Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-20
Total value mill products s87O, 1903 50

Messrs. >. b. & Co. ship the entire
amount Of their mill products TO their
lumber yard at st. Louis, Missouri
From statistics gathered during the past
year, it appears that 2O4, 979,8l2 feet of
logs were cut on the ST. Croix and its
tributaries during the winters of 1868
and 1869. From estimates made up
from such information as can be had 10y
reference to the records of the Surveyor
Generals Office and other sources, it
may be safe 10 calculate the quantity
to be cut during the present winter
will not vary far from loo, 100000 feet,
though the winter up to the beginning
Of 1870 was pnfavorah!!ea f1r producing
legs,
The lumber trade of the ST Croix
Valley during the past season has been
dull and unsatisfactory. Fair prices
were obtained in he earlier part of the
season, logs selling for the higher grades
at prices higher than were usually OBJ
tanned in former years. Fourteen dol
lars per thousand feet was paid for an ex
ira quality of logs.
Long logs of good size and quality,
brought in May and early part of June
$1,000, to $l2 per IL RATED.
Common and inferior logs, selling
prices ranging from So, to 50 per NJ
! feet.
AS the season advanced large quaint
ties of logs having been received into the
booms at Beef Slough and La Crosse
prices rapidly declined. Lumbermen on
the ST. Croix unable to compete with
Chippewa and Black River operators the
log traffic on this stream virtually ceased
except for such length and qualities as
other lumber districts did not furnish
This has resulted in leaving surplus of
fully 100000 feet of logs on hand,
including those RATED and lying in the st.
Croix river above and in the main
boom.
During the summer large quantity
of logs, some nine million feet, were
sold by Chippewa lunberman to the
saw mills at Clinton, Iowa, at the fol-
lowing figures, to-wit: So 25, 1915, $l2
per NJ feet, delivered at Gin on, Iowa,
being a very much lower price than logs
had been sold for, during the past ten
years; which has had the effect to dis
courage the production of logs on the
Chippewa river, for the use of saw mills
located on the Mississippi. After run
ming out and disposing of the old stock
Of legs, now on hand at the Beef Slough
boom, appearances indicate but little bus
Mess will be done there the coming sea
son; which fact, in view of the East
ought to be very gratifying to the whole
lumber interest OF otter streams tributa
ry to the Mississippi.
Black River has small stock of logs
on hand at La Crosse, most Of them
rated ready for the market early.
1t is supposed the stock of old logs
now lying in the Black River. will moi
vary from rs million feet.
Logging operations there during the
present winter, will produce from so to
100 million feet of logs.
Contracts have been made to delive,
million feet of logs at Musca,ine, tht
coming summer, at Ills per III, logs tc
be strictly first class as to quality and
size. There are three RATS of logs Al
Benton Bay; seven RATS of logs at Sa
wanna Bay, and five RATS OF logs a
Reeds Landing.
The stock of logs on hand at st
Louis, is above an average of wha
is usually wintered over there. The
mill men report business extremely dull
The stock of logs held over by saw
mills is not large, while, some mills have
months stock on hand; others hold
no logs, depending on buying early tc
meet the requirement of tho spring
trade.
Clinton, Burlington aud ST. Louis have