Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-22

Dallas, Texas, erected 8, soo,Moworth
Of buildings In 1882.
Hop poles are worth from SO to $50
per thousand at Malone, h. Y.
The but,er-plats factory st Niles, Mich.
turns out 0,Uo plates daily.
OF the 300 cars run out Of Cadillac
the past year, $500 were loaded with
lumber.
Ths Tittahavassse, Mich, Boom Com
pany disburssd. during the season Of
ise2, the sum Of 3430,343.
Among the features Of the Quebec
winter carnival was . visit to humber
camp at Lake Sc. Joseph which employs
GOO men.
The first mill erected in OEono, No,
was bull. in l774. Now there are eight
mills at that place, with a daily capacity
Of $4,000 feet.
A church in Bavaria is being erected
large enough to accommodate lCO peo-
pie. which, it il said, will be built en-
tirely Of papisr msche.
About $50 Indians are numbering on
the Aenomones reservation. Shavano
county. this winter. They expect to get
In 100000 or more feet
Appleton, Wis, is to have box fac
tory, and has some prospect OF chair
factory. j. J. Angus will establish the
former, and viii make dry goods, shoe
and cigar boxes.
At Blackfoot, Idaho, a new switch has
been pat in for mile and hall, TO con-
rect the railroad with the river, for the
II - l4nA.nr E0 mn tfAn
now In the water.
During 1882 there were erected in
Pittsburgh, Pa, 14Co buildings at cost
| Of $1,000, 900. There was double tho
| number Of buildings erected last year
| Of any previous one since l87O.
The Diamond Match Company p re-
ported TO have . capital Of go, OO0, 600,
and manufactures 80 per cent. OF all the
| matches in the country. Behold what
little match q great corporation kin
dlethi
A5OO- horse power engine, ono Of the
| largest in tie Northwest, has arrived at
| the steam ni:il Of Knapp, etOut d Co.,
Menomines, n Oh. 1t will supplant three
engines formerly in use.
During the six months ending Deosm-
Der 81, one firm d: Saginaw, Mich, ham
l died 20 coo bushels Of oats, q, 0C0 bush
| els Of corn and 300 tons Of hay, all OF
which entered into the supplies OF lum-
Der camps.
johnson Newell, aged IL years, vas
chopping wood with his brother at Wat
ford, Ont, when he stepped backward
/ under his brothers ar, which fell with
full force into his back, causing death
in few hours.
1t costs $40 a wagon load TO got lum-
Der from the nearest railroad point "a
Creel City, Devils lake country, Dakota
and yet people are going there with lunll
Der and goods and making Q start fq
future growth. 8
In Detroit, Mich, in 1882, buildings
the value Of 81, 600 were erected, t.
number of structures having been l7OO
This statement does not include the man
afacturing establishments, or the cot
tages built during the year outside the
oity limits.
The schooner American Union, carry.
ing lumber for the LudinGton, Wells 4
Van Setback company, between Menom.
inee and Chicago. during the past sea.
.on, laid down Is carRoes in the oompa-
ny's yards, amounting in the aggregate
10 13,440, 900 feet Of lumber.
Consul Taylor, of Winnipeg, has red
ife wheat, grown in latitude 81 north
IN Peace rive, LOO miles north of Win
nipeg, that turned out 40 bushels to the
,cre. The energy of the Kanucks il
providing the north pole nightly, and
,fter awhile the frigid zone will be turned
10 myth, like George VS. hatchst and
William Tell.
Some months ago G. A. Gale, Of Big
Rapids, Mich., in connection with Cas-
y Morrison, of Ludington, bought hall
section Of pine land in Newaygo county
N an estimate that 1t would yield IL,
10000 feet. Already zoe LOCO feet have
oeen cot on tho poorest forty, and it il
Thought the tract will overrul the first
estimate 100000 feet.
Aldrich q Braymap's bowl and clothes
pin factory. at Custer, Mason county
Mich, i in operation, the clothes pin
department running nights and turning
out Is pins minute. They have orders
for 72UO boxes, each box to contain &C
dozen pins. One carload is to be shipped
70 California. Since October the firm
has made 2500 dozen wooden bowls.
Louis Sands, Of Manistee, Nich., has
purchased the Cypress Hill limit, &C.
miles west Of Winnipeg. Man., embsac
ing 100, loo feet OF pine, at q oonsid.
Grafton Of 100000. He will build q
small portable mill thereon, beginning
the work about April LIST. The Canadian
Pacific will pass within II miles of the
limit. II IL safe to say there ID money
in the purchase.
Now il is announced that the Chicago
Il West Michigan Railroad Company
offer to build an extension TO Cadillac
Mich, II that lively town will do certain
things. Cadillac will do all that is rsa.
sonable II there il any money in il. Il
looks ~ il the West Michigan company
were feeling out for all the pine Of north.
ern Michigan. Il il an ambitious young.
ster, and there 10 no telling what it will
do.
Tho Florida Land and Improvement
Company has already begun its vast
drainage operations near Lake Tohopo-
taliga. The canals partially completed
have reduced the water level three feet,
and large tracts Of land formerly subject
70 overflow are nov not only above VA
ter, but in high state Of cultivation.
Orange orchards worth 500 an acre
now stand ON land ones covered By the
lake waters.