Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-01

The mill Of the Jump River Lumhs
Company, at Preutins, VIA. has searts'
up. II IL veil equipped. and gives em
paoymsnt 10 about 80 men.
A. II. Telkins and his son, in Nissan
kse County. Mich. while as work in ID,
woods encountered four bears and killeS
too Of them With their axes
The Bailey Ringing Machine work,
company. At Woonsocket. II. l., CON
sumes daily 600 feet of birch, mapl,
and beech lumber IN making ripccrs
About seventy hands are employed. and
The pay rsll 10 said TO figure mp t:s .o0(
IN Q year.
Peter Herdic is seeking a chance &c
enlarge the Lock Haven. Pa. boon by
extsndinR II farther up the river. Hs
also intends to purchase and 81 in on
Grafton three irsa-cla0 mills in VII.
Transport Mr.. Herdic is called the
nnsirina and irrepressibls at Williams
port.
The portable house business has been
reduced 10 30 ine point that the he,
vafn laundering Company, Of Rat
Portage. Manitoba, in manufacturing
II t75 each.
The Northwestern Car and Manufac
turing Company. Saltwater. Num-, haa
an order from the Northern Pacific road
for 800 thirty cars. and anoshs,
order for 100 cars. with probability OF
other orders.
The timber land skirtins the stream,
and lakes Of northern Dakota il essl
mated At 6O0, 900 acres, exclusive Of The
Turtle Mountain region, where there
are $4,000 acres. The timber ia prinoi.
pally cottonwood. although ash, CAL
and el0 are found in considerable Quan
titles.
The Calumet and Nicola Mining Com.
pany has closed negotiations for tract
OF land for mine timber, near the east.
ern end OF Lake Superior, upper Aiohi.
gan peninsula, that is said to b covered
With 100, Coz, 600 feet Of the iaseess pina
In that section OF the State.
The Marinette Barge Line Company
IL having \ neS barge built il Mil sau-
kee. that will have csrryine capacity
OF 600,OOO fes: of lumber. Il il nearly
completed. and has the heaviest deck
beams ever rus into vesssl in Milwau-
kee. giving her m extraordinarily stifY
backbope. Her length il l6t fest,
breadth IS feet. and depth of hold II
feet.
Brouse L Wood. who have mill and
limit at the mouth OF bad Throat river,
on Lake Winnipeg. Man., are getting
out tamarsck piles from 20 TO " feet
long. They are also getting out 5000
ties for the Winnipeg xtreet railway,
and l5o0 cords Of wood for the North.
western Navigation Company, together
with 1000, 600 shingles, 5O6, 600 isths, and
about 100000 feet of lumber, which
will be disposed Of at Selkirk.
At the camp of L. & c. Eldred a not
able 10 log haul WAS recently made
With one team, 10 the west branch of
the Muskeeon, In Michigan, a distance
Of one and three-Quarters miles. The
logs were all 10 feet long, surface clear,
and free from any imperfection. Among
the logs there wero two scaling 1861
feet, two 800 feet, aud one eHch of the
following sizes In feet: l444. 1851. 1916,
l225. 1853. 53i-a total Of u, "a fest.
The Western Unisn Telegraph Com
pany has estimated tho durability of
telegraph poles as follows: Cedar, rs
yesrs; chestnut, Ii: juniper, Ii; spruce,
z years. Cedar, chestnut, and spruce
are used in the Northern States; juniper
and cypress In the Southern States, and
red wood in California. Poles out in
tho On Gruer will not last 40 long a.
those cut in the winter by 1--WE years.
II is instanoed that 5000 feet of lum.
Der have beon ont from a single sugar
pine tree in California; yet, on account
OF contract made to cut NO logs below
the lowest limbs, tho tops of trees which
yielded as much lumber ~ stated, were
more than four feet through at the
base when tho Last log vas cat. lt ID
scientifically asserted that these trees
were Of giant size 800 years before Mag.
ma Charta was signed BY King John,
nearly seven centuries ago.