Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-30
LUMBER TRADE.

Meeting To-Day to Form a Trade Associa-
facturers and Dealers--A Few Notes
As to the Trade ofSt PAULA New Firm
Chicago Men Coming Here for Stock
Prospects for the Future, Etc.
A meeting of lumbermen Of Wisconsin and
Minnesota to form trade association is to be
held at the Merchants to-day ,lbeginning as 2
IN. All lumber dealers are requested to at
tend.
w. "A. Remmick, John Morris and L. Gard
ner, three we'll known lumber sellers of Chi
cago, are about to establish themselves in
business, with headquarters at st. Paul. Mr..
Remmlck will reside in st. Paul as manager
of the firm business, Mr.. Morris will attend
to shipping and sorting in Wisconsin, and
Mr.. Gardner will be principal salesman of the
firm, having his residence and Office at Co.
lumbus, Nebraska. Mr.. Remmick Is now in
Mcmillan.
Messrs. G. B. Shaw & Co., Chicago, have
made some progress lately towards establish
ing their headquarters, as lumbermen, in St..
Paul They recently bought 5000, 900 feet Of
logs, at Eau Claire, to be sawed at Wilson,
which will be shipped from the Wilson mills
to Kansas via st. Paul. This firm controls
fifty-three retail yards, mostly in Kansas.
They have also bought 100000 feet of lum-
Der from B. F. Mcmillan, of Meanwhile, Wis,
also to be shipped via st. Paul. Mr.. Shaw is
to spend the summer in Minnesota, and may
make his home here. Mr. Frank Joceyn,
the other member of the firm, will spend the
summer in Kansas City, having charge
New lumber line cars are being delivered
here at the rate of about ten q day
The NJ. q st. T. company is about to estab-
| lish general agent for its lumber business
here, but will have its distributing point at
La Crosse.
The Chicago lumber company has bought
| quarter million feet of lumber, from Wake
uia the Lumber Line to Kansas City. Mr.. NJ
| T. Green, their manager, will be here in June
| to buy three or four million feet of lumber for
| the seventy-ive yards, mostly in Nebraska,
which are supplied by this firm.
The G. N. Nelson lumber company's mill
at knife Falls, having two gangs and two
circulars, with an estimated capacity of 200 to
| 225 thousand feet per day, will begin running
about the middle Of June. The lumber from
this mill, excepta portion of the upper gradee
| will be marketed in the Northern Pacific coun-
grades will, however, be shipped to the com.
pany's st. Paul yard, which is mainly supplied
| by its Saltwater and Lakeland mills. This St.
| Paul yard or depot, occupying sixty acres
of ground and provided with first
class Touring mill, is one oil
the marvels of the rapidly growing
| lumber business which centers in st. Paul
| This company will handle this year about So,
! 000, 600 feet of lumber.
| Gentlemen connected with the St. Paul &
Duluth road have noticed that there is an in
! creasing movement of lumber from that line
to st. Paul. Moore & Brandenburg, of Knife
Falls, are shipping their high grades this way
and some lumber is coming from Duluth
while the prospects of the business at Duluth
are favorable to much larger shipments in the
future, especially of upper grades, which are
said to be furnished in large proportion by the
Lake Superior pine. Considerable shipments
| of lumber to and via st. Paul are also made
| from Moose Lake, Kettle River, Mission
| Creek, Pine City, Rock Creek and Rush City
| An immense amount of lumber from TIT
West Wisconsin and North Wisconsin lines 1:
loaded and waiting here for the opening o.
the Sioux City road, and when that line i:
opened the trade will only be limited by thu
supply of cars. The Central Wisconsin road
lately connected with st. Paul by the Abbots
ford branch, will also furnish large guam
tity of lumber to st. Paul agents who have al
ready contracted heavily on that line.
| The large field of selection as to varieties il
also an advantage in nsuring a regular sup
| ply, while the direct rail lines to the grea
prairie regions west and southwest are suret,
| of market for all that can be produced
| Hence, it is not extravagant to anticipate thai
within few years st. Paul, as a lumber dis
tributing point, will be exceeded only by Chi