The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-31
men FOR The WOODS
LUMBER COMPANIES HAVE HARD
WORK IN GETTING
THEM
WAGES HIGH AND MEN SCARCE
Expenses of Logging Concerns viii
Be Doubled This Year, but
big Season Is Expected
to Even Up.

According to the local lumberp1en The
work in the logging regions is opening up
in good shape, and in a few days the
logging camps will be running in full
force. This year the lumberman has to
contend with several unusual conditions
which cause him some difficulty, but he
will overcome them all.
The first thing is the scarcity of labor
ers and the high wages that are being
demanded. Thousands of men have al
ready been employed and sent north,
and thousands more are needed. The
logging companies have been compelled
to pay higher wages this year than ever
before in the history of the northern
logging camps. Men are asking and re-
ceiving from $35 to $40 per month and
board. These high wages will insure
plenty of laborers in the camps.
Another thing that causes g little
trouble for the logging companies is the
high prices demanded for horses, and
the need of an extra number of them this
year. Each year the logs are harder 20
get to the rivers than they were the
year before. This is caused by the tim
Der along the streams being all cut, and
that which is left standing is far back
from the outlets to the main channels.
This necessitates the hauling of the logs
farther than was originally the case,
and, as consequence, more horses are
needed. This year horses are higher
than they have been for several years,
but the companies will buy horses that
they need, and the prices do not make
not fall before spring, when the COM
panies will again place them on the mar
ket.
The high price of all kinds of produce
is another item that the companies have
to meet this year. 1t is going to cost a
great deal more to feed the men that are
employed in the pineries than it used to
cost. 1t is estimated by reliable men that
it will cost at least so per cent moro to
keep up the expenses of the camps than
the average for several years.
There is only one way in which these
high expenses can be equalized and that
is by a bigh arvest of logs. 1t is quite
probable that the cut this year will be
heavier than it has been for years past
Nothing will prevent this but an open
winter or shortage of hands. Lumber
men are not looking for either, and ex-
pect to harvest the biggest crop of logs
that has been cut for years.
Companies planning for their winter
cut have given out their plans as fol-
lows: The Brooks Timber company, OF
Scanlcn, Mimi. will log 65OO0,00O feet;
the Itasca Lumber company will log To-,
100000 feet in the vicinity of Grand Rap
ids, Mimi, and 100000 feet in the vicin-
ity of Bemidji. Alger Smith e Co.,
of Duluth, will cut 1O9OOO,G0O feet. Ack-
ley, Sprague & Co. will cut 100000 feet
A. A Bigelow & Co., of Washburn, Wis,
will log 25,000,O00 feet. The Swan River
Logging company will take out 100, 600, 600
feet near Hibbing, MINI.
These estimates all go to show that
the cut of logs this winter viii be
large one, and, notwithstanding the diff
culties that confront the companies, they
will do a big seasons work
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