The Minneapolis journal., 1901-04-13
NO MOVEMENT YET
Lumber Vessels Not Expected at
Duluth Before May 1.
IMPORTANT DEALS OF THE WEEK
The Mills at Duluth Generally Well
StOcked-AII the Camps
Now Closed.

Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi, April 13.-Lumber is
quiet and will necessarily remain so till
shipments commence. There is no sign
Of vessels yet, and lumbermen do not ex-
pect them before May l, though the ice at
the Sault is reported weak and rotten,
and there is no ice at this end of the lake
to impede navigation. The harbor is
opening rapidly, and a large space is now
free, even up to some of the outside mills.
Some very important deals are closing
and closed here this week. One is that
of the Bayfield, Western railway-D M.
Sabin in other words-who has made
contract with the Street-Chetfield COM
pany of Chicago by which he delivers on
the harbor here 100000 feet of their tim
Der, to be sawn at the Scott-Graff mill
here.
The Ed Hines Lumber company has
lot of standing timber southeast from
Poplar, and is figuring on building a road
into it, using the ties and rails now on
an extension of the Bayfield, Western into
their choppings of the past winter, north
east of Poplar There is a big bunch of
timber there they expect to pull out In
all there are some 200, ,000, 900 feet in that
vicinity that Mr.. Sabin figures he will
handle over his road, to come chiefly to
Duluth, though some will go to Ashland
and interior mills.
The American Realty company of Mil
waukee, has sold to the Arpin, Scott &
Finger company, Of Grand Rapids, Wis,
$17, 900 worth of pine on Pigeon river,
northeast of this place. The buyers now
have about 100000 invested in timber
along the boundary under the style Of
Pigeon River Lumber company. They are
now logging there for the mill at Port
Arthur, recently bought by them. There
will be more logs to come out of the
Pigeon this year than ever before, in all
about 35, ,OO0, 900, of which the bulk will be
by Alger Smith & Co. for saving here
Alger, Smith & Co. will stock their own
mill, and their related interests will give
the West Superior Lumber company's
mill It's stock up to its capacity. There
VIII be more than rs, 200 900 feet in the cut
of the two mills. The Schofeld mill at
Superior will have the Hines logs and
those recently sold by the Soper Lumber
company, well up to capacity. The Supe-
Tior mill of Peyton, Kimball & Barber has
about 5000, 900 feet in sight, logs belong
ing to the firm, and no other saving. This
is less than one-fourth capacity. The
Scott Graft mill will soon be through with
it's Richardson & Avery stock, and is like
ly to be filed with saving by the Street
Chetfield company. The Hubbard & Vim
cent mill has some F. L. Gilbert logs,
enough for day runs only The Duncan
day and night, for the Pilsen Lumber
company, which has bought all its prod
uct. The Murray mill will cut all season,
day and night, for w. H. Gilbert. The
Mitchell & Mcclure mill will have pretty
nearly a full day and night cut. The
Merrill Ring mill is fully stocked. The
St. Louis Lumber company's mill has less
than days rum The Leisure mill has full
days run. The Clark Jackson Lumber
company's mill has a full cut, day and
night. This is all the mills on the har-
Dor front. In the surrounding region
nearly all mills will be busy day and
night.
w. S. Cochrane and Simon Anderson Of
Carlton, have formed partnership and
will erect a shingle mill near Thomson.
They will saw about 100000 shingles daily.
They will employ twenty-five men, and the
mill, which is new throughout, will be
saving in few weeks.
This week all camps are closed down
and the woods work is completed. Men
have arrived in town and been paid.
Teams by the hundred have been driven
in and are now scatterig west and south
to the farms and prairies for the sum
mer With the arrival of so many men
who have been exposed to smallpox during
the winter here are many cases Of
quarantine, and some of them are abso-
lutely unnecessary.
Sixty men from the Schrader Lumber
company's camps in Cook county, were
quarantined at Two Harbors on their ar
rival there the other day, and are still
waiting for the completion of the isolation
period.