The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-01-27

the year, he can always get work tn
balance OF the year near home at goo
wages. There is great demand fo
hardwood lumber from Chicago
Milwaukee, st. Paul and other wester
cities, and there are thousands Of acre
! of hardwood that lay tributary t
Baraga. am informed that the mil
companies are paying very good price
for hardwood logs. 1t will only be
few years when Baraga will and cal
proclaim her commercial and manu-
featuring supremacy over eny city be
tween the 500 and Duluth.
The editor of the RARAGA COUNT,
DEMOCRAT in several issues of his paper
has spoken highly in favor of flour
and grist mill for Baraga. He was
rjshS and his idea is a good one. A
mill of 200 barrels capacity would pay
twenty per cent. on the capital invested
when such a mill is built then, and
not until then, will the farmers of
Baraga county grow wheat. Some
might say that there is no wheat to
& cind. In my opinion 1T would not be
macy years when one mill could not
grind all the wheat that will be grown
in this part of the county. Baraga
county can grow as good wheat as any
county in the northwest. 1t has been
tried by Martin Kelsey, Barney Nc
| Cauley and other farmers of Baraga
county, yield of over forty bush
els to the acre. Thus it is proven that
if there was mill where the farmers
could get their wheat ground there
would be plenty of it grown in few
round. Also see the enormous profit
there is in buying wheat in the west
"a nd grinding it for home consumption.
There is no industry which pays so
large a profit on the capital invested
as the flour mills do at West Superior
and Duluth. The Freeman mill, at
West Superior, was built at cost of
500, 900, and the first year it paid a net
prof of $34 900. Twas at L'Anse few
days ago and John Campbell showed
me Il pressed brick made from clay
that was taken from the L'Anse Brick
Cos clay banks at their yards in that
town. | will say, having had some
experience IN brick business, it is one
of the finest specimens ! have ever seen
in the northwest. 1t is eXcelled by
none and equaled by few. The brick
industry, if it was vigorously prose-
cuted, with such material as nature
has given to Baraga county, would
build up fine city alone without any
other industry. There are no pressed
brick made at Duluth or Superior and
the common bricks are of very poor
quality. The good bricks all come
from Cleveland or Chicago. So you see
the field there is for good brick in
dustry to work.
Having travelled some throughout
Baraga county see there is an endless
amount of stave timber, such as elm,
Eastwood, birch and pine. l know of
no better point in the northwest for
stave and heading mill than Baraga.
AT West Superior and Duluth there are
10000 -four barrels used every day,
and those slaves nearly all come from
down on Lake Erie in Canada. Now
they ship those slaves that distance
and pay a large duty to the govern
ment and still have very large profit
left. There is food for reflection, plain
and simple. There is at DePeer, Wis,
and also at Menasha, Wis, wooden
ware factories and loop factories.
They b.'iog their tl..er distance Of
$50 mites and still they make it pay
big to make pals, tubs, ferkins and all
kinds of turped wooden ware from
hardwood. In Barasa county there
are millions of cords of refuse pine
that Che lum tmen have left to rot
that could be worked up into short
slaves, for wooden walc. Such q fac
tory would pay handsome profit
to its owners aud also help to bald mp
the young, but thriving city. have
seen no better point for large tan
merry than Baraga. Tanbarls is
shipped from the upper peninsula to
Chicago and Milwaukee, and used
there for tanning western hides, and
am told that there is an enormous
profit in the business left after shipping
the tanbark three to five hundred
miles. The expense of shipping the
dry hides f.om the west is very small
as there is an enormous amount of
leather in car load of dry hides.
Here tanning company would have
the benefit of a free site to build on
pure water and tanbark almost at
their door. could mention scores Of
other industries such as the world-re-
nowned red and brown sand stone
quarries. Baraga county can boast of
the finest bed of kaoline or pottery
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