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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1883)
July, 1883, THE WEST SHORE. 53 Manufactures. The Dallas flouring mills were destroyed by fire June 29; loss, $10,000. Th mills at Corvallis, Oregon, are being fitted ,,p with machinery for the gradual reduction process, at an expense of $10,000. The leading men of Puyallup valley are or- .:.: o mmnanv with a capital stock of painting; j . ti6 000. for the purpose of manufacturing tubs, K,irtio and wooden ware generally. The tuans, " requisite material exists there in abundance, and the facilities ior manufacturing and shipping are excellent. New Tacoma is to have a broom factory in cmnil runninr? order before the first of September. The machinery for starting the enterprise will cost $2,000, but tie capacity will be increased as soon as the business becomes well established. At nrestnt the broom coin will be imported from California, but native product will be used as quickly as the farmers in the sections adapted to its growth see the advantages of cultivating it The Mattulath Manufacturing Co. employ 140 men in their factory at Seattle and turn out 3,000 barrels per day. Three-fourths of these are made of cottonwood and are used for packing sugar, flour, lime. etc.. while the balance are of fir and are used for fish, beef, pork, skins, furs, etc. The demand for barrels has increased to such an extent that a double force will soon be put on and the factory will then be run to its full capacity night and day. The five lime kilns on San Juan island give emulovment to about seventy men. The great drawback to this industry is the difficulty of ob tainine barrels. The cottonwood barrels man factured on the sound are not suitable for lime cedar beini? far Dreferable. As there is a great abundance of that material to be had, it would seem as though some enterprising man would find it profitable to start a cedar barrel factory and aid the development of this industry. The Salem foundry and stove works now being constructed at the penitentiary will be an enter nrise of considerable magnitude. A new build ing 166x227 feel now 1einS erected," to be divided into pattern, moulding and nickel-plating rooms, and a larra warehouse is also being con structed. The old building will be occupied by the machine shoos. Goldsmith, Lowenberg & r .1 the proprietors, have contracted ior me nuisance about everv lumber mill on Punt inund. . a lies perhaps the germ of wealth to some enter prising persons. Sawdust in ordinary lumlier cutting represents from 20 to 30 per cent, of the log measurement, amounting annually to a vast amount of now worse than useless material. Fuel is now manufactured from vellow and white nine 1 sawdust and sold for steam purposes in Chicago at $3.25 per ton, at a cost of 70 cents per ton on hoard vessels or cars at Dlace ol manutacture. The material can be compressed into blocks of any convenient weight and sue, which have the merit of being clinkerless and almost without smoke and ashes. For domestic purposes they are claimed to be superior to coal. The sawdust is heated just enough to start the resin and then compressed, making a block far harder than the original wood. It can be manufactured into oblong blocks, occupying the least possible space and transported even cheaper than coal, some time, if what is claimed for this process be true, a profitable trade in this material, will spring up with localities where fuel is scarce and high. a fuel can be laid upon the dock at San Francisco a ton of which is equivalent to a cord or wood, at sav $? per ton. it is very clear there is a wide margin for profit. Certainly the matter is worth investigation. LUMBER. Co., convict lalior for ten vearfc and expect to manu facture from two to three carloads of stoves daily. The Seattle Post'lnteUigmctr thus speaks of an industrv that mav be added to those already pros pering in this land of timber s "A new industry is beimr inaugurated in the east, which ere long will receive wide SDread notice; We refer to the process of consolidating loose and bulky materials, such as bran, middlings, ground feed, meal, saw duit. hvim. coal dust. etc.. into blocks for exDort. bv means of the steam hammer. Bran is compressed from 17a cubic feet representing a ton of 2,140 pounds to 34 cubic leet, miau,mK from 86 to 3, ground feed the same and meal from 64 to 37. Coal dust in the same manner is comnreued Irom ax to 28 cubic feet per ton, Tk. ..u mill nf the ClatsoD Mill Co. was destroyed in the conflagration at Astoria on th second of July. A small mill to cut 12,000 leet per day has ;i heen comDleled on the Clatskanie, in Col Lmbia county, Oregon, by the Columbia Flumr nd Lumber Co. Work is progressing rapm.y on the flume that is to convey the lumlier to tide water. tu. Montana Tmnrovement Co., has been i.t m ao Into the lumlier business on gigantic scale. The Deer uxige -.".