Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-08

The Chicago. St. Paul Minneapolis II
| Omaha Railroad Company has b ID 2tJ
fant h of snow fence constructed at Eau
| Claire. Wis that we're 10 be Set up along
liz line in Minnesota
II is that I. Il. Walker. Of Minueapo-
| la, sends logs into Manitoba aud kas
the q saved there. He thus escapes the
duty on saved lumber, and makes we'll
| on the scheme.
The cIothespin company a: Food du
Lac, Wis, has put in 3o-horse power
engine and made other needed improve
ments. 1t 10 proposed to increase the
capacity from 40 TO 100 gross OF pins
daily.
At recent pine land sale at st. Cloud,
Mimi, r. 3. Walker, of Minneapolis,
Purchased sc, 600 acres, John s. PIllsbnry
5000 acres, and Farnhem & Lovejoy
1900 acres. Michigan lumberrnen pur-
chased 5000 acres.
The Tawas & Bay County Railroad
during January hauled Eve million fee.
of logs to the different mills az the tw
Tawases. and would have delivered N IRE
il the snow had not prevented. The de
livering capacity of the road Is ], SDOOco
feet per week.
A match concern Is erecting factory
at Denver. Col. which IA branch OF one
now in operation in San Francisco, Cal
These are said 10 be the only match fac
tories of any consequence In the United
States not included In the Diamond
Match Co. monopoly.
Acorns fir I'm America are in demand
, in E0tnpa for of naE
forests. special agent for the forestry
department recently shipped 300 bushels
Of red oak acorns and 40 bushels of pig
mats to England and Germany, where
they are to be planted next spring.
The camps of the American Lumber
Company on the line of the Detroit,
Mackinac d. Marquette Railroad are
shown by late reports 10 have cut an ag-
gregate Of thirty million feet of logs.
This amount being Sufficient for the
| coming saving season. the logs will now
| be banked and made 7 'ady for driving.
Ftn.f ]. Miller. of Pennsylvania, is a
| lumi.orm IN who has sand enough 10 look
| ont for number one. While riding from
| Garfield U Clarendon, Feb. 18th he was
| attacked by two hi2hwaymen, but drew
| his revolver and shot both, killing the
nearest and wounding his companion,
| who. however, managed to escape III the
woods.
Hon. VIM. II. Stiles, of Franklin CO.,
VT, in a recent address said that be was
somewhat surprised at the size of spruce
logs that were recently taken from land
that was cleared Of that kind of timber
down TO trees twelve inches in diameter
| TO- fIha. t.erl mo- q
taken off are, some of them, 16 TO Il
inches in diameter.
IL the manufacture Of glass il being
tempered according to- the building de
velopments of the country, then the sash
door and blind manufacturers can be-
said to have before them a prosperous
demand. II is said there are fifty new
glass factories being built in the differ.
ent States. To considerable extent
el.ss means sash, and sash means doors
and blinds.
The MeFri"k Lumber Company is ship.
ping square timber tn Canada from it
mill Mt Florence, upper Michigan PENN.
sula. A local paper remarks that suct
shipments are like carrying Goals to
Newcastle. However. square timber has
for years gone down the st, Lawrence to
Quebec from the States, bound for the
English market, and that is where the
Florence timber j. doubtless going.
NJ. Favol, French Investigate r, has
found that the creosoi- treatment for
the preservation of wood someti mes dou-
hles the durability of oak timbers Used
III ,llieries, but has little influence on
pine. he further says that oak prepared
with ferrous sulphate iasts ten times
longer than in its natural state. Ii
should be Immersed twenty-f four hours
IN solution of 200 grammes of ferrous
sulphate.
1t is said there is good opportunity
In Georgia for big barrel factory, on
account of the immense quantity Of sv-
rup that is being produced there. The
| present yield IL SO enormous that the
syrup makers have great difficulty in
| obtaining barrels enough TO store ahead
for their constant needs 1t. is believed
that factory in Georgia city, which
would have the advantage of being on
the ground, could sell Its entire product
in the State.
Ten years ago "High" Emery took
the sizehble contract To put in one hun
dred million feet of logs in Ogemaw
| county, Mich. for ii. w. Sage j. Co. He
took the job when waees were frem $50
to $40 n month. and he was to receive So
thousand for banking the logs. He
has Tut IN an average of ten million feet
n year since he took the contract, and,
when this seasons work is done. his OBJ
legation will hsve been fulfilled. He is
said to have made good thing out of
the contract.
The Cheboygan Lumber Comp my has
made quite extensive mill Improvements
new circular. of 5000 TO 10000 .eet
daily capacity. Is being added, and the
other items of extension and repair in
clude two Niger heads, tiippers, new
carriages and saw frame. steam feed,
live rollers, etc. The Phoenix Iron Works
of Port Huron furnished a 2O0-horss
power eagine weighing ten tons. The
room has been removed, and two cupolas
Will DO built to afford more light. A
bridge will be built across the slip.
Johc Ross has two camps at the head
of Moosehead Like, Me-, and will cut
two million feet of spruce and pine
About fifteen million feet will be cot at
the head OF the lake. to come into the
west branch of the Penohscot, and Nor
AAsoh "A A&hhtttN Will cut i've
that will 60 into Chesuncock lake, about
SIX miles above the dam: Weymouth will
cut one million feet. Altogether about
twenty million feet will be cut To go into
the west branch above Ch-suncook.
The Vermiliion iron mines northwest
OF Duluth, in Minnesota, arc receiving
much attention. aud tue Elys of Cleye-
land aud Marquette are interested in
their development Tue Duluth and Iron
Range Railroad is projected, and will
probably be built at an early day. Du-
iute, being the port terminus of this pro-
posed road, expects To be the Pittsburgh
Of the northwest. The construction o:
this railway will help to open up the
lumber resources of that inaccessible
! region.
The bill encouraging tree planting in
Ontario has passed. The provisions are
that owners of land adjsceat to the