Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-04-30
LOGS AT MINNEAPOLIS.
The Saving Season Will
Begin Late-Broken s'
BOOmS. @t4
From the Minneapolis Lurnbcrman.

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From the Minneapolis Lunbcrman.
At the time about three weeks ago
when the Ice went out ut this point
and carried with 1t the piling and
bOOms Of the various mills. there
was u tungle that stuck at the mill
OF J. W. Day & CO., and the going
down of the water left them there.
They are now In the way, and IA he
company wants to- begin driving
new piiing. the logs will have IT, be
ga wed out III the way. 70 iOthis
the saw mill started up Wednesday
morning and will run until these logs
alep cwed, which will take abOnt u
week. There are about 1.WW, 900 feet
In the lot. q
The work OF the Boom company
on the river below Minneapolis has
beer, slow during the past week on
account III th.: high winds that have
been blowing. They have blown
from sucn A. direction AZ to very
mu.h hinder the work Of the drives.
The river has been cleaned up az far
as the st. Paul stock yards, about
four miles below the union depot in
that city. These logs are being rur
into the boom that has heen pre-
pared for them at Pigs Eye. When
the river is cleaned to that point, a
new drive will be started below there
and those logs driven into the slough
1T Nininger.
The water in the river at this point
continues to hold up, and the Boom
company is having considerable diff
Guilty in getting in the Dil ing that
wa. washed out at the time the ice
went out. They have finished driv-
ing the piling for the C. A. Smith
Lumber company and for the Bovey-
DeLnttre Lumber company. as well
az some of their own up at Shinge
Greek. The II. &. Akeley Lumber
company. with its own pile driver.
has been at work. There il hope
that the mills will be able t" begin
M wing about the middle of May. but
| it is more lin bic to he after that time
than before. The Boom company
will not make any effort t. loosen
up any M the small tangle" of logs
until they have prepared Il place
where they can catch them and pre-
vent their going over the falls.
The May number of McClurc's
Magazine IS especially abundant
and interesting in the matter Of
portraits of famous people. In
illustration of paper by Miss
Tarbell on the remarkable work of
&. C. Cox in Photographic por-
traiture, there are truly speaking
likenesses of Donald G.. Mitchell
("Ik Marvel'), Walt Whiteman,
Eleanora Duse, Henry Ward
Beecher, and others; and series
Of life portraits of Daniel Webster
exhibit that most august aud i'm
pressive of great men at close in.
tervals from middle life to the year
of his death. Some of the Web
ster portraits have never before
been published; and all have in
tcresting histories, which are set
forth in notes by Charles Henry
Hart. An article that everybody
will read with eager interest is
Ray Stannard Bakers account of
the pursuit and capture of Booth,
after the assassi nation Of Lincon,
and of his death and burial.
Other features of this number of
McClure's are most intelligent
comprehensive review of the sec.
ond administration of Mr.. CIeve-
land, by Carl Schurz; an account
of Grants dishearten1ng search
for service at the beginning Of the
war, by Hamlin Garland; and
fiction of the most stirring and ro-
mantle quality by Conan Doyle,
Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard
Kipling. TheS. S. Mcclure Co.,
New York City.
The state laws will be printed
and circulated by the newspapers
before the first of May. The
space occupied will be less than
two years ago, as at that time the