The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-02-11
Items OF Interest Taken From
Our Exchanges and
Condensed.
INCREASED PRICES.
Over 100000 Feet Of Lumber
Sold at hlenOminee
Last Week.

A Menominee dispatch states that
last week upwards of 5000. 900 feet
OF lumber was sold at that point at
increased prices. This is the cut of
1899. Perley, Lowe & Co. Chicago,
purchased the cut of the II. Whit
beck Co. mill, amounting to rs, ,OOO,-
600 feet, the consideration being
about $425, 900. The Kirby, Car
penter Co. sold 5000, 600 feet to
Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo par
ties. Shillings, Whitney & Barnes,
Detroit, purchased 1000, 900 feet of
Perley, Lowe & Co., consideration
about go, 1000. Several sawmills
have begun cutting hardwood. Men
are being imported from Milwaukee
and Chicago to work the logging
camps. The Metropolitan Lumber
Co. recently brought so men from
Milwaukee to work in their camps
near Iron River. The men, inno-
cent of the hardships of woodsmen S
life, were dressed in Prince Alberts,
wearing laundered shirts and col
lars. A sight of the camp disgusted
their sensitive natures and not one
could be found the next day. +. M.
Stephenson & Co. brought so men
from Milwaukee to work in their
camps at Chalk Hill, Mich, They
have proved faithful. Wages are
better this year than in the past 10
years.
Within few days Marquette will
be made the Western Union Tele-
graph Co. 8 distributing point for
the upper peninsula. All messages
will be received in that city and
then transmitted to their destina-
ton. Brokerage business in Duluth
and Superior and other points in
their immediate vicinity will also
pass through the Marquette Office.
BY making Marquette the transfer
point the Office will be the most i'm
portant one between ST., Paul and
Milwaukee. The company has made
many improvements in its service
in the upper peninsula. Marquette
now works direct with Boston in
order to give prompt service on the
immense brokerage business.
The 500 News OF Saturday last
says: 'It was rumored locally this
week that Sault Ste. Marie, which is
the principal port in the Lake Su
perior customs district, had been
made a part Of the district in which
Grand Rapids is situated. The
rumor, which, OF course, is untrue,
| arose from a misunderstanding Of
Washington dispatches, which re-
ported a change in the revenue dis
tricts Of the state, placing the en-
tire upper peninsula in control of
Collector Lemon, Of Grand Rapids.
Heretofore the upper peninsula has
been in the district OF Charles
Wright, collector for the eastern
district. :"
The incorporation papers of the
Wyandotte Mining company were
filed with the county clerk Of
Houghton county Saturday last.
The incorporators are Jasell Mere
dith, William o. Gay, Henry Stack
pole and Irving Sturgis, oil OF Bos-
ton, aud M. Van Orden, trustee, and
M. Van Orden, OF Houghton. The
capital stock is placed at ~, 500, 900
in 100, 900 shares of par value Of
$25. The lands of the company are
placed at a value of $500, 600 with
1900, 900 cash paid in, making the
total subscription price Of $500, 600
or $S per share. Mining Journal.
1t is reported that l.. f. Rowley,
editor of the Lansing Journal, will
be at the head Of Houghton' s new
daily soon to be started. Mr..
Rowley is a newspaper man OF long
experience, and will give Houghton
county lively daily.