Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-26
TINE LuMsEaISc INTEREST.

The mill at Hull, Ontario, turns out
100000 feet OF lum Der weekly.
One mill at Orange, Texas, has con-
sutned 10000 logs SINCE January.
The mills at Gurdon, Ark .nsas, ship
100000 feet of lumber annually.
There is hemlock tree in northern
Michigan. of an alleged measurement,
in circumference, OF ~ feet.
Charles w. Pierce Of Milo, Maine. last
year made and shipped $z3, 900 worth Of
juniper ship knees, and this year expects
TO ship $4,000 worth.
This Lake of the Woods, on the Dor
der between Minnesota and Manitoba,
though but 30 miles across in any direc-
ton, contains 1900 wooded islands.
Foreign capitalists have recently pur-
chased large tract of timber laud in
Arkansas, extending for ~ miles along
the Sabine River, having on 1t 10000
90 feet.
From 5000 to 5000 feet of pine per day
is made into match splints at Brown
vile, Maine. They are boxed and
shipped to West Cheshire, Connecticut,
to he used In a factory there.
The lake receipts at Buffalo, New
York, for September, were ~, $50 900
feet of lumber and 100000 shingles,
and for the season TO October lat, l65,-
$4,000 feet of lumber and O,096, 900
shingles.
At Columbus, Miss, n $4,000 enter
prise IL under way for establishing a
mandatory for buckets. tubs, wagon
spokes and huts, and other kinds of
woodenware. The factory will employ
81 hands.
The Oak Hill Gas Retort d Fire Brick
Company, of st. Louis, Mo-, has added
n two-story building to its works. Ii
will be equipped with special machinery
for the manufacture of terra Gotta
lumber.
Al E.st Wilton, Me-, a large amount
OF birch lumber IL annually shipped to
Scotland for spool making Large guam
titles of hardwood boards are also ship
pod from that point to South America
and places in this country.
II in estimated that 100000 men sup
porting families are engaged in logging
aud lumber industries In Canada, which
shows that 900 peers are depend
cut on that occupation. or one-ninth of
the Dominion's population. or $780,
trial establishments, $1,000. 900 il in
vested in saw-mills and $J0,0O0,0O0 in
lumber outfits.
Il. II. Ranger a. Co.. at East Wilton,
Me-, have panel factory, Mt which
thoy out Eastwood panels from the cir
conference of the 10y, as it il done in
tho establishment at saginaw. The log
il first steamed, and comes out of the
a Lac rtkl ,.t. A.,
then sawed into the sizes desired, and
used mostly for sleighs aud Carriages.
This firm has large European trade.
Pittsburg, Texas, in the County of
Camp, which lies in the northwestern
part Of the State, is an important lam
Der manufacturing point. There are a
number of mills there that saw az high
AZ 50.0U feet sf lumber day. and an
enthusiastio local authority declares
that though the drain on the contiguous
forests Ia prodigious,the supply will last
1000 years at the present rate of con-
sumption.
There Is another story atioat about a
buzz saw encoantering q bomb shell
that was embedded in log. This
time the incident happened in New Or
leans. Before IL was in South Carolina.
The forests of the South were we'll pep
pered with shot and shell during the
late unpleasantueas, and II would not
be surprising II embedded shells should
use up several saws. Bot when once
one of these stories is started there ia
no telling how IL will multiply.
The planning mill at Altoona, owned
by 3. j. Fries. a prominent lumberman
and capitalist. is called the largest in
ue<H t~xss al a
two atorics high, and 120xlS5 feet.
This season eight new machines have
been put in. adding to an already
very large equipment. One of these
machines IL new planer made by Ben
jamin, Fischer Il Mallery of Chicago,
with a capacity of 2t,000 feet of boards
daily, and requiring 0-hersc power
engine 10 run IL.
brace OF geniuses in the city of
beams and estheticism. dropping to the
level Of common practicability. have in
vented A hoop making machine, which
accomplishes previous impossibilities.
Ii will cut three To four hoops from a
pole. as may be desired, and will make
from 10000 to $1,000 hoops per day.
The Boston machine will result in the
utilization OF ironwood sapiings,
wood, which in its toughness aud indie
struutibility has always resisted the
tools of the cooper. The machine
handles the wood easily.
Timber land in Maine is valuable,
r both Tor forest products and agricul.
ture. George Nj. Fogg, of Eddington,
started to make farm out Of 100 acres
OF forest land. which he bought in the
town Of kingman for s. an acre. He
cut 20, 900 last blocks and the frames
Tor two 800 ton vessels of the lot, and
having cleared 40 acres. he this year cut
% tons of hay and raised $500 bushels
OF potatoes, and has ~ acres OF timber
left. He must have realized over $a0Oo
ON his 100 acre lot already, and more 20
hear from. IL would bother prairie
farmer to do as much.
For lame back, side or chest use Shi-
loh's Porous Plaster. Price, y cents,
A. b. Stewart, druggist,