Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-20

Lumber & II recently ruled oxt ~ /
Orange, Texas fully ene-:oarth OF a |
mile long.
Last year 30 houses, costing $3.Gsis- !
go, were built IL New Orleans. Build |
ing there Is now active.
The Pint d Pere AarqGette road. |
Mich, Is nov running eight log trains, |
and hauling asou. 10000 fees daily.
Last year 400 buildings we're erected
in Grand Rapids, Mich, and ii il esti-
mated that this year there viii be erected
200.
During March the Flint & Pe-e Mar
qnette road c.srIled yearly seventeen
million feet of logs, half Of which want
20 Saginaw.
Al himball, Va, is n company engaged
in spoke-rsaking. which has made this
SEASON 10000 spokes, and has 10000
on hand.
A Norway tree was recently eat at
Harrison. Mich, which contained four
logs scaling as follows: 3l2 feet, siZ
feet, 6is feet and fa3 fees-3sJ feet Ia
all.
1t. Voter d Son, OF New Vineyard,
Me-, have run a spoo! factory for Is
years, averaging business OF $4,000
annually. Their pay roll Is about $50
pcr month.
fhe builders of Battle Creek. Mich,
are crowded with contracts, and It Il
Wrought more buildings g'i.i be erected
ia that city the present year than ever
before.
The Mslominee Indians, IN ShawanO
county, Wis, last winter banked between
five ana six million feet Of logs. The
logs put in 10y them year ago broug4t
Slu y thousand.
The Grand Forks improvement Com
papy has been organized II Grand For ks,
ID. T., with $4,000 capital. Ii bought
two additions to the city, and viii erect
buildings 10 rent.
Last winter pine logs and juniper ship
| timber were cut ~ Starry, Me., upon lana
| which, 81 years ago, was badly burned
| over. The largest trees exhibited 10 an
nual ring at the stump.
A. G. Ycunc, OF Caro-, Mich, has pur
chased from Joseph Mcmahon, Of Bay
City, 1900 cedar poles, ranging from -
- TO feet, for .2lOO. The timber IS be-
ing driven down Sucker creek.
| BY the LIST Of April oil the rnen were
| out of the woods IL the AndO"er Me. J
| district. Eight crews, or leo men, 80
horses and 50 oxen have got out four
million feet of spruce on the Ellis and
its branches.
| so. Fisher, of West Bay City, Mich,
recently sold 1870 acres of pine land
north of Ogemaw Springs, Mich, to
Adrian and Lapeer parties, for S2to,0oC.
Ii is estimated capable OF yielding eighty
million feet of logs.
| Vase Il Winter Brothers, Of Kingland,
Me-, broke camp March I'D. They were
| operating on Tim Brook, and with i
oxen and 40 men, during four months
campaign, they got oat about $4,000
feet of pine, spruce and cedar.
Less logs than last season have been
| cut on the St. John waters OH the Maine
side of the boundary line. Il Bangor
iumbermen largely interested in Aroos-
| took estimates the cut on st. John wa
ters in that county at seventy 1--WE million
feet.
w. Ii. Potter and A. N. Spratt, of Al
pena, Mich, intend 10 take Il trip over
| the Northern Pacific Railroad, with the
view of locating an extensive .aulber
| business either Ill the Pend dOreille
district of Idaho or that of Puget
| Sound.
What is called the biggest drive ever
| known on the Connecticut river has been
started for Hartford. Conn. Ii consists
of ninety million feet. Six hundred
men will DO employed l36 days Oh the
drive.
The loggers had hard winter in Pc
| nobscot waters, Me. The teams are
leaving the woods in a bad condition.
| Though the intended cut WAS about 80, :
UO00O feet, for the Penobscot, it will
only be abou. l20, 000, 900 feet, according
to the estimates of good judges.
| Statements lately made about the Ca
madam log supply verify what has been
previously said. The cut is smaller than
| usual, and, on account of deep Snow,
the cost has been far greater. Large
| Canadian operators say their logs will
cost them 5 80 per thousand more than
| last season.
| The Rogers Lumber Company lately
completed Is narrow gage road from Sc
ney, Ga, on the East Tennessee, Virginia
Il Georgia road, l3 miles south of Rome,
| southwest to Deaton, on the East d West
road. 1t is nine miles long. Though il
was built chiefly to carry lumber, pas
s.nger trains are run upon 1t on schedule
| time.
| The Georgia Car Works, of CaTlinville
Ga, have an order for % refrigerator
cars, to 5e bailt at cost of $1,000 each,
for company at Atlanta. They will be
used in the fruit carrying trade.
An expert has figured out from the
aggregate log crop in the Chippewa
| Wis., pineries, this season, tina. 5000
men were employed in the work of get.
ting out logs. Besides these, about 1906
men were employed along the North
Wisconsin Railroad.
A party of carpenters are building
shanties at different points along the
Northern Pacific extension route from
Superior to Ashland, Wis, preparatory
Ia beginning work on the grade. Con
tracts were let on the 18th of April, and
work began May LIST.
| The works of the Northwestern Car
and Manufacturing Company. SILVIA
| ter, Mimi, have daily capacity of y
| freight cars, eight threshing machines
| four farm engines and 70 farm wagons
and turn out monthly about 10 baggage
and passenger cars.
| Among the work of tho Brownell i
Wright Car Company, of st. Louis, No.,
is an equipment of summer excursion
| cars for two of the street lines of the
lines OF the city. Ehe Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad, of Pennsylvania, is
building 10 magnificent parior cars At a
cost of $1,000 each.
Boston Mass. has set out 30 scoop
| its rivals with now industry. The Bos-
ton Lamina Wood Company is making
three ply wood scoop for tea aud gro
ceries. The middle layer is placed with
the grain of the wood running ut right
angles To that of tho two oater layers
The scoops are given two heavy coats of
shellac varnish. They are pronounced
more seryiceable than tin scoops.
HIP. Wyman Il Co, of Wyman, Mich,
| recently sold to Blackm.n x Co, OF
Grand Haven, $l45.0ou worth of shin
giles. $1,000 worth OF which were on
hand, the remainder to be cut this sum
mer. They also sold 90 Porter. Barns 4
Co. of Grand Rapids, $4,000 worth OF
lamber, $4,000 worth Of which is ON
hand and the rest 10 be cut.