Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-14

C0rdwood il being shipped from Port
land, New Brunswick, to the West In
oioa. IL IL q new venture, and il /,
should prove successful will be largely
engaged in.
1t is stated that there is enough tim
Der standing on Big Cypress creek,
} texas, to keep the present mills oil
Orange supplied for twenty years, and
these tracts are but drop in the bucket
The exodus Of lumber laborers from
canada TO the United States still con.
times. 200 hands having left Ottawa for
Potsdam, New York, and another 1OC
shantymen had previously left for
Michigan.
The factory Of John McGrogor, at
south Lincoln, Me-, turns out from
O,OU to 10000 gross of spools per
mouth. and consumes annually from
DOO TO 1000 cords of birch. Fifty hands
are employed.
Nearly all the wooden ware IMPORTS d
into New Zealand is of American manu-
facture. The total in 1881 of exclu-
sively wooden ware, as thus termed in
this country, amounted in value to
S55,075.
A company has been Termed ut Mont
gomery. Pa, to erect planning mill, 80
xl5O feet. A gentleman outside of this
enterprise has bought the site of An old
sawmilI, and a'third party has bought
the site OF the planning mill that recently
burned.
A raft Of q, ,000 pieces OF timber was
lately received at New Liverpool, near
Quebec. Il had crew of thirty men
on board. 1t left the upper portion Of
st. Maurice county, 270 miles north OF
Three Rivers, in April, and was foated
down the st. Maurice aud st. Lawrence
rivers.
The Canadian Pacific track ia now
laid across Bow river into Calgary, so
miles west of Winnipeg, or nearly as
far west Of the Manitoba capital as Chi
caQo is from New York. The Wiseon-
siu company that is to build mill in
the Bow river district now have an east
ern outlet for their lumber.
Hnrd. Hotchkiss d McFarlana's rail-
road, the Northern Adirondack, is near
ly completed from its connection with
the Ogd-nsburg d Lake Chaaplaiu at
M0ira. N. T., 10 st. Regis Falls, in the
mountain wilderness. The road il tn be
built this fall six miles beyond the falls,
into the very heart of the Adirondack
forests.
Finley. Young d Co.'s mill. at Will
litmsport. Pa, WAS burned August 9th.
Spreading northward from the mills,
Merriman h sons Office was quickly
licked mp. and frsm tasnce the fire swept
on through the lumber piles that COW
cred a square of the city. Several dwell
ings and barns were burned. 1t was es-
tiinated that Z,,0OO,O00 to 10000, GOO feet
nf lumber WAS consumed. The total loss
Was placed at $600,0 900. The individual
losers, as far as ascertaiued, are: Fin
Icy. Young IL CO., $4,000; Payne $50
Quail fully insured; Edward Muason.
x40,OOO-insurance, $25 1000; Merriman
d Sons, Sl50, 0,O0l-insurance, 10000;
Kramer d Mann. $40.OOO-insurance,
$4,000. w. b. R0binsOn's loss on
dwelling was $4,000. Other dwellings,
were also burned.
The fire which destroyed the mill of
the Rainy Lake Lumber Company at
Rat Portage, Manitoba, August 10th.
originated in the sawdust oonveyer. The
mill was 5Oxl50 feet, and was being run
continuously at the rate of 100000 feet
IN "a hours. The lath mill was 1890
feet. While the loss is placed at 800,
600, the insurance 10 but $4,000. A lot
of lumber piled across the swamp from
the mill was saved with great exertion.
Over 200 men were being employed, in
Guiding shipping, rafting, beoming and
ether hands. The company had ou&
1000. .0uO feet Of logs, and had tugs en-
ployed towing them across Lake of the
Woods fast enough to keep up a supply.
Three million fest we're left in the
boom. The company 10 very seriously
stances OF ths fire were very suspicious.
When the foreman discovered the FIRE
he fonnd the whistle cord cut, and was
unable to give an alarm.