Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-31
NEWS FOR LrMgERMEy.

Three million feet of logs on bank in
sns Duluth district were lately sold at
x10 thousand.
II. w. Hutchins. of Lewiston. Me-.
uses annually SOC, eco feet of Eastwood
at bis box factory.
j. McAllister, Albany, Me-, has made
contract for 1000 cords of spool and
stave timber for this season.
company has been Organized at
Syracuse, n. T., with capital Of S4O,-
OOU. Tor the manufacture Of alcohol
from wood.
The Mechanics, Dealers and Lum.
oerman's Exchange, of New Orleans,
proposes to erect building to cost
about $75, 900.
During the winter ]. F.&H. L. Tai
bot, the Port Huron paving contractors,
will cut 1000 cords of cedar near Che
boygan, Mich.
Llewellyn Powers, of Houlton, Me-.
has recently purchased q, 800 acres of
timber land, and now owns total Of
&, COO acres.
The new mill Of the Oconto Lumber
Company at Big Bay de Noquetts,
Mich, has capacity of 10000 feet Per
day, containing three circulars.
Rathburn d Son, Deseronto, Canada,
have now cut over 100000 logs, having
30 teams and $50 men in the woods, and
% Jobbers on the Salmon.
j. +. Farnsworth, JoneSport, Me-, has
shipped 800 cords of kiln wood to Rock
land and Rockport, and will get out that
amount more.
1t took just l4O fat turkeys to go round
among the employees of the Kirby Cal
penter Company, at Menominee, Wis,
on Christmas, and the company footed
the bill.
In Canada new company has been
formed to utilize timber in making
pulp for paper, having a valuable water
power, known AS Grand Mere Falls, on
the st. Maurice river, Quebec.
The Calais and Vanceboro, Me-, Gus
tom houses are full of business, on 40
count of the extensive bonding of Ca
madam horses, which are loaned to ope-
rators on the American side.
The Jonesboro Lumber COMPANY. of
Bangor, Me-, will put in 800 cords of
softwOod, 500 cords of hardwood, 100
cords of hemlOck bark. 100000 sticks of
spool wood, and stock for Loo, 900 lath.
At the Bangor, Me-, boom there was
last year RATED 1925, 600 feet of logs,
], 10000 feet less than the rafting of
1881, but the total for the two years is
the largest of any like period ON recOrd,
large increase being looked fer in suc-
ceeding years. A crew of 20 men has
been employed at the boom, rafting
and driving. Their wages for 100 days
amounted to 81, 600, an average of 81 so
per day.
The foreman Of Patrick McCarty's
camp, near Saltwater, Mimi, dealt
summarily with a representative of a
class of dead beats that infest the north
ern woods, and who ought to be sat
down on. A great strapping fellow hired
out, got suit of clothes ON the strength
of his Intentional labor, and proved to
be lazy sort of lout, whose principal
business was lOafing and euzzlinQ whis-
key. He had his worthless frame OK
peditiously denuded of the newly OBJ
tanned attire, and was artistically fred
out of camp.
Logging on the Anacoco river, La,
which was once q principal industry, is
now at low ebb. At Almadanc great
change has taken place, all the oxen
once employed in logging having either
been sold to cattle buyers or placed IN
der contract to sell. Ono firm recently
took 100 work oxen away from there.
Logging on the AnaoOcO will cease en-
tirely next year, says correspondent,
unless something not now seen occurs to
change the condition Of things. Logs
in the Quicksand boom are likely to re.
main for some time, as tho owners are
inclined to hold them for q rise.