The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-02
THE Law OF TRADE
Brings New Industries TO the
Queen City.
IN THE HEART OF THE SUPPLY.
Workers In Wood See the Trend OF
Commerce and Are Glad They
Are Here.

Precisely the same commercial reasons
that have brought about The establishment
Of TIE large single industries o. WASH
Ing1on bid fair 70 become operative in re-
gard 70 A large variety o. wool msnufac-
lures AZ the timber supply OF the East
becomes exhausted. these reasons appeal
more and more powerfully TO the man9f2e-
sarer But this dearth % material = only
one OF several economical considerations
which are causing Easter lvTl7nut actHrsrs
70 think q moving their plants Westward,
a. VIII appear from the following inter-
view
So quietly has The wooden caves gutter
factory 81 Sudi s. Taylor established 3
self n Seattle that IL VII surprise many
people 10 learn that tomorrow morning a
car load OF CUTTERS will leave tbs city for
Kansas CITY. 20 be followed in three days
by another car load consigned 20 Boston
As you SCI" zaid Mr.. Nudd, looking
around him Re stood with q reporter
watching me loading OF the first car for
the Eastern market. "ouT plant is hardly
yet set Up. IN fact. II : solely because we
are rot yet ready 70 solicit orders that ne
aave not begun advertising in the Post
IntelNgencer. which xs understand 10 he
our most important medium OF advertising.
Already We have orders for eight or ten car
loads. and these orders have simply sought
US out
Mr. Nudd. and come to Seattleg
We'll. you see said Mr.. Nudd. Il had
been living ID Minneapolis thirty seven
years TntiI few years ago. the supply
Of pine from which ne had been making
cutters was abundant New IL : grow
ing scarcsr. and We had 10 look elsewhere
for material. ! first ordered a car load OF
flr as an experiment. and found that I
neither checked nor warped So sat.sfac-
t0r-ly did IL work that We subsequently used
twenty or thirty car loads OF IL Then We
determined 70 90 into il more extensively.
and 50 last summer we contracted for 5a9.-
90 feet. We had hardly made our contract
when our building was burned TO the
ground. al once proposed 10 Mr.. Taylor
that instead Of rebuilding at Minneapolis
We should follow the natural laws OF trade
and come 10 the field OF immediate supply
for our raw material. The result thus far
has been extremely gratifying. Seattle IN
doubte9ly has a great future. and the or
ders We have already placed warrant US
in looking confidently 10 large develop
ment of our trade
las an example Of the exact way in
which our new- location is OF advantage TO
US. take that big pile OF sawdust there.
and that other pile Of waste. II we we're a
Minneapolis today We should have 10 Re
paying freight. on that. As il is, we don't.
Do you think that a small item2 The
otnef Jay tOOh d p3Ahh d. Il came N a.
our door and weighed it, IL was twelve
foot pis.e. and measured 4xi2 inches II
weighed 1872 pounds The manufactured
product weighed 1e2 pounds fresh from the
saw and after IL had been dried ~ pounds.
You can draw your own conclusions as 10
the percentage Of freight saved. Beside
this. there is a great advantage in being
here on the ground 10 select exactly the
kind OF material We need. Hard fir does
not work into guttering so well as soft.
Yes. the durability Of this gutfering Is
wonderful / have cutters on a house
which ! own n Minneapolis that were put
there in 1859. and they are practically as
good as new.
II am convinced that other manufactur-
ers In the Fast will have TO do as we have