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A short steamer voyage from Port Townsend in 1876 found new wharves, a bigger engine house, and a lumber mill employing about 100 men.
“The mill is running on full time, employing, all told, about 100 men, and turns out, at a moderate estimate, 50,000 feet of lumber per day.”
A sawmill employee barely escapes a late-night cabin blaze, losing his winter supplies to the flames.
“He was awakened about midnight to find himself nearly stifled with the smoke in his cabin, and before he really had time to see about him, he felt the fire burning his bed.”
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