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.