-... the nroiects "It is a well known fact that almost from Missoula to rem, u wrc.v i.l. . .li.i.nre of 2to miles, the Northern 1 a cific'traverses the most magnificent Wit of white .A .Itn nine. fir. cedar and lamarac men, u-.... Minnesota and Puiiet sound, tven thi IJCLf.VII , . . .a. -r m;.L .1 far as McCarty bridge i B1U6 VI - - - . . ... e. frt.. Each alternate section of tins Limber land on a belt eighty miles wide belong. to the Northern Pacific company. ne therefore been organised and incorporated re- cently what is known as tne mom.,,. 'r -.iihacaoital stock of $2,000,000, iHltrav-rai.;i 1 , and thi. company ha. made .contract with the t . . .1. . 1 r , . n ....nv ninninc tor iwcmj n. r. w..r- - . . Improvement company agree. .0 ... -r adequate quantity of lumber on in. i.neo . . forest to supply all demand, fo, lumber . UpHnclpa.pon.Mweenn..and .... -:... -alali Itn Killl niiM" - the railroad company's land, from spo I ., 1 .mi.nnv u to be .lion nf fires. tn " at immensely leu rates and is advantageous to ikjin companies, the eight nulls recently em ployed in sawing ties, timbers, etc., for the con stiuction of the N. P. road, are already nearly all at work cutting lumber lor this enterprise. 1 hey nave already aiioul six million leet cut, stacked and seasoning, and aic adding to the uu.oiiiy 250,000 feet a day. About 17$ to 200 men will be employed by the company. The lumber industrv of Piurel sound has reach. ed a point of development which must command attention. There will be cut in Washington Ter ritory, during the present year, 5,000,000 feel of lumlier. This product Is distributed, as nearly as can be estimated, as follows 1 Exports to California 250,000,000 lorcill puill gy,iAAi,Aj Home consumption 170,03, 000 This vast product represents in round numbers value on the whaives ready for shipment or at ncal mills ready for delivery, of $1 2 iwr thousand, or an aggregate of $6,000,000, which is net rev enue to the territory I rum this one industry. Tho 330,000,000 feet e.)orled require the .ervice. of goodly number of vessels. Taking all classe. ol craft on which lumber I. exported the average cargo i. about 500,000 feet, which would make nece.sary the shipment or 600 cargoes. Another and the most notable feature, one which more than any other evidences the rapid settlement ol the territory adjacent to Pugot sound, and tht :ilics and villages situate thereon, Is the Item ol home consumption. The lumber for export U mainly cut by seven large mills on the sound. That for home consumption employs as many as forty smaller ones, with a daily output ol irom 2,500 to 75,000 feet each, and an average of almul 2,000 feet. These mills are constantly crowoeu with orders, lluilder. are forced to wait their turn, and there is no evidence of a falling off in the demand. The amount of Improvements this large quantity of lumlier represents in building, of various classes, wharves, sidewalks, rauroau etc., etc., Is an evidence of prosperity conclusive md Incontrovertible. Within the- city limits 01 Seattle there Is being cut at this writing an average of 160,000 feel per day, ami within thirty days this capacity will I increase., 10 200,000 feet per day. All inn tuiniwr . here, and the demand i. still g'eally In advance of the supply. The proiecllv magnitude 01 in. lumlier lntere.t of northwestern Washington Is as yet hardly realised. It I lo be Dm most poUM factor In the growth and production 01 iw,nnm wealth to our people. From Pugel sound ten years hence the exports of lumlwr direct 10 nxcign ports will exceed tho- ol the balance of lh Pa cific coast. We shall ship l .vety an...n and the flags of .very nation will I seen noanng at mast hcods in our harb . Th. Interior will also demand attention and our home consumption .hould and will double every year. W. shall be oreoared and will furnish our brethren ea.l of Ih. 1 1 - I .1.. U....1...M tMfw Cascade, and on lb. tin i 1 railroad as fr tvX a. the demand may reacn, houses ma.1. of th. fint of pine, cedar ana n,. framed, fined and teo-ly lr Immediate tcimn, imn 01 nrc paid ..ump.ge for .11 lW cu. an reserves : ,of .tolu.e right to limit "" m,, ,d of M.rr e!a man .ney be ct It ha. also the option to haul and WMlt(, at the selling poh' ' "T" 1' " J "l liJL . our -n, cn and cr...lng I- IhimiI wiinoui Hll" .ml lime to our -em customer, and tiling fo, ounelve. in Industry of illimil.Ul. nust auu shavings from 896 to 37 and pine sawdust from doubled rtab.lity.-Wa.4"'. the regular traffic. 1 nis w. r- 448 to 34. Ia this latter material, wmcu