Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-07-04

to the Worlds Fair. Kitsap County
says it can Beat Pierce County when
it Comes to Big Timbers-Capt.
Farnham Tells about the Largest
Timber ever sent from Puget Sound
He thinks it Possible to cut a
Timber $50 feet Long.
The Tacoma Ledger boastfully as
serts that mill in that city will cut a
larger stick of timber than was ever
before sawed in this world. 1t is to
be sent to the worlds fair at Chicago.
President Charles Hanson of the
Tacoma Mill Company says that his
company has been quoted as saying:
eve will cut and load on cars at
our mill in the first ward, free OF
charge, the prize stick of the world.
l talked the matter over with Capt.
Libby, and we have decided to make q
formal proposition to any representa-
tives OF this State, to cut and place
the big stick on cars at the mill. This
We will do as our share of the work in
sending to Chicago from this State
the largest stick ever sawed by any
mill in the world"
How large a stick do you think
you can find for the purpose?"
"Well, we do not propose to state
that just yet. Let's wait and see
what other mills will propose. am
satisfied we can beat them all. AL
ready we have turned out stick $50
long and 3Ox30 inches square. Yes,
that's a pretty good sized clip, but we
can do much better than that on be-
half of Washington for the worlds
fair. Only the other day we got a
stick 13O feet long for the ship that is
being built over on the flats near the
St. Paul and Tacoma mill"
The Kitsap County Pioneer says in
relation to the above:
Tacoma makes more blow over their
little whang doodle" mills than we
ever thought of doing with the three
biggest mills in the world in our
county. 1t is all right for the Ia
coma people to "talk" about cutting
the biggest stick Of timber, but it is
another thing to get in and cut the
stick. Either Blakley, Madison OF
Gamble can cut q stick a third larger
or longer and while those foolish Ia.
coma chaps are talking" about fur.
nishing the biggest stick our KitsaF
county mills are getting up little
piece of rivalry among themselves
and the "big stick" will be cut in
Kitsap county.
Capt. E. Farnham, the pioneer
lumberman, was seen by q Press re-
porter regarding big timber.
II think the biggest stick OF timber
cut on Puget Sound" said Mr.. Farm.
ham. twas gotten out at the Port
Gamble mill ten years ago. 1t was
14O feet in length, and 36x30 inches
square. 1t was shipped to China
where it was cut up into spans
for bridgea I was on board the
vessel on which it was shipped. The
timber protruded over the bow and
the stern"
"What was the idea in shipping
such q large stickr
"Just simply to have the name Of
cutting the largest stick ever got out
ON Puget Sound"
"What is the largest stick of timber
that you have eser seenf"
"That one was. At the Worlds
fair in London / had dinner in house
made from the bark OF redwood tree,
which was cut in California. The
house was .two-stories in height and
was Is feet in circumference in the
upper story"
"How large o stick do you think
could be cut ON Puget Soundw
II think that it might be possible
to get out one perhaps $50 feet long
and 3Ox36 inches square at the small
end. Such stick could not be found
near the coast however. One would
have to go into the interier for it. A
great deal OF care would have to be
exercised in cutting it, to prevent its
breaking when it fell. If such stick
were cut have no doubt it would be
the largest stick of timber ever cut in
the world"
Mr.. Farnham is an old lumberman,
and knows whereof he speaks. He
first landed at Seattle 81 years ago,
direct from China. From Victoria he
came to this city ON the Eliza Ander-
son. At that time the fare between
Seattle and Tacoma was $l2.
The largest tree in the world is in
Mariposa, California. 1t is called the
Father of the Forest, and is $50 feet
in height. It is q fallen monarch,
however, and it would be impossible
to cut a stick of timber Is feet in
length from it, as its partially de-
cayed.