Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-07-30


and Iowa lumber dealers are on their
way to the Pacific coast, to visit the
western mills lumber districts. It 10
probably q plan to allow the coast
dealers to impress ON the lsirors
the advisah ility Of buying more
Western shingles and timber.
!, An item from Grand Rapids: Re
ports from the Bear river drive show
that Abner Bonness ia getting the
logs into shape 80 that they will
probably reach Pokegama Falls In
about two weeks. II the condition
Of the Mississippi is unfay"rable then,
he may boom his drive u little above
POkegama dam, but II the logs get
down close to the dam the ,xOvern-
ment officials will insist IN sluicing
them for they are strictly against
any extra pressure on the dam this
season. The drive will have 6.0O0,-
600 feet. .E;
Last weeks Minneapolis Lumber
man contains IN article about dir
elimination against lumber firms IN
the matter of taxes. 1t cites OcOnto.
Wis, as an example OF where the
shortsiehted policy finally reacts.
In that village the Holt Lumber com
pany was assessed so heavily that 1t
was forced to leave the place. The
cOmpany's taxes were constantly
increased for eight years. and 1t.
finally quit, moving to Menominee,
Mich. In 1889 the company sawed
80, OOO, 900 feet of lumber, and paved
50, 900 taxes. Last. year the output
was 10000 900 feet, and the taxes
we're $4,000, and this year the as
SCISSOR raised the valuation SO the
tax would he $1l 200. The OcOntO
Lumber company has had practic-'
ally the same experience there, and
also intends to move. The Lumber:
man says: 1T is such course as,
this that kills many Of the manuiac-,
turing towns in the white piEe.
regions. Many counties also suffer
in the end from the policy OF taxing
lumbeimen far above what they
should justly be taxed. Lumbermen
are forced to cut their timber and
hasten the day for ending their oper-
ations, and when this time comes
the timber counties will beleft barren
and destitute. A much more reason;
way to do would he TO treat lum-
bermen as other citizens, aid in the
end communities in which they are
doing business would profit thereby,
but the policy Of public officials these
days seems to be to get all they cam
out of lumbermen as quickly as pos.
sible regardless of the future conse.
quences."
The imports of boards, planks and
other small lumber into the United
States for May were 4.390, 900 feet,
and for the eleven months ending
with May they were 716.lsoO0O feet.
The rough logs imported during the
eleven months amounted to :24 ,9N,-
600 feet, and the hewn and sawed
timber to 1897 900 feet. The two
dollar rate ON boards will greatly
decrease the imports, AMI provide
work for more American laborers in
ga wing the lum ber'in this country.
The ClOquet and Duluth saw mills
have mostly resumed work since the
food.
The congressional record contains
a speech on the lumber tariff de-
livered by Congressman Tawney on,
July 10. He makes an able argument
in favor of q protective tariff on
white pine. and shows that manu-
featuring enterprise as important as
the lumber business deserves prOtec-
ton from foreign imports. He cs
pecially points out the increased
employment a protective tariff will