The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-18
THE PASSING THRONG.

II. C. Davis, of the Northern Pacific road, was
at the Rainier last night Al just came out to
take look around, I" said he. ~ go I'D to Ever
cit tomorrow. and shall remain a week or SO on
the sound see by your paper Mr. Reimers is
out here buying lumber. In fact sent him out
Know him Well. He has unlimited backing.
ana Is connected By marriage with the Rock
Island partner OF Fred Weyerhaeuser, of St
Paul, the greatest lumber king in the world.
thlnk there Is something in that wagon box
field worth cultivating, but on common lumber
Jim Hills promised Accent rate won't enable
you to compete with Eastern mills Even at
that rate you can't lay lumber down on the Mis-
sissippi river less than 500, while they now get
II lor $l5. But On clear lumher, OF course. it
Will be OF some advantage. The thing, how.
ever, is to manufacture your lumber here.
What your want to do is to manufacture cars
here, but you can't manufacture cars until you
can make car wheels. Whenever you can make
car wheels you have q great industry assured.
Now they make cara in the East largely from
waste ends, between three aud ten feet long.
In thousand cars there are million
feet OF these board ends used But the problem
Tor you to solve is the making of car wheels.
Why, you could manufacture cars for the East
ern roads and lay them down in Chicago with
out any freight. As soon as the cars were built
you could load them with shingles and ship
them through TO the road for which they were
built, and thus save hauling any emp:ies out
here from the East, which would give your
shlngle men and produce raise-s plenty of cars
to ship their products in" Just then d. II.
Gilman came up, and Mr. Davis said: 81 am
taking about car building" whereupon an in
teresting discussion arose between them as to
the practicability OF making car wheels here.
Mr. Davis said if car wheel iron could be made
here for s25 per ton there would be big money
In the business, whereupon Mr.. Gilman said he
knew that it could be laid down on tidewater
hero Tor SIS per ton, aud he wound up by say
ing: "If you will find the capital to do the
work will guarantee to find the iron in abund-
ant quantity and of the right quality"
Hon. John S. McMillin, of Roche Harbor,
presidential elector and president OF the Roche
Harbor Lime Company, is stopping at the
Northern. Il have received a letter from Gov.
Ferry said he, "callng my attention to con-
fict OF authority in regard to the meeting of the
electoral college. The state statute calls for the
meeting to occur on the first Wednesday in De-
cember while the Federal statute requires the
meeting to be held on the second Monday in
January. OF course the Federal statute governs
as the United States constitution gives congress
the right to designate the time The error in
the state law arose in copying from an old
Federal statute which had been subsequently
amended. We have been all wrapped up in
politics down in our county, and we think we
did better than any other county NotWith.
standing the loss Of the entire Populist
vote, amounting to les votes out OF
go or thereabouts, we increased the
Republican majority four votes. Furthermore,
although II was my own county, we put McGraw
forty votes ahead of the presidential electors.
AS FOR bushes it is dull now of course. on ac-
count Of the season. Our capacity is l., coo bar
rels of line a day, which think is the largest
single institution OF the kind under one man.
agement in America Our product finds a mar
ket MI over the Pacific coast, from Alaska to
Mexico. the sandwich islands, and as far inland
az Idaho and Montana"
A. Francis Learned, postmaster at Port Town.
send. is a guest OF the Grand. any term of
office does not expire for year yet, and there
are already eight patriotic Democrats in our
town who want my job" said he last night
"While there may be some danger of us rascals
being turned out OF Office before our term is up,
there is one advantage IN having il lap over, and
that is, a fellow has some time to look around
fer another job