Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-04-13


water or rail and facilities for transport
ing the shingles to market by rail- A
small mill using one or two-block ma
chine costs with its dry-kiln and steam
engine about 5000; large one with a
ten-block machine can be started for
about $1,000. The machinery is often
bought on time and as soon as the mill
gets to work its owners can obtain lin
tied credit at the nearest bank for the
money needed to buy material and pay
wages, giving as collateral its bill of lad
ing for shipments to Eastern purchasers,
or accepted drafts on the Tacoma commits
sion firms. A very little capital thus
suffices to start mill. With industry
and moderate amount OF business
ability success is reasonably certain.
Now and then a mill firm fails, but the
fault can always be traced to the men
who run the mill and not to the condition
OF the market. At the association price
of $1.75 per thousand there is good pro-
fit in making shingles for any mill fairly
well managed and not badly located with
reference to its supply of cedar. The
freight rate to Eastern markets is the
same from all points in the state, so that
no mill has any advantage on account of
being located further east than others.
The mills at Ocosta, on Grays Harbor,
pay no more than those at Buckley, on
the main line OF the Northern Pacific, two
hundred miles nearer all points Of de-
livery. Whenever man can find a good
body of cedar Contiguous to railroad
line he can set mp mill and be sure that
he will be just as well fixed for shipping
as anybody else.
Most OF the sash and doors in Oregon and
Washington are made of red cedar II is
not as strong or as heavy as white pine,
but it has a handsome reddish-brown
color resembling that of California red
wood and has the great merit of shrink
ing and swelling less than any other
wood. 1t is therefore adopted to all eli
mates for interior finishing.
The best region of spruce is that along
the coast. Sorne spruce is sawed at Ia
coma and at Whatcom, but the only big
mills that make speciality of this lum-
Der are those at Hoquiam, on Grays Har-
Dor, and at South Bend, on Willapa har-
Dor. Shipments were formerly to San
Francisco exclusively, where the clear
boards were selected from cargo for
shelving and for wagon boxes and the
rest used for packing boxes for fruit and
vegetables. Spruce has the valuable
popularity Of being without odor, and it
is on this account the best material for
pantry shelves, drawers and cup-boards.
for bread travs, butter bowls and for all
other uses where articles of food are
brought in contact with wood. The rail
roads hsve recently opened the Eastern
markets TO spruce. and while carload
shipments are still by no means numer-
Gus 1t Is not uncommon Tor mill TO load
3 car in part with cedar shingles and in
part with spruce lumber finished for be-
loved siding or in boards for shelving
Hemloek, sometimes called Alaska
pine, Is found al over Western Washing
ton, growing here and there among the
dominant ar. but the only region which
might be spoken Of IS hemlock belt lies
along the coast Of the Pacific from the
Columbia north TO the Strait OF Juan de
Fuca and around the bavs Of Willlapa
and Grays Harbor. This tree must not
be conf0unded with the hernlock Of Penn
sylvania and New York. Ii is Of quite q
different species. The hemlOck Of this
region is the TkEgu AarazslG1za, while
thst Of the East is the ThEgz C-z1z7zlii1
The Washington hemlock makes . I'm
ishing lumber almost equal 10 cedar. 1t
makes the best dressed flooring Of any Of
the Washington woods, keeping smooth
and bright like pitch pine, and it is I'M
equalled for wall studding. Buried in
the ground or in water il as indestructible,
and it has therefore special value for
piles and for bridge timbers exposed in
water. 1t suffers from the prejudice
against the inferior hemloek of the East
but is bound 10 make its way steadily
into public favor. The hemlock forests
of Washington viii some day be source
Of great wealth for their timber. A be-
ginning has already been made in utiliz-
ing them TO make tannin extract from
bark.
Loggers having cedar logs to sell viii
do well to call at the office Of the Sher,
wood Single Co., in the rear Of the First
National bank, before 6isposing of theil
logs elsewhere. :
COUNTY REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Real estate transfers from March so tC
April 8, 1898, inclusive, as furnished by