Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-09-22
a FEW FACTS
VIM. Sauntry, of the Pine Tree
Company Makes State
mente Worth Con-
eiderlng.
Their Increased Output Must
BE Sawed Where Ship
ping Facilities are Bet
ter than Little Falls
Now affords.

VIM. Sauntry, OF the Pine Tree
Lumber Co., was at the buchanan
last evening, and discussed, with
others. the plans of the Weyer-
haeuser syndicate in regard to the
lumber interests on the Upper Missis-
sippi. He said that the plans of the
syndicate would have to be consider
ably changed from what they were
when they first completed the pur-
chase of the Northern Pacific pine
lands about three years ago. Then an
annual cut Of 100000 or 100000
feet would have been sufficient to ex-
haust their holdings in a reasonable
time, but that during the past year
the amount of purchases greatly
exceed the original amount. and also
new purchases being constantly
made. While it was first planned to
saw about 40,000,0O0. feet at Little
Falls, the mills at misplace had been
run most of the season at a rate
that would saw more than double
that amount. With a cut Of the
smaller amount it was regarded as
prac ticable to continue business sue
cessfully with the shipping facilities
afforded by one railroad but with
the increased cut that the company
made this year they were already
greatly handicapped by lack of rail-
road facilities. It would be folly for
them to continue manufacturing
$4,000, 900 or 100, 900, 900 feet of lumber
with but one railroad to ship over,
and no plans for increasing their
plants here to cut the entire output
of their pineries would be considered
unless another railroad was secured.
If a Great Northern connection was
reached he was positive that rates
would be. secured that would give
his company much better hold on
the southwest market. and would
warrant them in combining their
saving operations on the Mississippi
entirely to Little Falls. Not only
would southwestern rates be better,
but all the territory traversed by the
Great Northern would be available
by direct connections. Mr.. Sauntry
called attention to. the fact that no
other city in Minnesota with but one
railroad outlet sawed as much
lumber as Little; Falls was now saw
ing, and the reasons that prevented
it elsewhere would prevent an
increase here. This place possessed
advantages over Minneapolis for
supplying the territory reached
by the Northern Pacific, and
that road would probably always
ship as much lumber from their mills
as they planned to saw annually
when they first located here. The
new purchases had madeit necessary
for them to cut more logs each sea-
son, and these must be cut where. a
better market was afforded than
could be found at a place with but
one line for shipping. Railroads, he
had observed, had always made
their best efforts to supply cars to
shippers at competitive points, as at
places where they possessed a
monopoly cars would be used as
supplied, and there was no danger
OF loss OF business-such as would
attend failure to supply at competit-
i've points. He was interested in
saw mills at various points, and
during the busy shipping season he
had found that the competitive
points were supplied with cars when
it was impossible to obtain them at
stations where the railroad was
sure of the business any time it had
cars to spare.
The above facts stated by Mr..
Sauntry, who had great deal to do
with locating the present mills at