St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-30
Head Office Of Weyerhauser
Lumber Mills to be in
This City. y
Chippewa Falls Makes q Futile
Attempt to Head Off the 2
Inevitable. q
Considerable Enthusiasm Is
Created by University Ex-
tension Work. =
The Days Doings Set Forth
in a Pointed and Breezy
Style.

The citizens of Chippewa Falls are
al friends of Frederick Weyerhauser,
th5 great lumber king. and are very
anxious TO convince him of that fact;
at least that was the object which
brought committee of the leading
citizens of that wide-awake town to st.
Paul yesterday. For some time past
numbers of local attorneys along the
Chippewa river have been spendig their
time i'll bringing damage suits against
the lumber companies with which
MIR. WeyerhauSer is connected. This
naturally enough irritated the big lUm-
Der king, and, when it was short time
since decided to move the business
offices of the Mississippi River Logging
company and the Chippewa Logging
company from Chippewa Falls to st.
Paul, the report was started that the
big mills of these companies were also
to be moved. To convince Mr.. Weyer-
hauser that the people of Chippewa
Falls were all right toward him the fol-
lowing committee met the lumberman
at the Merchants hotel, in this city, yes
terday afternoon. by appointments:
L. NJ. Newman, chairman; A b. McDon-
hell. L. f. Martin. ". E. McCord. Thad c.
Pound, E. Poznawski, M. Glieksman, r. ID.
Whittemore. Herman DetlOff, Is. f. Mlllard.
NJ. Rossitter, d. E. Seymour John j. Jenk-
ms, L. F. Martin, M, Mills, Z. Rutledge and
W. e. Christie.
l.. nj. Newman, the chairman of the
delegation, sta ted to Mr.. Weyerhauser
that the people of his city were not
hostile to his interests, and that the
numerous damage suits for oyerflewS
had been instituted as a kind of specu-
lation with the idea of bleeding" him
to secure their Withdrawals. With
these suits, the people of Chippewa
Falls had nothing whatever to
do. Mr.. Weyerhauser was accom-
Chippewa Logging company, r. E.
Chichester, to whom all reports were
referred after the conference. Sir.
Chichester, in reply to question of the
reporter, said that the offices were to
be moved to st. Paul merely on ac-
count of the demands Of their business,
buttiat the mills and other plants in
Wisconsin would remain as they are at
the present time.
To reporter, before the conference,
MIR. WeyerhauSer said:
There has been great deal said about our
contemplated removal to st Paul. Well. we
are going to come here: that is, it was de-
clded some days ago to remove the business
Offices of the Mississippi River Logging COM
pany and the Chippewa Logging company to-
this city at meeting of the stockholders at
Clinton, TO- am not prepared to state what
will be done with the Chippewa Logging and
Boom company which operates the big mills.
The removal Of the offices OF the companies
have mentioned was done as a business ne-i
ceSsity, and has no relation to the removal of
the plant or mills of any other company at
present. 4
Our meeting here said Mr.. New
man, twas arranged last Saturday. We
Intended TO go to Rock Island TO meet
Mr.. WeyerhauSer, but he agreed to come
here and meet US. The meeting, how
ever, has no relation to the damage
suits brought against Weyerhauser.
The people of Eau Claire, as we'll as the
citizens of other towns along the river,
have made special effort to make it aD-
pear that our people are very hostile to
the WeyerhauScr interests. We desire to
explain to Weyerhauser that such is not
the case. So far as the removal of the
business offices of some of the COM
panieS in the pool are concerned We do
not care, because these companies prob
ably have ten times as much pine in
Minnesota as in Wisconsin The idea
that Mr.. Weyernanser contempiateS to
pull out the big mills ON account of the
damage suits against him l do not take
any stock i'll. These suits were started
for the purpose of bringing Weyerhau-
ser to terms and feeling certain lawyers.
Our citizens propose to stand by him
and put our selves on record against such
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