Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-10-13

About 350,0W,O0G feet of logs have
been RATED this season ct Beef Slough.
Wis.
p. NJ. Danaher sold l60 acres OF pine
land in Lake county, Mich, for $L2,oo
cash down.
The floor in a new depot at Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, will be the largest IN the
South, according to statements made.
The dimensions are 345x1N feet
| The first train ran oyer the new Cana
| d. Atlantic Yailroa1 consisted of Is cars
loaded with cordwood for the company.
Charles Surplice, of Ludington: Mich.
has the job Of furnishing the Flint q
Pere Marquette railroad 5000 cords OF
slabs.
At Knoxville, Tenn, the Southern Car
| Works turn out $4,000 worth of rail-
road cars. and $l75,0OO worth of wheels
| every year. Three furniture factories
do an annual business of $500, GOO. a bar
rel factory $50 900, and u handle fac
tory $125,0OO.
During August, Camp 4 Walker, OF
Minneapolis, Minn., shipped 5,2oS, GAP
feet OF lumber, 100000 shingles, and
"a $50 laths, which aggregated f95 3d.
o.. The most of the product went to
Manitoba, where people are still raven
GUS for lumber.
Staples Il COvel, of Whitehall, Mich,
sold to the West Michigan Lumber Co.
1870 acres of pine land, lying in Neway-
go county, on the upper White river, for
$155,OO.
For Saginaw. Mich, A. Merrill & Co.
will put in 100000 feet Of logs this
winter, and X. f. Cade d Son. 1900, 600
feet. Camps will soon be started.
There has been shipped from OscOda
up to September, l,llO,55O,0 600 fest of
lumber.
Fifty-twO oars loaded with hemlock
bark ON a recent Monday stood on the
track at Ludington, Mich, awaiting
shipment across the lake. It is said
that the hsmlOck forests in that part of
tbs State are being sacrificed for bark.
The timber ON the western slope of
the Rocky Mountains, between Caur
d Alene aud Pend fOreille was lately
on fire, and northern Idaho was covered
With dense mass of smoke. The deer
were escaping to the open country.
The following contracts for the next
! seasons lOgs have been made by Mus
kegOn, Mich, operators: George Full
Ter, 5000, coo; Mat Wilson, lO,000, 600:
Hackley & Hume, D,0OO,OO0; Torrent Il
Berry, 25,OOO.OOO at Houghton lake, TO-
coz, coo into West Branch. 100000 in
township II. range II, and 100000 at
Paris.
| l.. Il. Hodges. who has charge of the
| tree planting Interests of the Northern
Pacific Railway company, has gone to
Tn Ga
| planting. He proposes 20 plant out,
before winter closes in. 2,OOO,OOO trees.
Those hitherto planted passed through
the hot season without serious loss.
A local paper has been impressed
with the aact that the Kirby Carpenter
Company, at Menominee. Mich, makes
&c, OO feet of logs look lawfully sick"
every II hours. The company's new
mill has the greatest capacity, saving
| l. 67, $50 last week, and 263. 5l5 feet in
one day. The old mill sawed 62O, $3.50
| feet less for the week, the total of both
mills making 2,3l2, $50 feet. The cut of
| the mills for the season to date is about
pe!lor, FavOrite, has made 40 round
| trips, carrying on an average 100000
feet each passage, which aggregates
5000, 900 feet. 1t tows three barges at
a trip.
A partial substitute for lumber is be-
ing dug out of quarry above Stevens
Point, Wis.,. If reports be trne. The
stone is of slate color, but latter being
exposed to the air hardens and assumes
| a beautiful mahogany color. 1t is thus
| rendered very desirable for table tops,
etc., and can be readily sawed into pro-
per shape.
! Five MenOminee river companies
have decided to cut wagon road along
the Michigainme at once. the intention
being to ont some &c, OC0, 600 feet of logs
ON that stream this winter. and camps
are now being located. This is the Sec
ton which was damaged by fire some
time ago, and the timber will be put in
as rapidly as possible.
Egg HarbOr, Door county, Wis.,, is a
noted point for the shipment of cord
wood. The steam barge Minnie takes
away two or three cargOesa week of 2CO
cords each The schooner Elida runs
regularly to Milwaukee in the same
trade, and tho Hawley, Veto and other
vessels are employed as cordwoOd car.
riers. Sawed body maple is worth at
that point 1915 a cord.
A tract of timber land in Clinton
county, Pa, known as the Fox d Ross
tract, embracing 220O acres, was re-
Gently sold for $4,000. 1t is estimated
that there arc 100000 feet of white
pine, 100000 feet of yellow pine, be-
sides oak and hemlOck enough to make
All aggregate of 25,O0O,0O0 feet Of tim
Der on the tract. About 100000 feet
will be put into the Susquehanna the
coming Winter. twenty Five miles above
Look Haven.
The interests of the Ludington, Wells
4 Wan Shack Company, at Menominee,
Mich, arc constantly expanding. The
erection of a new mill is soon to be be-
gun, near the old fire pen, az the Bay
Shore mill, which will turn out 10000
shingles daily. The mills have cut near
" 80, 900, 600 feet of lumber, for the sea-
son, and the total will reach $1,000, 900
feet before the close of navigation. The
seasons lath cut for both mills is $780,
on uioCeS