The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-09-18

Id there thus far are safely cared for Mr..
Weyerhauser thinks there Ia more than 100, :!
600 900 there an equal number at the Della
reservoir, and 100, OOO, 600 in the Paint
creek dam, and, as far as is known, even
more above Little Falls, filling the mouth Of
Jump creek and the main river for solne
distance up to the stream. No advices have
been received from Little Falls, but Mr..
Weyerhauser believes that everything is safe
there The ends of the Paint Greek dam are
washed out, as is the east end OF that on the
falls here Mr.. Weyerhauser says that his
company owned improvements worth $500
600 on the river, and he estimates that it
will cost at least 800, 900 to make the re-
pairs. From $25, 900 to $4,000 will be
necessary to build the Point Creek dam The
generally gone, but has no positive informa-
nation The storm he believes to have been
MOST SEVERE ON THE EASTERN TRIBUTARIES
of the river. He has heard from the West
fork and the Court d Ouirelle, and everything
is all right in that direction, but the storm
seems to have been along the East fork and
the Flambeau, where the water must have
fallen in torrents. A telegram from Hay
ward states that no damage is done there.
A large proportion OF the logs now iI the
four great reservoirs will be high and dry
when the Water falls OF the 600, 100000
fully 800, OOO, 600 are. SO high up on the
banks that they will have to be
hauled into the river again Little, if any,
more lumber will be cut on the Chippewa
this year, and there are enough logs from
Little Falls down to start the mills waiting
their supply from the Chippewa next year.
He believes that the winter will have to be
occupied in hauling the stranded logs into
the river again, and that the lumbermen
will probably have to do their logg ing before
securing the stock for next year. He urges
that this work should be done before going
into the woods to get another start for next
winter With the water fallen no more than
at the present time,
LOGS ARE SCATTERED ON THE BANKS
two and three hundred feet out of the water,
the damage to the Chippewa LAUNDERING
company's mill and buildings here at more
than 81 900, although the yard and sur
rOundings present the sorriest sort of q sight
The work of repair of boiler and of yard has
been commenced, but will occupy several
will be repaired. Some of the improvements
swept away were made on the basis of the
flood of 1880, and above the high
water mark then. Mr.. Weyerhauser says
that the most serious part of the whole
affair is that it is almost impossible to pre-
pare against the recurrence OF similar disas-
tiers. The flood will limit the lumber pro-
duction of the Chippewa to about la, OOO,-
600 feet on this years stock, and accomplish
what it was hoped to do by the combination
to shut down. The mills are all more or less
injured, but the most serious loss will be to
the logging company in the damage to its
improvements along the river. new dam
recently built at Pike lake, it is believed. is all
right The estimate of damage OF $780,
600 is only approximate, and the actual loss,
it is not at all unlikely, will far exceed that
amount An enumeration of the losses in
Chippewa Falls gives an aggregate of about
100000. A large number of stores and res
licences were either swept away or damaged
The county board are receiving bids for the
of the river bridges, which
will be completed in a short time. The bod
les of an old couple named Rogers, who lived
about three miles below the city, were found
inside their house, which was washed away.