Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-03

HE ITNRRRMAyss COLLEEN.
Leathem 4 Smiths single mill. at
Leathemville, is miles porth of Memo
minee, Mich, has capacity of 5000
cedar shingles daily. The firm owns
nearly 200 forties of land, covering
nearly seven miles of shore, employing
crew of $50 men and 80 teams IN sup
plying the cedar mill and in banking
pine for the Sturgeon Bay mill. The
firm has two large docks.
Rathbun & Son, the heavy Canadian
drm at Deseronto, have the contracts
with the Grand Trunk, Midland, Onta-
no d Quebec railway, as we'll as parties
in New York State. In operations on
the Trent, MORA, Sslmon and Napanee
rivers, the firm employs about 800 men,
now having over 10000 logs cut and
skidded, in addition to cedar ties. pick
eta and telegraph polee.
A tai, story Is told of woman of Ar
bella, Mich, who, il is said, has gone
into the woods with her husband and
done half of the saving, splitting and
piling four cords of wood in day, and
can keep it up for any length of time.
She weighs 10 pounds, and is 80 years
old, of English descent, and the
strangest of all is she says she never
saw tired day in her life.
In 1857 the largest cut OF any Of the
East Saginaw, Michigan, mills, was
made by Cushing d Co., and was 4, 50),-
600. OF the seventy odd mills now on
the Saginaw river, 100000 feet is the
lowest cut, while Birdsall & AcGraw
have cut over 10000. 200 feet, the aver
age being placed at about 1900 600
feet. In 1857, 100000 shingles were
manufactured on the river, while the
past year over 300,OO0,O00 have been
turned out.
1t is announced that by January /,
the firms of A. w. Wright & Co.,
Wright d Knowlton, and Wells, Stone
d Co., all of Saginaw, Michigan, will
consolidate. The merged company
will own mill which has turned out
this season 100000 feet of lumber
and 10, 748, 600 shingles, a large planning
mill and sash, door and blind factory;
from 4O0,O0OOO0 to 6O0,OOO,OOO feet of
standing timber. with logging railroads
and general facilities, and a Wholesale
supply and grocery establishment doing
an annual business of 81 ,OO0, 900.
Holland Eastman, of East Rumford,
flying limb, which knocked eight teeth
from his upper jaw, cut his lip quite
badly, gave his lower Jaw a terrible jar,
and shook up the man himself so badly
that he felt as if he had been in an
Irish shindy.
The steam sawmiu Of A. Bean at
Bethel, Me-, burned in December. The
loss was $500, with no insurance.
December 18th a man was seriously,
and perhaps fatally, injured at Hay
ward, Wis, while assisting in raising
the new mill. He fell from. the main
floor to the ground, a distance of Ii
feet, striking on his head. j. n. Perrin
was killed the next day at Hayward,
while excavating ON a shingle-mill site,
q section of frozen bank caving in ON
him.
Elias Small was killed few DAYS be-
fore New Year day in painful manner
at Young's camp. two miles west of Me-
costa, Mich. The man was hauling
logs, when his sleigh slid around. strik-
ing dead tree with force enough to
loosen its grip on the soil and topple it
over in his direction. It fell on him,
pinning his body to the sleigh, where he
was found with his skull broken and
the spinal column fractured.
The bark Albina, from Pensacola,
Fla, for Havana, lumber laden, was
run into by an unknown vessel January
I'd 35 miles from Havana. The bows of
| the Albina were stove, and she COM
menced leaking. The unknown vessel
Kept on her way. January Sd the Al
binR spoke the brig Keystone, and en-
gagged her to tow to Key West. After
being towed for few hours the bark
| capsized. The crew were taken of the
next morning, transferred to the pilot
boat NOnpareil and taken to Key West.
| The vessel thus abandoned will proba-
bly, be lost with the entire cargo.
Buckstaff, Edwards & Co., of Oshkosh,
| Wis, burial case manufacturers, have
two buildinss, each 4Oxl3A feet, and two
stories high, but will enlarge their
works. They began manufacture o.
tober l, and since then have turned out
and sold 2OO0 coffins and cases.
Wright d Ketcham, operating in Mid
land county, Mich, are among the very
heavy operators. They have q contract
to put in 100000 feet for j. H. Hill d
Son, having 100000 feet now on the
skids. They are putting 10000 feet
| OnAy Ovc1 q iOKkAuk A0AIooo.
II is told that the stump of cotton
wood tree, fully IA inches in diameter,
which was cut down by beavers, is on
exhibition at Sioux City. The neatly
chiseled end where natures original dam
builders have cut off the tree shows
plainly the marks of their sharp teeth
and the stump is good deal of curl
0sity.
The Tri-city Lumber Company, COM
posed of leading lumbermen of La
Crosse. Wis, Davenport, Iowa, and
Rock Island, Ill, is late organization.
The object of the company ia to pur-
chase pine lands in Arkansas and man.
ufacture lumber. II is said that 10000
acres of land have already been secured,
and that three agents are at work pick :
ing up more.