The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-27

The state Of Washington shipped last
year iamher enough TO build ss.s0a cot
tages of average size. snd enough shingles
10 roof is4.6a5 such cottages.
This means that the state sent out
enough lumber IN one year to build four
times as many residences as there are In
Seattle. and shingles enough TO cover four
teen times many.
The state OF Washington shipped last
year TO Eastern states alone more shingles
than were cut In all the four big lum.,er
producing states Of Michigan, Wisconsin,.
Minnesota and Iowa.
One firm In the little city OF Ballard.
which Is practically part of this city. cut
as many shingles last year as al, the six
teen mills OF Minneapolis combined. and
| Minneapolis Is the lumber manufacturing
center of the great white pine belt
The cut of lumber at the Port Blaksley
mill alone for last year was nearly ioaDt0.-
600 feet or. indeed. more than that snor-
mons total IL Iaths be included. That
ihFsssiT tfi01AH iNGtHtT ~ tatfb lu"t Dtlt-
and-a-half-story cottages of average size.
Port BIakeley. on account of It's situation
/ ard trade relations, IL practically suburb
| OF Seattle.
| The magnitude and far-rcaehing signin-
| cance OF these agurcs one does not kraxp
| fully until one siis down and does little
/ thinking and little comparison. In tho
rt.Sb and h,f,,, rf he rrx rta4
activity connected with the movement to
the northern gold fields. the average OBJ
server Is apt 10 lose sight OF the fact that
right here within oar own state borders
is carried a gigantic industry whose
product. steady. uniforms and marketable.
far exceeded In value the total gold outs
put OF the Klondisse.
The force Of these statistics is stili fur
ther increased by comparing them with
former years. This state shipped last year
80. car loads of lumber 70 Eastern mar
kets az against s,iss IN 1925 II shipped to
the same market II $50 ear loads OF shingles
in 1897. compared with fiies for the pre-
codng year. a net increase in one year Of
4s3o ear loads. or a47 train loads OF twenty
cars each.
Let one so down to the yards on some
busy day and see n train load OF twenty
cars of lumber stretching its symmetrical
length along the tracks. Let him imagine
ten such trains stretched ont one after an
other. Then let him think OF ten times
that number OF trains: yes, twelve times
that number. and he would not yet have
reached the transportation facilities neces-
sary to send ont the lumber product %
Washington 10 the Eastern market alone
/ last year. II took 1850 trains Of twenty
/ cars each 10 carry this vast freight half
/ way across the continent.
| All this was exclusive Of cargo ship
/ meuis. which last year amounted 10 49,
43i.oss feet OF lumber and 6s.og7.i2s pieces
/ OF iathlnc.
These exact and reliable figures are syail-
! able lust now 20 the Posf-Intelligeneer
/ through the business energy and courtesy
of Victor H. Becknan. editor of the Pa
c!Ie Trade Lumber Journal. by whom
/ they have been complied for the forthcom-
! ing number OF his own paper at great ex-
I penhiture OF time and personal labor. II
4 II no fuisome aattcry or meaningless COM
( pliYnent TO cay Of Mr. Beekman that no
+ il generally conceded 10 be the best posted
( man on lumber and sssingie matters In tho
! Pacific Northwest.
Figures Tell the Tale.
| The cargo shipments from this state last
/ year show not only the enormous dirnen-
ssons 10 whish the lumber shipping inter-
es,s baso grown. bat they show as well
the world uide market which the stata
now has mt its command. BESIDES. large
( quantities shipped 70 California and Alas
ka. lumber from fhis state found actual
shipment and sale 20 no less than twenty
+ three foreign countries In some OF these.
a. for example IN Japan and China ths
market is just opening. and all lndsca-
,ions point TO a gigantic enlargement os II
in the future.
japan 4 practically without lumber. ex-
eept of very small alze and IN now dong
+ an immense amount % building. Tire biz
indemnity which sent strsam Of cash
into that country. az result OF the war
! with ChiaA has sef on foot hundreds ~
new manufacturing efterpfises decks.
. ssharYes and building movements IN All
parts of tie empire. A special eorfespond-
I ent ~ TIE gt-fnteliigefeer ascerfasred
last yea~ that Japan IS looking especially
| u America TO supply her deficiency n