The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-30
MICHIGAN
UPPER PENINsULALooelNG
Conditions Unsurpassed Except In Low
land Timber Region.

Conditions Unsurpassed Except In Low
land Timber Region.
CALUMET, MICH.-Loggers report
that excellent progress is being made.
The recent cold spell and blizzard helped
matters, but contractors who operate in
der the deep snow. This makes 1t bad
for them and may reduce the cut Of ce-
dar and other low-land timber.
Negotiations are pending which will
likely result in the establishment Of a
large sawnill at Ontonagon.. Dbl Nor
ton and John Hawey, local lumbermen,
are interesting outside capitalists in the
project. The site of the old Diamond
Match company's mill will be purchased
and one Of the largest plants in the north
ern peninsula erected. Il ,'f -. ,S.>
w. c.. Baldwin has contracted to put in
5000, 900 feet Of logs for the Houghton
Lumber company in the South Range dis
trict. He has established camps at Mis-
cry Bay and on the Misery river. TO-,
The Two Rivers Manufacturing Com
pany has established several camps on
the Escanaba river and will cut about
6,00O,0 900 feet. The logs will be sawed at
Menominee next summer. r.. ~,
+ w. Fl. Acker, of Munising, has recently
purchased a large tract of timber neal
his saw and single mill at Sixteen Mile
Lake, in Alger county, which will last him
lily this winter and expects to make big
cut next summer at his mill.
M. r. McGee's camp on the Copper
Range extension have been disbanded the
men going into the woods. Thomas Jack
son.. another contractor working on the
Copper Range extension, has moved his
men into the woods near L'Anse, and will
cut several million feet, of logs for the
Tamarack- Osceola people. 49,.
The Oliver Mining connanv is going inf To
numbering this winter on a large scale,
finding it too inconvenient to depend upon
jobbers for it's supply of timber for its
iron mines. Its timber camps are strung
along the North Western railway between
MarinescO and Watersmeet furnishing
employment to 200 lumberjacks and fifty
odd teams and teamsters.
Log hauling has begun on the Menom-
inee river and until the close of the Win
ter train loads of logs will be run into
Marinette and Menominee daily. Two
steam leaders will be used, one at Eu-
gene Houte's camp and another at the
Worcester Lumber companys camp The
Milwaukee road will start it's log hauling
service at once. Among the Menominee
river lumber firms which will receive logs
by rail are the N. Ludington company,
Sawyer-Goodman company, Marinette
Lumber company, Davis & Stitt, Burns &
Hicks, Donovan & O'Connor, A. Spies,
Day oIOIe LUMBER company and others.
Eugene Houte will put in about 5000, 900
feet Of logs for the Bay Shore Lumber
company
The Worcester Lumber company has
contracted to cut 100000 feet of logs for
Burns &~Hicks.
c. A. SENEGAL of Lake Linden cut ,Ooo,-
900 feet of logs in Ontonagon county.
Berrime Canton, another Lake Linden
contractor, has established camp at
Lakewood. on the South Range in Hough-
ton county, and will cut about 1000, 600
feet of logs.
me Cedar River Land company sroper-
ating several camps in Menominee coun-
ty and will cut. several million feet. The
logs will be sawed at Spalding. - -.
The Lille Lumber company is con-
structing ten miles of logging road east
OF Ialbot. The road will throw open a
vast tract OF hardwood lands The Lille
people expect to saw 5000, 900 feet. next
summer. '@>'