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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1883)
June, 1883. THE WEST SHORE. ,27 Manufactures. A beet sugar factory is talked of at New Tacoma. A grist mill is being erected at Waverly, Spo kane county, W. T. A woolen mill, to cost $60,000, will probably soon be erecled in balcm, Uregon. A new lime kiln at Orting, W. T., will put on the market 4,500 barrels of lime per monlh. Walson k Luhr are building a steam flouring mill at Pendleton, Oregon, 40x60 f.et and two stories high. The question of a mill to manufacture paper from wood pulp is being agitated on rugct souuo There is a wide field for such an industry. The Albany Woolen Mills Company has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $50,000, to build woolen mills at Albany, Oregon, The en terprise is in the hands of the business men of that city. A match factory has been established in Seattle by N. P. Duffy. It has a capacity of 3,000,000 matches per day, and will soon be, able to supply the whole trade of Oregon and Washington. Brick are still in great demand everywhere. Not eiioiii'h can lie obtained to put up the build- ines already started. Recently 55,000 were taken to Seattle from San Francisco, and other lots from British Columbia. The Pucet Sound Iron Co. of Irondale,.V. T., are considering the question of erecting extensive rolling mills to cost $7W.ooo. The iron ore from their mine on Texada island is pronounced equal to any in America. Clarke. Thompson & Gownnlock have cstali lished a foundry and machine shop at the comer of N and Thirteenth streets, Portland. Their works cover an area of 50x200 feet, and give em ployment to about fifty men. LUMBER. Bradv A fin. ore ImililintT m cnur milt jnvDTt icet, wun a whan 150x300 feet, In this city, murcn c Delay 1 null, on the Vancouver rout, has commenced work. The capacity Is alxiul 20,000 Icet per day. The Basin Flume and I.umher Co. hat I n incorporated in Montana, wtlh 1 capital stork of $96,000, A flume thirteen miles long has been mult to tiring cord wood and lumlier to the reduction works near Rutte City. The Townsend Iron Company has lccn incor porated at Port Townsend, with a capital stock ol $20,000, to manufacture machinery, Inn lit ami repair vessels, and do iron work geneially. The woiks will soon be In mil lilast. Foreien shipments from Pucet sound durinc the month of May were eMit carcoes actrruatlnK 4,158,000 feet of rough and 867,000 feet ol dressed and surfaced lumber, 407,000 laths 347, 000 shingles and 13,645 pickets. During April and May Hurrard inlet shipped seven cargoes, containing 1.111.000 feel o( rotiuh and 5'Aooo feet of dressed luinlier, 882,000 laths, 72,200 pickets and 64 spars. In the vicinity of Dayton, YV. T. there are twenty-three saw mills, with a total cut of loo,- 000 feet per day. Lumlier is worth $15 per thousand at the mills and has In lie hauled to the railioad at an eiense of several dollars wi thousand. There are also loo teams engaged In hauling cord wood to maiket. A new mill with capacity of 30,000 feet is being erecled on the Middle Touchet. The proprietors hold 1,300 acres of good timlier land. Rolen & Ball are erecting a steam saw mill near La Center, Clarke county, V. T. A large sash and door factory, 50x110 feet, is being erected at Port Townsend, w. 1. A mill with a daily capacity of 10,000 feet has lecn erected near Mead station, ten milts from Deer IkIuc. Montana. Sn.h .ml ,lnor machinery has been added to the mill at Whatcom, W. T. A slock dividend was recently declared liy the company. r. r Phinnrv'i new mill on Lake Washington, Seattle, has commenced operations. It has an averace capacity of I'.coo leci per oay. The Sylva mill, Chehalis county, W. T.," has begun cutting. Its full capacity is io,oc A planine machine will soon be added. The Montana Luml-er Co. has erected a mill in Missoula, Montana, for finishing lumlr and mak inrr sash, doors blinds and wooden ware. w.n. vi'. i. rrreivini! addition t her in- dusttic. A furniture factory and . wood and iron working shop for lumin-.' out certain agricu. tural imid. ments are b ing erected. The Columbia River LumUr Co., with a capi taj stock of $1,500,000, are rreciing a mill in Clatsop county thai will rut x.0 fcet of lum ber daily. A logging tailroul b - IMPORTANT TIMIIKH LAND IlKCIMoN. f n Uawrolnrv Tellrr fen. w Asiiiisoi"", ' i- ",,, , i , 1 .I......I m ,l-ikii,n lo.flnv. in wh h he holds that the act of June 30, 1878, which erndl the sale . . i- ! r Ci tf . arte nl lands ai Hie minimum pins i-- valued principally for their limler and unlit for cultivation, does not apply to limlwr lands which may I rendered suscepliiiie 10 cuiiirmiou 17 oidinary farming processes. Such lands, the sec- letarv say, are not wnnin uie iw umh un . It is the iniennon in cuinim. -..1.. ........ liroken or nu'l'fd moun- lainous districts, wiih soil unlit for oidinary ari cultural purposes wnen cicaieu ii Tlie flourishinc condition of the lumlier Inter ests on Puget sound was given t few days since in the following dWpali h from New Taroma 1 " The lumbering bulnes continues exceedingly active, and at Taenia mill then are now right vessels loading, a numlr there nrvrr hr'ore reached, and ti e mill is cutting l9AOOOirrioi lumlK-r daily. The two mills at 'or i.aroiue recently cut 54.o ""KT ""J; "7 one mill at 1'ort Maker- cut in one day last week 2jj 000 fcet, which is the biggest cut In any one mill on the coast miring HnK -v ... - . fourteen vewr s wen in l'T nai- lir, awaiting cargoes of lumber. Sewn mills in this city are Kepi rr " ' demand, and three nrw mills aie building to aid them In thai work. n,. Immense ainmml of agrw-ultuial Imple- ments Imported Into this eimniry from rt.tein slates l something i.lien.immal. It srrms ll.migh their manuforliire wrrnU pay heie. V Mls diarharge llniiids ol Ions 01 pi"w, hi--fmiiiintr nvlU. rwies, rakes, po.h- forks rh.ins"e-. ,"f,, "r m ,M" and Philadelphia and eairi.d annd llir Horn. We are W ly Impte-rJ with i on inC . . .. . .1 l. . nor fwraniiinf who lolcl III. inn' " I ' - , ,. . e,Li Lto cut Ore", hr .n-l nd It ObU I 1 1 Kn,e (u aifrkrultuial lactone 10 mm uy - - - implements The fact thai good second growih oak and hickory are becoming scarce lmls them to this, and eastern manufacturer have demon stiated by esrlmenl that Orejnrt fir will trnV excellent fittings for Implements of farm use. If it pays to carry Oregon fir from the Columbia, It will suiely pay when this roiinlty nils up, to nuke the castings the steel and lion woiks here, and thus make the entire machinery on the Columbia. A itoriiin. The saw mill and timber Interests of British Columbia are thus briefly set forth by an exchange 1 " The saw mills In oirratlon In British Colum bia are mo'tly situated at Burrard's Intel. Two large companies named the Mnodle Saw Mill Co., and the Hastings Saw Mill Co., manuUcluie millions of fcet of lumlier for shipment to Australia and South America, and some ntbel saw mills are in operation. The logging camps hv mostly cut the timlirr for the mill along the salt water. Large quantities of .till tlmln-f, called Ititm fhuiliiiii, cover ih mountain sides, bill, of course, Ihe exienic of supplying the m II with logs will Increase when logging roads have to lie made to get the tlmlier nul lo Ihe se brwnl. The llmliet at Utile distance lark from Ihe coast I. the i,t. The cedar found alone the llvrr lilloms hark from the shore line Is vrry go.nl ll is mostly red cedsr, and escellenl for shingle and frnrlng. As we travel north Ihe pint illup. pears and Is rrplarr d by the white sprure and white cedar, AWe Ihe paiattel of 51" north lati tude the pin almost completely disappears, and and Ihe sprure i abundant, litis I very large tree, and I good situation straight and without knots, make touch. Iliiht lumber, and work well for house ue undei Ih plane. Almv the parallel of Sl the while cedar almund. This I plen. did wood, lough and close In Ih grain, and work well under I" plane. II It saltl thai in 5W AWi will nn Iwie In ll. !l Is thought, iherrfore, most useful Umlr for wharf piles For ship building ll h Inren deeldnl hy ship buildrit lo lie an excellent wood, and In lasting qualillr It cquil Ih lst oak. In uranium arbulu tiesj grow on the uih nd of Van couver' Island and on ill itndt In ih f iulf of Ceoigl. I lemlock vry wher abounds, tome of larg tlM 1 this I a coarss) limber, and mike rough lumUr, hut it Uik I ih known in lltlllsh Columbl for tanning purpoMs." Estenslve coal fields have been discovered near llnrtrshoe Bend, Mtho. On I'alnted Kob crrrk, forty mile fnrni Hil lings in the MuswIsImII countiy, an escellenl quality of coal has Im-ch dlscovrl nd numb! of cUlms located. The Benton brncb loati from Hilling will pat through this region. The Chinese term to have ntonovtAt ol min ing on Ihe bars of Ih npf Columbia. Near Ih Oklntgn llirr art kmm 4'W d many more at points alove. Try meet with lirtlrr surer in saving fine gold than whit miners Ttu Northern Torlnc and hjlf a d-'ien rxlval fifni e adle!y'l work pn t mens v.iri of Iru bituminous e"' lhal C 'VI n rien.)v rr In the vii'iniiy 1 f l en'n r,l IJvlfigslirti. The scarcity of wosel In lUr Moniins li niurK a let'ul devloomenl f ltd Irvluslry, whkh will noduul4 attaia large pro portion tsj maay !. mended.
