The Saint Paul globe., 1900-11-25
BIG CUT Of NH|IE PINE
REPORT OF THE SEASONS OPERA
TIONS IN THE DULUTH
DISTRICT
SEVEN HUNDRED MILLIONS
Is the Approximate POtaI Number of
Feet Turned Out by the Mills
Saving i'm the Sea-
son of 1900.

DULUTH, Mimi, Nov 24-There is a.
goodly amount of lumber to go forward
yet this fall, and one commission man
has now lot of boats still in the lower
lakes, coal-laden for Duluth, they are
chartered to take full lumber cargoes
back. One local lumber manufacturing
firm has eleven large boats to dispatch
yet. and is expecting to move them ALL
There are in addition many other boats
fol- other companies. The freight rate
stays at $3.50 and the shipments of the
week were 500.OGO feet
All the mills have closed throughout
the district They have cut Il total of
COS, ,SO0,oo0 feet during the 1900 saving sea-
son
This is the largest season yet in tie
history of the district with the single
exception of 1899. This years business
would have been larger but for droughts
that kept logs from many mills fer
months. The total cut Of the year has
been 7000 000 COG feet Shipments by
wafer have been 30O,00O,0O0 feet, but as
the mills all started the year with un-
usually small stocks, their surplus of
unsold lumber now is not very much
greater than usual.
Nearly all mill firms are going iEto
the woods for the coming year upon a
scale indicating as large cut as was
contemplated for 1900 The condition OF
lIle Winter dIiOl lue dIlilttGS Ol iStpOi Will
determine just what the cut may be.
Indications are that labor will be high
and the most serious problem the log
gers will face. Wages in the woods are
now from $26 10 $50 a mcnth, together
with board and lodging, and from this
up TO $40 and $50 for skilled men in spec
ial departments of loading and saving.
Up to $3.50 a day, and board, will be
paid for drivers on the streams. There
will be about 5000 men working III the
woods of this district for its own mills
all winter, and their combined net wages
will amount to about 100000. Besides
these men, several thousand horses are
used.
The Duluth pine district is now the
source Of much pine cut for mills at Min
neapolis Millions of feet will be cut near
here this winter also for mills at Ash
land The Calumet and Hecla Copper
company has come into this region for
pine timbers. 1t has never until this year
come to the west end of Lake superior
for it's timber. 1t annually buries IN
the ground not far from 20,OO0,O00 feet OF
high grade pine timbers. Mills in East
ern Manitoba that supply the prairies OF
the far Northwest, are also sending men,
into this district and cutting pine to be
foated north. With all these outside.
calls upon its rapidly lessening stocks
of standing pine, the Duluth district will
not last many years. That lumbermen
realize this the advance of the price i'll
standing timber. is evidence. 1t has
doubled in twelve months and pine that
sold only two years ago for 81 a thou
sand feet now brings IS or more y
A remarkable feature of the years
business here has been the sale of lum-
Der to Eastern Canada. Cargoes have
been shipped from here to Toronto. An
other re-aarkable fact has been the great,
shipments to those oId-t4ne ceflters of
the saW-mill industry, Bay City and
Saginaw One month Duluth shipped 10,
OO6,00O feet to these points, while they
shipped nothing. Chicago has taken a
vast amount of Lake Superior lumber
this year, but the bulk of the trade has
been with the far EAST. The railroads
have competed for the blsine ana ii sls
taken several millions of feet for Sdelist5
cry. all rail into PittsbdrgI and B6s1,
ton.
There have been shipped East cut of.
Lake Superior this year 100000, 900 feet of
saWn lumber, making it the greatest year
IN the history of the trade with the eX
ception of 1889, when the total wls
lS5, ,G00,0JO feet greater, 1t is not probable.
that the record of that year will ever be
much surpassed