The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-01
GRArs HARGOR.
Wonderful Development Of the
laundering Industry.
ArrRpEEs. W. T.. Dec.

OF the NoFt2Eesler4 Lh41Dtf NVAl4-
ranv. Geo. H. Emerson is superin-
/ tenden. and Hon John +. Soule resi-
dent secretary Tais rail cut p, 60 900
feet Of Timber during the past. year,
+ valued at $1,000 Employees in and
about the mill and yard number aboat
/ rs men, and in the woods about 80
more. The value of the plant. not in
Guiding timbar. etc, Is about sl25 600.
{ Their store carries stock OF $50 GO.
and in 1883 sold over $50. Coz.
I The company owns over 1900 acres
OF excellent timber land. worth SO
and upward per acre, and have on
hand stock OF saw-logs worth $500
I or $4,000. They also own the mail
steamer Cruiser and the tugs
Ranger Traveller, 4" Hunter" and
"Rustier. !" also large feet of sailing
( schooners employed in the coast lum-
I Der trade.
The company operate a ship-yard at
Hoauiam. where four steamers and
/ four sailing vessels have been built
during the past two years. Their IN
vestment in this county, including
mill. cumberland, steamers. store,
( houses and other property, is roughly
I estimated at over S5D0.o0.
AT ABERDEEN
/ There are four sawmills, the largest
OF which belongs to J. NJ. Weather
wax During the past year this mill
/ has cut about Il .000, 900 feet OF lumber,
+ valued at about $50 900, Value OF the
mill property, about $4,000. En-
Il . ttasH aud yard abnFlt
! 81 men, and il requires about 200 men
/ in the woods to supply ii with logs,
/ The store carries stock OF $50 600 and
/ sells SIS 900 annually. Mr.. Weather
wax owneS . 600 acres of timber land
/ in this county, worth SO per acre and
/ upward, and now he has on hand a
stock OF saw logs worth over $4,000.
/ He owns two steamers, a passenger
steamer and tug, both built at his
ward in Aberdeen and with headquar-
+ tiers here; also an interest in several
[ sailing schsoners. The total invest
ment Of Mr.. Weatherwax in this coun-
Z ty including everything is about $500
600.
( ~. Vests mill at Aberdeen has
about 10, 900 600 feet of lumber in the
past wear, but its capacity has just
been increased so that in 1850 its cut
/ will surely reach Il, o0s 600. The plant
/ is worth $1,000. and its cut for 1883 is
/ worth $3.50, 600. Employs in and about
! the mill and yard about 70 men.
{ Mack 81 Woods mill at Aberdeen
/ has produced about 90 900 600 feet of
/ lumber worth $72 600, in 1888. The
plant cost S35 600 and employs 20 men.
1 This company own considerable tim
Der land.
/ Wilson Bros. mill, also at Aberdeen,
cut in 1888 5000, 900 feet of lumber,
one third of which was cedar. The
! total cut was worth S57 800. Their
plant is valued at S2s, 600, and they
I employ 30 men about their mill. This
company own large tract of timber
lands on Johns river.
/ The firm of $. +. Slade & Co.
Wholesale lumber dealers OF Aber-
I deem and san Francisco, at both of
which places they have yards, have
/ shipped from Aberdeen 10 their San
Francisco yard about Is, coo 600 feet OF
/ lumber during 1888. cut at Aberdeen,
and valued at sl56,Oo0. o. NJ. Kellogg
/ is resident partner and manager of
I their business at Aberdeen, where
| they retail considerable lumber. This
company owns several thousand acres
/ OF timber land in Chehalia county.
/ CosNoPoLis.
The Gray's Harbor Mill Company
/ own a mill at Cosmepolis, of which
/ Geo. ". Stetson is general manager.
( Their plant is valued at about $780,
coo During the year they shipped
about Is coo 600 feet of lumber, worth
$3.50. 600. They employ about 100 men.
Walter Laidlaw's mill on Shaeffer's
island, is valued at $25 000 and en-
pleys about ~ men. 1t has been idle
/ for repairs during a considerable por
ton OF the past year, but has never
/ theless cut and shipped 5000, 600 feet
of lumber, worth S35 goo.
MoNTEsANo.
Two small mills at Montesano, val
ued at Sl2 ,0O0. and 5000. respectively,
have cut about 1900. 600 during the
year, employing probably Is men, and
1 Estus'. water-p power mill near Elma,
has been kept pretty busy supplying
its home demand. From these state
ments the following figures may be
gathered:
Value of mill plants in round fig
ures, $50 coo: total cut of lumber in
1883, about S%,00oo feet; worth, 81,
COO. 1000.
Men employed in mills and yards,
about 40; men employed in woods, as
ioggers. etc, 1000.
The Chehalis Boom Co. have Just
completed their boom on the Che
halls river, about nine miles from its
mouth 1t cost So, Oo0 and will hold
1900 e1O feet Of logs. MeSsrs. Miller
e Clark have also built a subs tantial
boom on the Wiskah river, few
miles from it. mouth. which will come
down that stream this winter.
SALMON cANSERIEs.
There are four salmon cannerics on
the harhor, owned hy the Aberdeen
Packing Co. J. G. Neglcr & Co. Z. l.
McBowen & Sons. and the Warren
Packing Co The three first
named are at Aberdeen, the
fourth which has been for
two wear. at Nonetsauo, j.
being moved TO HoQuiam.
On Gray's H8rbor the fishing season
begins about September lst, and lasts
uutil early ia November. The salmon
are caught principally in gill nets. but
traps are used extensively and ~eiunc
was succe- stUily carried on this sea-
son. During the fishing season the
eauucries employ, in all capacities
about coo men, among whom they dis
tributei. during the pAst season, prob
ably $40 e@. Although lsSS was a
bad year for salmon ou the Columbia
river, cur PACK reached upward of
20 eU cases. the value Of which NAV
he asrertaiSed from the market re
pSfts
Average Wages paid on tie harbor
q are 4a1It q 10 .uHs-
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