St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-02
to any one town cannot be imagined than
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INDIAN LUnBERMEN.

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that which has Hayward for a business cen
ter.
INDIAN LUnBERMEN.
Within this county is the Lac Court
Oreilles "a Chippewa Indian reservation of
about four congressional townships in ex-
tent, nearly all of which is pine, and which
the Indians themselves are fast learning to
utilize, some forty-eight Indian lumber
camps having been maintained last winter,
the several lumber companies who operate
up here furnishing supplies and buying the
logs cut at so much per 1000 feet.
SPORTING PARADISE.
The surroundings of Hayward are not
those of a low swampy country but rather
high, rolling well drained region and abound
in fine drives, while the little streams
and brooks well stocked with speckled trout
and the romantic lakes full of all kinds of
fish, and teeming in the season with duck,
geese and other water fowl, furnish the most
remunerative and attractive field for aquatic
sports, and for pleasure parties. Some of
the lakes are quite large and deep. The 'Lac
Court Oreilles," within the reservation, is
larger than lake Minnetonia and furnishes
more miles of deep navigable water than
mantle shores and picturesque bays is in
comparable.
WATER POWER.
What unquestionably built Hayward, in
addition to the advent of the railroad which
opened up the country and made Inaccessible,
with its wealth of forests of pine and hard
wood its valuable mineral deposits and
numberless attractions, was the fact that a
most magnificent water power was found to
exist here. Mr.. A. j. Hayward, former
resident of Chippewa Falls, may be said to
have discovered the point and lost notime in
obtaining possession of it and also Of large
amount of pine lands tributary. Mr.. Hay
ward. however, soon found that it was q
gigantic undertaking to develop and proper
ly operate the resources he had become pos
sessed of, and soon associated others with
him.
Hon. r. L. Mccormick, of Waseca county,
Minnesota, was interested in the matter and
after visiting and looking over the scene a
company composed in principal OF Laird
Norton & Co., Winona, Mimi, F. Weyer-
hauser, of Rock Island, Ill, a. j. Hayward,
Of Chippewa Falls, Wis, and R. L. McCor-
mick, of Waseca, MINI was organized and
named the North Wisconsin Lumber COM
a. J.
mick who became at once residents at Hay
ward as its president and secretary. Work
was begun constructing the dam and mill on
October Is, 1882 and upon June 5, 1888 the
first wheel was turned.
The dam which at present gives an IS foot
head is $50 feet long and contains sluice-
way for running logs belonging to firms
down river The power for the mill is sup
Mi ia1 btr MI rio tIIrb
wheels which give acombined motive strength
of 700-horse power.
THE MILL.
The mill building is 70x160 feet in extent
with an ell 50x50 for a shingle mill and one
16x40 for a fling room. From sills to peak
of roof, which is supported by sixteen heavy
trusses, is fiftY-five feet and within this ca
pacious and well lighted building is a per-
feet wilderness of machinery and during the
saving season contains an army of men who
operate it. The mill is supplied with
two of "Wicke's" gangs, one 40 and
one 36 inches in width and also
with two of ''Allis'" " 60-inch saws with over
saw. Two of the great water wheels are con-
nected with the main shaft which is nine
inches in diameter and furnish the power to
drive this vast saving machinery, the other
wheel furnishing power for the rest OF the
works. The mill itself rests npon piling
firmly driven, to which the sills are attached
by a series of drift bolts. Five hundred oak
piles are used for the foundation of the mill,
while some two hundred are used for the
foundation for the gangs, which cover an
area of 16x34 feet, and upon which solid
masonry built of Manlato stone 119 feet
high rests, surmounted by the heavy timbers
1Jrbi oh
chored to this mass of masonry by seventy
two heavy anchor bolts.
The mill throughout is built in the most
complete and substantial manner imaginable
and from the moment when the logs leave
the pond at the foot of the slip to the time
when they leave the tail of the mill and pass
ing the scalers go into the hands of the sort
ers and wheelers to be distributed to various
parts of this mammoth yard, no appliance
which ingenuity could devise or skill con-
struct to lessen manual labor or hasten or
facilitate the conversion of these. mammoth
logs into a merchantable form has been spared.
All the latest and best mill machinery known
to a modern water-power saw mill can be
found in operation here. The logs are drawn
up the slip on an endless chain
carrier commonly in use in tirst-class mills
and are swung to the several carriages by
means of hugh crane located at the upper
end of the slip and are turned from side to
side as occasion requires by an appliance
known to mill men as ''log jack" After
leaving the saws the lumber passes the ordeal
of the edgers and trimmers and thence to
the scalers and sorters on the outside by
means of live rollers which are made to move
the lumber from the moment it leaves the
saws. There are two Emery and Garland
double edgers and trimmers in use in the
mill. In the shingle mill twelve block Burt
machine is used which makes 150,0O
shingles per day, while two lath saws cut
so, 900 lath in the same space of time. The
mill itself cuts 200, 900 feet of lumber daily
and some little idea can be had of the vast
andintricate amount of machinery used, from
the fact that 3, $50 feet of betting is required
to move it.
FOUR HUNDRED MILL. HANDS.
To operate the mill and handle the lumber
as it is sawed, sort and pile it, four hundred
men are employed, which of course includes
Office and farm help, and the force employed
in shipping and operating the large planning
mill near by.
Not q particle Of fire is used about any part
of the mill, and clear space of two hundred
feet is maintained between both mill and
planning mill, and the piled lumber.
Over two miles of elevated platforms are
used in the yard which alone cost S25, 900,
and large addition is under process of
erection. The sawdustis all spouted into the
river by water and the slabs and other refuse
are drawn upon a horse railroad in cars
adapted to the purpose some eighty rods from
the mill where a fire that never dies from
April to November consumes them.
The company as before remarked oper-
ates planning mill and are therefore pre-
paredt furnish any grade or kind of lum-
der desired from square timber sixty feet
long down to the finest dressed siding to be
found oDuuhara