Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-05-25
Cut from the West Coast Lamberman.'
Spruce is the pass word to the higher
circles of lumbermen on this harbor.

Spruce is the pass word to the higher
circles of lumbermen on this harbor.
W. D. Mack, of Hoquiam, has just
bought logging engine in Astoria, Ore.
This makes the fourth one heis operatin :
on his logging road. He employs 100
hands and has facilities for putting in
1900 feet of logs per day.
The Weatherwax Lumber Company
will soon have the most convenient plant
we have seen. Williams & Groat are fur
nishing this company Sturtevant 100
inch blower, the largest on the harbor il
not in the state. This company will be
ready for car trade as soon as the road
reaches the mill. A San Francisco spruce
order for 1,25O,OOO feet has just been
booked.
The Gray's Harbor Commercial Com
pany is shipping an order Of 100000 feet
of decking to Gasconade, No. Manager
White says that the orders he receives
from the east are very similar to the ones
he used to fill when manufacturing white
pine on the Mississippi. Heis crank on
spruce and will doubtless be buried in a
spruce coffin, as the wood is "tasteless,
easily worked, looks like white pine and
does not take fire easily" at least that is
what he says about it.
Ed. Butte, of Cosmopolis, has invent
ed trimming table that will be appre-
ciated by lumbermen. We hope soon to
have an engraving of it which will show
its merits. There are two of these tables
in use at the Gray's Habor Commercial
Company's mill, and two will soon be Sc,
up by the Northwestern Lumber Co.
Hoquiam. Mr.. Butter was the first man tc
work flooring after being kiln dried, on
Puget Sound. He did this while in the
employ OF the st. Paul & Tacoma Lum'
Der Co., at Tacoma.
After all that has been said the orders
received on this coast from eastern POINTS
Indicate the need of more light on the
lumber question One engineer recently
wrote for quotations 90 spruce for bridgt
dmbers- Another man recently wrots
To know If redwood was all that wal
found in Washington. Numerous in
stances might be called to show that ate
all that has been said and written many
yet remain IN ignorance of the meritl
and value of cur timber. Briefly it nigh
be said, fl for flooring. strength and
finish spruce for siding. boxes, finish
cedar for shingles and for finish; red.
wood for shingles and finish. It will b.
noted that all four Of these wood arr
good for finish and can be adapted To
any taste
Al the lumbermen on Gray's Harbol
feel good at this time though all will moi
confess it.. The advent Of the Northern
Pacific along the north side Of the Hasbo,
through Aberdeen to Hoguiana is assured.
This viii put FIVE good mills on the lis
Of car shippers The demand for spruce
is beyond the capacity Of the mills and
fair prices are being realized for all grades
that can be shipped east. It is no boon
statement to say that as the conditions
now exist the Grsy's Harbor lumbermen
have an easy twenty Per cent. advantage
over the mills on Puget Sound. The I1nz-
Der industry VIII make all the mil towns
On the Harbor good ones and give the
resident who pledged his last dollar On
additions and town lots dividend on hi.
investments