St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-12

the senator making every town in the
district with interviews already written
out for any paper that will print them?
Why is the great mill owner and
timber owner and lord of many lands
making canvass of the district for his
friend Judge Searle?
Is it as the farmers friend, the man
who buys wheat from them and wants
to raise its price? Or is it in pure en-
thusiasm for a candidate whose pre-
eminent abilities the senator would dis
close to this district, lest they should
remain undiscovered.
Guess again. Did you ever hear of the
pine land ring? Did you ever hear of a
government ''park" up north for the
benefit of these timber men? Did you
ever hear that these same men cast cOv-
etous eyes at the millions of feet of tim
ber in the Red Lake reservation? Did
it ever occur to you that they would
like representative III congress?
1t is not a mere coincidence that n.
P. Clark and II. G. Wait. the millionaire
lumbermen of st. Cloud, are working
and spending money for Searle's cleo
ton. 1t is not mere coincidence that
certain legislation has been held back
for two years, that certain other legisla-
tion, which was dropped when the hint
of the pine land ring attached to it, is
waiting promoter
These gentlemen will deny and pooh
pooh, of course. They know that the
ticket deader than door nail, it they
do not deny it. Bless 'em, they've got to
deny it. But the timber is there and
they want it. Their record is there and
no denials will displace that. Congress
is there and they would like a man in
congress. Is Searle their man?
Those who entertain a doubt that the
pine land barOns apd ringsters are after
the Red Lake timber, and propose to
have 1t have only to remember few
facts concerning the law under which
the reservation is opened, and the way
the thing has been worked out. These
facts follow:
First-That the minimum price of the
timber was fixed at So per thousand
when the timber is not worth that
amount.
SecOnd-That the men who are doing
the governments estimating have been
employees of the largest pine men in
the Northwest.
Third-The manner in which this tim
Der may be sold-by the posting of
notice in land office for only thirty
days, too short time for an outsider to
learn anything concerning the timber
advertised.
There's Millions i'm 1t.
A. c. Rhinehart, of East Grand Forks,
government appraiser of pine lands in
the Red Lake reservation, says in an in
terview:
1.-The reservation occupies an i'm
mense extent of country east of Grand
Forks. and the western limit is about
seventy-five miles distant 1t contains
spruce and the hardwoods, besides an
estimated quantity of S.000,000,000 feet
of white and Norway pine, mostly the
former timber. The whole country is a
region of ridges covered with pine and
SwampS.
Having been an Indian reservation,
none of this timber has been cut down
except dead trees. SO it is practically
intact. The timber is being estimated
by the government. and will be offered
for sale at public sale in forty-acre
tracts, and only One-tenth of the entire
amount will be offered for sale each
year. This will bring into market $780,
600, 600 feet per annum.
Is it any wonder that the immaculate
Washburn and the other men who know
a thing or two about pine timber desire
the man who put through such bill to
be seated in the state house?
Is it any wonder that Mr.. Washburn
desires Judge Searle to represent the
Sixth district in the lower hOuSeof con-
greSs?