The daily sentinel., 1909-09-07
DAVIS TELLS OF BIG SIGHTS.
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near hatchway and did not feel the
effects of the great swell until we
would begin to get curious as to
what the other side of the scenery
was and made a trip around the boat
to the other side, when we was salts
fled TO remain, quiet at our hatch
hole, and did so until We made the
turn to the north and well down the
British Columbia side and out of the
swell of the ocean, and it is wonder
full how tame it seemed after we had
gone some distance down the strait.
while in coming out we noticed the
swell many miles in, and as we pro-
ceeded it became more and more un-
til it made you think ="
We returned skirting the Van
couver island shores. passing Race
Rock. Esquimalt harbor, the depot of
His Majesty's navy: into Victoria's
inner harbor, thence across the strait
again to the sound and back the
north side of the sound to the north
side passing some splendid towns.
the most notable is that splendid and
wideawake town of Everette
Arriving at the Coleman dock at l 1
O'Clock at night you notice but little
difference in the crowds than in mid
day, as boats were landing at almost
every dock and people going here
and there just the same and it seem
ed that they sleep at no time. in
Seattle, go when you may you see
people going and coming to and from
boats and trains.
1t has been our custom. as we
think it is of others in seeing the
sights here to go to the fair one day
and then take in some of the otner
attractions, hence renewing our in
terest in the fair on each visit A
great many people have been taking
in the excursions given by C. ID. Hill
man, a real estate man. and the
largest land owner in the state of
Washington. He has several places
where he has purchased large tracts
of land on the sound and has layed
them off into townsites and is run
ming boats to three different places
at this time, one to Bremerton, where
he has new townsite across small
sound to the north of Bremerton, one
out the sound to Birmingham, about
twenty miles north of Eyerette, and
one at Olympia. and there is not
day but what he runs free excursions
to one or the other of these places
and of course every one wants to
pus anu III lldl way uO
invest as they certainly have some
properties that look good to an in
vestor, after seeing what many places
have done. On two trips which we
made to two of these places we had
the pleasure of going into the woods
and picking all the wild blackberries
we could eat and bringing home all
we could carry in a newspaper of
some discarded lunch box, the woods
being lined with wild black berries
and raspberries.
The fore part of this week we
gave up to the mill business and it
will be impossible to give any idea
of the magnitude of the mill bust
ness of this country. On Tuesday we
went to Point Blakesley across the
sound from Seattle, which is the
largest mill in the world. About two
years ago this mill burned down, and
has been just recently finished and
is now about ready for work again
The mill was running when ! was
there but not doing any business.
They were simply testing the ma
chinery, shafting and belts. They
have large mill at work which has
been in operation ever since the old
mill burned which turns out about
$4,000 feet of lumber daily. The
new mill will turn out about so, 900
feet of lumber daily, when running.
and the wonder of this is that with
all this great mass of lumber being
made from the raw logs twelve men
will handle every foot of it on the
mill floor, and while in operation of
being made into lumber of the diff
ferent kinds. This mill must be l 200
foot Innu httf nj ri
was the old mill. the old mill being
double mill. The old mill en-
ployed thousands of men all the time.
They have their own vessels which
are all seafaring vessels, two of
which were there loading while we
were there. in fact there is vessels
there all the time loading lumber,
and they build their own ships at
this point having ship yard there as
well.
Most of the mills use band saws,
this mill will have but one large saw
and carriage. while many have two;
but the machinery and everything
about this makes it the most modern
mill on the sound, and it will prob
ably turn out more lumber than many
of the double mills, although there
are modern mills here. This is one
of the latest and most modern mills
in this section and in the world. The
next day we visited the greatest
shingle mills in the world at Ballard.
and we took in one Of the largest
the Simpson Lumber Co.'S mills. They
have two distinct mills. side by side,
practically alike. We followed log
from the banks where it was rode
into the shute by the man in charge
of that part of the work where it
floated on the water onto a runway
along the bottom OF which is cable
chain with dogs on its which held
the log in position as ii went up the
long incline to the saw carriage.
where it was taken hold of by diff
ferent kinds of machinery and turned
and twisted onto the mill carriage
and put in shape to saw. The log is
run through this few times and