Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-25

Owensboro, Ky, is to have a ben:
felioe factory.
1t is estimated that 80, oc0, 900 feet of
logs viii De put Ia By the Duluth mill
Operators this winter.
The Potts mill. at Au Sable. Mich,
~, ns oi us best lath cut the other day
So,Uu pieces in ii hours.
The brick smoke stack of the North
western Manufacturing Company's
high.
The Marinette, Wis, Iron Works il
building An engine to be used TO run an
W.T..
The cut of the Winona, Mimi. Lum-
Der Company for the season, lumber,
100000 feet; lath, 1000, 600; shingles,
l5,OO,OOO-
William Lamb, of Clinton, Me-. will
this winter put in 10000 cords of hard
wood from some land, for which he re-
Gently paid $1,000.
The Mann Brothers, who own the
woodenware factory at Two Rivers,
Wis, will purchase Eastwood, pine,
white and red oak, and rock elm logs
this winter.
Men for the woods are in demand at
Stevens Point, Wis, the wages offered
being $26 month for common hands,
and $40 for good choppers and ox-team-
sters.
Smith d Davis, of Fifeld. Wis, have
contracted to put into the Chippewa
b5,OOO,OOO feet of Price county timber
in two years. They have another
oontraet covering $1,000, COO feet.
The Mosquito wood native of Texas
is to be tested for paving purposes. 1t
Is very durable, nearly as hard as iron,
and very abundant. The cost of cut
ting and Transporting will be slight.
The present enhanced price of cedar
shingles in Maine has stimulated op-
erations in sections where the proper
timber grows, and it Is predicted that
immense quantities of stuff will be got
ten out.
Recent sales of logs on the banks of
the Chippewa, Wis.,, are reported as fol-
lows: Logs running four and a half
feet to the thousand feet, 50; three and
half, $1,000; small, down to 10 inches,
We
The Eau Claire Lumber Company, of
Eau Claire, Wis, has II camps on the
Eau Claire river, at each of which it is
intended to put IN 100000 feet. Alto
gether, the company intends putting in
10000 600 feet.
Tho Wisconsin Cedar Post Company,
at CavOit station, Northwestern railroad,
south of Peshtigo, intends to put in this
winter from 10000 to 100000 round CO.
dar posts, which will be double its last
seasons cut.
Hardwick's spoke and hub factory, at
Dalton, Ga, recently turned out 1900
spOkes in little over three hours. As
soon as all the machinery can be placed
in position, the factory will turn out
1000 spokes day.
1t is rumored that the McC CARNEY mill,
at Marinette, Wis, has been sold to
Major Schofield, the figure being $75,-
600. The mill cut over e, 600. 600 feet Of
lumber this season. Important i'm
prOvements in it will be made.
At Brownsville, Me-, @. F. johnson
has a shovel factory, and turns ont 100
dozen per day. and is putting in ma
chinery that will turn out 800 gross per
day. He will use 100000 feet of pine
plank, and 100000 feet of box boards a
year.
There is prospect of large amount of
building in Burlington, Iowa, next sea-
son. Capitalists owning unproductive
lots in the business part of the city are
considering the erection of substantial
buildings, and the necessity of dwell
ings will cause the building of several
rows of cottages.
o. p. Pillsbury & Son, of Muskegon,
are building logging road, nine miles
long, on tract of timber estimated to
cut lis, 00O, 600 feet of pine, in order to
haul the logs to the river. 1t is expected
to be ready for use this winter, the in
tention of the firm being to get in 49,
600, 600 feet of logs.
8. A. Rogers, of Bowley's Bay, Wis,
has this season shipped away 2, go cords
of wood, $50 cords Of tan-bark. and
about 1900 pieces of cedar-an agRre-
gate of ~ oaraoes. The prices paid for
maple wood at that market have ranged
this season from $3.50 to $4.371155, beech
running in price from $3.50 to 50 per
cord.
At TOnawanda, N. Y, it is noticed
that many cars loaded with four foot
wood pass through the place bound for
Niagara Falls, and curious inquiry is
made as to what it is used for. Il ia
poplar, going to the pulp mills at Mag
ara Falls, which consume large Quanti-
ties of poplar and considerable sawdust
for paper making.
A citizen Of Grand Forks, ID. T., re-
turning from the westward, reported
that he saw on the road to Devils Lake
| fifty teams in string, all loaded with
lumber, bound for the "bOOmer's" new
paradise. Tho DEVILS Lake Townsite
Company has been formed, with an al
legged capital Of 5000, 600, and will pro-
coed to plat and boom the town, 30
called.
Clinton, Me-, forests will suffer con-
siderably this winter. j. NJ. Winn d
Co. have contract for 1900 cords of
spruce, and 400 cords of poplar for the
pulp-mill of Benton. They will cut, be-
sides, a considerable quantity of hard
wood logs and cordwood. William
Lamb has made 5000 purchase of
timber land, from which he will take
of lot Of hardwood.
The Detroit, Lansing Il Northern
road 10 building a branch from Rodney,
Mich, north, seven miles, to q lake
l'surrounded by hardwood timber, and
having . large body of pine adjacent.
After q time, it Is thought, the branch
will be continued to Evart, and tap the
Flint q Pere Marquette road. The
lake in question il Is miles from Big
Rapids, from which point it il also in,
tended TO build connecting line.
The recently organized White River
Lumber Company viii build a mill al
White river, Is miles from Ashland,
Wis. Il will have one single and one
double circular, ono three block and
one four-block coupled timber carriage,
with fractional set works, and tho Re-