The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-08

Discovery and the Pacific, at Tacoma, are
closed down: also Downs, Gig Harbor
and Bellingham, which are not in the
trust.
"ClaIlam county has just voted bonds
for the building of roads. One is to con-
meet Port Angeles and Port Townsend,
ClaIlam having voted to build to the JEFF
ferson county line and jefferson having
voted to build to the Clallam county line.
There are already roads from Port Angeles
to the head of Squim bay and from Port
Townsend to the head of Discovery bay,
and each county viii have about FIVE miles
of road to build to connect the two Clal-
lam county has also voted to complete the
road from Port Angeles to Quiliayute.
road now runs nearly to Pysht and we
shall have to build about twenty-five miles
more to reach Quillayute. There is large
settlement in the Quillayute valley, and
they have no way of getting out their
stock and produce except by small
schooners which, however, can only go
into the mouth of the river at high tide
and when the sea is calm, as there is no
harbor. If there was road the settlers
could drive their stock around Port An
gelesn
Mr.. Moore told of the purchase OF the
Skagit boom by company OF Pennsyl-
vania and Michigan lumbermen for s40,-
000, and predicts great things for the log
ging and lumber business from the plans
of this company. He said: This COM
pany is composed of practical
men, and they propose to introduce the
Eastern system of handling logs, which
will revolutionize the business and make
great change for the better
"Under the old system the logger runs
his logs down into the boom, where they
are sorted out separate, and the mill COM
pany buys from him. 1t has to buy
quantity of logs all together. regardless of
quality, and pay a first-class price Tor
them. If the mill company is taking out
number of one mans logs and finds
few belonging to another man mixed with
them, it does not pay for them; that is the
mills steal. That makes it bad for the
logger. Another change has been brought
by the building of railroads. The rail-
roads charge lbs for handling, where the
boom company only charges IS cents, but
If the logger sends his logs over the rail-
road he gets them delivered and gets paid
for them right away, while he has to wait
some time if he sends them down to the
boom. The consequence is that he prefers
TO send them by rail and stand the entire
freight.
"Under the Eastern system the boom
company viii buy all the logs and sell to
the mill company. 1t will take them at
the landing-place and the logger will have
no more to do after rolling them into the
river. The boom company will put man
at the landing to scale them and will take
the chances Of taking them down the
river. The logger will be paid monthly
and will be sure of getting his money
regularly instead of waiting to sell logs
out of the boom. 1t is the best thing that
ever happened for the loggers on the
Skagit. 1t win also be a good thing for
the mills, because the boom company
will classify the logs instead of sorting
them out by the marks. Then the mills
can get the first, second or third quality
of logs and pay the price accordingly in
stead of taking them as they come, and
paying the highest price without regard
to quality.
''The new company proposes to spend
$1,000, 900 on improving the boom by put
ting in new piling and sorting pockets, and
will hold big stock"