Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-13

The tug Balize toved a raft Of LOGS
containing !, l,7c3,OOO feet, from Georgian
Bay to Buffalo ia thirteen days.
The Hall & Damn cooper shop at Min
Heapolis, Minn.. has increased Its force
10 loO men, l3O Of whom are coopers.
There Is tree near Danbury, Mass.
which - over go years old. Ii is IOO
feet high and y feet in circumference.
Jim Page has started a paper at Co-
quet. Mimi, with the fre-suopestivs
name of The Pin> Knot. II should be a
red hot paper.
The Tub and Pail Factory at Big
Rapids, Mich. has started up and will
make from loo to LOO pals and 80
tubs per day With its present working
force.
The canal boat ID. V. Polhamus lately
cleared from Tonawanda, y. T.. to
Albany, with 2l3. l33 feet of lumber
aboard-the largest canal boat load of
lumber ever forwarded from Tona-
wanda.
When the recent food subsided, il
left on farm near Waco, Texas, cord
wood without end, 500 cedar rails,
enough lumber to build house, bed
steads, chicken cosps, and numerous
other things.
Geological examination reveals that
IN the delta Of the Mississippi, a long a
distance of 800 miles, 10 distinct for
ests are buried. Cypress trees with a
diameter of % feet have seen found
embedded in the aIluvium.
There are at Birmingham, Ala, four
or f1ve planning mills, sash. blind and
door factory, a cotton mill five blast
furnaces, rolling mill. four foundries,
several machine shops, railroad ma
chine shop, and two houring mills.
The Muskegon Wood Package & Bask.
ct Company has just completed a sale
of 100000 wood butter dishes for Chi
cago parties, and has closed a contract
for 2,CsJ,COO TO be sent east, also receiv-
ing large orders for peach and grape
baskets.
The statement of traffic through the
Sault Ste. Marie canal lring the month
of June this year shows a great increa 20
over June Of any previous year. 1t was
AZ follows: Registered ship tonnage.
4GO,6Ol; freight tonnage, 47l ,299 pas
sengers, 9760.
OF the tree recently cot in California
which turned out 81 cords of wood, "a
fence posts and swarm of bees, wag-
gish newspaper remarked that if il bad
been left alone for another year it would
probably have produced wool enough TO
olothe the State.
The Oregon Southern Improvement
Coos Bay, Oregon, has placed
its order with the Stearns Manufactur-
ing Company, Erie, Pc, for the saving
for its new mill. This mill,
when completed, will be one of the finest
on the Pacific coast.
A raft of walnut logs passed Baton
Rouge, La, July 18th, from the head
waters of st. Francis river. The raft
was $40 feet long and 265 feet wide, and
had in il $4,000 worth of logs. They
will be cut into lumber at New Orleans,
and then shipped north to be converted
into sewing machine frames.
Blodgett d Byrne, of Mnskegon, own
several thousand acres of pine land near
Mich, and have opened an
office at that place. Upon this land
there is an enormous amount Of valHa-
its logging railroad, which is now
sWotso thAACo tthkg AonAAAk
gins lake in that direction, banking
their logs in the lake for the Muskegon
market.
Travellers between Au Sable and
Alger, Mich, experienced warm time
during the recent forest fires. The
flames approached to within a few feet
of the track on either side, and the heat
was intense. The trains rushed through
the burning section with every door and
window closed. and the passengers
were nearly stifed by the smoke. Tue
windows Of the car became so hot that
they could not be touched.
Birdsall Il Parker employ aboat 130
men in the McGraw mill at Bay City,
Michigan, which they operate. and July
18th, forty-one of them struck for high
or wages II is stated that work was
light, and that the firm had been max
ing extensive improvements about their
property in order to give their men en-
ployment. so, after reas ,ning with the
men without effect, the firm decided to
let them go and close part Of their mile.
Washington county. Mississippi, one
of the YaZoo delta counties, produces
more cotton than any other county in
America, and only about one-third of 1t
il under cultivation. Ia a good year it
yields 5000 bales, worth $2.2U,000.
Yszoo, also a delta county, produces
45 800 bales. There are still uncleared
nearly 2 Coz, 600 acres OF quite or nearly
a. rich cotton lands as those under eul-
tivation in Washington and Yazoo
counties, purchasable at $l.50 an acre.
These wild lands are covered by heavy
growth of oak, ash, hickory, gum and
other hardwoods- marketable, and
for which there is a growing demand