Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-06-26
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lite PINE.
A ..eToN, June 49, White
p. IS king and Minnesota is the
rome. y "
This is shown by the best and most
thoroughly reliable bulletin yet issued
by the census Office, This bulletin
has been prepared by Special Agent
Williams, of the manufacturing divi-
sion Of the census, George A. Priest
having the intermediate charge of the
work. The latter said today: "Min-
nesota will he in it for many years to
come, so far rs white pine is concern
ed, and she is the only state that will
be-" ## 81 e
There are really but three white
pine states-Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan-and it is around this group
that the interest in the bulletin CEN
tiers. The collectors of the lumber
statistics have been enabled to get the
figures on standing pine owned by
manufacturers, also the amount of
state holdings. This latter is espe-
cialy true of Minnesota, as the figures
we're furnished by State Auditor Bra
den, but there can be only an estimate
Of the amount Of standing pine owned
by the government, as the figures Of
the land Office are inconclusive.. =
In Minnesota the manufacturers
have 10OOO,O0O,O00 feet Of building
pine, the state has 20,00O,O00,00O feet.
and the federal government is esti-
mated to have 100000 100000 feet, a
total Of 5O,00O,OOO,000 feet more than
the combined holdings Of all manu-
facturers in the group Of three states.
In Wisconsin and Michigan very
little standing pine is owned by the
state or federal government, the bulk
Of it being in the hands Of manufac-
turers, hence it is seen that the large
amount Of standing pine is not only in
Minnesota, but is in the control of the
government and state.
Another feature of the bulletin is
thu fact that Minnesota has jumped
from third place in 1880 to first place
in 1890, with double the amount. Of
manufactured product. It is the
opinion Of Mr.. Priest that another
lumber manufacturing city will soon
have to be built in Minnesota on the
Upper Mississippi in order to accom-
modate needs of the manufacturers.
There is not room enough at Mime
apolis, he says, to manufacture any
more, and with the immense pine for.
est yet untouched there is enough to
build another lumber city and also to
keep Minneapolis going.
There is one reason why this bulle.
tin is reliable and is no such guess
work of statistics as some of the other
publications Of the census Office. The
1858 special agents employed in the
work we're on full pay from the time
they started until the statistics were
collected. No lumberman was allow
ed to escape, and every manufactures
was followed until he had answered
the questions in the schedule, Every
owner Of pine-whether railroad COM
pany, private individual or corpora.
tion-was required to give the figures
the same as the people were required
to give information in relation to
themselves to the population enumer.
ators. Supt. Porter says that this
bulletin is the best that has been o,
will be issued from the census office.
The bulletin shows that the .aggre.
gate increase Of mill products" as
compared with the census reports Of
1880 is 1886 per cent. in quantity
and 1892 per cent. in value; that the
increase in the number of hands EN-.
ployed is 13S.49 per cent, and the in.
crease in the total amount of wages
paid is 141.26 per cent: According
to the tenth census 1850 the amount
Of capital invested in the milling in.
dustry in Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota was $65,855,632. The cap.
ital shown to have been invested al
the eleventh census 1880 is $685..
386,6O7. No reports whatever have
been obtained from some counties
having an extensive forest area, but ii
is stated that blanks will. be forward.
ed to all parties interested, and the
data obtained will be included in the
final reports.
The principal lumber product cities
in this group are in order as follows:
! Output.
minneapolis, MINI .....$e 5s4. 45t
Menominee. Mich. 420S, 6Ss
Muskegon, T. OS8 Oot
Day City, Mich. 4OO6 FL
| Osukosn, " ~. 1884,
Lacrosse, Wls........... .............. 3,2O2 63t
The production Of white pine lum.
Der was carried to its highest point in
1880, at the mouth of Saginaw river
Michigan, and that point still holds
6rst rank in this respect.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Otto Zardetti to John schmolks part Of
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