Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-07
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Gathered BY the Special Reporters Of ths
Dolly Globr.
SALTWATER.

reelected the old board of directors.
One drunk received the sentence of the
law at the municipal court yesterday, being
committed for eight days.
| A meeting of the library will be held at
Marsh & McCluer's Office Friday evening, to
perfect arrangements for the masquerade
ball.
In the town of Oneka there were II
births and l death during the year 1879,
| and in the town of Newport, births and 2
deaths.
| The Saltwater library association has Sc
cured Opera Hall for Friday evening. Feb
ruary 6, for grand masquerade and fancy
dress ball. The receipts are to be devoted
to the purchase of new books the coming
year. Every one should attend.
In Yesterdays GLOBE we mentioned the
fact that John Owens bad several fingers SO
badly frozen as to necessitate amputation.
DIR. Willard performed the operation yester-
Gay amputating three fingers at the first
Joint, two on the right hand and one on the
left.
| Haverly's Georgia minstrels played to
large and thoroughly dissatisfied house on
Monday night. In the first place the COM
pany divided after leaving St. Paul, only
half of the troupe coming to Saltwater, and
almost everything about the performance
! lacked freshness, the jokes having been
worn out here long ago. With one or two
exceptions the performance was very poor.
The county commissioners met yesterday
afternoon, and after hearing the minutes of
the previous meeting, the old board ad
| iourned. The new board was then called to
order and G. A. Parker from the Fifth dis
trict and F. Dornfeld from the Fourth dis
trict presented their certificates of election
and took their oath of Office. David Couer
was elected chairman of the board, and
Samuel Matthews was appointed committee
on taxes for the ensuing year.
WINTER BUSINESS OF ISAAC STAPLES.
With the desire of informing the outside
world of the immense business carried on by
some of our Saltwater firms the present
winter, we have selected that of Isaac Staples
who leads all others in the extensiveness of
his business.
MIR. Staples logging operations in the pin
cries this winter comprise the following
| camps:
Moose River-Four camps, employing
force of 172 men, Sc horses and 80 oxen.
In these camps he is banking short logs of
No. quality, on roads two to three miles
long.
Apple River-Two camps, employing Is
men, 48 oxen and go horses, hauling on roads
two to two and one-half miles long. The
logs cut at these camps are of good quality
and double length.
Upper Snake-One camp, employing 40
men, II horses and oxen.
Lower Snake-One camp employing GO
men, 40 oxen and % horses, hauling long
logs of fair quality.
Ann Rver-On this river he has three
camps, employing 11S men, SO horses and 81
oxen. The logs cut here are of No. quality
and both long and short.
Chases Brook Main st. Croix)-On this
stream there is one camp (Winslow, Staples
g. Coz employing 40 men, 20 oxen and 20
horses. The logs cut at this camp are all
long and of good quality. A tramway and
four cars is successfully operated at this
camp.
In addition to the foregoing, Mr.. Staples
has one camp hauling by the thousand, en-
ploying II men and oxen, hauling long
logs of good quality.
SUMMARY.
Total number of camps Ii, employing
OOO IutI, ZlO uOloco duo OACh. hO
number of feet of logs hauled by this force
will be between 100000 and 10000, 900.
This amount is contingent on the duration
of the winner.
But of this amount of logs 100000
feet will be cut during the ensuing season
at his saw mill, and the remainder will be
RATED and marketed along the Mississippi,
between here and st. Louis.
MIR. Staples has constructed some seventy
five miles of road from Kittle River Sta
ton, through dense wilderness, to his
camp on Moose river and Chase's brook,
with stopping place, store and two interme-
diate stations. for the accommoda ton of his
supply teams and men.
While speaking of the logging operations
of Mr.. Staples, we cannot refrain from Civ
ing meagre mention of his business inter-
est in the city.
In this city, besides his saw mill, he has
flour mill, making $50 barrels of flour
and twenty tons of feed every twenty-four
hours: planning mill, dressing from twenty
to twenty-five thousand feet of lumber and
saving ten cords of hard wood every day.
The wood is delivered to customers about
the city.
Besides these he owns and operates
foundry, machine spop, placksmtn ana
wagon shop, making his own wagons and
sleds and repairs in sawmill, sash and door
| factory, store, meat market and packing
house and harness shop.
The farm. In connection with his other
| business, Mr.. Staples runs large farm in
the city limits, where he keeps some very
| fine thoroughbred horses. several of which
have gained an extended reputation.
On this farm he Iaises large number of
hogs, keeps his beef cattle and sheep and
fowl to supply the meat market and packing
house, and keeps his woods, horses and oxen
during the summer vacation.
FromIthe foregoing statement it will be
readily seen that Mr.. Staples cuts logs from
his own lands (entered at an early day,
saws his logs into lumber, makes sash. DOORS
wagons, sleds and harness, does his own
iron work and repairs, furnishes his own
flour, feed, pork, beef and general rssstnan
disc, besides large surplus of the latter tor
shipment, and gives employment in this city
during the winter months to one hundred
and fifty men, besides his wood force.
Mr.. Staples states, with degree of par
donable pride, that the quality of his log
crop, this winter, will excel that of several
seasons past, that in addition to large pro-
portion of upper grades, there will be alarge
| nercentapa suitable for lOno dimension and