Port Angeles Cedar Cutters Sail for Hawaii — And Warn Puget Sound Is Losing the Trade

Port Angeles, Jan. 6.—Special.—The schooner Jewett arrived in port last evening, 23 days out from Honolulu, where she delivered 650,000 feet of cedar ties and lumber which was cut by the Port Angeles Red Cedar Shingle & Lumber Company. Mr. W. H. Lambert, manager of the company, was a passenger on the schooner, he having gone to the islands with the first cargo in order to complete arrangements for the shipment of a second. The ties are to be used in the construction of a railroad which is to encircle the island, and 15 miles of it is now completed and in operation. Mr. Lambert says that at present California controls the entire trade of the islands, shipping in great quantities of produce, hay, lumber and shingles. Business is brisk, and the profits, especially in the case of lumber and shingles, equal the original cost of the importation. He says further that the Puget Sound country is missing a splendid opportunity in not securing its share of this trade, and that the company he represents will at once take steps towards establishing lumber yards in Honolulu. The Jewett took as a deck load, on her last trip, several hundred thousand shingles, and they gave such satisfaction that Mr. Lambert found no difficulty in securing additional orders. The demand for lumber is always great, as from one to two million feet is used in fitting out a new plantation. The Port Angeles company now has an order for 5,000,000 feet of ties and lumber, and the prospect of an additional one equally as large.