St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12

the evils of overproduction, have already
begun to bear fruit throughout the lumber
region. AS rule lumber dealers are not
selling as much as during the boom times
three or four years ago, nor cutting as much
by perhaps one-third. prices are good and
the market is quite firm at present rates.
There is an upward tendency after the de-
preston of a year past, and in spite OF the
fact that half the Sawmills in the valley
are running only ten hours per day this year
instead of eleven hours as last year, the total
output of the season may perhaps he even
more than that of the saving season OF 1855.
The improved local demand made by the
building operations going on in the city and
valley will have had much to do with this,
but the chief causes are the general I'M
pr0vement in business and especially the
demand for lumber in the Southwest. Be
tween twenty and thirty carloads are being
sent out by rail almost daily, in spite of
the
DISCRIMINATION IN RAILROAD RATES
in favor of Mississippi river lumber points
and against Eau Claire lumbermen. while
the Eau Claire Lumber company, which is
running all but its water mill, RATS its en-
tire output this season to be piled in its
yards at st. Louis for distribution through
out the Southwest. The two mills in this
city not running are those of the Sherman
and the Pioneer companies. A special
meeting of the Sherman company's direct
ors was held yesterday to consider the
matter, and as the company'S planning
mill was started UP yesterday, it is proba-
BILE that the sawmill will Dalso start soon,
which will make considerable addition to
this seasons lumber output. The Pioneer
mill, which is to be sold by the assignee.
Col. LaPonite, is not likely to run this sum-
mer at all. The June rise in the rivers is
behind time. and rain is much needed on
the main Chippewa and its large tributa-
rieS, which still contain logs which must
be brought down to keep the mills in opera
ton throughout the season. The flooding
dams are almost the only resource for this
work at present. A splash from Little falls
Tuesday started down fifteen or twenty
millions, and the sorting works force at the
Dells is busy day and night. Henry w. Sage's
agent yesterday entered, at the local United
States land Office, 1,500 acres more of
HARDWOOD AND HEMLoCK
land along the line of the Sault Ste. Marie.
The hardwood tracts along this road are
being captured as rapidly as the spectators
can have it looked up, and a hardwood
boom is in the not far distant future.
Dargon'S lumber camp. near Drummond,
owned by the Rnst- Owen Lumber company
of this..city. burned. Loss about 81, 500; not
insured. A tract of pine land located in
the vicinity of Hayward, Sawyer county,
was purchased last winter by local syndi-
cate and contains probably so, 600, 900 feet
of pine. The agent of the syndicate, which
bought the tract for $22. 900, has just been
offered: 500, 900 for it. The Knights of
Labor have apparently abandoned the idea
of inducing the Valley Lumber company to
run its sawmill ten hours instead of eleven,
as at present, the company refusing to have
its business interfered with by the order
and declining to receive petitions from the
Knights. 1t is reported that the local
assemblies have communicated with the
general executive board on the subject and
asked for advice as to what action should be
taken in the matter.