The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-28
FORESTS MELTING IHAY
ENORMOUS CUTS OF LOGS LAST
WINTER IN NORTHERN
MINNESOTA
SWAN RIVER LANDING BROKEN
Lumbermen Getting the Winters
Cut Into the Streams as
Rapidly as Pos
sibIe.

DULUTH, Mimi, April 27.-The Swan
RIVER landing has been broken, 50,000,000
Feet OF logs being started down river in
three days. 1t was quick and impressive
WORK. The rivers were high and there
was no trouble. The landing was about
S'Voe rect long, running from the mouth
OF the Swan, and the logs were piled to
the bottom of the river and far above
nigh water mark, leaving only a narrow
channel at the farther shore for the wa
Ter TO pass by. In the company's year,
Whlch closes July l next, eco feet
Will be handled. OF these 20,000,000 feet
must be landed from now on. Hauling
down the road is now stopped, but will
commence as soon as the lakes, into
which logs have been dumped during the
winter, are open.
The company has banked in the eight
or nine years of its existence more than
LOCO 100000 feet Of logs. The timber that
is being cut by the Swan River COM
pany was bought by Wright & Davis
some nine years ago from the Weyer-
haeuser people for $1,450,00O, and con-
tract was taken back to log and deliver
at the Mississippi river. The Duluth,
Mississippi River & Northern road was
built and the contract begun. Ore was
found on the lands and two or three years
ago J. ]. Hill bought the entire Wright
& Davis interests for $4,000, co., To-day!
of this deal, "Mr. Hill could sell for s2e,-
100000 Or more"
There are 5, 600 feet of logs in Silver
lake at Virginia. put in by Moon & Kerr.
which were sold to the Northern Lum-
Der company They will be pulled out,
taken by rail- to the st. Louis river, and
driven to Cloquet for saving as soon as
the lake is free from Ice
In the ST. Louis the water is lower than
last week, and the jam now extends for
many miles above Cloquet. Millions oe
logs are in the water almost In the osi-
ton in which they were placed upon the
ice, millions more are damned In what
would seem to be ineXtricable confusion,
filling the stream from bank to bank
and side to side, and still more are Ere IS
ing upon them from above The mills
are at work and the driving crews are
very busy at the sorting works.
Lumbermen operating the south shore
streams are getting into the water as
fast as possible, and many crews lie
working along these rivers. Some logs
> are already being towed to mills at Am
sntcon Nemadji, Middle, Poplar and
Brute rivers, which are all open and run
ming high. sslyT&
Mitchell & Mcclure are tearing up the
logging railroad built two years ago
from Mile IT,, of the Duluth, Missabe e.
Northern, into some timber north of the
city. All timber along the sline. has been
More logs are banked in the upper st.
Croixs for lower Mississippi points than
sexers before, says Supt. G4ilsa sef sthe ST.
Croix & Duluth road. No driving has
commenced along the river, but the Ice
is going very fast, and Operations Wilt
be under full head next, w eek: This
road, : belonging to the Empire Logging
company, has done a larger business the
past winter than ever before, and viii
be hauling till late in August, begin
ming as soon as the ice is out Of the
lakes Ag&E ~
Cook. & flourish have just bought of
White & Frfaht about 17,000,G09 feet OF
standing pine in towns 81 and 68, ranges
20 and 81 in the far northwestern part
of st. Louis county, south of Kapito-
CANA lake, paying about 100000. This
gives the firm more than S59,0lG, 900 feet
Of standing timber in that district all Of
which is tributary to their proposed
road, the Duluth, Virginia & Rainy Riv-
er, on which work is now going on. This
is the largest block of pine beftsin North
eastern Minnesota outsiaess the Weyerr
haeuser pine, and is a part OF. ESQ, 900, coo
feet now owned by Cook & flourish, in
St Louis and Lake counties The, deeas
to lot of pine bought more than a year
ago from Avery & Morley, in towns 81,
So, 81 and %, ranges II and II, amounting
to $4,000, were filed this week here.