Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-27

Number logs. Scale in feet
Sank Rapids............. NSN 1'oSo'oso
Little Falls...-......... S7,lS 9,s6O,66O
ELK River......... S,IaO oA,ozV
Minnea polls .....--... 66, 9l4 79,9S4,O6O
st. tPau1........."......" ,6S 6,3|9,OIO
Minneapolis Lumberman: The
water in the river has subsidized to
some extent and the boom company
has been able to resume turning logs
to the mills, and all OF them are run
ming now. The Diamond mill did
not shut down last week at all, but
with this exception most of the saws
were stopped from a week to two
weeks. The mill of the Carpenter
Lamb Co. was shut down but three
days. The Akeley mill ran one day
and two nights last week and
started up again Tuesday morning
OF this week. Shev}in- Carpenter
started up last Friday. The mill Of
the C. A. Smith. Lumber Co.
was down q week, starting Tues
day. The Bovcy-DeLaittre mill COM
menced running Wednesday after a
shut down OF two weeks. Backus-
Brooks were down from Thursday
until Wednesday night. Nelson
Tuthill were shut down two weeks.
From the Minneapolis Lumberman.
WAGES HAVE ADVANCED WITH PRICES.
The supply OF a commodity and
the demand for it are almost univer-
sally accepted as basis for prices.
In the white pine business this year
one of the characteristic features has
been the steady upward tendency of
prices. The principle OF supply and
demand furnishes ample reason for
the advances that have been made.
Sales by the manufacturers during
the five months from the first of
January to the first of June have
been fully twenty-five per cent larger
than for the corresponding period Of
last year. Likewise there is on hand
q very much reduced supply: The
most conservative estimates place
the shortage of dry stock at about
100000, 900 feet. 1t propably is con-
siderably larger than that. But
there is another feature that furn-
ishes a warrant for the effort to get
higher prices for lumber. This is the
increased cost of production.
Wages and the cost OF logs are the
principal items in the expense of
manufacturing lumber, but are not
the only ones: Every new machin e
or other improvement that has gone
into the mills this year has cost from
ten to fifty per cent more than 1t
would have cost last year. Timber
and logs and the cost OF logging
have materially advanced during
the past year, Last winter the wages
in the northern woods of Minnesota
advanced from fifteen to twenty-five
per cent, and there was scarcity Of
men during almost the entire logging
season.
The cost of production and the ad-
vances in wages In the Minneapolis
mills are a fair example OF such ad-
vances all over the white pine pro-
ducing country. Statements by
Minneapolis manufacturers have been
secured on the items OF increase in
wages and the increase in the cost of
production. In the former there is
a range from 10 to 20 per cent, with
a average of about half way between.
In the matter OF increased cost OF
production, which includes the cost
of logs delivered at the mill and the
increase in wages, there is a range
from so cents on thousand to 81
and upward. One concern reported
an increase of the lower figure named,
while all the others placed the in
crease at $3.50 or higher. One firm
reported an increase OF $1.50 over
last year, and - over the year be-
fore. Another firm estimated the in.
creased cost at % per cent
A number of answers to like in
quiries have been received from out
side manufacturers and the average
named is fully maintained by them
1t can thus be seen that though
prices have advanced on an average
about 20 per cent over quotations
made year ago, the increased cost
of production and the advance in
wages paid to employees have fully
warranted the efforts of the manu-
facturers to get more for their. pro
ducts. .
The big saw mill of the Browns
Robbins Lumber company at Rhine
Lander, Wis, burned Monday. LOSE
100000.
Duluth !. shipped 100000 feet O
Lumber down the lakes last week.
It is estimated that the stock o