The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-26
FIR LUMBER FOR CARS
4 Burlington Official on a Tour
Of Examination.
BIG LOGS OPENED HIS EYES.
His Road Preparing TO Use Washing
ton Fir for Freight Cars - The
Great Market In the East


Purchasing agent o. the Chicago. Burning
toa & 2ul-cy railroad. passed through
&c city Friday or his w-zy % Chicago.
after 3 weeks travelling - this vicinity
art n TIE GEay's Harh3r country. look
ing over re timber Industries with a view
20 recommending 20 his company that fr
he Used "a me future for RE bzziI6iag-ot
cars. instead q pine. Ks heretofore G-.
E,eZzEs : very fzv5rzhIy impressed
wf-a the Sound cogEtry and thinks that
TIE company - represents viii have 70
come here -sC1ner Or later for lumber For
car building purposes He Is accompanied
By Ms Xoelzls. and they were he
sseSEs % General Agent n p Ben
ton. 90 sae sane line They left on he
--la train after dinner. su3 VII stop O. u
TIE B.g Horn country n Montana On thet-
Szy 20 Chicago. Mr. Yeenzzs sad yes
tertsy u regard 10 the occasion OF his
yiszt:
j have knOEn Tor several years. in fact.
ever since the Billings extension Vas CON-
r1eEce1- that ozr company mould Dr. con-
peIle1 ultimately 10 look 10 this country
for is timber for car building. ant / have
taken COED deal q interest IN your re-
sources IL the timber lire and have read
good deal about your marvellous forests
ard big trees I have TOT had chance 70
get out IN the country any on this trip.
Bat I kzFe visited nearly al OF the big
nils q the western part o. t1s state and
have seen many me logs A. Gray's Ear-
Dor tEs other day ws sax some logs that
were whoFpers. but the people there did
lot seem 20 think they were anything out
o. the ordinary. Year - IS about ike
our p.1e. whsca 1zs beer used exclusively
- car building. and your spruce = soma
Thing like our cottonwood. fuzzy and
sponEy- No, don't know much about the
cedar OF this country, ant. IN fact, I lid
- - -
try u thai line until came out here !
don't think that Tor our uss cedar viii
ever he available. fer Il Il TOO soft but
for finishing lumber for general building
purposes I Go lot see Why 4 large CT29a
could not be huilt Up n Ghs East No;
ws have never handled any lumber from
RE Coasr y@E on our Own account. but Es
are looking forward 10 the time when ws
can % 50 With pro1t- You Sc this coGn-
try vas never cpea 70 Us Until we CON-
plstsd the Billings cutoff. and since then
We Rave only handled your lumber fo-
ire Northern Paclnc. according 70 the
terms Of the tEaElc agreement existing BE-
tween the two roads
AR YoemzuS said hat he was not pre-
pared % say what he thought OF the n
% this Coast bat il Vas plain that he Eas
fsyorsbly impressed with il for the pGT-
poses for which he vas investigating. and
4 may - thai Within short time The
Burlington HIu - IN position 70 draw
heavily upon the mills % this vicinity for
timber for car building. Concerning The
excellence OF the hr and Its relative
stre1srh compared with other varieties OF
woods h. vas not in a position 10 make
q statement bCt he did say that the n
appeared % De as good. II not superior 10.
the pine heretofore used oy his company
exclusively. he said that ne could tell
nothing about the scientific tests made
h. the government Of the woods through
or the country. for IN louisiana the tests
show how good the timber IS theirs sE1
hoE much better to- general purposes Il
is than ether varieties. The same kind
of a report IS made OF the yellow pine in
re states north, and then the report OF
the white pine of Michigan seems 70
eclipse al others IN landing the excellence
o. tha timber for al commercial purposes
The same kind % tests have been made
q Shs cedar and dT Of This country. e.
pecislly II the Puget sound district but
NJ. Toeualx = t4kl1- 10 government r.
port IS 4 basis OF his OWE report. hs -
observing and examining the timber as
he finds IL and viii tell his road what he
thinks about il after having gone over
;hs ground
Concerning The talk % the Burlington
extending its lire from Billings 20 PtISe.
SQUAD Mr. Yoemans had nothing % say.
but did remark
Don't 20. think II VAS little prema-
t1reH No; you did Tot exceed the posi-
bl,I,iss q the situation, but you know
times a-e hard and. while the company
would very much ike "a have a PuEe.
sound terminal. y may be long time be-
fore This can r. done But the Billings
c1s-oI has been built ana e may - that
the line VIII - finished % the CoaSc"
~. NoeIazs Mould not say any hing
about wat the people IN the East thought
sAo9- J. :. H.ls-s plans f3T rs future Tf-A
reference "a the operation and manage
-1e1t O. the Northern Pactac raiiroa1
Wien to,G tEar l. was thought b. some
railroad men that 3Tr. HIN had 10 iutaa-
tion % controlling or operating the mad
sr1 -Nat ne merely intended % take ths
line. build up is securities ar3 rheu sell
OFT. clean up 8. s0 - or s. ~ osa. aud
20 hack n RS d-s- love the G-sz- North
err. and lei she Northern Pacific take
care q ttSelt- h merely sail. evsS5ve1y-
May he. have slways bsea O. .hs inn
p-essio2 thai NJ Hill was more n a tua--
Cier trz- 4 S-~trsfv r1st-ozfs man