Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-22
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williansport. Pa, has new kindiing
vood factory which employs one hun
dred men.
tn TO August 2lst 81, 900 600 feet OF
,oos had been RATED at the Beef Slo1gh
wis. works.
Large shipments Of telegraph poles
are being made from Duluth westward
for the Northern Pacific roads.
The bark Pomeroy was lately loa ded
al Arena. Mich. with 5000, 100 shingles
belonging TO Bewick, Comstock d 20.
Desha county, Ark, is represented AZ
the Louisville Exposition by coiiection
of suecimens of twenty-one KINDS Oh
timber.
Certain Michigan operators are nov
affirming that they viii not feii 'fee
this winter. The design Is not always
father TO the fact.
John McGreeor, OF South Lincoln, Me-
voannfactures from 5000 10 sO.Ueo gross
If soooIs month. His factory con
snmes from 100 10 $3.50 cords OF Shit'
birch annually, and gives employment
to fifty hands.
Cedar lands in Pressure Isle county,
Mich. are estimated to be worth ~
an acre, actually, though SOLD az %
and 40. In many Cases 50 per acre
has heen realized ont Of tue timber On
lands two miles distant from the LAKE
shore.
In Iarue county, Ky, there was re-
Gently cut poplar tree that was seven
fsst In diameter At the butt, and made
six l2-foot cuts, the top one being i've
Fras
feet in diamster. The tree was ifst
from knots or wind-shake, ana mace
o535 feet OF lumber.
The pine forest along the Adriano' ~
Rayenna, Italy, celebrated IN tne "oIhr
of Dante and Byron, aud which iui-
nished the safeguards OF home anu en-
ice. are TO be cut down, on account Oh
an excavation for railroad having 80
drained the soil that the trees nave al
died.
Sibley a. Barri6ger lately purchased
l4,272 acres OF pine land IN oconeo'
Marinette, Florence and LanRuaie coun.
ties. Wis. The land is estimated 10 cut
225.OOO, 600 feet of pine, and the aeeos
have been made To the purchasers anu
duly recorded. The consideration II
$4,000.
The Diamond Match Company Is
about 10 build a block At Ontonagon,
Mich, 1OlxlU9 feet, and three stories
IN HIGHT. with cut stone facing AND
Mate GLASS windows. II will contain
elegant apartments for the company's
Offices.
Laird, Norton Il Co., Of winona, Mimi
have had their sawmill engine room mt
ted no almost like a parlor. The hoers
and walls are kept spotless, while canary
birds minRle their notes with the buzz
inc saws, and the windows and benches
are adorned with creeping vines and ira
grant flowers.
Operations have already begun on the
Upper Racket, In Northern New York
toward getting out the next seasons lof
CROP. The Potsdam Lumber Company
and the Racket River Lumber Company
ALREADY have gangs ii the woods. Tit
two companies will employ go men II
their Campo the coming winter.
The Rat Portage, Kewatin, Common
Council has appropriated $l5,OO Of cor
poration funds as bonus 10 assist ia.
Rainy Lake Lumber Company to buile
A new mill TO replace the one lately
burned. The company propose to be
DIN work on the new plant at once
and will push il 10 completion as soor
M possible.
There is famous live eak tree nea
Jacksonville, Fla, known ~ the dev
lis riding whip" and situated about !
mile northwest of "the devils hopper.
IL Is 30 feet in circumference one foo
from the grouad. The tree is hollow
and 10 said to afford ample shelter for
drove Of 40 hogs.
The Wisconsin Central Railroad Com
pany has sold 1000 acres of Its land II
Marathon, Price, Ia ior, Clark and Ad
AIMS counties. Tue sales are said Il
have been made TO actual settlers ant
not to speculators. The road has als'
sold 200 town lots and 100 900 GOO feet o
stumpags. About thirty new mills hav'
gone up on the line within the last tw'
years.
A white oak log, cut from Thoma
Bonds farm, Brantford, Ont, was late
" sawed at Sauer d Baird Bros. mill
Piattsville, that was three feet IN diam
eter. In this log was found two-ino
oak pin, which was pinned to the tire
with a Ave eighth inch pin. the Who'll
being overgrown by i've inches OF wooc
The hole in which the pin was inserte
was made with pot anger.
At the st. Cloud Mimi. land sale th
parties In attendance put mp a job o
Uncle Sam and made the result redoun
to their own credit for benevolenc'
One Of the best selections of pine %
the list was selected, and by mutus
consent bid of to Mayor Macdonald q
the government price OF $l.25 per acr'
The Mayor then put mp his purchase
auction, and the net proht x5uel WI
contributed to she Rochester Mimi
sufferers' fund.
Lon Stevens, manager of the wausa
Lumber Company'a mill, at Wausal
tWia.) recently had n very narrow e
cane. He WAS walking up the log SHE
behind a log that contained about i0I
feet, when the brace that held the ic
mapped. Down came the log, vii
mart Of the machinery attached. 81
VEINS knew. on the instant what hH
occurred, and made quick dash dow
the slide and bold plunge into Il
water. He evaded the rushing log, ar
that was all. A pile driver at the fo'
Of the Aide was crushed down by Il
0luXt0 OAQW VI tuc P0SN&tas ttstttst
ram. Il In proper to say II vas a hal
breadth escape, for the hat Of the ms
WA found torn apart by its contai
with the logs.
The receipts of lumber at Selkir
Manitoba. ara heavy Tor the currel
time. The lumber reaches that poi
from the shores Of Lake Winnipeg, NJ
the arrivals are constant. earges BEN
continually unloaded. Selkirk il gro'
ing a. lumber point, and promises W
for the future. Among the operate
there are Nelson 4 Dag9, who have
spur track along the slough there, by q
sd Of which tall piles are rising. sn
gsstive of q great market. The Mort
west Lumber Company is the concel
that this season has made success
rafting logs on Lake Winnipeg TO !
mill At Selkifk. They are shipping sc
sral cnr loads each day. Some dredeiI
has been done at the mouth of II
River this year, and next year tho
ough work In harbor improvement vi
be undertaken.
At Devils Lake, which has been call,
the Saratoga Of Dakota, 30 houses ha'
been erected in ninety days. The tir
ber of the vicinity 10 well scattered, nj
always confined 10 the borders of u
lakes. being most abundant about Il
Dog and Sweetwater lakes, aud Il
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