Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-23
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There n q narrow gage railroad In Viz
ainia, running 20 Hanover Court House.
eight miles long. constructed In the IN
seres4 Of q savmill, which 10 said 20 Be
the property Of q colored man.
The consumption Of San Domingo ma
hoQany In the United States has largely
increased during the last five years Last
year 5ls2 cubic feet were exported 70
England and Isl go cubic feet TO the
United States
At Gardner, Me-. there vas q trades
parade on July 4th. One Of its unique
features was furnished by the Oakland
Manufacturing Company, which was
sawmill mounted on a dray drawn BY
eight drauRkt horses The mill was II
foil operation. being driven by small
engine.
In Claire county. Mich, ii il said tha.
il il almost impossible 70 get men to
work in the woods. One concern, en-
gagged in the construction of logging
railroad, had 800 men at work, bat now
only 50 are engaged. Unusual yet wea-
ther has made men sick of the job, and
the majority have jumped it.
On July 2Osh train of 30 cars. 80 inch
gage, was hauled over the Wright &
Ketcham logging road, Midland county,
Mich. to Tittabawasse waters, eight
miles, the cars containing Ia logs, seal
ing To-, SsS fest. The run was made in
"a minutes, an II. X. Porter d Co. Pitts
bargh engine doing the pulling.
Lewis Pray, of Portland, Me-, who
turns out carriage and sleigh work. says
that hickory can be raised in Maine from
the seed in L. years, to the size required
for carriage stock. and believes such cul
turs would be profitable. The older trees
are not 30 fine grained or profitable as
the younger ones.
knight Il Co, Of Portland, Me-, have
special machinery for making bunRs,
taps, spiles and plugs Of various descrip-
tions and sizes, out Of oak, pine, spruce
and other woods. Ii Is said to be the
only factory of the kind in the State. and
the product is sold from st. John, n. b.,
TO California. From IL to Is men are
employed, and 10000 bungs and plugs
are turned ont daily.
The Flint d Pere Marquette road, dur
ing tire month Of jane, hauled ont l5.-
$50. 202 feet of logs, OF which L, $40, go
1871 Ntul ~ JdkiudW tiFof pOtutb
the six months ending June 30, 1883. the
road hauled a total Of 59,6J9.470 feet of
logs, as compared with q, .ss3 ,059 feet in
the corresponding period of 1882; a gain
during the present season Of Is, 1881
feet
The cat of logs this year in Maine and
New brunswick, and hoated down pro
vincial waters, will Approximate 3d.
100000 feet, of which AZ, 100000 we're cut
on the upper st. John and 1000, 900 ON
the Aroostook and tributaries. About
10000, 600 feet of spruce and hemlock
will be required for home consumption,
and twice that amount will be shipped
in dimension stuff.
The Chippewa Lumber Il Boom Com
pany has begun operations on its new
railroad, and trains are now hauling
logs from Potato Lake to Big Bend,
distance Of six miles. The logs were
hauled TO Potato Lake last winter, and
are now loaded on the cars by steam
power. They are portion Of 800, Co.,
0OO-fest contract TO deliver logs that the
company has with the Mississippi Log
ging Company.
The indianapolis Wooden Dish Com
pany has perfected machine which
takes the veneer from the mill, cuts out
the blank, shapes and scores il, folds it
up, makes, drives and clinches the wire
staples, and throws the dishes off CON-
plste. IT the rate Of one a second. The
coDpanS's 1orks, barned last March,,
have been rebuilt, and $12.C00 worth of
new machinery has been purchased.
The works started up on the 18th Of Au-
gust, aud have a capacity of 10000
dishes per day.
There is a factory on the borders of
Lake Lambert, i've miles from Vance
boro. Me-. which turns out daily 1000 or
ange and lemon boxes. in the knock
down state, which are mainly shipped to
Italy and other foreign countries. The
annual consumption il 1900, 600 feet of
hardwood. The lumber for the top, bot
tom and sides of each box is sawed into
O-inoh lengths. steamed three hours and
subsequently cot with knife into sheets
BIG inch thick and sold in bundles.