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Show Makinh Business. On Monday we went with Mr. D. W. Parkhurst to visit the factory of Smith Bra's, 1st East St., where he is having panel doors and sash manufactured, to gain an idea of the business he is trying to build up here. His object is to prevent, by live competition, the importation of articles manufactured from lumber which can be as well and as cheaply made here as east or west, and to open up an export trade besides. He has already filled one order for Corinne and another for Fort Hal), and has several sev-eral large orders now to fill of articles in his line manufactured here. We saw doors and sashes in the various stages from the rough lumber to the completed article, and were e6pecially pleased with a light panel door for small inner rooms, pantries or cupboards; cup-boards; the larger and heavier outside doors being also a splendid article. The lumDer from which they are made is the best quality of sugar pine, fiue-grained fiue-grained and perfectly clear, and the articles manufactured from it are very superior. For doors of a different class there were large blocks of redwood red-wood to be inserted as panels, the two woods making a beautiful contrast. The factory will turn out about fifty doors and a thousand lights of sash a day. Mr. Parkhurst then drove down to his lumber yard, one block south of the U. C. passenger depot, where a large quantity of lumber is stoied up to meet current orders, and a car from Truckee was being unloaded. The different sizes need not be specified, but what attracted particular attention were long, broad sheets of lumber, of Tarious thickness, perfectly clear of knots and valuable for a great variety of purposes. Mr. Parkhur.-t's object is to have the lumber brought in the rough, from the vast timber regions of the Sierras, and have it planed and worked up here into good, marketable articles for exportation and to be used in the Territory, thus increasing work for skilled labor, keeping money in the Territory and bringing money into It. He is extending his sheds for the reception re-ception of seasoned lumber, and otherwise other-wise making arrangements for driving a large business. |