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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1884)
THE WEST SHOBE. 90 through business c1u.iii.o1b indicate nn enormous volume of tnl There were 197,147 ferns of freight received t,y the Northern Pacific Railroad and 21,W8 tons for warded; hut Hince the bulk of shipments in the past tu a..l from Taenia have been by water, these figures give but a faint indication of the inland, coast and foreign commerce of the city. The manufacturing enterprises already established are very extensive, and new ones are constantly seeking locations. Many of those already in operation were founded .luring the past year, while during the same period the capacity of others was materially increased The most extensive of theso is the Tacoma Mill of Hun hoii t Co. This mammoth establishment employs an averago of 200 men alntut tho mill and (.00 in tho eigh teen Wiring camps it keeps in operation. In 1882 the mill cut H'J.OOO.OOO feet of lumber, but during the past year KXMMK) were oxiieiidod in enlarging its capacity; mi,! tho total oroduct was 50,000,000 feet of lumber and 10,000,000 laths. Seventy-two cargoes of lumber were shipped from Hanson & Co.'s wharf during the year, twenty-four of which went to foreign ports. The capital invested in mill, warehouses, vessels, tugboats, animals, etc., connected with this enterprise, is fully $1,000,000, and the monthly cxcnse of operation exceeds $100,000. This is one of the largest, and, in many respects, the u.oHt complete lumlieriug enterprises in the world. Tho Tacoma Sawmill of M. F. Hatch & Co. produced in 18S3 n total of 11,000,000 feet of lumber and 5,000,000 laths, tho greater Mrtion of which was sold in the home market for buildings being erected in the city. Forty men are employed. John Carson began operating his new sawmill in April. During the ron.ainder of the Year 3,700,000 feet of lumber were cut, much of which was dressed and finished iuto liner grades before leaving the mill. Iu tho fall a sash and door department was added under the title of the Talok Manufacturing Company, in which Mr. C. M. Johnson is associated with Mr I Ji Vat m and tho manufacture of furniture, stairs, stair-railing etc., is carried on extensively. Fifty men are now cm ployed, but tho force will bo lamely increased n ,,nr branches are added. Tho New Tacoma Planing Mills of Paulson A Anderson also lipg,m operations in April. ...7 .i).hTm Muniig me year an averago of twenty ...... ...i.i ,.,nie,i out H i,,,.,,,, ,1U1M14 (v llf ,,, sash, doors, etc. 110 ctl,)iulty 0f this establishment is .u w iwieo mat of last year. The Tacoma lurmture I artery of Cl.aml)erlain, Bnuerle & Rice has Ihxm, running a little more than a year and employs forty men. A grea quantity of flirilituro lme8 tjh mmthly. ill.a.n Page's Shingle Mill employed si ,,. , r,,, am, lluri u 1 mIiIIhtIho 4 ( hapninn & Lavenworth one ,., ..... i...,. .... ty, with which it will l ; ;Ule9 Iro"' L'nmu railwHv Tl.. . . MI,Plt ,l b R '""row .. ' uu! 'H'Bl A new suwmil WM1H ono ami one-half miles fr, KHugo railwy. The inexhaustible supply of tiite ...... .B u,.ummi lor A.u t SUthcieut miiuni.,-. .i .:. V . uiuO0r easiness wi, nml are a per. manent one, and will continue to increase in the future as it has during the past few years. The terminal car shops of the Northern Pacific Kail. road are located at Tacoma and form an industry of great importance. During 1883 they employed an average of 75 men, paying $175,001) m wages, and turned out 249 cars, chiefly flat cars, besides keeping in repair tweuty 11 I 1 m it -r-v . . ocomotives and all tne rolling stock oi tne Racine DiviB- ion, and doing much other wood and iron work for the road New brick shops are soon to be erected, which Mr. Oakes has given assurance "will be second only to the largest of the company s shops on the road. They will be supplied with an abundance of all kinds of machinery needed for the building of coaches and other rolling steck, and for repairs of all kinds, so that if desired they could build a locomotive from the ground up." When these are completed their industrial benefit to the city will be very great, leading directly to a large increase in business, population and value of property. Other manufacturing enterprises embrace the very extensive foundry and machine shops of Lister, Hough ton & Co., where eighty men are employed ; Williams' salmon cannery, which, commencing late in the season, mcked 2,000 cases and salted 200 barrels of salmon, and which will vastly increase its capacity and product the coming season ; the Pioneer Candy Factory of McLaren k Wttllerstein, which consumed during 1883, the first year of its operation, a total of 26,000 pounds of fine sugar ; and brick yards which burned 2,000,000 bricks the past year, a product which will be nearly doubled the coming season. Summing up the manufacturing enter prises already established, and all constantly increasing in capacity, product and amount of labor employed, it is found that the industries disbursed in 1883 a total of $717,718 in wages to 950 men, besides furnishing work to nearly as many more in logging camps at various points along the Sound. A flour mill with a daily capacity of 100 barrels is now being erected. The majority of business and public buildings erected in 1883, as well as those under contract for the present year, are of the most substantial character and some of them highly ornamental. The cheaper wooden struc tures, which, in the absence of better material, were at first hastily erected, are fast disappearing before the on ward march of two and three story brick buildings, and it will not bo long before the business streets of Tucom will be lined with substantial brick blocks. "With beds of superior clay in the immediate vicinity, not enough brick could be procured to fill the demand, and this year facili ties are being provided for burning at least twice the quantity made last year, all of which, before the close of the season, will be standing in solid blocks on the streets of Tacoma. The structures most noticeable are the new hotel, Annie Wright Seminary, Coal Bunkers, Central School House, St Luke's Memorial Church, Court House, Kailroad Shops, and a number of private resi dences, which are commodious and several of them ex tremely elegant, signifying the culture and taste of ft people.