Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-16

H0uuRRuUD DOW00.
Walkse 4 Brott, = Minneapolis, 4inn.,
hrm, ere manufacturing patent fuel
from nwdu0t.
A cottonwood tree on Q farm IN Adams,
Jefferson county, N. T., 10 q fest in ciS-
conference, and ID over 100 years old.
There IL q factory at Harbor Springs.
Mich, which uses 10000 oords Of wood
annually IN the manufacture OF tooth
picks.
The new butter dish factory at Mar
celona, Mich, is 800 feet long. and is
expected to turn out dishes at the rate
Of 800 per minute.
Eddy, of Hull. claims to have the lafg-
est saw mill and the largest match fac
tory in the void. The mills Of Messrs.
Perley d Pattie and ]. r. Booth, of the
same city, each turn out 100000 feet
per week.
By the shutting down of mills in the
PenobscOt river, Maine, IN consequence
men have lost *25, 1000, if not more. in
wages, and the lumber supply has been
cut down over 500 900 feet.
Works have been completed and are
in successful operation for lighting the
town Of Deseronta, Ontario, the works
being erected for the purpose of max
ing gas from fine sawdust. The gas
thus produced is said to equal that
made from the best cannd csal.
The custom house books at Alpena
show that during the present season
there has been exported from that port
by vessels that reported LAG, $4,000 feet
of lumber, 9,796,OOO pieces of lath,
:, $4,000 shingles, LIE, 600 cedar railroad
ties and 5000 cedar posts.
A rather curious story is told of how
q workman in the sawmill of Prewitt,
Spur & Co., Nashville, Tenn, was by
come means thrown towards the circular
saw, and evidently thinking he was go
ing upon 1t. died from fright, which was
the verdict of the corOner's jury.
]. w. Porter d Sons, of Strong, Me-,
will this winter get out the material for
10000 croqust sets, to say nothing about
what is required for an indefinite guam
tity OF Indian clubs, ten-pins, chair bot
toms, clothes pins. ETC.
Lumbermea are preparing to 90 into
the woods of Maine for the season. On
the Penob3cot bay they will get from
$50 tt $50 month and board. The pay
last year was from S18 to $23. Within the
past IL years they have cut on the Pc
nobscot 8, l4l,902,12 feet Of lumber
mostly spruce.
The sawmill firm OF Holt & Davis, OF
Muskegon, have been ordered by q Jury
of IL mon to pay a $4,000 judgmenhtc
young man formerly employed in theil
mill, who lost his leg in bull Wheel
The verdict was rendered on the GROUND
of negligence in properly guarding and
protecting the machine, to avoid acct
dents.
The amount of lumber to be cut this
season upon the AroostOok and Upper
st. John is estimated at 225, OO0, 600, di
vided as follows: Upon the Upper St
John, Is, 000, 900 Aroostook, 600
st. Croix. 5000, 900 other localities il
the provinces, 155, 600 600. Last season
the total output by these operators wal
35s 600.
Bry & Horn, of Frankfort, KY, hav'
since last March shipped about 25Cl
walnut logs to Berlin, Germany, TO
manufacture into veneers. The log
contained about 10000 feet, of an av
erxRe value $55, and amounting t
about $37, 900. The cost of transporta
ton amounted to about $4,000 ON tn,
lot. The rate from Frankfort to New
York is $S5 q Gar.
An important branch Of trade IL
Memphis, Tenn, is the manufacture o
packing boxes from cottonwood. Tire
establishments are devoted exclusivel,
10 this business. The business tho las
year shows large increase ON othe
years. The cottonwood ia abundant
and cheap, and 10 said to make q pack
ing case equal to the best white pine
Il also mskes excellent buckets for can
dies, tobacco, eto.
Il II believed that the out Of logs or
the Kennebeo river, Maine, will b
about two-thirds Of what it was las
season. An Augusta operator says tn
prices realized this year have been 9,
low that, when everything is figured up
there is little left to pay for stumpaRe
which is worth more to stand than Il
harvest