The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11
THAT WENT OVER MINNIE
APOLIS DAM.
WILL BE SOLD TO SOMEBODY.
CLAIMED THAT MANY THOUSAND
FEET WILL BE LOST TO
OWNERS.
CONDITION OF THE RIVER NOW
but the Water Is Running
More Slowly.

The river remained stationary at 17.7
feet nearly all day yesterday, no
change being noticeable until late in
the afternoon, when 1t began to fall
slightly. 1t was thought that a boom
must have broken loose at some point
above st. Paul during Friday night,
for the river was full of logs all day
yesterday. These, it was afterward
learned, came from the crews now
cleaning up the banks. The difference
in the rate at which the water is now
flowing in comparison to what it was a
few days ago was made evident by the
logs. They passed a given point very
slowly, and it is estimated that the
current is now not faster than four
miles an hour. A force of men was
engaged yesterday in building a tenn
porary levee at the foot of Eagle
street to protect the pavement. The
high water has loosened several yards
Of the cedar blocks and was gradually
washing away a good portion of the
street.
In the streams that empty into the
main river below Brainerd, the water
is receding rather than rising, the
Lumberman says. About all the ice
has gone out Latest reports from
Little Falls are to the effect that the
water is falling, and that all danger
to the works of the boom company and
the Pine Tree Lumber company has
passed. There are not nearly so many
logs there as there were last year and
the bOoms have all been strengthened.
At st. Cloud, the danger of the dam
going out has passed, and at other
points there is no fear or more trouble
There are a few logs running in the
river above Minneapolis, but the steam
er of the boom company has succeeded
In holding a shear boom at Coon creek
rapids, and the logs have been turned
into that and pill go no further.
The boom company has ordered pill
Ing that is now being cut on the line
of the Brainerd & Northern Minnesota
and which will be hauled to Minneap-
oils over that road and the Northern
Pacific. Some Of the lumber cvInpa-
MES will use part of this. and some Of
them have ordered piling from else
where. It viii be some time before
the river is low enough so that the pill
ing that has been carried away can be
replaced, for the drivers cannot work
at the present stage of water. 1t is
estimated that after the water has
fallen six feet it viii then be nearly a
month before the mills can get to
work.
When that fall of six feet will have
come is more or less of a conjecture
While 1t is practically certain that
there will be no further rise and it is
known that the small streams have
reached their highest points, there is
still a large amount of water to come
down, and the fall in the stream may
not be very rapid. 1t is pretty safe
10 say that it will be between the mid
ole and the end Of May before the
saving season can open
Sunday morning a crew of seventy
men was put on by the boom company
TO begin driving the logs that had gone
over the. falls Just how many there
are viii never be known. because of
the fact that there will be many of
them lost. 1t has been variously esti-
mated at from 100000 to 1000. 900 feet
but the chances are that the figures do
not come far from 20, 600 900 one way
or the other. 1t is slow work for the
driving crew. as in many places the
logs are far out from the natural bed of
the river and tangled up in the brush
and trees. In the woods opposite the
Soldiers home. where the crew was
working Tuesday and Wednesday there
were about 100000 feet of logs, and
they were gotten out with a great deal
of difficulty.
Thursday the crew working on the
river had been increased to ninety-five
men, and they had cleaned up the logs
as far as opposite st. Paul below
the St Paul boom. They are working
with ten batteauX and are cleaning
everything up as they go along. The
boom company has secured a couple