July, 1883,
THE WEST SHORE.
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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 &
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the proprietors, have contracted ior me
nuisance about everv lumber mill on Punt inund.
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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
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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
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.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 $2,000,000,
iHltrav-rai.;i 1 ,
and thi. company ha. made .contract with the
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. n ....nv ninninc tor iwcmj
n. r. w..r- - . .
Improvement company agree. .0 ... -r
adequate quantity of lumber on in. i.neo . .
forest to supply all demand, fo, lumber .
UpHnclpa.pon.Mweenn..and
.... -:... -alali Itn Killl niiM" -
the railroad company's land, from spo
I ., 1 .mi.nnv u to be
.lion nf fires. tn "
at immensely leu rates and is advantageous to
ikjin companies, the eight nulls recently em
ployed in sawing ties, timbers, etc., for the con
stiuction of the N. P. road, are already nearly all
at work cutting lumber lor this enterprise. 1 hey
nave already aiioul six million leet cut, stacked
and seasoning, and aic adding to the uu.oiiiy
250,000 feet a day. About 17$ 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.
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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