The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-01-12

The Center Of Great Lumber In
dustry.


POINT MARION, Pa, Dec. 31.-Ws
are not so large town as yet, but
we have at our town that which
neither Uniontown nor even Pitts
lurgh has or likely ever will have
We refer TO the great center of lum.
ber;ng interests here, and in particu
lar to the sawmill of Messrs. Dew.
ing d Sons, Of Kalamazoo, Michigan
Many years ago the elder Dewine
NOW deceased) was one of the pic
neers in the lumber business of the
great northwest, and as his sons
grew to manhood they were taken
into the firm and the name given
then is still retained. The partners
are VIM s., James and Charles Dew
ing. They have saw mill at Allie
gan, Michigan, and a'sash, door and
planning mill at Kalamazoo, Michi-
gan, and their saw mill located here
is an immense affair and complete in
all its details. The binding is COW
cred with iron. sided with iron and
is lined inside with iron. A battery
CT five boilers will furnish steam for
the main engine which drives the
vast machinery, also steam to the
'riggern which handles the logs on
the carriage and also the carriage is
attached direct to piston rod which
works in steam cylinder as long as
the largest logs sawed, and thus the
carriage is moved back and forward
| by steam direct. All refuse such as
slabs, saw dust, etc, is conveyed to
a safe place and burned The saw
dust needed for fuel is fed direct to
the furnance under the boilers.
The mill is on the bank of the
Fayette county side of the Monon-
gahela river and their first boom is
just Immediately above in the river.
The firm have number of strong
piers some 40 feet high bnilt and are
building others so as to connect them
together by floats and chains attach.
ed to the piers so rs TO retain their
logs. In this boom they have sever
al acres enclosed: they also have
some % acres where their mill
stands. They have lately bought
of Sadler's heirs the north shore of
Cheat river and have built an abut-
ment to which is to be hung the
sheer boom which when needed will
be thrown out to sheer the logs into
their boom. Dewing d Sons and
the Hulings Lumber Co. own the
Cheat river boom which begins at
the lower end of the "big island"
and extends up Cheat river But
all this is but small affair to what
the Dewings have up Cheat on Shat
fers Fork, where they own 100000
acres in one body, all covered with
heavy growth of fine timber Last
spring the great body of logs they
had put into Skaters fork started
down at a small rise but formed a
jam and blocked the stream up
so they have had force Of men at
work cleaning out the bed of the
stream, cutting the timber, blasting
the rocks, and now all is ready to
move down. The mill has not vet
been put in operation owing to the
lack of logs.
Mr.. Frank Keyser, who resides here
with his family as their superintend-
ent, and is a practical saw mill man,
is alive to the interests of his employ
ers When in full operation the
mill will employ about so hands and
the daily cut will be about 10000
feet of sawed lumber besides lath.
The Rulings Lumber Co.'s mills
are two miles below us on the Fay
cite county bank of the Monongahe-
la. They have just finished their
summers cut and are preparing for
the winters work. They also own
an immense tract Of timber lands up
Cheat river Hon. Willis j. Rulings
is the principal owner of this firm
and their headquarters are in Oil
City, Pa. They employ about 20
hands.
Cagey Il Dilliner have saw mill
on the Greene county side of the
river one mile below here. They
give employment to some hands.
Bnrchinal Il Clark have saw and
planning mill on the north side of
Cheat here. Their building was
moved in the July flood and was
wreck. They have not yet rebuilt,
but are running their mill They
employ about or hands.
Keyser q Frankenberry own and
operate the Point Marion saw and
planning mills. The business was
established 81 years last September
They lost heavily'in the July floods,
but at once bought a large lot of logs
of the Grafton boom company, and
now have their lumber yard full of
fine lumber. They employ about 10
hands in both mills and cut in the
saw mill about 5000 feet per day
They own two tracts Of timber land
up Cheat, having lately sold one
tract for a good sum of money.
1t will be seen from this short
sketch how great the timber inter-
ests of cur town soon will be and
why we are so much interested in
the future of Cheat river and also
why we ask the government to assist
US in making Cheat numbering
stream. Col Merrell said in regard
to the matter: 1.-The nation does not
aid individuals but the people want
the lumber up this stream and the
nation should open The way for them
TO get at it.
We understand preliminary sur
vey has been made on Cheat from
Rowlesburg down and that Congress
will be asked to assist in blasting
the rocks so as to make better
channel and also to remove other
instructions, so that the MANY mil
lions of saw logs will float to the
booms here.
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