The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-02
THE PASSING THRONG.

Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Heimbach. of Duluth.
MIMI. are guests Of the Rainier. They have
been making a tour Of the Pacific coast, and are
returning home. Mr. Heimbach is q lumoer
dealer and manufacture. and expressed himself
ss much interested N the Sethois pursued In
that business out here 1t is evident from his
conversation that he has not visited q represen-
tative mill 81 had heard of your great logs out
here. and was very curious to how your
mills handled them" said be. 81 visited one
mill which cuts 100000 feet q day, and learned
that up till noon they had cut only nineteen
logs. You may believe was asionisaed wRn
tell you that in the East We cut about 600 logs
day. Why il took these men three-quarters OF
an hour 10 cut one log, and the way the men
worked was the reverse OF our way. Here, If
any OF the men were in the way OF the stuff
coming, they seemed to wait until be could
catch up and get out of the way.
with Is IL is the sawyer who sets
the pace for the entire mill, and everybody must
keep up with him and get their stut out OF the
way The result Is that irst-class sawyers CON-
msnd very high wages. The requisites OF q
hEst-ciass sawyer are good Judgment in cutting
the log TO the best advantage and rapid work, SO
that ne can keep big gang OF men constantly
o. the Jump. Another thing which astouished
me was your extravaganza in cutting slabs
Why, have seen slabs cut of which contained
moro clear lumber than q great many entire
trees we fell in the East At the mill l visited
got to talking with the sawyer, and l said to
hlm: You're s.abDing pretty heavy, aren't
your Well said he, 'we've got contract to
keep an electric light plant Ia slabs down here,
ana that the only reason we're running This
city Is the finest have seen on the entire Coast
Perhaps the reason I think SO 10 that it resem-
bies Duluth in great many ways, not only in
GEOGRAPHY and general appearance, but also in
the activity and enterprise which IL so appa-
rent In regard to our forests in the Lake supe-
rior region giving out, think i, viii be great
many years before that hsppens."
E. Irwin Scott president OF the Scott Paper
Company, Limited, OF Philadelphia. accom-
panied by Mrs. Scott, Is stopping at the Arlington
or combined business aud pleasure tour OF
the West. Dir. scott's company is best known
In the West through its toilet paper and sppli-
aace. "lhe use o. toilet paper has become very
great In the last few years, and l suppose the
business in this country now aggregates over
$2.0D,o01 annually. Besides our own there are
two other com psnies which make Il specially Of
this branch OF the paper Business. II is not
every paper mill which can make toilet paper
because ii taxes special machinery for the work.
Such houses as ours then take the product Of
several mills, cut 1t, roll it or otherwise prepare
1t for the trade. In some cities in the country
notably Lincoln, Neb., and Birmingham. Ala,
the use OF specially prepared toilet paper is en-
joined By city ordinance.
W. J. Niece, of Auacortes, left for Toronto
yesterday, where he will join his family, Who
have been visiting there for the last six weeks.
state Senator John z. NcManus, OF Everett,
and Judge John c. Denny, OF Snohomish, regis
tered yesterday at the Grand.