The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-01
ORGANIZED INDUSTRIES.


Mountaineering Lumber Trade.
The immediate industries of Seattle
are as large in proportion as those OF
any city on the Pacific coast. The
sawmills at the city front or little
removed, but owned and operated by
Seattle men, are six in number. The
Stetson & Post mill cuts annually the
equivalent OF q, 000, 600 feet of lumber,
worth 500, 600 The company employs
100 men. The Oregon Improvement
company's mill cuts annually aO000,-
90 feet OF lumber, worth 500 600.
This mill gives employment to seventy
men. The Seattle Commercial COM
pany cuts a0,O00 900 feet, worth $o4O.-
600, and employs seventy men. The
feet OF lumber, worth $is0. 900, and EN-
ton mill cuts !, W0, 900 feet Of lumber,
worth $36,oW, and employs fifteen
men; and the Newell mill cuts 5000
600 feet, worth $36 700, and employs
twelve men. The lumber business OF
Seattle, it will be seen, yields over
81 ,000, 900 per year in the value of pro-
duct. 1t may be added that the whole
OF the product at the present time finds
ready sale in the city for the purposes
of local improvement. Another lum-
Der enterprise, now in its constructive
stage, is the Satsop mill, which will be
the largest in the world. 1t will be
built with Seattle capital and owned
and operated by Seattle men.
Accessory to the lumber business is
that OF logging, which is very heavy
and profitable in the region near Seat.
tie. The logs cut in King county,
nearly all OF which are marketed in
Seattle. aggregate 10000 feet per day
worth $3.50 and s. per 1000. This
large product represents the work OF
twelve logging camps along the sew
eral lines OF railway and navigation
the logs coming to the city both by
rail and water. In the twelve logging
camps 100 men find profitable employ.
ment.
GENERAL FACTORIES.
Furniture factories and light wood
working establishments are numerous
in Seattle, aud employ the aggregate
number OF l50 men. Two grist mills
produce $50 barrels of -four per day.
A creosoting establishment dresses
piles in a way to protect them from
from the teredo and other salt water
pests. There is dry dock at Seattle
which takes in vessels of go feet
length. or OF 1900 to 1000 tons burden.
The cost OF this establishment was
$50 900, and connected with it there is
a ship yard and machine shop
equipped at total cost of SIS 900. The
railroad car and repairing shops will
employ $50 men. The
LIGHTER LINES
OF industry are well represented. Six
cigar factories and one cigar-box fact
| Dry employ forty persons. Four
candy factories employ thirty persons.
Three foundries employ $50 men.
There is a cracker factory. a soap fact
DRY. an ice factory, feed mill. bran
works. a wool-pullery. a tannery, and
saltwater factory, all of which are
doing a profitable business. At least
$50 men find work in tailor, wagon,
blacksmith. boot and shoe and other
shops, and as many women and girls
are employed in dress-making and
other light trades. A book bindcry
employs five persons; four job print
ing and five newspaper offices employ
40 men and boys in mechanical work
a medicine factory employs eight per-
sons; seven brick yards employ l6o
men. and will make s.ooo.00 brick
this season; there are. three boiler
shops; bodybuilding gives embloy-
ment TO twenty men. There is gal
vanixed iron shop, brass foundry
three hrewe-ics, and many other
small beginnings which il would be
tedious TO recite.
GOOD BEGINNING.
| have been at the pains to give
these things in detail, no. because the
enterprises are great, has because they
illustrate the demands OF the country
and the further important fact that
Seattle, as the center. j. meeting the
calls upon her, although in a small
way. The beginnings OF a hundred
kinds OF manufacture which may he
seen here is of far greater importance
10 the town than would be one or two
mammoth establishments operated
upon single line. To the thoughtful
observer loo little shops means in a
few year. 100 great factories.
In manufacture, a. in ira le, at Seat
lie the status il wholesome. There
has not been failure for many years.