The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-01
THE BIG MILLS.

A FEW FACTS FROM THE PRINCIPAL LUN-
| BER-PRoDUCING ESTABLISHMENTS.
Every considerable sawmill on Puget
Sound is located in sheltered harbor
on deep water-so deep that the largest
ship evcs built can sail or be towed TO
| the mill wharf and her keel be several
feet above the bottom. In selecting
the various mill sites care was exer-
cised in choosing such localities as are
sheltered in.all sorts OF weather, and,
except in one or two localities, it never
| happens that vessel can not lie safely
/ at any mill wharf during the highest
winds OF winter.
/ The Port Discovery mill is owned
and operated by the Port Discovery
/ Mill Company. Its capacity is l65 900
TO 10000 feet per day, and il gives EN-
! ployment to 200 men. Mr.. Charles A.
I Moore il the superintendent. The
company own the ship jeremiah
\ Thompson, ,s3i tons, the bark Mary
! Glover, 100 tons. and the brig Deacon,
400 tons; also the iron tug Pioneer, the
most profitable piece of steamship
property ON Puget Sound.
The Hadlock mill. situated at the
| head of Port Townsend Bay, is owned
owned by the Washington Mil Com
pany. IL is the largest single mill on
\ Puget Sound Mr.. X. Kendrick is super
1 intendent. The company own the
| ship Guardian, 1912 tons, the bark
/ Arcturus, 1907 tons. the bark Pearl,
/ 500 tons. the barkentine, J. VI. Griffith
| $40 tons, and the barkentine Retriever,
/ $40 tons; also the tug Holyoke, and
/ the tow boats Louise and Colfax. The
mill employs 10 men.
The largest milling concern on Puget
! Sound is the Puget Mill Company,
whose headquarters are at Port Gam
| bic. They own the mill at that place,
another at Port Ludlow and another
at Utsaladv. The cut of these three
mills in the - months ending Nov. 30,
! 1ssS. was over IS .0rD 600 feet. Port
| Gamble is one OF the pioneer mills OF
Puget Sound. It was started In Sep
TENDER, 1853, by w. G. Talbot and A.
I ]. Pope OF san Fancisco, and J. !.
4 Kellar and Charles Foster Of East
/ MachiaS, Maine, who arrived in the
previous July in the schooner Julia
| Pringle From little mill they built
% years ago, has grown the great en-
| terprise of to-day
The average cut st the Port Gamble
mill is l6U 0o0 feet per day. Two hun
bred men are employed. The Puget
/ Sound Commercial Company. q sister
corporation of the Puget MIL Com
pany, oxn the following vessels. The
| bark Arkwricht 1900 tons; bark Alta
lanta. S2i tons; bars CoWlitz, 40 tons;
bark Emerald. 1884 tons; bark James
Cheston. 9t5 tons; ship Csrondelet,
\ 1888 tons; bark Fresno. 1is7 tons; ship
/ Bonanza. 1856 tons; ship Palmyra.
( 1859 tons; baTkentiUe k!ickiiat, s6S
/ tons. barkentine Kiisap, to- tons
harkentipe Skagit, al tons; bark Gen
{ Butler. lig} tons; bark Sycamore. iS4l
/ tons; also. the tug Tyee, Goiiah, IA
vorite and Cyrus Walker, the stern
wheel steamer Yakima and the steam
I launch Hyack The Tyee i the most
/ powerful lugboat on the Pacific Coast.
I IL i OF record that she took hold OF
/ the harss Sycamore, General Butler
and James Che ton. whose combined
tonnage is $40 tens, all carrying full
[ loads. and towed them from Port
Gamble to ten miles OF Cape Fiattery,
a distance Of I9s miles. in u hours.
/ There was no wind and the tide vas
I kANtl Aunt
/ The Port Madison NH Is the corpo-
| rate name OF the mill az Port Madison,
| IL starte8 in the fall Of ls55, being
moved from Apple Tree Cove, where
| Il started in 1851 In 1885, the mill wa
/ bought by Mr.. Meiggs. who has ever
since conducted II. The average cut
| Is f25 Os,1 feet per day. and the mlb
| etnulov- about - men. The entire
/ product Of this mill i shipped Ia Cali
| fornia The min owns the bArks, II
! dal Wave, g9 tons; Northwest, DO
tons: Videtfe GIG tons, oakland 5Si
tons: Sonautum. I0a Tors and Nellie
Nav. go tons: also, the toEboHt Nd
die.
/ The Tacoma Nil Company own the
/ largest mill in Tacoma u Wa siarted
| in isSS ~ Hanson, AcsersoI a Co.
| with a capacity Of 10000 feet per daN
aud hiss crsxn - he the second uiii
on Puget Soand. being ranked only By
the Port Blakelsy nil near sesttie-
N employs 20 men. The company
oxn the ship Dastiug Wave, itss4 iois>
spd the hark- Shirley 90 tons, the
Canada l44i tons, 2nd tue saGlssstsi
s)l tons. also the tugs Tacoma afid
Katie and tfse towtoaf LephyF.
TIE Pacific Nil Company tbs year
bgiit a large mill six H4iles above q
coma. Ii has hem N operation since
September last. l. Is 20 feet Eide -
1 as feet long, and j. Fitted With band
circular and gang SAYS. pl4ner, ala
1 machine. steam s'alggsr, etc Ahs