Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-01
LUMBER.

That the .SnWtl,sst Princes are AHemptin,
This nter-Arrangsments Made fo1
Putting In Deer 2OO,OOO,OOO of Logs
TtcO Regiments Of Men, and q Cdrntrz
Brigade Of 1nin,als Employed.
Just at this time all is activity among thu
lumbermen in this city. This is the seet
time of the logging community and almost
every hour during the beautiful weather
squads of men and animals are
taking their departure for the
pinery woods. Notwithstanding the con
tinued dullness of the lumber market fo1
three Or four years past there is no mani
tested disposition to let up in the slaughter
of the pine trees. Even if they have to Lie
In the booms and rot, there seems to bt
manifested desire to cut down trees anG
roll their trunks into the brooks and noa
them down to Minneapolis.
From the best sources of information the
GLOBE learns that there was something over
lOO, OO0,O 900 feet of lumber cut ut the mills in
this city during the season just closed. For
this supply there has been only g moder-
ate demand, and that at prices which
has left but comparatively a small margin
OF profit for the manufacturer. NotWith-
standing these patent facts there seems to
be q greater rush for the woods than ever
this fall, many new men and all OF the old
ones packing their kits and striking out in
all directions for the woods.
The secret of this insane desire to destroy
piue timber may be found in the fact that
we have in Minneapolis q large number OF
heavy owners Of pine larlda-rnany of them
gentlemen who have the credit of being
wealthy, live in great style, spend small for
tunes III extravagances, and when the au-
tumn comes round are in the sarne condi-
ton as the boy digging for the wood chuck
they n.tst get hlm, they are out of meat.
And so they send off gang after gong of Ia.
borers and slay tie timber without mercy
trusting to God and good IucI. for getting
enough ahead to keep the machine running
for another J ear.
Last year contracting firing readily sold
their seasons harvest at from fS8 to SO so
per thousand. This fall the GLOBE learns
that several old firms have contracted to put
IN supplies to the milling firms at from So
so to $6. so, which would make the STUN page
pay about so cents per Thousand to the land
owners, instead of 81. 90 at which the lands
are usually estimated.
From the L2imbGl1nUiS Of this week, the
GLOBE ascertains that nearly ono hundred
different crews will go into the woods this
winter, the gangs varying from eight to forty
men IN size. The following is tue Lumber
mans statement and may be considered re-
liable, as the facts were gained directly from
the contractors and lumbermen themselves
Total number of men to be en-
ployed -. 1898
Total number of horses and oxen... 1850
Total number OF feet of logs intend
ed to be cut by the parties named
ia the above table. 214 700 600
Old logs remaining III boom ....... $4,000, 600
Drives hung up. Observation-Disclosures. 12.OO0 600
Total probable stock of logs
Tor 1879. ...................24l , zoo, 900
it will thus be seen that the probable log
cut this winter will be one and half times
greater than the amount of lumber manu-
featured in this city the past season.
1t presents itself to the GLOBE in the light
that somebody will probably lose money in
logging ventures this winter, and we would
advise laborers going into the woods to So
cure some sort of e guarantee that their
wages will be paid, before taking hold of the
axe.
The LunbGrnaan has the following signif-
cant editorial in its issue OF yesterday regard
ing the present outlook for lunbermen in
Minnesota:
1.-THE lumber business is played OUT as our
Quincy correspondent puts it, and we agree
with him, both as to the fact and the reason
for it. There is In the river markets
trying to sell il competition with Chicago as
long as the present condition OF freight tariffs
is to be maintained. We can hardly arrive at
the conclusion that there is no remedy for the
outrages outside of burning bridges and tearing
up tracks, and yet it would seem that such is
the fact That railways built at the public ex-
pense viii, and do, favor Chicago to the extent
OF giving the dealers there from one to two
dollars per Thousand on the lumber trade, and
thus force all trade away from the river points,
is 5. fact The remedy lies in the power OF tue
States west OF the river, and if the men who
are being robbed by these companies are un-
willing to move in the matter, it would be
proper to consider they deserve the treatment.
In a logging way the prospects are simply
immense, as will he observed by consulting the
table on another page; and it is on the upper
mississippi, so it seems to be all over the pine
district of the three States. Somebody is going
to get hurt in this operation, and having been
warned OF the fact, let no one complain of the
result next summer.
Sales ore exceedingly light, but prices are
reasonably firm at river points