St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-22
SEVENTY MILLION DOLLARS
Represented at a Quiet Meeting at
Chippewa Falls.
RICH MEN EAT STRAWBERRIES
While They Discuss Matters Of Moment
to the Chippewa Lumber and
Boom Company.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, March d.
Seventy million dollars sat at one small
table at the Stanley house to-day, and
dined on early strawberries washed
down with high wines. 1t was the
annual meeting of the Chippewa Lum-
Der and Boom company. an event of re-
curing Importance and interest; and,
before the opponents of the greatest
lumber syndicate in the world settled
down to their work, they assembled
about a small table and discussed hot
house dainties. Seventy million dollars
represents at once more than one-third
of the assessed valuation of the Twin
Cities combined. Ten OF twelve very
unaSSuming miliionaires they were.
Besides the lumber and boom company
there was represented the Mississippi
River Logging company, Chippewa Log
ging company and the Beef Slough
company, forming syndicate which
controls the entire pine territory tribu-
tary to the branches of the Chippewa
river, and which handles the timber and
lumber from the time it's growth is at
tanned until it reaches the hands of the
consumers. OF this vast field and
IMMENSE AGGREGATION OF WEALTH
Chippewa Falls is the central point, and
annually witnesses this assembly of the
log and lumber princes OF q syndicate
that could buy and sell a Vanderbilt.
Among this group at the table are
several conspicuous butchers OF wood
well known wherever logs are found or
the sound of saw is heard. Fred Weyer-
hauser, the king of the pine lands, sits
at the place of honor-a square-set,
heavy-browed German, who is the Bis
marck OF the pine land warfare. From
a lumber piler at 81 day he has crept
up to a land owner, walked into means
and then leaped into opulence. Be-
and of the individual companies, he is
the firm of Weyerhauser IL Denkman
and the Rock Island Lumber company.
His wealth is beyond his own knowl-
edge, and probably will run upwards
Of S12,000,000. His son, G. A., is with
him, and his twenty-five years of life
have evidently profited by the example
of his sire. Surrounding him are the
lumber
MAGNATES OF WINONA;
M. q. Norton, large and fine looking;
w. II. Laird, good-Iool1ing man with
sunset hair, and William Hayes, almost
boyiSh looking. ALI belong to the firm
OF Laird, NoXton 81 Co. There is Will
lam Irvine, Of this city, the secretary
and manager of this company, with
shreWd, sharp face. sparkling black eyes
and strict air of business, tempered by
pleasant smile. The Eau Claire dele
CATION makes big show of millionaireS
ff,C ,-tr In srf Nlnr 10, n
the banker, big, bluff and buStling: Sen
Lumber company, looks like q wealthy
lumberman each inch; III. G. Putnam,
another banker, who has seen the world
and is piling up money in California
red wood as well us Wisconsin pine; d.
L. SlmmOnS.a an expert in land and titles,
is on the same footing if not CrGsuS;
Lafayette Lamb would attract attention
anywhere with his headlight and grid
iron shirt and his air of sudden
wealth. He and his brother, A.,
represent the firm of Lamb q
Son, Of Clinton, To-. and amuse the res
by cracking jokes at Weyerhauser. E.
S. Ioumans, Of Winona. is the greatest
orator present and is widely known as
the only man in the syndicate who adj
vocateS free lumber. He is big and
square-shouldered and has physique
to back up his sentiments. A. f. Ho-
gems, also of Winona, bears his sixty
years well, and his gray hair and beard
and GrOnZed c0untenance we'll become
gathering of lumbermen. w. S. Young,
il, of Clinton, To-, is one of the young
men and represents his father. He
wears shiny plug hat and
LOOKS THE MILLIONAIRE s SON.
He contrasts strongly with Peter Mus
ser. OF Muscatine, a neighbor, who is
old and plain, with shaggy grey WhiS-
kers. E. S. HOspes, of Saltwater, we'll
known all over the Northwest; w. !.
Joyce, the Iowa sawyer. with
mills at Shell Lake; George w. Nesson.
OF Eau Claire, who has cut and sold
enough lumber to have pine
land town named in his honor;
Thomas Irvine, the secretary and
guiding spirit of the Mississippi River
Logging company at Beef Slough, and
John IRE, the president of the Badger
mills, were here and completed the
company. 1t is a notable aSsemblage of
milli0naires, and yet make less noise
about the hotel than country member
of the Minnesota legislature would
make at the Ryan. Every man repre-
sentS millions made and more millions
yet to come in the ten years before the
Wisconsin forests are denuded. The
meeting to-day was of little public in
tereSt. The officers elected were: +.
Weyerhauser, president; o. H. Ingram,
vice president; William Irvine,
manager. There was great deal of
talk OF the tariff, but Mr.. Youmans was
alone in his free trade views. Nothing
was done in the way of raising a fund
to influence legislation, which state
ment was made by an officer with an air
of conscious rectitude. The log cut in
the district is nearly completed, but the
450.000,000 figure set last year will not
for two weeks more will help out some
what, but a 10 per cent shortage is ex-
pected. About 400,000,000 feet will
be the cut of the ChippeWa COMPANY