The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-29

asste wharf y now being ccn:tructed wisn
the anne machinery, % that Two 49, -.
same time. me mines i ss Iishted and
motive powsr furnished ~ esectnc1ty non
the companys own plant. CONSISTING q I've
can sns . !: srs 20 she sr
preesors used IN the mines. A new com.
pre0or and ~ tons Of rails have arrived
mines. All OF the new machinery. wire
rope, and six locomotives are OF American
m,anuiacture. The Company e also 2 arg
Iron. steel ana ron Op pipe. one ,houssnd
two hundred and sixty men are employed
by this company. ill white except 10 Chi
The New Vancouver Coal Company has
started to sink shaft on the northeast
SIDE OF Newcastle Island. Nanaimo harbor.
wn.ch VII connect with the present work
The shaft VIII BE- sunk about 80 feet 10 the
coal, which was found by the bore TO be
OF satisfactory thickness and quality. The
cU1y ~ sae Of three s6
Until the coal 10 reached The sinking OK
this shaft WI materially increase the IA.
cilities OF the company for the output %
will. II i aid. be eciipsed by a produc-
ton Of 900 tons
"A sawmiu = In process Of erection, In
With the sasn and door
ed, a capacity OF 5000 feet per day and
give employment 70 10 men.
"A small boot and shoe factory. which
for miners. logeers and prospectors. has re-
Gently been started. The present output Is
about coo dozen pairs per year and 10 In
creasing. American sewing machines are
used: Also oak and sole leather from the
United States.
Anerican Capital IN LsnbeS.
1.-THE Victoria Lumber and Manufactur..
ing Company. composed almost wholly OF
United States capitalists. has the most ex-
tensive mills In the province. located at
yer island, fffty-two miles north Of Vic
toria. on the line of the island railroad. IL
"a under the management Of K. Palmer.
hsrd has e: over acres of
woodland, and 10000 acres have not yet
been touched. The capital In $4,000. 80
per cent. Of which Is American. The
have not been In full operation more than
three years. In the mills are employed
100 men, and 90 additional men are given
sToSsn and G for Ioadns ships The mills
are equipped with all the modern I'm
provements and turn out 5OO.OOO feet per
day OF twenty hours. Last year the out.
at the wharves In deep-sea vessels ana
shipped TO various ports In Australia,
South America. Africa, China and Japan.
railroad to logging camps. equipped with
locomotive and thirty hat cars. 1t also
operates two steam tusboats OF 100 tons
each and six bargcs. each OF the capacity
Of $4,000 feet Of lumber.
Around the mill has grown up pop
ulation Of COO. and q United States con-
suIar agent Is located there.
Lumber and Mineral Output.
For the last year the lumber trade Of
British Columbia has been comparatively
small. The shipments were: From Che
mainus. $IG0,35l; Vancouver. $lo2,3ls;
Cowichan, $500: Salt Spring island,
$500; New Westminster, 1915; Moody
VILE, SIS. 435. total Of ts06.0o OF this.
$1,000 went to Australia, 5000 TO
China. az. $50 to South Africa. $60.1l1 to
the United Kingdom. &f32 ss to Mexico
and N7,500 TO South American points.
Including all things mined. coal as
we'll az gold. and all the metals. the out
put Of British Columbia for the last nine
years has been as follows: