The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-17
TIE RUNAWAY LOGS.
Latest from the Scenes of op srations--
Dispatches from Messrs. Weyer-
hauser, Shrlcker. and others.
Davenport Democrat.


On Wednesday Messrs. Lindsay Il
PheIps received letter from Lacrosse,
dated IL a. a., june 18th (Tuesday) from
MIR. W, G. Russell. It states that the
situation ia about the same as when Mr..
LINDSAY left, except that the water is rails
ing. at the rate of sac inches in 81 hours.
MT. Chapman, of the firm of Chapman u
Thorpe, Eau Claire, is in Lacrosse, and
tells Mr.. Russell that from $50 TO- 200
million feet of logs have broken loose from
the Dells dam at Eau Claire, but that the
boom at round Hill turns nearly all that
come into Beef Slough. He writes that
Lindsay & Phelps RATS are all safe as yet
A dispatch came Wednesday. however,
stating that the Round Hill boom had gone
out-broken away,
The reason why more logs have not run
into Beef Slough is because they have been
spread out" over the country by high
water, and the lumber manufacturers here
say that is better than as ii they were
running wild into the Mississippi.
A dispatch came from Mr.. Fred Weyer-
hauser, president of the Mississippi river
logging company. Wednesday evening,
dated at Beef Slough, stating that SO far
only about 1000. 600 feet of logs which
had come down the Chippewa, had been
sheered into the boom. but it was expect
ed great NUM- ers would be run in to-day,
aud the boom would hold all that might
come. The Chippewa was falling-but
another rise had occurred, and it is likely
it would rise again slightly "Wednesday.
Millions of feet of logs would necessarily
be left high and dry on the Chippewa, st.
Croix and Black rivers and their tributar-
les.
Capt, Henderson, of the Tidal Wave,
who arrived Tuesday evening. says the
freshets include all the rivers in the Min
nesota and Wisconsin regions, and extend
away up to the Red river country. The
upper river is full of logs, and everywhere
between Reeds Landing and Dubuque
boys and men are making the most of the
time. day and night, going out in skiiFs
and hauling the logs, ashore. and cribbing
or bralling them. The raft steamers are
darling about here and there. picking up
logs. tieing them together and towing them
to some bay or slough. Large losses in
logs are inevitable. Some old river men
tell the Dubuque Herald they have seen
no Mississippi river food like this for forty
years. All the mills on the Chippewa,
Wisconsin,, Menoninse, Yellow and
Black rivers have been forced to discon.i-
nue. operations and have had their booms
swept away.
A telegram from Mr.. Schricker, of this
city, states that he has succeeded very
we'll, SO far, in gathering the logs which
were swept out of Trempeeau bay, and is
still very busy with ell the boats and
hands.he can hire, in surrounding the run
Always. This coming down of logs from
the side streams has bothered him in his
operations very much. The fact is all
that can be done is for all interested to go
in and gather all thu logs that can be
captured aud then divide according 10 each
ones original ownership.
Capt. Bryson received telegram from
St. Paul this afternoon, saying the river
there is fifteen feet above low MARYLAND
rising an inch an hour. 1t is all over the
Northern Line warehouse floor there.