St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-01-12

to aggregate 232 ,000,O 900 feet the pas
year. This amount was all produced
from wholesale establishments fOl
shipment to dealers and markets out
side the state. These figures also rep
resent nearly the amount transported
by the railroads to points outside the
state during the year.
In addition to the large steam mills
mentioned there are some 600 smaller
steam and water mills in the state foi
saving, dressing and manufacturing
lumber of various kinds. The average
annual production of these smaller
mills is from a few thousand to one
million feet. A part of their produc-
ton is shipped to other states, but the
greater portion of the lumber is used
by local builders or sold to manufac-
turers in the state.
In regard to the material and stock
produced by the large mills for expOr-
tation by rail, probably 80 per cent
WAS spruce and the balance hemlock
pine and hard wood. The manufac-
tuIed value of this 232 100000 feet OF
luni!;e and dimension stock is esti-
maJed by experienced lumbermen to
average ut least $l5 per NJ, which
gives an aggregate amount of S3,4S0,
600 as the sum realized by VermOnters
in this branch Ofindustry.
The lumber of all kinds manufac-
tured along the line of the various
roads and shipped by rail to markets
outside the state in 1882 should be
appOrtiOned about as follows:
Feet.
4 and TaEa OOC
Passumpsic and South Eastern (road in
Central Vermont and branches 20 OOO OOC OOC
Montpelier and Wells River. 10 600 OOC
Bennington and Rutland -lO, 600, ,OOC
Other roads OOO, ,OOt
This amount is all of Vermont
"stumpage," and does not include logs
or lumber cut from Canadian soil and
sent over Vermont roads. In addition
to this it is estimated that nearly 30
600 900 feet of lumber is manufactured
in Essex county and shipped over the
Boston, Concord and Montreal and
Grand Trunk roads to market. TC
transport this vast product of Yer
mont forests required over 10000 cars
or 1000 trains of 20 cars each.
The average number of men en-
gagged in logging on large scale in
the state during the season" exceeds
1000. There are ut least 1000 men en-
gagged in lumber manufacturing i'll the
larger mills of the state, and probably
1000 more that work in small saw mills
during the busy season of the year
1t is probable that the lumber indus
try gives employment to 10000 hands
III Vermont for portion of the year.
LOGGING IN ESSEX COUNTY
The heart of the lumber region o
the state is in Essex county. 1t is es
| timated that there is nearly 300, ,0Ot
acres of timber land in this county
most of which is virgin forest. This for
est primeval has an average width o
twelve miles and is some thirty miles
long, and old lumbermen say that i
contains no less than S75, 5,OOO,OO fee
of spruce and hemlOck lumber. 1t i,
expected that S0,O00,00 feet of log.
will be cut from the stump during til,
season of 1923. At this rae it wOulC
take but ten years to exhaust the sup
ply of timhe~ in this region. Thi
vast forest is il mine of wealth to til,
owners, chief among whom are thu
| Beattie Brothers, who own about 30,
900 acres of woodland in Essex county
Messrs. A. NJ. d. II. and Il. 6. Beatti,
are entitled to be called the lumbe
kings of Vermont. They intend t.
cut over 2O,0OO,0O feet of logs this
season in Essex county alone. To ac
complish this they have nearly 3OI
men at work logging, besides l0I
horses and 30 yoke of oxen. The.
will pay out about $500, 900 for wage
of choppers and teamsters this season
A greater portion of the logs cut arr
landed at the bank of the Connection
river. Spruce logs are now worth :,
per NJ, hemlock s. per NJ, and hem
lock bark 80 per cord at the river
FOur-foot wood for railroad use bring
S2.75 per cord.