Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-10
WHAT TmE LUuReRWEy ARe
DOlyG.

Mckinsie Brothers 4 Campbell, O.
hlrkfield, Can, have this season shippel
| away over 5000 cedar telegraph poIes
Tor the Western Union company.
| IL II estimated that Doc, ,O0O, 900 feet ol
iogs bill be pat into Eagle River, Wis,
this winter.
| The seasons cut of lumber at La
| Crosse, Wis, will be about g., ,O00. .00C
| fest, as compared with 100000 feet
for last yesr.
Notwithstanding the low stage OF
| water at Eau Claire, Wis. ths mills are
daily saving total amount OF 1,165. .W0
feet of lumber.
The Sandy River Lumber Company,
Of Maine, is shipping dimension and
hardwood in large volume, TO Cuba and
South America.
The White River booming Company.
at Whitehall, Mich, has assorted the
last log of the 10000 600 feet which
came in as the main drive.
John Dice, of Thomastown, Mich.
struck . perfectly s0und cedar limb,
while digging a we'll, at q depth of II
feet, In bed Of solid gravel.
Dyer d Hughes, Of Foxcroft, Me-.
manufacture annually 1000 cabinet or
gans. The factors CONSUMES yearly
200, 900 feet Of pine, 10000 fest OF bass
wood. 10000 feet of walnut, aad 1OO,-
000 fest Of veneer.
Complaint is made of the severe de-
struction of oak trees in Hetch- Hetohy
valley, Nevada, bv the Piute Indians,
Who recklessly fell them to get the
acorns.
In the East veneers are in demand in
all sizes and large quantities for build.
ing Purposes, and great many are used
for the tops Of sewing machine boxes.
The N. Ludington Company, at Mar
inette, Wis. has gas in its mill. and the
experience 10 that the cost Is so Der cent
above that OF kerosene, and the light 100
per cent. better.
The Forest Pulp Mills at Yarmouth,
Me-. are making extensive improve
ments, which employ regularly LEO
hands. For fibre 1000 cords Of poplar
are annually consumed.
Walker & Brott, of Minneapolis,
Minn., have fiually begun manufactar-
Ing their patent saw dust and peat fuel.
Inc machinery for the purpose 10 at
"oAA ~ AosRuson Iutkl.
The tooth-pick factory at Harbor
Springs, Mioh., which is being ostab-
lished by Cleveland, Ohio. capitalists,
will consume 10000 cords of wood an
nually. The building will be 30xl24
feet.
Up to October 1, the total export Of
forest products from Alpena, Mich. was
III .26s,O0O feet of lumber, 6,293, 900
4.246, ,000 lath, l12, 200 ties, IT,
200 posts. 5000 telegraph poles and $50
oords of cedar.
Henry Poor i Sen, of Boston, have a
at Winn. Me-, which annually |
consumes 1000 cords of bark, one at |
Medway which consumes $500 cords, |
Ind one ut Lowell that consumes $500 |
lords.
L. H. Dnrelly q Co., Foxcroft, Me-,
annually 200 cords of birch
n the manufacture Of spools. the esti-
mated value OF the resulting product
'einR $4,000. In the factory 30 hands
ire employed.
II. U. Sykes, Of Benton county, Miss,
3 said TO have receutly felied a tree
rom which he made 1000 feet Of lum-
,er, 163 rails and six cords Of wood, and
'nough of the tree was still left to con-
truct fish story.
G. X. Dutton has big turpentine
arm near Live Oak, Fla. 1t embraces
8 8,000 acres of pine timber, upon which
I've stills are operated. employing go
lands, ~ mules and six horses. The
nnual product Of this farm Is estimat-
d at 175.000 gallons of turpentine and
4 600 barrels of resin.
Gilmour 4 Co., of Trenton, Ont, have
his season increased the capacity Of
heir Mills one-third, and have erected q
lumber of dwellings, for their employees.
The firm keeps two locomotives and 100
ara in service. for handling and ship
ing lumber. There are %, ,0O0, 600 feet
4 lumber piled in the yards.
Bell & Hickey, Of Ottawa, Ont, have
old timber limits on Montreal river,
to the Ottawa, 800 miles above
ottawa, covering an area Of 104 square
niles. The consideration was $55 goo.
The limits include what Is called the
NEST lumber farm, as the Provincial
'hrase goes, In the whole Ottawa dis.
riot.
A sale Of timber limits In the Geor-
,ian Bay. in Canada, belonging TO
Iames McLaren and others. Octobsr Is.
esulted as follows: Limit - sold for
10000 to Thomas Kenney: and also
INIT rs for $36 900; limit 63 to James
for $24. .500; limit 81 TO
Thomas Kenney for $500; limit 72 to
lanes Wortingt0u for $4,000. Tho
"a leo In all Amounted N 3liO 700.