The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-01

time the hotel is equipped All the COM
ing year will be consumed in construction.
| Amongst other leading buildings are:
| Chamber of Commerce building, corner
| PACING avenue and Seventh street: six
| stories; brick and stone; cost, $500, 900.
| The tip of the dome is to be BIT feet above
| high water mark and 1876 feet above the
street.
Pierce county courthouse, G and
Eleventh streets; six stories and basement
| with dome; contract let; cost, $685.
City hall, Ninth and C streets; brick and
stone; six stories; contract let; cost, $780,
600.
Fidelity Trust Company, corner C and
Eleventh streets; six stories; buff colored
brick and stone; nearly completed; cost,
$250.oo0.
National Bank of Commerce, corner Pa
cinc avenue and Thirteenth street; brick
and stone; seven stories; finished; cost,
| $4,000
Pacific National bank. Pacific avenue
and Thirteenth street; six stories; COM
pleted; cost, $4,000.
Merchants National bank, Pacific ave-
nue. and Eleventh street; six stories; I'M
der construction; cost, $4,000.
Reese, Crandail & Redman, G and Fiji
teenth streets; hive stories; under con-
struction; cost, $4,000.
Campbell & Mcdonald, Pacific avenue
and North Twentieth; four stories, 10Ox15O
feet; completed; cost. 100000.
Walter Waddell, PACING avenue and Fif-
tenth; four stories; completed; cost,
$4,000.
Tacoma Land Company, street, near
Eleventh; six stories; completed; cost,
$4,000
III. o. Ball, G street, near Eleventh; five
stories: completed; cost, $4,000.
Captain G. A. Enell, G street, near
Eleventh; three stories; completed; cost,
$4,000.
E. T. Durgin, d and Thirteenth streets !;
four stories; cost; $4,000.
John P. Judson, D and Eleventh streets
four stories; cost, $4,000.
Danish Brotherhood temple; Twenty
sixth and East ID streets; four stories; cost,
$4,000.
Annex to Tacoma hotel, five stories;
cost, $685. 900.
New Northern Pacific car shops, half
completed; cost, $685. 600.
The character of residences erected dur
ing the year is first-class, and the number
very creditable.
The output of lumber during the year by
local mills has been 400 900, 600 feet, accord
ing to local estimates, which are too high
This total does not include the Pacific
mill which, owing to financial complica-
tons, has been shut down. Other mills
have been running at full capacity, large
part of the product being consumed
locally. a new mill, with a maximum
IF 10. L..
headed by Eugene P. Ferry and by ex-Sen-
ator Thomas w. Ferry, of Michigan. The
mills of Tacoma employ 1,63s men, and the
monthly payroll is 100000. The value of
the monthly output is over 100000 The
capital employed is So, ISL 600
The manufactures of the city have
largely increased, employing total cap-
tai, including sawmills, of IS, 2s3, ESQ and
month of October aggregated s229, $50. The
value of the output for the year, including
sawmills, will probably reach 100000.
Amongst important enterprises included
in the Tacoma total and started during the
year was the Puget Sound Dressed Beef
and Packing Company, at Meeker Station.
1t has capacity per day of $50 cattle, 200
hogs and 500 sheep. The output for the
| year will be $4,000.
The Naphtha Launch works is an i'm
portant enterprise inaugurated during the
year. 1t represents $15O,OO0. The Donau
Brewing Company is another. Its capital
stock is $500, 5000, and its output is in the
neighborhood of $4,000. The Puget
Sound Touring mills have capacity of
500 barrels per day. Their output for the
year will be 81 100000. The Ryan smelter,
he Of a-bf ob sx,S
Der, has rehned ore of the value of $450, 600.
Wheat was exported during the year of
the value of 81 10000. Four warehouses
are in operation, their names and capaci-
ties being as follows Tacoma Warehouse
and Elevator Company, 100000 bushels;
Northern PACING Elevator Company, $780,
600 bushels; Puget Sound FIGURING and
Warehouse Company, 100000 bushels
Voorhees, & Drake, $1,000 bushels; total
$50, 600 bushels.
jobbing trade of Tacoma during the year
is estimated at S12,000,000.
The city has opened up nine and one
half miles of street. and there are under
contract six and three-quarter miles more.
making total of sixteen and one-quarter
miles of street constructed or under con-
struction, at total cost of $2SS, 5l3. There
have been 1920 feet Of streets planked, at
a cost of Sic, 105, and $3.50 feet of sidewalk
laid, at a cost of S., ia. On Tacoma ave-
nue. there has been 300 feet of paving st
cost of S69. 1868, making total cost of
street work let by contract of 1877 ,595.
Besides this the city has done directly
work at an approximate expenditure of
10000, making grand total of s467. $50.
Three tea ships, bearing l0, 5o7, l03 pounds
of tea, have arrived from Japan.
The clearinghouse returns for 1889 and
1890 are as follows: