The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-03

sEsd 5.e0s1. Go feet Of lumber ger yez-- Ca
cAgo supp is shout :. oss4 60 fsss per year
% herssif snd The Surrounding coEntTy-
Ihsre . lamAer yzr3 ia Lga1oa whzea
covers over fifty Aerss. sad when Mr.
Hansen visited il few vears Axa It corr
tsined . STICK q |. ssssas "a ? 60 90 feet
He estimates Puget sounds output Of
sun Ter a. isss than 2o0s co go feet per
year.
Mr.. Hanse.'s mill turns CIT -. 90 70
-, 60 aeet Of lafnhsr per day. be says
There are about 80 rneu employed. and
the company pays aboas s. so per day in
expenses % al Kinds lie estimated the
o. Paul Tacoma Lumber Company 5
output st 5000 feet per day, and an ex-
pepse oi.l Of about 81. so per day. There
are abont LOO 90 Zee. Of lumber manu-
iaetared daily on Paget sound. according
70 Mr.. Haossn's figures. and With the coal
business tasre is money enough coming
Ia 70 maintain this section during any
stringency.
There are eight ships loading ~ Mr..
Hansen's mill OF that number one goes
~ South Africa. ore TO Mexico. one 10
South America, and one 20 Australia
Pugei sound uaed 70 supply l0o.oooooo feet
OF Lumber 10 Australia yearly. Nos. Mr.
Hansen says, il does not send 10000, 90
feet. A man from Melbourne told Mr..
Hansen last week that there was s.. 600
less population 81 Melbourne now than
there vas two years ago. Many have
been driven into the country. When times
are dull the farmer does no busiding.
neither does the house builder. When
money becomes plenty lumber begins 10
move the worid over.
But" said Mr. Hansen, sin this coun-
Try the factories are largely closed IS re-
SUIT OF tariff uncertainties. There isn't q
factory In the country that pays 3 per cent
on the investment We used TO ship
large amount OF lumber 70 Pullman for
cars. Now We ship none. The Southern
Pacific used 10 use many million feet each
year; now IL takes scarcely any. The rail-
roads OF the country have more cars than
they can Use. and when a ear is smashed
on the Southern Pacific IL Is not repaired
nowadays. People who put money into
factories do not knog what moment the
tariff or some labor trouble will embarrass
them, 50 they keep their money out as Tar
as possible
In his own mill. Mr. Hansen says, he is
simply trying TO get out even. The mill Is
running full blast now. and Mr.. Hansen
looks for better times eli around next year.
There has been much talk about the logger
getting an increase IN the price OF logs.
bat Mr.. Hansen saws he can buy the best
grade Of logs for ST. per 1000. Other grades
can be had for from s. 10 $50. He quotes
lumber here at $50 TO s. per 1000 for
standard rough grades. lie has figured
up the stumpage in the Pacific Northwest,
and says there IS enough 10 last, at the
present rate OF consumption. for 100 years
or 30. In Norway, when the forests are
chopped of new forests are set out, and In
fifty years they have q new forest 10 cut
up into lumber. While in Austria four
years ago Mr.. Hansen saw single block
OF as fine timber as he ever looked upon.
which was 100 miles square.
The methods of manufacture of lumber
are much the same the world over. In
this country there is more waste-that is.
right here on Puget sound-than anywhere
else In the world. The price of lumber in
London is about the same as II Is in the
United States. The lumber that is now
going 10 South Africa Is carried by ship
whose owner wished TO get her over into
the Atlantic ocean, and made a favorable
rate. Ii advantage could not be taken of
such circumstances. Mr.. Hansen says.
the Norway and Finland mills could as a
rule supply the South Africa trade more
cheaply than Puget sound could. Consid-
cradle Puget sound lumber used TO go to
London, but not so much is going there
NOW