Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-28
LOWER SOUND INDUSTRIES.
Port Discovery Lander and SAN Juan
Lime.
fVieforia Timao
Victoria Times.l

Victoria Times.
The Port Discovery aw-mills, ten
miles from Port Townsend, owned by
Messrs. Moore d Smith, of San Fran
cisco and Stockton, California, have
been in operation since 1856. They
have capacity for 10000 feet per day
of fir lumber. 1t is cut for shipment to
San Francisco and foreign markets.
There are regularly employed no less
than ITO men, and, including logging
camps, 225. Mr.. George W. Downs is
the superintendent. The steamer s. l..
Mastick Is kept constantly employed in
towing logs and vessels. The company
has also three sailing vessels of it's own.
In the mill there is one immense double
60inch circular saw, one 50-inch resaw-
or, one set of 54-inch gate, one edger,
including q total of eight saws and
three sets of trimmers. There are also
one lath machine, three planners, etc.
There are four engines, making power
equal to 800 horses. In connection with
the mill there is very large store filled
with a great variety of indispensable
goods. There are also several buildings
in connection with the store and mills
which are used for various purposes. A
large business is being done.
THE EUREKA LIME WORKS.
The Eureka lime works are situated
on Ban Juan Island, not far from the
post office of Friday Harbor. They are
owned by K. N. Lee d Co., and the in
dustry has been actively carried for
ward for the past five years. II was
started on limited scale, with a small
output. The limestone is compact in
character and very fine in quality, and
for building purposes it is known to have
no superior. The present capacity is
$50 barrels per day, and il takes some
twenty-five men to run the two kilns.
The latter are the improved patent
draw kilns. The company owns 375
acres in all, of which there are fifty-five
acres of the compact stone. Therefore
the supply is unlimited. The city of
Portland, Or, uses immense quantities
of this valuable lime in building up that
metropolis. The price per barrel is
S1.75, each barrel being 2l0 pounds.
The late introduction of it to San Fran
CISCO will mark very prosperous era
in the history of the Eureka Lime
Works. There is a carpenter shop, nu-
merous outbuildings, and wharf to
deep water at low tide. The works are
on very prosperous basis. Nearly
every one has heard of McCurdv's ex-
tensive lime kilns, also located on San
Juan Island. They are running good
force of men, and withal a very pros
porous business.
GULF OF GEORGIA MANUFAcToRY.
The Roche Harbor lime works are
situated on toe extreme northwest
end of the island of San Juan,
Gulf of Georgia. The company has
been In operation two and half
years, during which time these
works have done a very large and prof.
table business. The quality of the
lime is excellent, and the demand
has been growing and increasing.
Roohe Harbor has a Custom House
and posteffice also. Messrs. Scurr
Brothers are the proprietors. They
employ twenty-five men, and from their
two kilns of the perpetual draw order,
they turn out lbs barrels per day. Sc
attle, Portland, Nanaimo, New West
minister and many other points all use
their lime. The steamers plying along
the gulf call in there. No liquor is
permitted to be sold at Roche Harbor,
which is an industrious little place.
The quarries are said TO be inexhausti-
BILE, and An analysis shows the stone to
stand at 1850 100 lime, which is almost
pure.