Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-04-11
Fron, enc Minneapolis Jourual,
LUMBER DUE 70 o RISE |
Prices Likely 70 b 32 Better
within the
Season. \
rHg LOG CUT ABOUT e4o, 900, 900.
OF Which Two-thirds Come to
Minneapolis Mllls-Pine-
Using Area Enlarglng.

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strong advance In lumber prices,
despite the consumers protest that
lumber 10 already 90 high an serious
" to enhance the cost Of building
operations. Logs are now selling
at 81 a thousand better than last
year. private term sales realising
$3.50 to $13. The largest sale. cover
Ing 2O,tAO. OO0 feet and running ac-
cOrding to scale. brought $3.50. the
best price ever realized ON the river
for 81 large lot .-,g,. !.
The total log tut for the season
just closing is the largest ever made.
approximating $40 UOO!OOO feet, Of
which about 4lO.OOO.OO0 feet will
come to the Minnea polls mills. The
remaining 250.OOO,0 OO feet will be
ga " ed at mills III the upper country,
those Of the Red River Lumber com.
pany ut Akeley, the Shevlin- Carpen-
ter mills at Cass Lake, the Brainerd
Lumber company's mills. the Knox
mill at Grand Rapids. the Weyer-
haeuser mill ut Little Falls
The mills OF the st. Cloud Lumber
company. the Sank Rapids Lumber
company, the Aitkin Lumber COM
pany and the Park Rapids Lumber
company will get their share OF the
latter amount. Fred Bonus. OF Min
neapOlis, ia the boss ,lumberman Of
the season. He has cut 10000. ONW
feet OF logs, the biggest cut made by
one man in ten years. ..,...
There have been6 400 men employed
in the woods this season and of that
number probably $500 are from
Minuea polls. the remainder being
either permanently employed in the
country or engaged In proving up
hOmesteads. The best authorities
assume that owing to the impending
close of the cutting season about
LOCO men will come into Minneapolis
and st. Paul. I
~ Far.irom aff0rding an oversupplv
Of laborinx material, however. the
employment agencies state that
work IL waiting for many times
more men than will become !. avail
able from this source. Fifteen hun
dred men OF the transient labDriBg
element will remain employed during
the summer With the Arms now en-
gaRtng them. They, are offered emf
ploymeDt at good wages 10 cutting
hay, building new logging roads.
new camps and cleaning up the
camps now being vaca ted.
. It 10 not anticipated that the drIv-
Ing will begin much before May 1. as
the lakes. into which the present sea-
sons cut has been put. thaw out
much later. than the river does, and
getting the years product into the
hands Oi the boom company will be
correspondingly slow operation.
The new Walker mill, upon which
the finishing touches are now being
put, will he Que Of the biggest lum.
Der mills In the state. 1t will have a
capacity Of 10000. 600 feet a year.
This Ia located at the village, ut
Akeley on the Great Northern >ex-
tension. fu.." 49,. D.. r"&.u~"
7 The Walkers have begun opera
lions for the construction of a new
logging road from the Upper Crow
Wing lake at Akeley northwest
toward Itasca lake. through Hub.
bard and over into Becker county.
This new road will tap pine supply
calcula ted to last for twenty-five
years. the greater part 81 the timber
being owned or controlled by T.. Il.
Walker. ~.
The new lice being built bv the
Great Northern from the Upper Mis-
sissippi into Duluth is likely to cut
big figure In the lumber trade Of the
state. inasmuch as Duluth
Ia on the short line to the eastern
markets and lumber IL becoming
very scarce In the Duluth district.
Mr.. Hills line, in competition with
the Duluth & Winnipeg for trans
portation 81 the cut Of these mills
and also VI logs, is a heavy factor in
a. O.. -. E.ssE