The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-29

pTOOtDll cue Dcsl duu most durable tdDle
top used upon any machine, and utlizes a
hitherto neglected, If not actually despised,
wood, which could hardly be given away by
its owners. This method of working il
up cannot fail to commend itself on the
score of economy in the wood itself. The
waste is reduced to the very minimum,
really involving only the sawdust made in
cfoss'cutting the logs. The latter cost
about IS thousand, delivered at the fac.
terry, in contradiStinction to walnut lumber
hitherto used for the same purpose, at a
cost running all the way from 500 up.
There is literally no interruption in the
work between the stump and the finished
table. Green logs may be taken from the
water in the morning, passed through the
processes have outlined, and shipped as
complete table tops, ready for finishing, IN
the afternoon OF the same day. The factory
at present turns out 2,400 of them per day.
Work is already commenced upon new
buildings which are to be constructed in
the near future, in which the finishing
work will be done here. The Singer com
pany has a capital of $l7,0OO,OOO, and sells
its machines in every city throughout the
world. That 1t should select Cairo as the
most favorable point for the location Of
such an immense plant is regarded by its
citizens as substantial recognition of its
merits as a manufacturing center.
Adjoining the factory of the Singer Man
ufacturing Company is the Cairo Box and
Basket Factory The factory contains q
double circular, gang edger, lumber trim
mer, live rolls etc, the equipment being Of
the improved modern kind, capable of do
ing frst.clGss work. The lower floor con-
tains single machinery and veneer mill
for cutting box stuff, the machinery for
working up which is in an ell of the NAN
building. An elevated tramway is used to
convey lumber by means of car and mule
to the pihng grounds adjoining the mill,
on which there was cross-piled, at the time
of my visit, about 100000 feet of hard
wood lumber in all stages of dryness, hav-
ing been piled from six months to two
years. The mill was not running at the
time Of my visit. The stock in pile con-.
sists of oak, ash, cottonwood, sycamore,
cypress and gum, the bulk of it sufficiently
dry to go into immediate use. Better ship
ping facilities could not reasonably be
asked for. The tracks of the Illinois Cen
trail, an unbroken line from Sioux City,
Iowa, and Chicago to New Orleans, run
past the front of the mill and the Wabash
through the yard in the rear of it. Besides
these, Cairo is the terminus Of the Texas &
ST. Louis Narrow-gauge, which runs down
across Arkansas into Texas about 500
miles, reaching such points in the latter
State as Waco, Tyler and Gatesville; the
Mobile & Ohio, which extends through one
of the richest agricultural sections of the
South to the Gulf; the Cairo Short Line to
St. Louis; the Iron Mountain also to st.
Louis; branch of the great Wabash sys-
TEN connecting with the main line at Dan
vile, ILL.,, and present prospects indicate
that branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio
the great Huntington system-will reach
here within the year. Add TO all these
railroads the facilities Cairo possesses for
water transportation, which includes the
and Ohio rivers with their nav-
gable tributaries, and you can just begin
to comprehend what sort of natural radl-
ating point this must be. The check
which one system holds over the other in
sures to Cairo shippers a minimum rate of
freight In almost any direction.
Speaking of the oak timber tributary to
Cairo, my informant said that he was just
getting raft of logs from Mayfeld creek,
near by, the pieces to be Gj feet long and
none less than 20 inches in diameter at the
small end, and he did not seem to consider
t as at all uncommon. Cottonwood grows
n this soil with astonishing rapidity. The
zane gentleman informed me that he re-
,eived a cottonwood log the other day 28
inches IN diameter that was only IA years
Did. The ease with which logging opera
ions are conducted in this vicinity would
sstonish northwestern logger The cot
.onwood or gum trees are telled into the
water, the top cut off and the whole trees
made up into RATS and towed to the mills,
where they are cut into whatever length of
log that may be desirable by drag saws as
they are hauled up the slide.