The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-26
.DEALS,OF THE WEEK
Alger, Smith &Eb. Sell $4,000, 700
Feet Of High Grade Stuff.
MILLS OF THE LAKE ARE BUSY
Rafting Will Soon BE Necessary to.
Keep Up the supply of
II Logs. III

Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi. April 26.-All the deep
water mills eat work, with one excep-.
tion. Some are running day and might
and the number Of men idle on the streets.
is much reduced. In fact, there need be
no men without employment III they want
to do anything. Not all the mills can
tinue saving il the weather remains
as it is for a week, for there is no chance
Of rafting on the big lake, and rafting
will be absolutely necessary if such mills
as that Of the Merrill & Ring company,
for instance, are to saw steadily Il
There have been some sales of lumber
this week. The last of the No. 3 and bet ::
ter dry dock stock at the head of the
lakes has been sold by the Leisure Lumber
company at good prices. There have also
been sales of about 5000, 900 feet Of sum
mer saving by Richardson & Avery. A
large part of its summer cut of lath has
been sold by the Merrill & Ring company
/ at prices that represent an advance on
what has been quoted on paper hereto
fore.
At the opening of navigation there were
banked on the west side of Rice's point,
! in this city, about IS, 100000 feet of logs,
probably the largest bank of logs ever
seen in the city. OF this lot 10, 100000 feet
| belonged to thesDuncan5 & Brewer Lum-y
Der company and the rest to Alger, Smith
& Co. These logs were all under agree,
ment to be moved by June, and the COM:
Epanies will probably get them off the
bank: then, for the Northern Pacific road;
which owns the property, wants to begin
extensive Improvement there,
The Duluth & Mort hern Minnesota road
has graded a line crossing under, the Du-
luth & Iron Range track below Highland,
/ and running northeast, and will be laying
Esteel there soon. The road will be ex-
tended in that direction about fifteen
miles this season, besides branch lines to
camps, and will reach a large amount of
timber to be got aut by Alger, Smith & Co.,
by the Red Cliff Lumber company and by
Mitchell & Mcclure. Logging will be car
Tried on Oh some of these tracts all sum
mer, and logs for at-least two Of the firms
mentioned will be brought in during the
season. No announcement has been made
as to the intention of this road in extend
ing its line directly to this city, but such
a move Is not expected by those in a po-
sition to know
/ At the West Duluth box factory of C. j.
i Petrushke they are now working on a
contract for 800 car loads of boxes which
will keep the plant busy for abouta year,
turning out car load daily. This is the
flargest contract ever placed with fac
i tory of the kind In this region, and much
/. new machinery will have to be added to
fill it properly. &
w. H. Boonan Of Leslie, and ]. W. Shaw
Of Osakis, MINI, have been on the Mesaba
range the past few days and will probably
establish a saWmill on the ST. Louis river
west of the Duluth & Iron Range crossing.
1 A saw mill has: been built at point on
4 the Duluth & Iron Range road few miles
1:above Two Harbors by Two Harbors peo
pie who have retail lumber yards there,
and who will saw for their own needs. The
mill will start up in few days.
4 The. biggest sale of the year in the Lake
superior. region has just been consummat-
ed at:Grand Marais, Mich, by Alger, Smith
4 %, 100000 feet of high grade lumber, anc
the consideration is in the neighborhoot
Z of 100000.