S. L. Griffith’s new mill, known as the Tarbell mill, was burned to the ground Tuesday afternoon, together with all the machinery, consisting of a 100 horsepower engine and boiler, a Chase sawmill complete, one self-feed saw, four Baxter-Whitney turning lathes, full set clapboard machinery, 150,000 feet clap-boards, large lot of turned chair stock and other sawed hard and soft wood lumber piled near and in the mill. Loss from $10,000 to $12,000. No insurance.
