Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-28
10 SELECT TIE SITE.
TIE 0aAx's HARBoB MILL TO HI BUILT
AT oAcB-A SEATTLE NAN TO 50
PERIBTRND TIE JOB.

Sometime since the fsct wsa published
thai the various say mill owners on Pu-
GET Sound had formed themselves into
a corporation, under the laws Of Wash
iDgloa Territory, for the purpose Of
building one Of the largest saw mills on
the Pacifa coast at GSay's HaFbor.
The company has Two principle OBJ
iscts 10 view In building tnst mill. In
lhs irst pisce, the dtsire to regulate the
pgica Of logs aud make them uni oFm on
GrAy's Harbor and Puget sound and
IN the second place, they have secured
q large tract OF nne timber over there
whioh they wish 10 manufacture up into
lumber.
A. p<ss ent the price Of logs on Grsy's
HarbsF Is from &l.b0 20 81 less per
Thousand than on Puget Sound,
vale she cutting OF them into lumbef
can be done As cheaplg there as on Pu-
ees sound. Hence, tbs Geay's HsFbsE
lumber manufacturers can place their
products on the market Of San Francis
90 cheaper than the Sound milis can.
With an immense steam mill on Gfay's
HaroOr eontrslled By themselves the
manufacturers on Puget Sound can reg
nlafe the price OF saWiogs on Gfay's
HarboE.
Yesterday afternoon George W. Stet-
SOP, Of this city. left for Gfsy's HaFooE
70 locate tue site Of the new uiii and
boom for the Gray's HaFbar Mill Com
Rany, and on bis rsturn IN about ten
DAYS be will make the drawings for the
mill and sapsEiusand It's construction.
The steamer Politkofsky made o special
trip 10 carry Mr.. Stetson TO kamilohe,
from where be will 20 out to the end OF
the track on the Puget Sound and
6rAy's Harb0r road, and there be met BY
carriage 10 take him through. BE
will theFs oEgsniEs q Surveying party
and layout the mill site recently par
CHASED ~ the company.
Ia speaking OF this matter Mr.. Stet.
500 said: "The mill vill be three times
the saz5 Of ssetson & Posts mill In Sc.
attic, and vii be httsd up with the LAT
est snd most Improved machinery for
tbs economical manufaotnEe OF lum-
GeF.s
To show how the Puget Sound lum-
bermen are branching Out in all direc.
siors, the following interview IN O late
numbsF OF lbs san Francisco kIaStnsr
! will be read With tateseali
4 SUM AA0A4 tARag N11 eANhr~N
from Fresno yesterday, reports that
Messrs. Moore and Smith have bought
12O0 aeFus Of fins redSood and sugar
pins timber on the Kings river, from
lIIoyd Teyis aud 500 acres from Mrs.
Converse. Immediately after g. Is pur-
chase came eighty entries Of lands
| uadaF the timber lands aot were made
/ in the SANS visiulty, through the Stsek-
Il faeA afF II
| sofrsnily believed that Moore and
Snish we're behind these entries. oo'
1 Il vas nos kuoUn for a certainty"
nMr. smith, resumed Dir. Tho 2
soa, lis the owner Of the great Port
Discovers mills IN Washington Terrific.
~, bot resides Ia San Francisco, a.
does bis partner. They have more
than dozen big Lumber yards IN tnt
various towns Of the state, and next
spring Gill erect too mills, sixty miles
90 she Kings river from Fresno, Were
the lands are situated. Eaen o. iht
nlIIs viii cut from 1900 20 5000 feet 2
DAY. They vii Also bald standard
gauge Faiiroa3 s::sn CSaiervilie, tWen
Is tso niles southeast OF Fresno, =.
40 the Kings river eanyon 10 the site Of
these mills. snd peEksps beyond.
Il havs Travelled extensively all oveI
lie STATE. and mast say that outside Of
the E-l river region IN Humboldt eoun-
" there il no saca timber 10 Oalif0Fnis
a. COS tbcse 90 The Kings river. Tnsrs
ass trees thexe fggn seven 20 hfteeE
feet 10 diarasteF. aud recently wher
| riding in the Kings river woods. rodi
my eorse into bugnt-out redwood
trunk lRat lag on the ground, a.
tzrned him roana. You viii know b.
this that there are big trees there.
arhe Slocktoa AMI Ccppero0olis rait
road ,s 30 be extended 20 that region
TOO. by wsy d FEsalia. The tSo Foeo
will open ~ $ bis country.
sM ssr snd smith. Sh0 sre goins .
baild the aFsi railroad aud the 10
mills. have tie contract for building 81
great name 10 San Diego counts
watch reqnires 100000 feet OF lum
ibF"