The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-09
1t MBERING NOTES.

FentoF1 Merrill has bought the Empire
Mil Company's plant at Saxon.
The Hayne mill at Centrmlia will put In
d saw TO cut lumber as well as shingles.
the Me,can & Wade mill Mt Kelso will
cut loe.e1e00 shingles the coming season.
W. v. I4arkins. a prominent lumberman
of Pennsylvania. died at Hazieton. that
state. OF pneumonia
1t Ia estimated that the cut OF logs on
the upper Mississippi this year Will be not
far from Go. go 0u feet
w. J. Imam Will put In a new shingle
mill at Rainier. This will make three
sasngle mills at that place
Chehalis county in 1885 cut $50 600 600 feet
OF logs. VALUED at ssweo. and III, o0a.pre
feet OF lumber, valued at si,ioo.ooo
Devillo r. Holt, enc Of the best known
lumhermen IN the country, died February
3. at Iaks Forest, Ill. at the age OF Is.
February lumber shipments from Min
neapoiis amounted to II as5.n00 feet as
against Ss.s25.eo feet during February.
fsss
bought the Bloom mill east of Parkham,
and Is saving ties for the Northern Ia~
cfic.
The cut Of lumber for the Duluth su-
Iserfor market was D.. $1,000 feet during
1888 The estimated cut for 1889 Is 3ss &c.,
90 feet.
George Holme. founder of Holme Vain
wright 4 Co. 81 leading iurDbefman on
both sides Of the Atlantic. has died at
the age of e..
The shipments of pine lumber from Mo
bile for the last quarter OF 1855 amounted
10 8. 275. ssi feet and of hewn timber TO
1855. 27a cubic feet.
George III. Curtis, Of Clinton. Ia.
prominent sash. door and blind manu-
faeturer of that state. has just retired
from congress after service OF four
years.
The mills OF Duluth have practically
sold all their old lumber and over a third
OF the probable cut OF 1899. at prices from
81 10 81 higher than III the same season
of last year.
In Minneapolis this year there have been
issued IDS permits 10 erect buildings, to
the aggregate value Of $i2x 3as as AGAINST
~ permits. 10 value OF $500 for tho
same pesod of iSss.
A. Il. Weber. of Pine City, MINI, re-
Gently paid SIS fer an oak leg that yielded
over 1850 fee, OF GAVIN lumber. This Is
sad tn have been the largest oak log ever
sawed In that section.
The imports Of lumber into the United
Kingdom for January were: Hewn. ies (sa
United states; sawn. 1885 lead, OF
which I.ois went from this side.
Logging camp wages in Western Wash
fngion range from s. 10 $50 Il day. and
the employees are charged board. Carpen-
tiers get from s. 20 So a day: ordinary la
3d.
II ID anderstood that the Sawyer & Aus
TN Lumber Company. of La Crosse. WIS.
VIII disappear as a factor in the white
pine trade az The Mississippi river, an.
that IL Will Fe~enter the producing business
In The Southwest
The largest bill of htg timhers ever
turned oui in the CowIitz valley l,y
a saw mi. Is now being cat at Fid-
aiefs mill. tatlln. The tiYnaers are
tn be used IN the repair of The
steamer Laksna lying ar Astoria The
largest timber is Isxzs inches and ia feet
long. 10 be used AS the keeizon The log
that furnishes this stick of timber is Ia
feet long. - inches at the small end and
contains $50 feet 81 lumber Two other
tfniser- measure ta feet In length and
are lsssi They were furnished fss Taylor
q Beck. goggerS pn the pstrantler