, 1884-01-10

Wv III 'hANA'l- i ~ A1'EN '-a' N''-- '@-7
temperature was about zero.
On the dar the above was recorded
in the several eastern cities mentioned
tine thermometer III Port Townsend
stood Is degrees above zero III the
morning and % degrees above III the
afternoon. showing remarkable
difference in favor Of this point,
although some Of the eastern points
quoted are far south Of IL.
PIERCE CoUHrY. Pierce comfy has
taxable property valued at S2.9l3.9U6.
an increase. during the year 1883 Of
II, ,S9O.695- Its transfers of real
estate during the year aggregated
over Il million and a half dollars.
Its principal town. New Tacoma,
since absorbing the old town. includes
IN It's corporate limits 2.93S acres Of
land. In this town. also, there are
thirty lawyers. During the year
there were 2O6 arrests in New Taco
ma. In the county fourteen arrests
on charges Of ilsanity were made
during the year, thirteen of whom
were committed to the asylum. S,v-
epty-four marriage licenses We're
granted by the auditor Hanson x
Cos saw mil, perhaps the largest
factory in the country. cut during the
year 1882 about thirty-two million
feet of lumber. employed on an aver
age one hundred and thirty men, paid
oLt on labor account eighty-tiyc
thousand dollars. and expended over
one hundred thousand dollars in en-
iarging and adding new machinery
during the past year. Seventy-two
cargoes Of lumber have been sent
from this mill, OF which twentyfOur,
or an average of two Il month, have
gone TO foreign ports, largely to
South America, China and Japan;
and the cut of the mill has been in
creased to the enormous amount of
! fifty million feet of lumber and ten
million laths, furnishing employment
| to two hundred men with a pay roll
amounting to one hundred and TWEEN
| ty-iive thousand dollars. The firm
also keeps eighteen logging camps in
operation, with about six hundred
men and nearly as many oxen con
stantly employed. About tenth
of the lumber manufactured, OF five
million feet, has been absorbed in
home consumption. Vessels belong
! ing to Hanson y Co. are: ships Da5n-
ing Wave, Shirley and Canada, and
bark Samoset, having a total carry
ing capacity OF about three million
feet The tug Tacoma belonging to
this company Is perhaps the most
powerful on the Sound, and is in con
slant service. The capital invested
| in this establishment, with lis vessels.
timber lands (of which they have IL
sut1iciency for thirty years to Gomez,
ware houses and stocks of merchan-
disc, cannot be less tkan, and would
probably exceed one million dollars.
The company carries insurance out
side of their ships, amounting to
about two hundred Thousand dollars,
and the months expenses of all its
operations Is estimated at about one
hundred thousand dollars Such an
institution, built mainly out of the
forests of Puget Souud, by the untir-
ing energy and enterprise of single
firm, III the space of fifteen years, re
fleets credit on its proprietor, as well
as the efficient superintendent, Geo
4. Atkinson, who has welded its vast
machinery with marked success for
many years About two million
bricks have been made in the county
during the past year; and the indus
try will grow largely this year. Hotel
registers in New Tacoma show that
upwards of twenty-thousand people
have visited or passed through that
place during the past year. About
ten thousand cases of canned fish and
two hundred barrels of salmon have
been put up IN the county during the
year, and the industry is just in its
infancy. NJ +. Hatch d Co.'S saw
mill In New Tacoma cut eleven mil
lion feet of lumber aud five million
laths during the yeIr, employed forty
men and paid them twenty-five thous-
an 1 doH 70 Pages shingle mill man
uf .ctured f .ur million shingles dur
in ! the year past, all OF which were
sod In IacCma at an average price
of 50 per thousand. 1t employs sew
c tteen men at an average of u. rs per
day each. Lister, Houghton 4 Cos
machine shop aud foundry employed
On an average ghty men during the
year, and paid them upwards of fifty
UnoaSand dollars. Coal shipments
from Carbonada, South Prairie and
Wilkeson mines, all tributary to
Tacoma, aggregated during the year
one hundred and sixty-eight thous-
and one hunGred aud fifteen; income
to the county from this industry al
ready reaches SIX hundred and sew
enty-two Thousand four hundred and
twenty dollars per annum. Gross
income from Puyallup hops during
the year, one hundred and seventy
nine thousand nine hundred and six
ty dollars, fIOm total of one million
forty SIX Thousand three hundred ana
nlnety-one pounds; net price, eighty
four thousand SIX hundred and
eighty-seven dollars. Northern Pacific
Car shops in Tacoma manufactured
during the year two-hundred aud
thirteen flat cars, twenty-five
stock cars, four cabooses, three mail
and express cars, three passenger
cans, and one pay Car, employing an
average of one hundred and seventy
i've men at an average of three dollars
per day each. In addition to build
ing cars the shops have kept twenty
engines and all the rolling stock in
repair, built large engine for the
Sprague shops, and did the bridge
tud track work in iron for the entire
division. They are splendidly
equipped shops, turn out tirst-class
work III every department We have
condensed the foregoing from the
valuable, doub. .e-size new year edi-
ton OF the Tacoma Daily Necs,
a journal that continually bristies
with statistical items of much inter
est and vaIue. Pierce county Is one
OF the largest, richest, most populous
and thrifty counties III Wash Egt IN