The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-08
CENTRE MOVES SOUTH
WONDERFUL ACTIVITIES IN THE
GREAT MISSISSIPPI FORESTS.
wisconsin M Michigan Areas Are Played
Out After Fifty Year. VIII Furniture
Industry Follow South?-Where Shall
We Get Lumber In Next century,

industry Follow South.-where Shall
We Get Lumber In Next Century?
CHICAGO, Dec. e-The permanent closing
OF the great mills Of the Menominec River
Lumber Company at Marinette, Wis. ten
days ago after a half century Of constant
service, was an interesting and significant
event in one Of the chief industries OF the
country. In a word. it was an epoch
marking step In the moving OF the centre
Of the lumber industry from northern
Michigan IN Wisconsin to the great hard
wood forests Of the Mississippi Valley
The Marinette mills we're largely the
property of Jesse Spalding OF Chicago
and represented the foundation OF his
present large fortune. Their closing indi-
Gates the exhaustion Of 4 tract OF i5O'OOo
acres OF timber land in northern Michigan
When Mr.. Spalding and Others hrst
began cutting on the Menominee RIVER
the pine forests of Wisconsin and Michigan
were practically virgin and they had merely
to pick and choose from the finest pine
woods on the continent. Mill after mil
started up IN the river and at Sturgeon
BAY, at Cedar River, Ford River and scores
Of other points.
Millions Of logs were sent down stream
every year and mile after mile OF timber
was exhausted. Fire was responsible Tor
much havoc and nov the great tract winch
MIR. Spalding controlled Is barren OF pine
A tract of 10000 acres OF hardwood re-
Sine the Spalding compan was formed
e,,,, vaars auo IL has cut more than =
biIiiop feet of pine and had but one strike.
Among its employees who were thrown
nut ~ work last week were some who
Lad ko.,n with the more than
forty wears
IL is proposed to use the site Of the mill
II nnssibIe' for a manufacturing plant of
some kind. in the hope that Marinette may
snryiva The loss of her lumber trade, but
il is TO be doubted il much will come OF
the man.
Tre saory of the Spalding mills IL that of
cointless similar enterprises throughout
he lumber country Of Michigan and Wis
consin. And the lumber mills in the hard
wood forests Of the NJ Mississippi have increased
.nI ui.nnnsim have died out
Along the river. specially in the lowlands
rIsn.a are b.ndreds of mih.s Of fine
u, Z, n"nsL Of twenty-one varieties, hard
rIna rcd cum ~cottonwood. hickory and
dozens Of other woods.
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