The Tacoma Mill Company’s plant on the waterfront at “Old Town” is the second largest lumber plant at TACOMA in capacity, number of men employed and the value of its output. This company is the successor of the firm of Hanson & Ackerson who established a mill in 1868 on the shore of Commencement Bay where the present plant of the Tacoma Mill Company now stands. The first settlement at TACOMA was due to this mill. Its original capacity was 40,000 feet per diem, which has been increased to 300,000 feet, the output for 1903 including 85,824,204 feet of lumber and 42,738,500 shingles, valued at $1,000,000. _RAIL SHIPMENTS OF LUMBER AND SHINGLES FROM THE TACOMA MILLS INCREASED FROM 3,141 CARS IN 1900 TO 6,012 CARS IN 1903, WHILE CARGO SHIPMENTS OF LUMBER INCREASED FROM 77,818,557 FEET IN 1900 TO 129,036,317 FEET IN 1903._ The United States transport _Dix_ sailed on May 9, 1903, from this port for Manila with 3,900,156 feet of lumber loaded at two TACOMA mill wharves. _THIS WAS THE LARGEST LUMBER CARGO EVER LOADED IN THE WORLD._ OTHER MANUFACTURES OF WOOD. A large share of the product of the TACOMA lumber mills is supplied to manufacturers in this city. A long list of industries has developed at TACOMA in consequence of its pre-eminence as the lumber mart of the State. There are many planing mills and sash, door and blind factories. The largest plant of this description in the State is that of the Wheeler-Osgood Company, on the flats, enlarged and rebuilt since its destruction by fire in September, 1902. Tacoma has large ship yards and builds the largest wooden vessels for sail and steam navigation engaged in the Sound or Coastwise trade to Alaska. There are three car construction and repair plants at TACOMA; several furniture factories, including the largest plant in this industry on the Coast, that of the Carman Manufacturing Company, covering six acres; the largest plant in the West for the manufacture of coffins and caskets; also the largest plant in this section of the world for the manufacture of wooden-stave water-pipe, that of the Washington Pipe and Foundry Company. There are several large plants for the manufacture of boxes and box shooks, and a great variety of industrial enterprises for the manufacture of articles chiefly of wood, such as ladders, wheelbarrows, incubators, churns, carriages and wagons, kegs, mantles, pails, tubs, trucks, wooden spoons, and many other articles. [Illustration: Northern Pacific Railway Construction and Repair Plant.]