Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-08-28

Dor Of Por, Arthur, Ont, norsi
shore Of Lake Superior, will be 2, 90
feet long when completed. 1t will b
composed Of 20 cribs, buils Of I2xl:
timbers, doyetailed and bolted.
According 10 the custom house re
port, there was shipped from th'
port of Alpena. Mich, this year. NJ
to July 81, IS. $50, 90 feet Of lumber
as compared to 81, 545, ,0Oo feet for 1
corresponding time last year.
Cow, Majo & Co. last week mad'
their second shipment OF sawdus
from their mill at Muskegon. Mich,
70 the terra colts works at Pulhaan
Iii. There was dust 70 the amount
of 50 tons In the shipmeut-
The Kirby Carpenter Company, al
Aenominee. Mich, pays its men al
average OF $50 80 q month, which
includes all drawing wages and
salary except the woods boss- The
Bay Shore Lumber Company, al the
same place, pays an average of so
month.
Ryerson, Hills & Co. lately finished
operations for the season ST Newaygo.
Mich having put in 10 000. 900 teel
of logs over the PickereI Lake rail.
road. Their train made Is trips 4
day, hauling 10 cars each trip for 4c
days. A million feet w.s thus trans
ported every three days.
The contract for new grain eleva-
tor al Washburn, Wis, has been let.
1t win have a capacity OF stsO.0OJ
bushels. The building will be found
ed on crib work, raised 20 feet from
the bottom of the bay. which Is ne
cessary on account OF the formation
of@be ground there. The cribs will
require Z, 900, 900 feet of 12x12 timber
The White River Log & Boom
Company. Mich, has sorted and de-
livered for the spring drive "a, 1884. :
$40 feet of logs. Besides there were
20. 000, 900 feet brought in by rail for
the ). N. Wilcox Lumber Company,
or by other parties in the same man
ner. The cut for the season will
amount to over 100, coo, 900 feet-or
more than the cut for last year
Gen. John LAWYERS new pile and
pontOon railroad bridge across the
Mississippi at Prairie du Chen, was
completed August 9, and the first
through passenger train then passed
over IL. The bridge has two draws,
each 406 feet long. costing together
800. 900. The entire structure cost
$500, 600, and is said TO be the strong
est and safest railway bridge on the
Mississippi.
II Is said that there Is a magnificent
belt of cedar along the Northern
Pacific railway, in Montana. 1t is in
a single body. and Is estimated at
l00, 0O0, 900 feet. The forest surrounds
lake, and Is penetrated by good
driving streams. This cedar is light
of weight. and susceptible OF high
polish. IL could be run to Spokane
Falls for shipment, either as lumber
or waney timber.
The Blaekband Coal & Iron Com
pany has recently sold the stumpage
on its DAVIS creek lands 10 kanawha
county, w. Va. to parties who will
saw il at Spring Hill station, on the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. The
prices paid were g. so n thousand
for tulip poplar 81 for" white oak
and $3.50 for pine aud hemlock.
The Mount Carbon Coal Company
has made = sale Of the stumpage on
is Armstrong creek lands, about
10. 600 acres. at $3 thousand.
The Henderson railroad bridge
across the Ohio below Evansville,
Ind, to be used by the Louisville &
Nashville railway which was recently
completed. cost 81, 900, 900. Ii Is
), 6S6 feet in length, and has l6 spans
proper. The channel span is 525 feet
from center TO center of the pier, and
is said 10 be the longest triangular
truss span 10 the world. This span
provides for 100 feet above low water
mark, aud SO feet above high water.
The railroad track on the Indians
side leaves the iron bridge about 500
feet from the shore, on a timber
trestle, the first half mile OF which is
creosoled. Three miles from the
river the trestlo strikes an embank-
ment. and from thence the road con.
tinues to Evansville. There was
/ $40, 600 feet of white oak and 225
tons of iron used 10 the structure.