The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-16


% 80 tons PER day. the Sumner Iron
Works, wssh a capital OF sEo0as fully
equipped for the production OF castings
and ali kinss % rzacsane work: six saw
milis- with daily capacity % II 90 feet
o. lumber. sever shingie mills. With
dz.lv capaefty OF 5E.e@0 shingles: pianirg
MIL sash ard door factory. box factory
brick and tie works. etr. The rapidly
Increasing trade between pugs. sound
and the Orient Il conjunction With TIRE
new territory opened by the railroads CEN
fsrfng a. Everett invite TIRE immediate
establishment OF new industries Through
ont the period " buxfneSs depression The
Dsv rolls % the Everett industries have
been the nainstay OF the city.
The NAH Works.
What prompted the location OF nail
works At Everett r. sometimes asked. In
renly II may be said that the enterprise
grew out OF an investigation by Brook
lyn manufacturer. Mr.. A. r. Whitrey: the
latter computed that upwards Of half .
million kegs OF wire nails we're consumed
annually By the Pacific coast. RE bulk
% which was supplied By the mills OF
the Atlantic coast. freight tariff for
the intervening soso miles was levied on
the Pacific coast consumption. Nr. Whit
ney organized the Puget Sound Wire Nan
and Steel Company. and fixed the ioca-
tion OF the new works az Everett. The
company has a capital OF 10000 OF which
s@a.oe has beeen expended IN the plant
a. Everett. The large group Of buildings
forming the nail works are among the
first 10 greet the eye OF the visitor should
he approach by steamer or step from the
cars at the depot OF the Great Northern
railway. These buildings include the
warehouse, 6sx100 feet. with a wharf 600
feet long: cleaning house, 10oxl0o feet, 1T
ted with hydraulic lifts, vats and muffier.
driving and biueing furnaces: wire and
nall room. s0xse9 feet key factory. S2xs4
fest: flrs-proof boiler house, 45x5a feet:
Office. Ssx4e feet. The works have a ca
paeity OF loo kegs OF nails per day. Num-
b-r OF employees. 80: monthly output at
present in kegs. 1900. monthly payroll.
s.. 20: output last year In kegs 10000. At
the interstate fair az Tacoma and al other
expeditions the nail machines and their
product have attracted great attention In
the naii room are seveafy-fiye Of the A
r. Whitney patent machines OF the latest
style, one OF these turning out spike
thirteen inches IN length. The machines
are well nigh automatic in the operation
and turn out everything In the line OF
wire nails down 10 the smallest brads.
Tie WITHDRAWING room is fitted with
improved machinery. furnishing every
thickness OF wire from half an inch down
10 twenty gauge, and go tons OF wire can
ba handled here with ease every week.
Power is supplied by two coriiss engines
or aggregate 400 horse power, and the
works are lighted by 40 Edison electric
liaAts Most of the wire used is imported
from Belgium by vessels coming direct
from Antwerp TO Everett around the
Horn. Six vessels have thus far brought
Goo tons OF wire from the above named
port. During the past year large trade
has beeen established IN Japan for the
Everett nails, this being the result OF a
aH. -
nail works. a. r. Whitney, tr. China, the
Sandwich islands and Australia promise
10 be good fields for the nail product OF
Everett. The works have every conven-
iance for economic shipments by rail- or
water rontes. Nr. whitney. by the way,
Ike the typical New Yorker. Is extremely
fond of yachting. and his yacht. the
Storm King. Is one OF the fine craft of
the Sound.
Paper From Wood Pulp.
In making the tour of the Everett Indus
tries one must by all means see the Ever
EFT pulp and paper mill. occupying fine
site on the Saohomlsh river at Lowell. two
miles from the business center OF Everett
II Is easily reached by street car. A high
picket fence encloses the ground and the
visitor must be fortified with a pass from
tho offioe before ne can make the roIhds
The mill Is having a steady run. From
Sunday evening until the next Sunday
morning Il r. on the hum night and day.
turning cut hsteea tons OF finished paper
a day, The presence OF an unlimited sup
ply OF pulp wood In tils vicinity. partlcu-
larry on the snohomish river. was one of
the main causes in favor Of the location OF
the paper mill here. IT has served a most
valuable factor In the Industrial growth OF
the county. as II has necessitated the main
teasnce OF large w0ol camp In the c0un-
~, giving employment to EIGHTY men and
-f.il H.
wear This wood IS brought 70 the mill
from the line of The Everett & Monte cris-
70 railroad. The Everett Pulp and Paper
Company is a very strong concern finan-
ciaily. having In June last increased its
capital 20 $ss2 60 fully paid I'D. It's officers
are: President and treasurer. Gardner
Colby. secretary. Charles A. Pinkney;
assistant secretary. F. II. Brownell: assist
ant treasurer. william Howsrth: superin-
tenaent Of manufacture. Cyrus #. Logan.
The product OF the mill comprises hook
paper. railroad writings. MANILA and ex-
press wrapping papers and super-caien-
dered papers. machinery for the iast-named
product having been added this summer.
An idea 81 the magnitude Of the plant may
be had from the buildings. the main build
ing being 90 feet wide. az feet long and two
stories high. the central portion OF brick.
a feet high. the remainder - feet high.
The machine room Is SsxiSs feet and two
stories high third building the ware
house. Is OF ike dimensions. The addition
OF a salpalte plant year ago involved the
construction OF another large building on
the west side OF the main plant In its
equipment the mill has the most modern
machinery and the latest improved appIi-
ances. among which may be named two
Fsoudrinicr paper machines 8 inches and
les inches wide respectively. Four large
engines move the machinery. with a total