The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-06
|lIS[ LUMBER TRAFFIC.
runER MILL IN THE CENTER
e. I FARMING DISTRICT.
80. amount of Trade Cdrried
q rvith Farmers Besides supply
- ne Demand OF warehouse
Mere in the Nearby Country.

81, y,,spatct to the Post-Intelligencer.
<@oT.aE CITY. Aug. 5.-Palouse City
- the state line between Wash
- snd Idaho in Whitman county,
Al MI way between the north and
~ sfn>s II Is surrounded In the
~ Let and south by rich agricui-
g. II no,tntry. and on the east by an
~ r1ch dairy, stock and lumber dis
Gesfdes the usual industries In an
rs11furai town. Palouse has a large
~ ana here the evidences OF gem
SSoeperify Astounding In this country
iown more than elsewhere.
mn Il running with only a half
despite the fact that wages were
Nv raised 20 per cent. There IL such
Z S1nand for harvest hands at high
nat only thirty men can now De
"a IN the sawmill, but these are
fffns steadily, and are turning out
fH6f a. rapidly as possible. Yet. de-
= ne fact that the mill had 1, 800, 100
a. lumber IN the yard at the begin
* the season and has had a fill
y at work until recently. II Is now 300. :
foet behind It's orders, and more or
~ coming IN daily. The season
~ With 100000 feet Of logs in the
ma these viii have been sawed and
Dmher sold before October /, making
mi Of S0o0.0oo feet of lumber sold this
nsr
n this lumber is used In an agricul-
(G country. being sold at points along
GDokane 4 Palouse branch of the
t46fn Pacific. or the orders now in
+ 1oFlially fled. q majority are for new
~ warehouses to hold the enormous
p u wheat now being harvested. The
11ce River Lumber Company. which
1he mil. y now filling contracts as
1V1; The Puget Sound Warehouse
(npony, OF Tacoma. for new warehouses
a III spokane 4 Palmer branch, $50. 900
~; Tacoma Grain Company. repairs
~ eoMtlons to warehouses. 10000 Feet
ggtnr Warehouse Company. of Port
~. 6.eo feet; Pslmerton 4 Harvey. Of
nan. for warehouse at Whelan. 20, :
loet; y. n. Fletcher. for warehouse at
1oeFs. 1000 feet: q. RI. Horton, for
- near Cotton. $4,000 feet.
~ u In addition TO local trade and
~ nom yards along this branch Of
This company sold and shipped
1y<Dyen carloads ~ lumber during
ruth Of July and had a large trade
- he mill, II furnished lumber for
Afee barns for Michael and II. J.
~ two wealthy farmers. and a large
~ house near Kamiac quite. being
W lngraham Il Butcher. OF Collar.
= fruit box trade II just opening two
5gnds Of fruit boxes being shipped to
11vdsfon. Idaho. last week. q. w. Ped
1sfd. manager OF the mill said today:
NJ expect to ship fifteen carloads OF
~ boxcs this fall. Owing to an enor-
[6og apple crop the box trade will be
~ NrEest ever known. Our trade. 70
- uis year. * nearly double what II
up 20 this time last year Wa will
az 81 logs before October ! and will
0y ~ contract for cutting logs and ex-
~ use all the logs we can get TO the
tveet hands are scarce notwithstand.
~ TIE fact that higher wages than were
~ paid In this country are being OF.
~. About 30 per cent OF the grair
10fs part OF the country Ii out and ir
Mock, binders being used almost ex.
rely. TreshinE has begun in earnest
W. chalenor 4 CO., OF Paiouse, have
N Pix complete steam threshing out.
4m an avernk iyahIe ~ a on ma Vino