Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-13

I Inc value or the buildings erected IL
San Francisco during 1852 Is placed al
$4,000.
Over 100 buildings were erected dur
ing the season at Prince Albert, North
west Territory.
Seymour Spencer drew to the banking
grounds at Harrisville. Altoona county
Mich. log 80 feet long, which sawed
s494 feet.
L. B. Wood i Co., Grand valley, Pa.
viii cut this year 10000, 900 feet Of lum-
Der, $4,000 feet of pine and the
balance hem!ock.
During the month of December 81
vessels cleared from the port of Pensa-
cola with 132, So feet hewed timber, a69,-
u. feet Of sawed timber. and SIS, 600 OF
lumber.
During 1882 over 100000 feet of
lumber We're shipped from Nova Scotia
ports. The largest shipments were from
Pass6oro, the quantity being over 16,
10000 feet.
In Cincinnati during the season of
loo2. Go building permits were granted.
at probable cost Of 81, SOC, 900. A large
number of factories and warehouses
were built.
Smallpox has broken out in the camps
near Rat Portage, Canada. The Gov
eminent has sent out nurses and physi-
clans: The disease is principally among
the French half-breedS.
II. II. Hanscom has camp on Loon
Creek. near Oscsola, Mich, where he
has got out !, 000, 600 feet Of logs in sew
en- weeks, having four teams, three yoke
! of oxen and Is men at work.
The Wisconsin Central road recently
put into use a new style of platform car,
arranged particularly for carrying long
timber and lumber. Its capacity is 80
tons. and it has three trucks -one up-
der the center.
In Cherryfield Me- district, Wash
In9ton county, 22l men, 20 horses and
70 oxen are this year employed in the
woods. The log crop will be as large or
larger than 1t was last year. though tie
force OF men and teams employed 10 not
quite as large.
The Flint Il Psrs Marquette railroad
IS running 10 logging trains day. The
Harrison branch is to be extended IL
miles beyond Harrison, and tho branch
built last fall from Coleman will reach
large quantity of pine, which an
elated Saginaw paper estimates at 7C0,-
OOO,0O0 feet.
Duncan Matheson is numbering west
Of Roscommon, Mich, for Torrent 4
Ducey. of Muskegon. His road runs
part or the way across plains, and he
has constructed fence out of iackpine
trees, which grow from 10 to 70 feet
high. to keep the road from drifting
full of snow.
The pine lands of the upper Michigan
peninsula are being rapidly sold of,
scarcely week passing without sale
being reported. j. NJ. Longyear, for the
Lake Superior Ship Canal, Railway 4
Iron Company, recently sold 100 acres
In township AZ, range 33, for 100000,
the purchasers being Detroit parties.
During the yellow fever epidemic a.
Pensacola, Fla, millions of feet of tim
Der accumulated in Covington county,
Ala, and the county bordering on the
Conecuh river, waiting the subsistence
of the scourge, to be floated down. and
which is Row going forward. These
retarding operations will result in some
thing of boom.
The Roscommon Lumber Company,
that owns 35O,OOO,OOO feet of standing
pine, tributary to Houghton Lake,
Mich. and twelve miles of logging rail
road, last fall, it is reported, sold r.
OOO,00O feet of logs, to be cut and deliv-
cred in the water, at $12 thousand for
all over twelve inches in diameter, and
$3.50 for al! under that size.
The Diamond Match Company has
40 men employed in nine camps in the
Ontonagon district, Michigan. The
company's mill on the island, at Onion.
agon, Is being overloaded and much i'm
proved, while work on the west side mill
Is going steadily forward. Both mills
will be ready to run as soon as the logs
come down in the spring.
Cheairs, Davis & Co.. Madison, Ark,
recently cut two logs from An ash tree
that measured each Is feet long and -
and So inches in diameter. respectively,
at the small end. They were cut for 4.
G. Lowery, of New York, and were cut
into wagon poles. The logs scaled 4568
feet. The weight of the larger one was
1890 pounds.
The Northern Pacific road is adapting
the forestry idea to somewhat new
and practical end. 1t is planting trees
as a defense against future snowdrifts.
The company has had gangs of planters
at work during the fall, and intends
continuing the plan every season. Bon7s
is also offered settlers on the cOmpany's
land grants to encourage the planting.
A forest of well-grOwn trees will prove
the most effective snow shed possible,
while it will cost less, last longer, and
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