Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-11-05

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THE HAND OF MIR. wEyERKAEusEl
Said TO BE PLAINLY SEEN IN rHF
SHUTTING DOWN OF THE ROOMS.
1t is a curi0ns condition Of affairs
that the Weyerhaenser interests
which run, perhaps, 80. OO0, 900 or A.,
OoO, 900 feet of logs through the booms
above Minneapolis In a year. control
the Mississippi and Rum River Boom
company.
But this Ia the actual state Oi
affairs, anu 1t is due to the fact that
the cut Of the Minneapolis mills will
be curtaiIed some 10000, 900 feet this
season-and possibly more. 1t was
the inten ton Of the Minneapolis ga "
mill men to run to the very latest mo-
ment this fall. The two foods Of the
spring and summer interrupted the
seasons cut very materially, and
stocks are generally light here.
With good weut her 1t would lie pos
.sible to run the mills half through
November and even up to December
j, II the freeze up held of till then. al
1t has been known to do sometimes.
But the Boom company has an
snounced that it IL out Of logs aud
that IN Il few days it will stop rum
ming at the upper gap. There are
probably aOO, OO,. OOO feet or more ut
the boom above Elk River, but 1t IL
now too late to get then, here In
time.
+ Many Of the lumbrrmen arr very
much disappointed. With a SITTER
ing market and light stocks here It
is "a pecially unfortunate for them IT,
have their seasons output cut of.
IT It was the sumo all over the pine
region there could be little
complaint. But as other. noints will
unG Oubtedlv cut this fall until every
thing is frozen up tight, the Mime
apolis men feel that they will be at u
disadvantage.
Mr.. Weyerhaeuser has no mills at
Minneapolis. The logs which lie cuts
above tits city are run over the falls.
collected in the booms above st.
Paul. made into rats and tOwed to
WiDOnn or other down river points
to be cut. Lust spring the boOms
atSt. Paul suffered IN the high water
and it ia plainly intimat ted here that
Weycrhaeuser's object in closing
down early this fall is to clean up
these bOoms, and get the logs all in
to the mouth Of the st. CrUix for
winter quarters before 1t freezes.
4. IL other words the whole Mime
apolis lumber industry Is blocked in
Ortier that Il very few logs belonging
t. lyman. having no Interests here
mny be taken care Of. This is, to
say the least. unfortunate.
Il None OF the lumbermen here, even
those who have been referred to on
the street as feeling and talking
most strongly on the subject, would
say anything to-day for publication
except that they regarded the shut
ting down az unfortunate. They all
say they have the friendliest feelings
toward Mr.. Weyerbaeuser. At the
same time there has been some very
strong talking on the side.
The shutting down Of the mills Of
fects the working men Of MinneapO
lie AMI the city itself materially.
When the mills are running there ia
distributed weekly IN the city many
thousands OF dollars. This money is
ordinarily spent here. The s+ore-
keepers of Minneapolis will feel the
decreased buying power Of large
number of families. A great many
OF the saw mill men will find imme-
date work in the woods, as there is
. large demand for common labor In
the logging camps. But the money
paid out ito the loggers will to q
large extent be spent away from
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