The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-17
LOGGING OPERATIONS
Lumbermen and Loggers Making Ar
rangements for Extensive OPP
eratiOnS this Season..
A Heavy Cut of Pine in the Forests
of the Far North Predicted for
the Coming Winter.

The logging operations in northern
Minnesota the coming winter. will be
on quite an extensive scale. The Mis-
sissippi Valley Lumberman gives the
following estimate of what some of the
big lumber concerns will do:
'The Bovey-DeLaittre Lumber Co.
will put in four camps this fall, but
will operate but two themselves. the
other two being in charge of contract
ing loggers. Their own will be Little
Willow river and a force of 100 men
will be employed. Some 5000. 900 feet
will be cut here. A camp will be op-
Grated at Prairie river, where $780,
900 feet will be put in and one along
the Brainerd & Nortern road will cut
about 100000 feet. It is probable
that other camps will be started, but
the matter has not as yet been decided
1.-The Mississippi River Lumber Co.
will start two camps at Cross Lake,
and the total output will be something
like 100000 feet. A large number
of these logs will be sold to city con-
Germs, who buy on the market instead
OF logging themselves, and part will
probably go to the Pine Tree Lumber
Company.
The Brainered Lumber Co. say they
expect to put in about 50,0OOOOO feet
this winter for their own personal use
and for selling to other concerns. The
company will start four camps them
selves and as many more will be oper-
ated by loggers cutting for them. A
portion of the timber to be cut lies
near Bemidji and northwest of that
place and other tracts are in the vicin-
ity OF Lake Itasca. The bulk of it lies
west Of the Minnesota International
road.
The c.. A. Smith Lumber Co. in
tend to put in as many logs this year
as in any previous year, and their en-
tire cut will probably amount to lO0,-
:9g0, 900 feet, OF: which will BE driven
down the Mississippi for saving at
their Minneapolis mill. The company
will do no logging themselves this sea-
son and the contracts for cutting the
timber, which lies in Itasca county,
have been given to Price Bros. Pow
ers & Simpson and the Itasca Lumber
Company.
The Shevelin- Carpenter Lumber
Co. will get out their usual mum Der of
logs this winter, which will amount to
something like 100000 feet. These
figures are estimates only as the COM
pany themselves cannot tell the actual
number of feet that will be cut Two
camps of their own will be established
near the Deer river, near which the
timber lies, and logging contracts have
been awarded to Price Bros. and the
Swan River Logging Co., who will
start Others"
\ Duluth correspondent to the Lum-
herman says:
logging is ute active, even now,
and will be very much more so as the
fall advances. It is estimated that
there will be cut of 5OO,COO,OOO feet
within thirty miles of Bimidji. as most
of the Minneapolis mills except that of
the Itasca company get their logs from
that district. T. B. Walker is also
logging there for his mills. This will
make Bemidji a very busy place this
winter, as the work will employ 5000
or 1000 men and about 400 horses and
their supplies will go in via that town.
The Itasca Lumber Co. will log about
70,000,00O feet on its road running
north from the Mississippi river, and
is extending that line 10 miles toward
the Big Fork and the international
boundary. Alger, Smith g. Co., Of Du-
luth, wil& log about 1O0,OO0,OOO feet
during the year. The Swan River
Logging Co. will log about 150,000,00O
near Hibbing. Musser & Sauntry will
log back of Superior and bring to Du-
luth mill about 100000 feet, five
times as much as they cut during the
present year,
The Scanlon &, Gipson Lumber Co.,
it is said, will get out about 100000
foot If ]orc in tho vioipitv of Po,,;6;;