The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-18
CONE TO BUY TIMBER.
Big Wisconsin Lumbermen Arr
rive in the City.
WILL SEE THE COUNTRY AROUND
They sent woodsmen I'm Advance TO
size Up the Timber
TO Enter New Fields

party OF very prominent Wisconsin
iumberuen arrived IN the city yesterday,
having come out IN the special car Scrtn-
cote over the Great Northern read. with
the intention OF making large investments
in the lumber business in this state, u
the situation proves as favorable as the
members expect The party. which = al
the Northern hotel. Is composed Of Waiter
Alexander president OF the Alexander
Stewart Lumber Company. OF Vausau;
Charles r. Dunbar, president Of the ~au-
sau Furniture Company; g. ]. Winson, OF
the Wisconsin Land Company, Wausau;
John Stewart OF the Alexander-Stewart
Lumber Company. residing at Eloorne.
H.; r. p. Hixon. president of the 7. =.
Scott Lumber Company. Merrill; l. n
Hanson. president Of the Gilkey-Hasson
Company, Merrill: John LanGers. CT the
last named company. one Of the woodsmeEl
OF the party. III. II. Foster, Of the Merrill
Lumber Company; A. II. STANCE, OF the
A. Fl. STANCE Manufacturing Company.
Merrill; John DAILY. OF the Centralla LuIs-
Der Company. OF Grand Rapids: A. l.. Ar
pine. OF the Arpine Lumber Company,
Grand Rapids, and John ODay. OF O'Day
& O'Day. the other woodsTnan.
The men are typical lumbe-men Of the
Wisconsin forests. hale. hearty and good
natured. On their way out they made
one stop, at Yellowstone Park. They are
going TO spend two or three weeks in ex-
aiming the various timber districts OF
Western Washington. ard viii make Sc
attle their headquarters. They Will stay
III the city over Sunday. and Will start
out Monday morning for trip up the
Skagit river. Walter Alexander seems 10
be the spokesman for the party and TO
a Post-intelllgencer reporter he said last
night that a party was made up last year
70 cone 70 the Puget sound country, but
the trip was necessarily postponed until
II. --s1x
inal party was augmented by the addi-
ton OF several more members. Mr.. Alex
ander said
They Have Come to Invest.
I'VE are out simply on a trip of inves-
tisation, with an object in view of course.
We have heard a great deal OF the timber
resources of this state, and If our inFes-
LEGATIONS bear out what Information we
have Of the situation We VIII undoubted-
ly make some investments here. But you
will understand that / can speak more
definitely on that point after we have been
here few days. We are disappointed in
finding so much smoke. and we nearly
decided TO go on TO Portland and stay
there for week or so, in the hope that
the atmosphere would clear. but We de-
termined TO come direct 10 Seattle and
make this our headquarters, so that our
trips about the country viii be made from
here. We had very pleasant trip across
the continent, making but one stop, at
Yellowstone Park. where We spent few
days very delightfully."-"
Red Cedar Has the Call.
Asked as TO how Washington shingles
and lumber were thought of in the Middle
Western states Mr.. Alexander said:
Your red cedar shingles can compete
with any shingles anywhere. They are
used 10 large extent in our part of the
country. and can drive our shingles of
white pine out of the market But you
cannot compete with us in lumber"
but are not your white pine forests get
ting pretty well thinned out?'
We'll. we have cut great lot of timber
in our forests, but yet there is good deal
left. However. we can see that the end is
bound to come. There is one thing that
struck me very forcibly In coming down
the Cascades that is the immense amount
of timber that is being burned in this
country. 1t seems like an awful waste.
But suppose II goes 10 show tho fmmen-
sity of your timber resources"
Mr.. Alexander is a good questiouer and
was greatly interested in the fruit and
grain resources of the state.
John O'Day. the woodsman of the party.
spent six months in the forests of Wash
ington last year. and the party win look
at several tracts of timber which he ex-
amined then.
Taken With the City.
You Seattle people should he proud OF
your city" said Mr.. Alexander l was
never so surprised In a place. OF course,
we had all heard great deal of Seattle.
OF your big fire. etc. but we didn't dream
OF coming 10 such a metropolitan city as
this. We have seen nothing of your resi-
eences as vet, but your business streets
are magnificent We have all been favor
ably impressed with il.
After their arrival here the party met
A. w. Brown. OF the Brown Lumber Com
pany. Of Rhinelander, Wis. and Tim Len
non. their woodsman, who VIII stay with
them while here. Some Of the members
OF the party have friends a Everett and
Portland. and those places VIII be visited
before the start home is made.