The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-17

A Wonderful Showing for tho Pacific
Northwest in Spite OF Dull Times.
TACOMA, Aug. 16.-[Special. THE Puget
Sound Lumbermdn in its issue of tomorrow
will say:
In the July number the Lun,berman gave its
readers the names of the new shingle mills
started since January /. No mention was made
OF the growth of the sawmill and woodworking
industry. That the increase in wood working
plants for the same period has been something
marvellous goes without saying. Since January
!, according to the files OF the LumbcrmGn, no
less than twenty-nine sawn1ills have been built
or are In process of erection in Washington,
Oregon and British Columbia. five sash and
door factories, four box factories, three match
factories. two woodenware factories one barrel
factory, one stave factory, one broom handle
factory and one tannin extract factory. OF this
number twenty-five sawmills three sash and
door factories. one barrel factory, one tannin
extract factory. one broom-handle factory, two
woodenware factories, three match factories
and four box factories were put up in Washing
ton alone. Following is the list up to July 1:
Ed Mccall, Meadow creek, near Palouse City,
sawmll; capacity, 10000 feet per day.
Match factory at New Dakota. near Vancou-
yer; cost. 5000
Tacoma & Roche Harbor Lime Company, FRI
day Harbor; stave and barrel factory.
Sun Match COMPANY, Tacoma match factory.
L. H. Griffith aud others, Fremont; sash and
willapa Harbor Tannin Extract Company,
South Bend: factory costing $4,000.
Palouse Mill Company, Palouse; woodworking
FlfleId 4 Borrowman, Waterville sash and
door factory.
William Baldwin, Columbus sawmill; daily
capacity, 1000 feet.
Brooks 4 Landers. Pennington: sawmill
daily capacity, 10000 ieet
Ainsle Saw and Planning Mill Company, AIMS
lie; sawmill; daily capacity, 100000 feet.
Christian Sto,tard, Vancouver; match factory;
cost, $4,000.
United states government, sawmill near
Tekoa
Lawrence & Co.. Black Diamond, sawmill;
daily capacity, 10000.
cedar sawmill; daily capacity. 10000 feet.
Rgelow Lumber Company, Clallam Bay: saw
mill and box factory; daily capacity, $4,000 feet
Brown Il son, near South Bend, sawmill.
Duffy d Peoples, North Pacific City, sawmill.
Miller Il CUMMINGS, New Dungeness, saw
mill; daily capacity, $4,000.
M. A. Patton, Colby, eawmill; daily capacity,
10000 feet.
McCuen & Mcdonald, Ballard, cedar sawmill.
Kirkland Mill Company, Snohomish. sawmill.
Bevis, Nicholas Il splawn, Kaama, sawmill
aud box factory.
J. N. Baker. near Montesano; cedar sawmill.
Woods Bros, Wenatchee; sawmiil.
Lewis a. Cook, Ocosta; rebuilt burned saw
mill.
whitehouse, Crimmins & Porter. Aberdeen;
box factory.
J. NJ. Quimby, near Montesano; cedar saw
mill
kennoyer & Wright, Ferndale; sawmill.
Skamokawa Mill Company, SkamOkawa box
factory.
Pacific Coast Lumber Company, New West
minister, Il. c.; sawmili.
Downs II Mccall. Mount Vernon: sawEnill.
r. J. McMullen, Cathamet; broom handle
factory.
south Union Mill Company, South Union;
sawmill.
Fred Parker, Belfast: sawmill.
Ewing Marts, Enumclaw; sawmill.
August iiolmQuist, Edmonds; sawmill; daily
capacity, 5000 feet.
Canada Northwest Coal and Lumber Syndi-
cate, Milford, Alberta, n. W. T., sawmll.
Hill Bros. near Eldorado City, West kootenay,
Is. C., sawmili.
Isaac Nixon, Sidney, sash and door factory.
Kelly Il Lilager, Seattle, woodenware factory.
At the lowest, these new factories and saw
mills furnish employment for at least 2,002 men,
or a population of 10000 persons The cost of
the mills and factories, placing the low estimate
of s.. coo to each one. represents an outlay of
nearly $4,000. Adding 10 the list the number
OF shingle mills published IN the July number
OF the Lum5ern,dH, II will be seen that over 100
woodworking establishments have been erected
in the Pacific Northwest since January l. A
good showing for dull! year.