Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-13
Lumber Interests of Puget Sound

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has compiled much valuable infoima-
ton regarding the lumber interests
Of Puget Sound. A list of the mills
shows tEat there are "a with q cut
ting cal aci:y Of l 300 900 feet daily,
and an aggregate of 5000 600 ill.,
vested in mill property and sites.
This does not include the large
holdings of the several companies
Of timber lands. The Puget Mill
. Company is accredited with the ow
nersh.p of SIS, 100 acres, but this is
far below the actual GIen, as Mason
and Chehalis counties aie hot III
Guided in the estimate, where then
holdings are largest. Ii w:ll Iun
considerably over 100000 acres, and
at q low valuation is wor; :; least
half a million dollars. Thr total
valuo CT mill property and ho 'iinss
on Puget Sound is placed by the
Jou,l,al at 81 ,074 $50, very moder-
ate estimate which would be mater
tally increased by full report of the
timber crea. The number of sailing
vessels owned by these mills is
placed at 20, and tugs at IL The
Puget Mill Company leads in this
class Of property, as in all Others,
with 10 sailing vessels and / tugs.
The Tacoma mill follows with )
vessels and l tug, Port Blakely with
4 vessels ard , tugs, Washington
company with 9 vessels and 2 tugs,
and the Port Madison company with
5 vessels and l tug. These COM
panies likewise own valuable prop
erty in San Francisco in the shape Of
lumber yards, stock, etc.
Adopting tho Journals language,
which is as fair Il report rs has yet
been given, we continue: In West
tern Washington, between the Cas-
cade range on the Est, and the
Coast, or Olympic range, on the
West, and between the 47th and 10th
degrees of North latitude, is thickly
timbered belt of fir, cedar, alder, ma
pie and other woods. OF these, fir
probably represents tlree-fourths.
In the midst of this wealth of forest
Nature has placed broad deep arm
of the Pacific Ocean-Puget Sound
with which it is connected by the
Strait of Fuca. Thus not only has
Nature provided the timber, but the
waterway also by which it is possible
for the merchant marine of the
world to come and obtain their lum.
Der supplies, much of which, some
time in the future, must be furnished
from these forests. Already the
lumber trade with Australia, Central
and South America. China, and the
Islands of the Pacific, amounts tC
fully 5000, COO feet a year, and EN-
ploys fleet Of about Is vessels ever,
month.
Puget Sound is 200 miles il
length, and has meander line o
) 1880 miles. This irregular shor,
forms innumerable harbors, splen
didly adapted for the erection of saw
mills, and other woodworking fac
tories, and also for the establishment
of ship yards. Along this whole
shore line and from thence on boil
sides as far as the eye reaches, moth
ing can be seen but the vast ant
magnificent wealth Of timber, saw
| here and there where man has estat
) lished mill port, town, or an oc
I casional farm. In the timber belt o
: Western Washington, there are 20,
000, GOO acres covered with timber
:, most of which is included within thu
limits naned-an area nearly equa
. to the combined areas of the State
6 of Connecticut, Massachusetts,, Yer
mont and New Hampshire. Thi
timber belt will average 25 200 fee
OF lumber to the acre, or q total o
500, 600, 100000 feet of lumber
Hence the sawmills of Puget Scum,
with their present capacity of 500,
:, 600, 900 feet a year, would take l ,00I
years to cut it down. The fir tree
frequently attain the height of %
y feet, and planks OF lumber arc some
y times turned out of these mills 10
/, or more feet in length.
u ONION sociables are the lates
= fashionable novelty. and will n
g doubt become popular in Olympia
ClA AnttICS LdhC III OulOu WIFI lueU
o into a room, and one of them take
IS bite out of it. Then a young gen
J. tleman is admitted, and if, afte
) kissing them all, he fails to tel
u which of them bit tie onion, all tn
,. girls arc obliged to kiss him. Where
: ever this game has been introduced
9 it has developed the fact that the boy
q are exceedingly poor at guessing
J. There has not been an instance ,e
n corded where one has succeeded, III
@ til the breath of every girl smelt lik
r. asafoetida.
81 REV. DR.. Burchard, the zealou
J. political preacher who retired
II Mr.. Blaine by his famous bull o