Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-05-14
No MORE DANGER.
Logs will be Held Above Brain
erd in the Fall From
Now on.
LITTLE FALLSISALL RIGHT
BY Good Boom Works Our In
.dustries are Operating while
Others are Idle.

others are Idle.
l.. a. Jordan, general superint tend.
ent Of all the works Of the Mississippl
and Rum River Boom company,
arrived In the city from MINNEAPOLIS
Mayo with Il large crew OF men
and put them to work ON the drive
which left here the next morning.
Mr.. Jordan has just returned from,
the work of experimenting the pick.
ing up the logs that went down
river with the Minneapolis boom
works when they went out this
spring. 1t was very difficult work,
and some logs were lost, parties
stealing them and cutting them up
for fire wood. MIR. Jordan states
that at st. Paul the water was high.
er this spring than it has been for
twenty-eight years.
The grea test damage done at Min
neapOlis was to the Mississippi &
Rum kiver boom works. 1t is esti.
mated that over $50, 900 damage was
done. The company now has u
large force OF, men ut work replacing
the works, and expects to have then,
In readiness, SO that the saw mills
can begin opera tions by May IL.
Mr.. Jordan esthnut es that there are
about 25O ZOO, 600 feet of logs in the
river between here and Minneapolis,
and this amount will be sufficient tn
supply the Minneapolis mills for
over two months.
Speaking about the conditions on
the river, Mr.. Jordan says that the
boom works here are the best and
most substantial on the river. They
are of such character that there is
absolutely no danger OF their break.
ing away. And the people of this
city, he says, have reason to be
thankful that these works are solid
for they have made Little Falls not
only the best town on the river, but
better than any town in this part Ol
the country, by protecting it's chief
industry, and allc wing it to opera te
it's mills and give employment to q
large force Of men, while the mills OF
other towns are shut down. The
mills OF this city have sawed nearly
100000 feet of logs already this
spring. and will saw much more be.
fore the other mills can start. Be.
sides the large pay roll Of the Pine
Tree Lumber company, the Boom
company mas a larger force of men
at Little Falls and vicinity than at
any other place north of Minneapolis
In regard to pOcketing logs at
points on the river between Brainerd
and Minneapolis, Mr.. Jordan states
that 1t would he impossible to do 81
as there are but very few place,
where they could be held in large
quantities.
The people have nothing to fear
from logs in the future. There never
will be the large quantity of logs
left in the river that there has been
during the last three or four years,
Lumbermen who owned timber,
fearing that it would be burned by
forest fires. had it cut and hauled
with the result that the upper Mis-.
issippi river has been full of logs for
several years. This ia stopped, and
the number Of logs left in the river
this fall will he comparatively few.
There will he no logs in the river
below Brainerd next winter, as the
Boom company have made arrange.
ments to hold all logs above that
place. He estimates that there are
now not over 4OO, O00, 900 feet OF logs
in the upper Mississippi.
The Little Falls sorting works OF
the Boom company are charge of H.
A. Conner. Mr.. Jordan states that
of all the foremen in charge OF sort.
ing works there are none on the river
who can beat Conner in handling
the work of sorting logs. In about
three days all the logs in what is
known az the "hig hole" about two
miles above here will be sorted, and
then they will begin on the jam at
Belle Prairie rapids. This jam holds
about 81, oO0, 900 feet, and Mr.. Jordan
SAYS that in less than three weeks
Conner will have it all cleared out.
Roy alton Banner: Bowen Rath'
bun, who was IL. from Agram Tues
day, reports that the lumbermen are
making slow progress with tn.
drives. The water in Skunk, hi
says, has been exhausted and tht
drive Is a long way from being out
Of that stream. The old logs il
Platte river are coming very slowly
and the Sullivan lake logs have no.
all been sent out OF the lake as yet
driver. who inst came dOWf