The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-06
AROUND THE MILLS.

The mil at Enterprise has shut down TO
make needed repairs
The wlcksrsham shsngle mil has closed
down for sixty days.
The Cliids Bros mill al Burlington hiss
closed down temporarily.
The big mill of the Northwestern Lum-
Der Company is running fiye-quarter time.
Ex-Deputy United States Marshal Sam
Vinson Is running a sawmili in Stevens
county.
c. W. Albright has sold his interest in the
Lucia sawmiii to John Huston and A. w.
Aldrsch.
Il lie rumered that Rooms & Nudd have
purchased the Hoyne mill. located in Sal
ger valley.
r. O. Ehrlich. OF McMurray. has closed
his sh!ngle mills for the season. He still
maintains a force of bolt cutters and yoad
men.
Jesse Lewis. OF Markham. has sold his
interest in the Lewis Bros. sllingle mill al
that place 10 his brother, Charles Lewis.
Of Aberdeen.
The Sterling Manufacturing Company.
OF which V. A. Marshall, of Sedro. Is man
ager. has purchased the Belfast shingie
mill. Immediate repairs are TO be made.
The sawmli on the Wishkah river.
known as the Mack & Wood mill, has been
sold to a syndicate OF practical mill men.
1t VIII be IN running order within sixty
days.
The Wood Lumber Company. Of Ho-
GUAM. made a free distribution of turkeys
Thanksgiving 10 all OF the married en-
ployes and free turkey dinner to the sin
gle men.
The Blodget & Perkins sawmiil at Aber-
deem has been sold 10 w j. Patterson,
trustee for syndicate that will operate Il.
The mill has been closed down for the past
i've years.
Armour & Co. have placed an order for
300 freight cars with the Wells Il French
= a
call for 5.50o.o0 feet Of Pacific coast fir and
spruce lumber
The Deep Creek falls mill. owned by the
crown Lumber Company, is now ready for
work. Preparations have been made for
big run throughout the winter. Already
$4,000 logs have been contracted for
John Rose was killed Thanksgiving day
in McCormicks logging camp at Pc Eli.
cable flew out and struck him a fearful
blow in the stomach. He lived but a short
time.
The years output of the Jameson camp
at Edison Is placed az 100000 feet of fir
and cedar. William McCush's Lake What
com camp is placed at 100000 feet The
average price of fir has been Sc per thou
sand.
The drop In the price of shingles does not
appear to deter the mill men of Castle
Rock. Both the Robin and Brown mills
have on hand large quantities OF bolts and
they are Keeping their mills running on
full time.
From a reliable source Il is learned that
Michigan capitalists who have had the
erection % a sawmill at Aberdeen under
consideration for some time, have decided
10 secure the mill site west Of the Western
CoopeTage Companys plant and 10 COM
mence the building OF a mill very soon.
Phil RoTick. employed in the Card &
knight mill at Sherlock lost his right
hand recently, lie was engaged in cutting
shingie bolts. In some manner his hand
was caught in the clamps and before he
could release il he was drawn to the saw
which completely severed the hand ut the
wrist joint
William Doddridge, a sawyer, met with
serious accident al Lytie's Hoquiam
camp in which he lost his right leg Re-
ports are that while saving, he was warn
ed by the faliers to get OUT OF the way OF
n falling tree. which he dki. but returned
10 get his coat. Just then the falling tree
struck a stub. and seeing his danger, at
tempted to get behind log, but before he
got his leg over the tree struck it, cutting
il so that the foot dropped off.