Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-09

4 New York mill turns out cedar We
neers as thin A. no to the inch.
For the week ended Nov. 9Th Buffers
Peters i Co., LudinRton, Mich, shipped
eleven million shingles.
An East Saginaw (Mich) man lately
refused $4,000 for a tract Of pine land
that some years ago cost Kim 500.
| John II. Monleith, Of New York city.
recently cut up log Of Mexican ma
hocany which made 5000 feet of We
neers. and two other logs averaged the
same.
| The shipment Of lumber from Muske-
gou Mich. during she month Of Octo.
Der amounted to 81 Oh, 900 feet. said to
be the largest shipment during any one
month for years.
The lumber trade between Portland,
Ne, and South America is increasing.
Lately nine vessels were loading at one
time fer the river La Plata, she combined
cargoes comprising 4.OO. 900 feet.
| Blod9ett Il Byrne. Of Muskegon, Mich.
have six camps near Roscommon. and
employ about 80 men. They intend 10
100000 TO 30,00.OOO feet of logs this
winter over their logging road.
The Deunison Manufacturing Co. pro-
poses to start another box factory at
brunswick. Me-. that will employ 30
hands IN addition TO the 500 already
employed by the same Company in that
town.
Thomas Donald. shingle packer en-
pioyed at the mill of Torrent. Brown d
Co., Muske9on. Mich, a few DAYS since
packed $500 star shingles in ten hours.
HIS average for ten days was 5000 per
day.
Lately the steamer Creighton, having
carrying capacity Of 210O tons. was on
her way to Bangor, Me-. to take Oh a
cargo OF l,AU,OO feet Of spool stock
from I. j. Stewart d Co., consigned to
Glasgow, Scotland.
Il. A. & J. Stewart have this wear ship
ped 3,OO, 600 feet OF Lumber from St,
John, n. b., and shipments from the
Mlramlchi up to Oct. 18th amounted to
lle,OCO,OO feet, against 100000 last
year for corresponding period.
1t is estimated that the logs hauled by
the Flint q Pere Marquette road, in
Michlgan, for 1883. will aggregate l4O,-
VOO.UO feet. A comparison with other
years Is given as follows: 1882. 50, ~, go
rect; 1881, lOo, IN, $50 feet; 1850, 37,475,-
SAG feet.
Chaplin Il Russell's kindling- wood fao-
tory, at Manistee, Mich. has been put
In operation. The kindling- wood is made
ont OF Gull boards, cot into two-inch
strips, then sawed into uniform lengths
OF eight inches, then sawed into three
parts, bundled. saturated, etc.
The Willimant,c Spool works, at the
head OF Sebec Lake, Me-, EMPLOYS GO
men, besides crews in the woods. Three
box making machines will be put in. A
machine that bOres spoOls at tue rate of
1O per minute has been invented by two
employees of the works.
The wages OF employees have been
reduced by the lumbermen of Cadillac
| and vicinity, on account Of the low prices
| OF lumber, as alleged. Skilled labor was
cut III per cent, and reduction was
made on yard men of % cents per day.
Olen IN the woods are paid from $1S to
So per month.
log cut from tree on a farm near
Brantford, Ont, was sawed recently and
proved to be curiosity. Ia the log was
found a two-lnch oak pin fastened by a
second pin five eighths of an inch in
diameter. The larger pin was driven
into an auger hole, and five inches of
wood had grown around all.
Alex. Gibson, said to be the largest
lumber dealer In New Brunswick, has
thus far shipped from st. John $1,000
UOO feet OF denlI. in ll5 vessels, des-
tined for the English and French mar
kSts. Last season his total shipments
reached llO,OW,0OO feet. Mr.. Glbson's
heaviest shipments were in 1874, when
he sent of 1876 100000 feet.
Peter Sjorgreen brought action against
). q. Hall, of Muskeeon, Mich, for the
loss OF leg while employed in S. C.
Hall q Co.'S mill. Piaintlff's leg was
| caught IN the bullwheel. and 80 crushed
| shat 1t lad to DO amputated. The dam
age claimed was $3.50 The Jury re-.
turned verdict giving Sjorgre.n $40
UUO. Ibe case WAS appealed. The claim
for damage is based on the fact that the
wheel WAS uncovered.
Forestry in Dakota and Montana has
60 far been little moro than an unsuc
oessful experiment. The managers of
the Northern Pacific road are endeav-
| oring to tint what trees are best adapted
to tue soil OF those two territories
Those which have been planted and
have failed. it is claimed, we're not
adapted to the dry soil and peculiar
climate they encountered. 1t is in
sisted that the right kinds of trees would
flourish.
When you tamper with tho diet of a
logger or sawmill hand, trouble is GER
tain to follow. Men have been known
to go into open revolt because three
kinds OF pie were not served at each
meal. TO he deprived Of butter, or
masquerading beef fat, as the case may
be, was too much for some 81 the men
employed by TolmoD, Couro d Co., of
Rhinelander, Wis, and fifteen of them
recently struck for grease. The where
fore WAS that butter was scarce and
the mill boarding house had been with
out that necessity for a few days. The
men seemed to regard that human AZ
we'll as any other machinery needed
fabrication.