingly well.
himbau, Tyler & Co., of Baltimore,
Nd, employ l00 hands in their barrel
factory, and turn ont $4,000 barrels
annually.
1t 10 estimated that in the Mississippi
river, between Minneapolis and Swan
RIVER, there axe no less than 1U, OU.O 600
feet Of logs
Up to Juns 18th there had BEEN
shipped from Az Sable, Mich, o.
5y0,UOO feet OF lumber this year, as COM
pared 70 ~, 100 fest last year.
Fresno county, Gel, has On apricot
tree measuring SIXTY inches around the
trunk three feet from the ground,
which has about a ton Of fruit.
The chair company at MARKETS., Ohio,
annually consumes 1y5U.Uo feet of
lumber, and turns OFT weekly 5000
chairs and 40 beds:eads eud paslor
tables.
The increase in the use Of mahogany
on this side Of the Atlantic has made
that wood loss abundsnt IN English
markets, and the result il higher prices
there.
When the Sturgeon wis bay canal
was dug, the greatest depth excavated
was forty-five feet. Down there a red
cedar was found and hOisted out, aud
the stump of 1t now lies ON the bank.
The Gull River lumber company is
building saw mill at Gull River, MIMI,
which will be ready to begin operations
soon. Tho intended capacity is some
10000 feet per day.
GA new stave and barrel factory at
Pictou, Oat., Is ready for operations,
and will turn ont this season some 4O,OUO
apple barrels, in addition to manufsc-
turing large quantities of slaves for SHIP
ment.
Duluth, MINI, claims to have build
ing boom. Between twenty-five and
thirty stores-say 2715-ars IN process
of erection. Duluth may reach '.ze-
NTH" yet, aud Proctor Knott be viudi-
Gated.
Some of the finest walnut trees in
the mountains of North Carolina have
boon sold for $40 each as they stand in
the woods, the purchasers reSorving the
right to remove them within q certain
number OF years.
A Saginaw man recently purchased
aJD sores of pine land on Rifle river,
Mich, for which he paid $4,000. He
now holds it at 100000, and SONS en-
courage him to think it is worth that
amount, and perhaps it is.
The Eau Claire lumber COMPANY is
making the dust fly in its three mills,
two Of which arc steam mills. The third
is run by water, and has accomplished
the biggest work SO far, turning out 2225-
600 feet in eleven hours, recently.
Several hundred men and over 100
teams are engaged in hauling timber ON
the OclOckonee and Sopchoppy rivers,
III Wakulla county, Fla. The logs are
RATED oCrabe!le and Apalachicola aud
sold at from IS to s. a thousand.
The cut of the Peshtigo lumber COM
pany's mills. at Peshtigo, Wis, during a
recent week was as follows: Steam mill,
t.:;49,625 feet of lumber, 3l0,0 feet Of
lath. 1900 plckets. and $1,000 shingles;
II,
coo feet of lath. and $1,000 pockets.
There seems to be a strange fascina-
ton about swiftly revolving saw, that
somehow lures people to almost unc"n-
sciously roach out u hand to feel Of tn
rim, and satisfy the inward curios,.y.
The result il big thing for curiosity,
bot it is tough on the digits.
The Southern car works at Knoxville,
Tenn, turn out 100000 worth of rail
road cars and $175,C0O worth of wheels
every year. Three furniture factories
do an annual business Of $30O.O0C; a
barrel factory, $15o.OOO: a handle facto-
~. S125.0OO and an iron CON- any, $3.50
A shipment of lumber from Shreve-
port. La, was made lately to the State
of chihuahua, Mexico, 10 miles south
IF Ell Paso. The cars were loaded at
the mill grounds, and were run directly
to their destinatiOn-a fact worthy of
notice in latter day American-M Mexican
progress.
julius Houseman and Messrs. PiQlo d |
Of Grand Rapids. Mich. |
have purchased 200 acres Of pine land |
in the Duluth, Mimi, district, estimated |
to cut 100000 feet, the consideration
being $4,000. The same parties now
own 1900 acres of land which will cnt |
l50,000,O 600 feet.
During the month of May there were
I ,697, 431 fee. of yellow pine lumber |
from Jacksonville. Fla; 4.22i,- |
800 went to domestic, and 455,3il feet |
vent to foreign ports. In June, 1881,
there we're 6,59l 600 feet of lumber |
shipped from that port, and for tho
same month in 1890, there were 4.2GO.379 |
feet shipped. Besides the above lumber |
here were $3.50 cros-ties shipped in |
June.
: Sswdust from Leathein d Smiths
mill. Sturgeon bay, Wis. supplies fuel
10 the steam barge Smith for her trips |
between shat port and Chicago. The
lust is taken from the circular to the |
bin, which il located at the edge of the |
wharf, and run into the hold of the |
raft by means of spout. thus saving |
etc. Ii this new ve1ture |
proves successful, az there ia no doubt, |
g. e.