Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-22
LOGS And LUMBER

Interesting Items About Saw
Mills and the Lumber
r.. Business.
The Clinton, Iowa, mill men re-
port that the daily sales now equal
the cut Of the mills. ....., &.s.
The Bear river drive hag just pass.
ed through the government dam on
the Mississippi at Pokegemn. 49,.
During August last $40 cars Of red
cedar shiEglea were shipped to Min
npsOta from the Pacific coast. 49, II
The cut III logs in the Menominee,
Wis. district for the coming year IL
estimated AT an, ('OO. 400 feet, which is
much larger than last year.
The Musser Sauntry Lumber Co.
have started two camps ON the st.
Croix, and will put IN two more the
Ia tier part Oi this month. They ex-
pect to bunk from 3O.OO0.OO0 to 49,
ono, 900 feet Of logs he coming winter.
Duluth. Minn., Oct. l9.-Sawmills
hereabouts are closing for want Of
logs. The mills ut Cloquet are nearly
all idle. The Murray mill here closes
tomorrow, and the Duncan-Brewer
mill soon after. Very few will be
able to run TIL winter.
The Pine Tree Lumber company
will run it's two saw mills in Little
Falls as long as the logs can be
taken from the river. Some of the
saw mill people estimate that the
mills will run until Nov. ~. They
began saving April s this year.
The work 0f hauling legs On the
Brainerd & Northern Minnesota rail-
road has commenced for the winter.
Logs are now coming out III the
woods ut Backus and being hauled
ut present at the rate of about ten
cars per day. The number will in
crease as the season advances. The
logs are Of the new cut. and are
dumped into the Mississippi river at
Brainerd.
The government has appealed the
case against the Pine River Logging
for payment for timber ilie-
gally cut from government land.
The timber was supposed to be
dead ana down" but there was q
good deal Of standing. green timber
cut. The lOggers col WINGED the jury
In the lower court that 1t. was not
their fault II green timber was cut.
as the work vas done under the
direction of the government inspect
or and that all the timber was paid
for by the lOggers. :s't ss,ssal*:.,4$
Grading was commenced last week
on the logging road the Scanlon-Gip-
son Lumber company is building into
the timber recently acquired By them
in the vicinity Of Nickerson, MINI.
About five and One-half miles OF new
road will be built this fall as an ex-
tention to the spur they have a.
ready In operation at that point.
The company has recently purchased
twenty logging cars, which in addi-
tion to those they alre1dy had will
give them sutnrient rolling stock to
handle the cut of logs they will put
in during the coming winter. They
will log from q. OtW, 900 to 25,O0O. 900
feet for the mill at Nickerson.
Minneapolis Lumberman: The
general Of the second dis
trict has made his report for Sep
TENDER, of the number of logs and
their feet board measure, and the
figures are as follows: During the
month there were turned to the Min
neapolis mills S15,22S logs which
scaled 20, O29, $50 feet. From the first
of september to the end ofthe season
last year there were turned 5O,4OS,-
800 feet and the total for the year to
that time, was 241 ,O45, $50 feet. The
total for tins year up to the first of
October Is 273,65l, 800 and it Is likely
that the mill. will run all Of this
month and part Of next.
Senator J. T. Wyman, Of the firm
of Smith & Wyman. manufacturers
of sash, doors and blinds at Mime
apolis, was in Little Falls Tuesday
Inspecting the stock of " lumber Of
the Pine Tree Lumber company.
His firm is q good patron Of this
company, and a great deal Of lumber
is bought yearly from the Little Falls
mills. Mr.. Wyman says that the
Pine Tree Lumber companv's lum-
Der that is sawed from the logs
from the Swan river country is su-
periOr, for his firms, uses, to any
other lumber he can find In the
state. No figures were Riven ON the