File:Seattle and the Orient (1900) (14785181195).jpg

Identifier: seattleorient00bowe (find matches)
Title: Seattle and the Orient
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bowen, Alfred D
Subjects:
Publisher: Seattle, Wash. : Times Print. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
The Saw Mill at Port Blakely. one ok the Big Mills of the World. was raised in the same county and af-ter completing his education beganbusiness with Mr. Borgardus. Bothmen have been together a good manyyears now and tlie success with wliichthey have met in the West is due, be-yond question, to their own efforts. ONE OF THE BIG PUGET SOUND MILLS, The construction of Hoods Canaland the founding of the town of PortOamble were not contemporaneous of Capt. Charles Talbot and A. J. Popeof San Francisco, and Capt. J. P. Kellerand Charles Foster of East Machias,Me. A few years later Cyrus Walker,who is the only surviving member ofthe little band of pioneers at PortGamble, was admitted to partnership,and still later the companys interestswere incorporated under the name ofthe Puget Mill Company. For thirty-five years Mr. Walker has been man-ager of the companys interests onPuget Sound, and to him more than toany other man is due the remarkableevolution since 1853. SEATTLE AND THE ORIENT. 95
Text Appearing After Image:
96 SEATTLE AND THE ORIENT. The machinery for the mill arrivedfrom Boston on the schooner L. P.Foster, J. P. Keller, master, in Sep-tember, 1853. Compared with the im-mense plants that now cover the orig-inal site, this mill was a toy. Thebuilding was 45x70 feet, with a diminu-tive engine and boiler, and a singlesash saw that would cut 2000 feet ofboards a day—some days. The firstyears output was 300,000 feet—lessthan the present aggregate daily out-put of the companys mills at PortGamble and Port Ludlow. In 1854 a and employing 150 men. Its mill atUtsalady, on Camano Island, near themouth of the Skagit River, has notbeen operated for several years. Thethree mills cut 100,000,000 feet of lum-ber during the year 1899; theoutput at Port Gamble being62,245,422 feet of rough lumber,13,349,485 laths and 213,519 feetof pickets. The greater portion of thisoutput went to San Francisco andother California ports, the remainderto Mexico, South and Central America,Hawaiian Islands, China, Japa

Note About Images