Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-05

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mills at Appleton, Wis.
GusyaquiI. Ecuador, South America
has two steam savmills.
Al. Davis, Anity. Me-, Is soon to put
steam engine in his savn'I.
Harbor Springs, Mich, shipped two
million toothpIcks in one day recently.
Chattanooga. Tenn, expects to han
die fifteen million feet Of lumber this
year.
T. Bancroft & Son. of Orange, Texas,
paid 1850 for cypress raft Of l35
sticks.
The planning mill At Danyiile. n.y.. re-
esntly destroyed by FIRE, IL soon 70 he
rebuilt.
Marble & CRIBS have leased the saw
mill Of Cook & Harley, in East River
ton, Mich.
Awhile ash log Was hanled TO Bear
Lake. Benzi- county, Mich, that scaled
l0z7 feet.
Logs on Muskegon Mich waters
range from g. 70 Sl2 for white Pine and
from Il 10 g. for Norway.
The Lowry wagon factory at Augusta,
Ga. Is TO be enlarged by the addition Of
| 4 O1liUfoot building
The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad
car shops At East Saginaw. Mich. use
| coo cords Of wood each month.
A number of fine cherry logs recently
were put into Bear Lake. Mich, that
measured b inches at the small end.
Young & Perkins, of Cairo, and Young
& Waite, of Kingston, Mich. have sold
| "A t..iA his
One half Of Kentucky is claimed to
be vered with forests. and the lumber
industry there is rapidly becoming prom
inent.
The machinery and materials OF the
Georgia Car Company are to be re-
moved from Cartersyilis, Ga, to Annis-
ton, Ala.
Georgia pine is in good demand in
South America. A contract for l4,UO,
600 feet was recently closed with firm
ut Pensacola, Fla.
About 100 patients have been brought
10 the hospital At Saginaw, Mich, this
winter, from ths logging camps In that
vicinity.
A large quantity of wood was blown
down last fall near Rochester, Mimi, the
timber felled being among the heaviest
in the count.
Wolves have bothered the men in some
of the Mich igan and Wisconsin camps
very much this winter. A large number
of the ravenous brutes have been shot
or poisoned.
The Erie pa Car Works recently
received An order for 1900 box cars fol
the Cleveland and Lorraine Railroad
A force of GOO men will be set at WORK
on the contract.
j. Sharples d Son, lumber merchants
Quebec, who failed recently, have ar
ranged to pay 10 cents on the dOliar-J
cents cash and the balance in three. BIZ
and nine months.
The annual report Of the Gratwick
smith d Fryer Lumber Co., OscOda
Mich, shows paid-up capital Of 500,
900; personal property, etc, 1851 ,7y9
liabilities, fl76,UJ3.
Boardman Bros, Of Calais, Me-, in
tend to ship n cargo of lumber to Ber
muda ~ an experiment, believing tina,
they can bnild upa very profitable trade
with the West Indies.
| At Douglass camp, Wexford county
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average Of $1,000 feet Of logs are run Il
the river every day over n logging road
y distance of five miles.
1t IL claimad that at James Sargent'i
camp, on the Peshtigo river, Wisconsin
one team of horses in q half day hauled
on u three-quarter mile road, in foul
loads, l23 logs. one load of which scaled
5lGI feet.
The crown timber agent employed BY
the Government of Ontario il now OK
aiming the timber limits of the POr,
Arthur district, and expects to find that
the amount of timber there IL about
10000, 600 feet.
The Valley Lumber Company Of Ear
Clare, Wis, will manufacture shingles
extensively next season. Machinery Il
the capacity of 2OO, 600 day is being
being made by the Novelty Iron Works
of Dubuque. Iowa.
| N. A. Braddocks, OF Big Rapids, Mich.
IL manufacturer of oars in the rough
which are shipped to England, prinoi
paliy for use in the British navy. Over
COCO oars have been shipped within the
last two months.
The Fish Bros Manufacturing Com
pany, of Racine, Wis, having been re-
ported to be looking around for a new
location for its immense wagon works
number of lumber towns are trying t.
get the factory.
The Lumber Company of Jonesboro
Me-, have cut three vessel frames thi,
winter and will build two and possibly
three large vessels the coming summer
The company owns GOO acres of timber
land In that vicinity.
+. s. Sterling * Co., of Monroe, Mich.
handled lo,UUO telegraph poles last veal
And expect to deliver 10000 this sea
son, having now on hand contracts fol
SO.UUU poles. They are trying to max.
Monroe the largest distributing depot
for telegraph poles in the United States
An Elk county pa umberman say.
that the forests of that and ADJOINING
counties are robbed Of 400 acres of hem
lock timber every year for the BARI
alone. the logs being left to rot Oh the
ground. The tanneries of Elk county
alone require 5000 cords OF bark Del
Annum.
I. =. Foster, of Lewis county, N. Y.
estimates that there are not to exceed
3iSU deer frequenting tue 40 ,6l6 acres
of State timber land In tho Adirondack
region. lie estimates five deer for each
thousand acres, and that IL unmolestcd
they would double each year by natural
increase.
At the sale Of the estate of the late
Peter Van Wrinkle, who figured 80 OK.
tensively as AN Arkansas lum herman, j
A. q. Blackburn bought the large mill
sash and door factory, 10, in Benton
county, and 1850 acres of pine lands
/ The mill has u capacity of .UO.U00 feet
day. and the esta ishment, ali told. ia
the largest IN the State.
The Duluth, North Shore 4 Southern
Railroad Company In an enterprise for
constructing u railroad FROM Duluth
southwest into Nebraska. 1t is said To
be backed oy English capital, u the
design Is 10 ultimately build the road
from Port Arthur TO Duluth, along the
north shore Of Lake Superior. such a
road would bring a large amount of
grain TO Duluth and carry out large
quantities of lumber.
Not dead. neither has he left town;
nor is he asleep, a. supposed by some.
His store shows that he is still wide
awake and working in the interest Of
the sweet meat loving public. The grand
1 Of eha Mt, L.