The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-20
MINNESOTA
GOOD WEEK FOR SALES

GOOD WEEK FOR SALES "
The Prices for Lumber Were stffer-Los-
cling Season Opens. Nv
DULUTH, MINN.-Sales of lumber this
week amounted to several million feet,
and several large parcels are now under
option. Prices are sitter and on what
has been sold there has been an average
advance of small percentage. Ship
ments for the week have been good.
amounting to 100000 feet. There is
no change in freight rates and no pros
pect or any. The situation looks like an
advanced rate next year. especially IN
view of what is understood to be the poll
cy Of the United States Steel corporation
as to ore freights in 1908.
Several Of the larger mining companies
OF this section have been investing In tim
her of late and have withdrawn from the
market very considerable quantity. The
I'uluth & Iron Range road, whose own
ershir is in common with some OF the
larger mines, is not selling It's TIMBER
for logging. but is holding 1t for the mines.
MiniuS companies are also making con-
tracts with loggerS for a large amount OF
timber for underground operations.
1t looks as though the timber of the
John Schroeder Lumber company, on
Cross river north shore Of Lake Superior,
would have to come out by rail. notW1th-
standing the large amount spent by the
company in improving the stream Tor
driving. A few logs have been driven out,
but not enough to keep the mill running,
and the ultimate outcome is a road, pos
sibly an extension of the Duluth & North
ern Minnesota, which is heading that way
and will. before long, reach timber scat
tered with that of the Schroeder company
Cross river is. like many north shore
streams. q pretty difficult proposition for
damming and driving.
Logging opera tiOnS beginning at
several camps along the north shore, and
in this immediate section lumbermen are
finding that wages are a little higher than
year ago and that men are temporarily
scarcer They do not think this scarcity
will continue, as there will be many thou
sands of men relieved Of work in the har-
vest fields, railroads, at mills and at
open-pit mines. There are 100000 900 feet
of logs in the water at Cloquet that can
not be sawn this year and these Will cut
down next winters logging by about that
much. The chief activity in northern MIN
nesota logging this year will be In Itasca.
Cass and Beltrami counties, where the
bulk of the logs go to Minneapolis.
The demand for cutover pine lands con-
tinues and many lumber firms are clean
ing up their lands at prices far in eX-
cess of what they had any reason to hope.
This is the case not only here, but In
northern and northwestern Wisconsin.
The buyers in many cases are Duluth land
companies organized to buy and sell to
settlers these lands for farming purposes
William O'Brien of st. Paul is buying
large amount Of timber land In the
northern part of St. Louis and ltasca
counties, and will log there, bringing his
product down over the Cook & flourish
road. Mr.. O'Brien has been heavily m
terested along the St. Louis and Cloquet
rivers and has been logging there FOR
CloQuet milling interests. Some big local
tracts of pine are expected to change
hands shortly. and the situation In refer
ence to timber is constantly shifting.
cROOkSTON MINN.-Away up on
Lake of the Woods there is a voting pre-
cinct known as Leclaire. 1t is In the
northern part Of Beltrami county, and is
the headquarters of a fishing company,
in which HalvOr Stevenson, nominee for
congress in the ninth district, is a part
ner. The active manager of the company
is Harry Curry, and the latter was in
Crookston to-day on his way to BemidJ1,
carrying the election returns to the can
wasting board The total number of
votes 7cast in the precinct was but six.
But in order to comply with the law Mr..
Curry was compelled to make a long
journey. He went from Leclaire to WAR
road on the train, distance of twenty
miles, and thence by team through Ros-
eau, Badger and Pelan to Stephen, on
the Great Northern "a distance OF 100
miles. From Stephen through Crookston
to Bemidji is 140 miles. making total
for the trip one way Of 26O miles ThlS
doubled and multiplied by Is, that being
the number of cents allowed Is mileage.
gives a grand total of SIS that it cost Bel
trami county to get the returns to the
county seat from this one voting point.
To the average man, even in these times,
$3.50 a vote seems like high high price.
PINE CITY, MINN.-The Pine county
fair closed the 18th. The attendance was
not as large expected Most of the
exhibits were very good, especially the
farm products. A baseball game be-
tween the Pine City team and the Rush
City team took place the second day.
Score IA to 2 in favor Of Pine City, Matt
Hurley one of the Pine City players, was
struck by pitched ball and his nose
broken. Several good trotting and pacing
races were the attractions Of the last
day.-School is in session with the fol-
lowing teachers: High school and eighth
grade, Superintendent, E. w. Chamber.
lain, principal, Miss Anna Heneghan
Languages, Miss Francis Wyman; sixth
and seventh. Miss lone Prescott; fourth
and fifth, Miss Helma Constantine; third
Miss Mary Simmons; second, Miss Annie
Anderson; first, Miss Lizzie Badger
Miss Gretel Lowe, gave a recital for the
benefit Of the M. E. church.
AUSTIN, MINN.-A man named ELL
here and examined for insanity. He came
to town to buy a revolver to shoot his
family with. he said. The sheriff fol-
lowed him and brought both him and his
wife to town before the Judge Of probate
Upon examination it was found that jeal
ousy was the cause of his actions. A
farm hand is the object Of E'llwels wrath
benjamin. Carroll of Udolpho township
is dead. He was the oldest resident O.
Mower county.
DULUTH, MINN.-W. c. Sargent, VIII
was defeated for the republican nomina
ton for sheriff by w. w. Butchart b.
only five votes, will contest the nomina
tion.-McArthur Brothers Of Chicago wer
awarded the contracts for stripping" tn
Hawkins mine the western Mesab;
range.-The new Duluth directory contain
27,456 names, a gain of 1922 over las
year. 1t Is thought the population Of tn
city Is therefore about 6S,664.-Charle
Anderson, a car repairer was fatally In
jured by a falling log at Wentworth, Wis
BLUE EARTH, Misunderstanding ar
the nominees Of the primaries for Fari
bault county: Republican ticket Auditor