The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-08
PRINCETON COUNTY, THURSDAY MAR 1894

meets every two weeks. Their fair
will be held some time in May.
w. F. Waldhoff is building a large
new barn on his lots. TT. A. Robi-
deau is doing the carpenter work.
The boys say Nose Cone would make
a tirst-class county attorney. He con-
Quoted his first case in creditable
manner.
.Milaca is not in it with Foreston.
Princeton is our only rival in the
county. We will want the court house
by-and-by. .
Henry Swenson, after several months
stay with his brother, O. w. Swenson,
departed for his home near st. Paul,
Thursday. I.
B. P. Goad returned from Platte
River last Thursday, where he has been
at work for Foley Bros. for the past
three months. z1s...&.
r. J. Williams expects to leave us as
a new operator has arrived Mr. Will
liams is a pleasant and thoroughly con-
scientious gentleman. - ~.
. M. G. Northway has gone out of the
-four and feed trade, which leaves the
business to NJ: S.. Gone and Paul
Diebitch for the present.
Thomas Hannay came up from
Princeton last Thursday evening and
purchased a bill Of lumber from Foley
Bros. for his new house. $500.
A glance at the town treasurer's re-
port shows the town of Milo is about $500
in debt. The village of Foreston has
something over $l73 in the treasury.
We all sympathize with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kennedy in the death of their
son Johnny, who died on Monday morn
ing. The little fellow was a general
favorite. p
Rev. Mr.. Shannon preached a very
interesting sermon here last Friday
evening; one gentleman remarked he
would walk ten miles to hear another
just like it. ~-.'-,.
Work on the approaches to the new
bridge across the West Branch at this
place will be commenced in a few days,
and the bridge will be ready for traffic
in a short time.
After a two months visit with his
parents and friends in North Branch,
E. II. aBourquin returned, Saturday,
and is again behind the counter in E.
G. Waldhoff's store. - $3.50
Business is lively at the Mallette
House. The tables are crowded daily
The capacity OF the house for guests is
being enlarged. There are always
good accommodations for ''man and
horse" at Mallette's.
One of the boys at the mill had sill
yer watch, valued at $35, stolen from
his trunk one day last week. Parties
from Dakota who had been hauling
logs here we're suspended, hit; had al
ready shipped home 5@ s
We don't put on many airs in Fores-
ton. neither do we imagine that our
town is the hub of the universe, but we
are getting there all right. There is
business here all the time. More than
that the country around our town is
filling up with a good class of perman-
ent settlers.
The logging season has just closed
and Foley Bros, of this place, have a
crop of logs on their mill yard that will
account for the best winter for lumber
ing purposes known in this section of
the State for many years. They have
had six camps in operation during the
entire winter, with $50 men on their
pay rolls. Their total output, includ-
ing 100000 feet of pine landed about
20 omiles up the river, which were
hauled by j. W. johnson of Champlin,
and Dean & Lochren of this place, is
100000 feet of good quality of pine
and oak logs. These logs were hauled
from to II miles over the finest log
ging road ever known in this part of
the State-being an iced rut from one
end to the other. Two large water
tanks, one at either end of the road,
passed over the route every night,
sprinkling the ruts and putting them
in perfect condition for the next days
haul, water being supplied from six
wells along the line. Several loads OF
solid oak were hauled over IL mile
road which scaled 5000 feet Durin g
their past business year, ending Dec.
1st, 1913, Foley Bros. have expended
over $150,000 for labor and logs in
Mile Laos county alone, and their ex-
penditures during the coming year will
| be considerably in excess of that
amount. We are reliably informed
that this winter Foley Bros. purchased
all the timber stumpage owned by the
Mile Laos Lumber co. in this vicinity
The logs cut on these lands will all
come in to their mill at this place, and
this alone will furnish a sufficient
amount of timber to keep the mill run
ming for the next seven years at least
Since Dec. LIST they have sawed $500,
600 feet of pine and oak timber at theil
mill here and expect to run every day
during the year, and part of the time
they will be obliged to run an extra
quarter of a day each day in order tt
finish the cut. Already driving sup
plies have been sent up river in order
to be ready to start their logs from the
landings there as soon as the river
opens. ------ -
MILACA ZEPHYRS.