The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1890-11-29
Upper peninsula Pine.

Jew duys SINCE IN inIctvfcW Will u
Mr.. onnor, lupberinasi az Wiscnn-
sin, was published in yoor columns con-
t,ipjag statements 30 far from the facts
TINT desr re TO correct ITEM as far as
they iffret the Upper Peninsula, and
Ontonsgon county interests in particn-
Lar. Mr.. Conror ia made to state that
MIR. Weyerhauser towns nearly all the
pine trees in the Upper Peninsula. and
that he lss just oiti. ned IA option on
all ho pine own.d by the Diamond
Match Company"
The first statement isabsurdly incor.
rect. There are mo Q than score OF
individuals and corporations that to-day
own more pine or Pine land THAT Mr..
Weyernanser does now or ever did own
in the Upper Peninsula.
There are lumber firms on the Onton-
agon and Menominee River that own
many times o much pine rs he owns in
tho Upper Peninsula Mr.. Weyerhaus-
CT does not own all the pine: it Is pretty
well divided UP in ownership and is
now being cut up Tor market by the lun-
Dor companies and creating an industry
thnt in making the Upper Peninsula as
famous tor its pine product as Ter its
iron, copper, gold, state and LulldinG
stone.
The second 8 atement il a'9o incor
rect. Instead OF Mr.. Weyerhauser
having an option on the Diamond Match
CompAny's pine, til t compaoy hai an
option on his pune, and have recently
bought all he owned on the Ontonagon
river and its tributaries, estimated ut
10000, O0D feet. The Diamond Match
Company now own on this river pelrly
one hmdrvd thpusaSd acres OF land,
aud SIX hundred million feet OF standing
piIv, and>aye buying alLaarge and de-
s,rable tract, as fast as reasonable
Oilers are made.
they have two very large mills here
and IL box factory, so that they will
have enough to last them ten or fifteen
years, aud insure the pros petty of the
town. heir season cut is about com
l,leted, and althou "a few more car
goes 0 lumber viii he shipped they will
have rrmGining OH their docks some o.
000,0 0 itet OF lumber, beside, many
mi,iio OF shingles and lath. 10 show
@ amount OF timber yet owned o the
river by others than the Diamond Match
Company, ere viii be over so 100000
cut = d put i:itp the liver the coming
winter, most OF witch will be saved in
the Match company's mills, ye5 only
about 1O,000,CU0 OF 12,000,000 will be
cut 10y the company from their own
lands, the balance b ing cus and sol to
the company by jobbers. Besides this
there ale ut le TT 100,0)0,0U0 feet OF
pine hibntary 70 tho Ontonagon & Brule
Railroad (now Owned by the Chicago
Milwaukee q st. Paul Railroad com
pany.) Mills aie now going mp III, ng
tho line OF this road, and by another
season tic lum!ier bdsine;s Will be a
very Important feature in the lu9incss
OF that road
tn nh that the foregoing facts will
so lar 10 disprove the statement M .de
by llr. Cpnnors that Mr. Wayerhluser
owns every pine tree ia tbs, Upper PEN
lis l5'A,iication viii also aid in 4 sa-
busting tn pui,lc mind that the pine of
Tho Upper Peninsula is owned or cen
troll eI Ivy few individuals or corpora
tions. There is lenty OF pine III the
Upper Peninsula to Keep many of the
saw mi IL of III chigan and Wisconsin
nning roi many years, If emoved here
or ca me streams or roads whore Tho
pho ~ ioca,ed. Beside our, pine TIM
Der, our hardwood forests are yet IN
touched except i'll the immediate vic n
ly o. some of the mining locations and
oaor al op mag for hnrdw OIL Ills or
The muntla4c IRE of the same into furni-
II AMI other wooden articles OF com
merce Gnd alretiy the FUN ture man
lfac,nrcr, OF Nj chigan are beginning to
ioUk to lie Upper Pen!nsu for their
supp Io5 Of choicc woods and in ten
yeas FROM now it will be the seat of
tits Iranch OF bu .incs
L c,e are plenty of pine and hard
wood hand f,r sale IT. Ontonayon coun-
ty AID p,rnty of room and chances for
saw amt slid,,le ml,ls and wooden ware
iactorl $. "M"
On,oaagon, M:cb., November II 1899.
HIb'oar3s Rheumatic and Liver Pills.
i.e,o pills are Scient ticaliy com.
ppanl, Il. AMI uniform in acton. No
srTiug pain so commonly following the
use OF pills. They are adapted TO both
admits and children with perfect afety.