Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-11-02
WNSHIGNTON NEWS HEARD
THE FAIR.



in that state and us manager and one OF
the principal owners OF the Northwest
Lumber Company, Of lloquiam, ia just
now busily engaged forging ahead the
business OF that growing concern. His
mill has daily capacity OF lOo,OOO ieet.
A line OF schooners owned by the COM
panv carries the product to San Fran
CISCO, where the company has Il yard,
and other Pacific coast ports, as well us
to South America and the Hawaiian
islands. This mill is Il part OF what Is
known on the Pacific coast as the Simp-
son chain OF mills, which also includes
mill at Willapa harbor and another
near the mouth of the Columbia river.
Fred A. Hart is another Washington
lumberman who recently came to jack
son park to take the position OF superln-
tendent OF forestry in the Washington
state building in the place Of Prof. l.. +.
Henderson, the botanst, who has re-
turned to take up his new position in the
state university OF Idaho, located at
Moscow. Dir. Hart has been connected
with lumber concerns on Grays harbor
for about five years. He says many i'm
provements have recently been made by
most CT the larger concerns on the llar-
Dor. Besides the Northwest Lumber
Company's mill mentioned above, he
says that the Glays Harbor Commercial
Company, of Cosmopolis, has recently
put in II fine new dryer and added much
new machinery to prepare for the east
ern trade which it has entered with Il
vim, shipping especially spruce lumber
and siding and cedar shingles. The com
pany has line Of sailing and steam
schooners and ships lumber to san Fran
cisco, Pacific coast and foreign ports.
The mill is about seven years old and has
daily capacity of 100000 feet. c. +.
White, the manager Of this company, is
the president OF the recently organized
Washington Association of Eastern Lum-
Der Shippers, and he also enjoys the dis
tncton of having been one of the first
presidential electors selected by the state
of Washington. This mill company also
has yard in San Francisco, and it enjoys
special advantages in making eastern
shipments, as the mill is located on i
spur of the Puget Sound & Grays Harbor
railroad, branch OF the Northern Pacific
system.
The j. NJ. Weatherwax Lumber Com
pany, OF Aberdeen, with daily capacity
OF about 100000 feet, has just added a
fine new Sturtevant dr., er, containing one
OF the largest blowers on the Pacific coast .
The concein is about eight or nine years
OLD, operates n line Of schooners and ships
to the same ports as the others mentioned
above. The company has large holdings
OF valuable timber lands, and j. NJ
Wcatherwax is reported to pe the wealth.
lest man in Chehais county. The COM
pany has made but few shipments east,
but is preparing to enter into that trade
extensively from this time on.
The Slade Lumber Company, OF Ho-
GUAM, formerly handled lumber manu-
featured 10y other mills, but recently
bought mill at lloquiam and has in
creased its daily capacity from 45 900 feet
to 100 600 feet. In making this improve.
ment the company added two new boilers,
Il large engine. ali Alis pony band mill
and Il slab slasher The senior member
OF this concern is +. X. Wood well
known Michigan lumberman, and the
manager is o. NJ. Kellogg The company
operates line OF lumber schooners and
makes shipments as the other concerns
before mentioned. This mill is counted
one Of the best in that part OF the coun-
try, because it is SO thoroughly equipped
with new and modern machinery.
The Wilson Bros. x Co.'s plant at
Aberdeen is four or five years old, and at
present has Il capacity OF only about
$4,000 feet day, but they are doubling
their power and adding to their machinery
so that they will start in soon with a
daily capacity of 10000 feet They have
dlSO dtlueu u IcN power tuStI VI tIlclI
own devising. The concern maintains a
yard in san Francisco, and operates a
line of schooners. One shipment in last
July consisted OF fir lumber, rough and
dressed, sent to the Samoan Islands.
Wilson Bros. 4 Co. enjoy the distinction
OF running their mill more days in the
year than any other concern on the
Pacific coast They do not run Sundays,
but they run every other day and they
put in enough Give quarter to have it
truthfully said that the Wilson mill runs
) 365 days every year.
The Stetson Manufacturing Company is
located at Montesano, short distance up
the Chehals river, but counted in the
general term Grays harbor region. This
mill has daily capacity OF 10000 feet OF
lumber and 200, 900 shingles. 1t makes
shipments to the eastern markets OF cedar