The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-22
THE LUMBER WORLD.
Head Of the Lakes Consumption Will
Be Factor.
BIG SHIPMENTS ALSO CERTAIN
Filed-Pine Is Inferior. but
Will BE Grabbed.

Special to The Journal
Duluth, MIMI, Feb. 22.-The outlook is
for large local consumption OF all
grades of lumber at head of-the lake
~, 100000 will be spent In construction
work in Duluth during the year, most II
1t timber work of some kind.
PulpWood is selling here at about 20
cents to- 81 less per cord than it brought
year ago. Then strife between rival
buyers ran the price UP to more than
$4.75 cord delivered on track here,
which was paid by the paper mill con-
Germs Most Of the wood coming to mills
in the central west from the Lake SUI
perior region this year Is from Wisconsin
and Michigan where the wood, though
scarcer, can be gotten at the same price
as is asked at the head of the lakes.
There is but a small crop here except for
concerns that have made contracts for a
long term of years. The Lake Superior
Timber company, a Canadian concern,
has started into the bush on Nepign bay
for large quantity Of wood The COM
pany has whereabouts some 100000 cords
OF spruce standing and will cut it during
the next twenty years.
Cedar in Demand.
Cedar is scarce and the prices are
good. Long poles are particularly in de-
mand. Much cedar is being cut at north
shore points and will be RATED here in
the spring for distribution
The St. Louis Lumber companys mill
has closed down for the winter with a
pairs and improvements will be made
before the mill resumes in the spring.
Most of the employees OF the mill quit
work Saturday night there and commenced
the following Monday morning at the mill
OF Hubbard & Vincent, which commenced
| cutting lumber for the same owner
| The Nebagamon mill has some 1000, DOC
feet Of sold lumber in it's yard, all to go
| west and south. The company is logging
IS, OOO,O feet OF timber this winter and
might have sold a large part Of the ex-
pected cut had it desired.
4 Along the line of the st. Croix & Duluth
road belonging to Empire Lumber com
pany, they are logging very heavily this
winter and about 30,0O0,O00 feet are now
banked on st. Croix lake, to go south or
| the river to Dubuque in the summer
More men are employed along this roae
| than a year ago.
Summer Shipping Season.
The outlook for the summer shipping
season is fine O. w. Blodgett, an ex-
tens1ve shipping owner, has been here
| this week looking into things. He ex-
poets late opening Of navigation, and
|
MES the reported combination of lum-
Der tonnage and says he does not think
any such thing is possible. He looks fol
! an opening rate at least as high as last
year, when it was $3.50. A quantity OF
lumber is being shipped east now all
rail, on rate running from 9 to IL
| cents.
! Plats Of two newly surveyed townships
have just been filed in the land office
here. This is an indication Of how new this
region actually is. There are towns lying
| north of Duluth and a short distance
back Of Lake Superior that have not yet
been surveyed. The contracts for survey
| ing some of these have been let and the
work will be undertaken in the spring.
! They contain some pine and though it is
scattered and small and knetty it will
| all be in demand as soon as squatters
can get in. There. are still forty eight
townships Of unsurveyed lands in this
| land district, Of which all but thirteen
are in Itasca county The thirteen are
chiefly in Lake and Cook-counties and are
| pine and mineral lands.