Handling Manufactured Lumber. 

 the fih9t cableway for this purpose is installed by the port blakely mill company of seattle, washington. 



HANDLING LUMBER BY CABLEWAY 



THE economy, facility and ra- 

 pidity with which logs can be 

 handled by overhead cable- 

 ways has been demonstrated 

 in many places. Such cableways, in 

 their varieties, are in use in many parts 

 of the world for taking logs out of the 

 woods, loading them on cars and ves- 

 sels, transporting them across gullies 

 and streams, unloading vessels and cars 

 or picking the logs up from the water 

 and storing them in piles and sorting 

 and feeding them to the mills. 



The Port Blakely Mill Company is, 

 however, the first concern in the coun- 

 try to install a cableway solely for the 

 purpose of handling manufactured lum- 

 ber. The great success of this cableway 

 and the satisfaction which it has given 

 to the purchaser make a description of 

 this cablewav and its uses interesting. 

 The Port' Blakely Mill Company is 



one of the best known concerns in the 

 Northwest. They have been operating 

 since 1858 and built up a business which 

 required one of the largest mills in the 

 country. The mill site is on an inlet 

 opening into Puget Sound directly op- 

 posite Seattle and about seven or eight 

 miles from that city. The mill was 

 built on the North shore of the inlet, 

 where an extensive dock frontage was 

 developed. The yards for lumber are 

 on the South side of the inlet. These 

 yards are close to three-quarters of a 

 mile long and are separated from the 

 North shore, where the mill stands, by 

 something like 400 or 500 feet of open 

 water. As originally arranged, there 

 was a bridge across the inlet and the 

 manufactured lumber, which was to be 

 held in stock, or shipped by rail, was 

 taken across the bridge. A fire de- 



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