The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-01
rmn smrNolE INpusrnr.
Last Year the Output Was over 3.ooo,-
600 shiagIes Day.

Last Year the Output Was Over 3,000,
600 shingIes Day.
No industry in the state oil Washington
has grown so fast IN the past two years as
the manufacture of cedar shingles. The
prosfuct for iss9 was over s0o.uus n00 shin
giles. an increase OF about p per cent over
ISIS. The value Of the product Eas s., So
on. On the first of December. iSsa. there
we're sixty-eight sl4ingie mills, each large
enough "a be known a. q separate industry,
bun IN addition TO these there arr hundreds
III little concerns and on the banks 81
Hoods canal no small numhsr OF men
earn A competency in the manufacture ct
shingles BIZ hand Indeed. il rasy be said
thai the stingle industry Of Washington
extends to every settlement in the entire
section lysnx west 81 the Cascade nio0n-
tains.
Something over a year ago Ga ogEanies-
tlon vas effected ct the shinEie mills Of
Tacoma aad those along ihe hne Of the
Northern fassitic railroad east ard south Of
Txcasua under the name OF ths North
rAelilc Consolidated shingse Company
The purpose Was 10 tx = uniform price.
establish permanent relations with Eastern
consumers and raise the standard of q0as-
rs 10 the very highest Mr. Lewis Ash.
man Vas ntade The manager % the CON-
parry and he deyoles his entire hnie and
energy 70 Il. As y result market has
has heen established throughout The great
West aud as ssV cast IS Beston- The de-
mand WAS steady throughout the gear and
II TIE railroads eaatinue ~ observe The
pssseus pal4ey Of granting reasonahla rsses
the industry 1um&t 81 Necessity grew larger
every year.
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