Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-28

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The totli scale Of 100 pine logs lately
cut At Hunters rnill. Jacksonville, Fla.
wts 90 7f6 feet Tho largest log sealed
1886 feet.
C. II. Piummer. ri Saginav. Mich, re-
Gently made n sale of 10000 fee. of
heavy hill timber for government at SIC.
- to Sl95o per thousand.
Seven patients were being treated re-
Gently in the Fan Claire Lumbermsn's
Hospital. all broken or manaled by acct
dents in the camps
newspaper at East Saginaw has fig
ured up the amount Of money expanded
FOR new buildings in that CITY during
1882, and places il a. over l-500,0 90.
Henry Stevens & Co., of Roscommon.
Mich, have nine camps and about 600
men, and are putting in 1900 900 feet Of
logs on the ice. They have capital of
| 500, 900.
J. A. Coffin, Of Columbia, Ne, IA get
ting in 100000 feet Of timber, having
sixty men. nine yoke Of oxen and four
teen horses. He has saw and stave
mill, and will also add pulp making ma
cninery.
There was lately cut at F. y. Wright
& Co.'S camp. = little north Of Stanton.
Mich, forked tree which TUNED out 81
logs; but, one having been rejected, 30
sound logs were obtained from che tree.
The two bridges across Lake Cham
plain, at Rouse's Point, n. Y, will be
two miles long. of trestle work, draws
and orius. They are to be built for this
extension Of the Lamoille Valley (Vt.)
railroad.
A grapeshot has been found imbedded
in pine tree in jackson county, Ala.
seven miles west of ths Apalachicola
river. II is supposed to be a relic Of one
of Gen. Jackson's Indian fights in the
Seminole war.
James Bonfeld, member OF the Pro-
vinci2l Parliament of Ontario, and a
prominent lumberman, lately died. He
WAS very popular in the lumber districts
Of Canada, and was called the King of
tie Bouneclere."
ID. NJ. Sabin, of Saltwater, Mimi, L.
5. ) nator elect. has entered 5000 acres
OF Wisconsin swamp lands, from which
he expects to obtain the necessary hard
| wood for the use Of the Northwestern Car
Co., which he man ges.
House d Bros. are buying bird's-eye
maple IN Ogemaw county, Mich, to be
shipped II New York for veneering pur-
pos s. They will have shipped from
Osemaw county, when theS have done,
1000 feet. They are paying $ll thou.
saud.
Z. A. Dewans will erect a saw and
planning mill at Longwood, Fla, for the
manufacture OF sash, doors, blinds. mold
ing, Latin aud furniture, having received
a site as an induccment. Work on the
buildings has begun. About 50 men will
ke employed.
| The export OF pine timber and deals
from tho port of Quebec declined from
| 635GI2 tons III 1872 To 3J9,925 tons IN
1882, almost half. Though the Canadian
more been absorbed III United States and
home consumption.
| Tho l7year old son Of Siancse yrince
died not long ago, whose funeral oers-
monies we're on scale of maenihcence
seldom II ever equaled, The funeral
pyie was made Of logs Of frasrant ssu
d.iwood costing $4,000, and cl ,OCo, coo
worth of gold and jewels were sire we'd
upon IL.
The French Society for Preventing Ac-
cidsnts from Machines in recent 70 sort
recommended the avoidance Of tho use
OF the circular saw in all workshops
where practicable; the reasons given be-
ing that they are DANGEROUS to workmen,
require more power than other saws and
cut a'brosder kerr, and are oonseq uentIy
more wastefal.
The bill In the Wisconsin Legislature
Tor the sale Of timber on the Menomlnee
Iadian reservation, in Shawano count !.
has been reported on favorably in the
House. 1t provides for the sale of the
standing plue, III not to exceed SO-acre
tracts, 10 Tho highest bidder. and al not
less ihan the appraised value. There il
Sud to be not less than 100000 900 feet
ON the reservation.
The Flint 81 Pere Marquette road. in
Michigan, Is running some fifteen loo
trains. The quality of the logs brought
out IL said 10 be better than thoss of last
year. The Harrison branch of the road
wiii DO extended twelve miles beyond
Harrison, which will increase the pro-
duct OF the road about 10000, 900 feet.
while the branch built last fall from
coleman will open up about 100000, QUO
| feet.
James Harris, Of Rising Sun. Qnd. J
while engaged in saving veneerino from
a walnut knot, discovered in the twisted
hbers OF the wood perfect delineation
OF a spaniels head. The lines are said
to be as accurately drawn as il with the
pencil OF an artist, aud 80 true is the
senoiance. that even the expression of
mute Intelligence one often secs in canine
visages Is readily seen.
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| The ST. Regis IN. W Company, Hurd
d hotchklss. has finally decided to con-
meet its lumber railroad with the Ogdrns-
burg u Lake Cha,rp,ain at MORA, Frank
I'm county. 1t has purchased in TROY
the best Of steel rails, aud will bep,n on
erations soon. The name of the road
Will DO the Northern Adirondack ra,I-
road. II will open out region that for
all previous time has been deep soil
| tude.
Hope Ark paper says that on Jan.
24th the Hope Lumber Co. received from
dealers IN Kansas a letter asking them
TO make estimates for delivery in 1883 of
ooo carloads Of dimension lumber. 100
carloads of fencing and 200 carloads of
uooring, or 800 CO rloads in all. This. AT
ten thousand feet TO the car. would
amount To nine million feet Of lumber
IN one season for northern markets. On
the same day the company sold, to de-
liver, one hundred thousand feet Of floor
ing 10 kansAs dealers.
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