HOSKINSON, Riley M

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Mills of the Puget Sound 1881

Riley updates The Osage Chronicle on employment and the growth in saw mills in the Puget Sound: "All the mills on the Sound except one are running on full time and are worked to their fuil capacity. Port Blakely, already an immense concern, is adding a third gang saw capable of cutting twenty-four boards at a time. Its cutting capacity with this addition will be 100,000 feet every twelve hours. The mill at Port Gamble is still larger, and the mills at Port Madison and Tacoma are about the size of that at Blakely No one coming here need remain an hour idle. Common laborers get one dollar per day and board; carpenters, $3 per duy, without board." He also writes about the weather, noting a more severe winter though still the "...greatest cold was twenty-four degrees above zero," which Im sure his Kansas readers would have enjoyed.