The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-07
Daily Delivery atDuluth Will Soon
Equal $50 Cars.
CEDAR AND PULP WOOD CUTTING
Winter Saving Is Generally in EX-
cess of All Presiding
Seasons.

Special to The Journal
Duluth, MIMI, JAM AL indications
point to a good lumber cut this winter.
The weather has been excellent so far,
and there has been 10 great trouble with
men for the camps. In most Of the head
Of the lakes district there has been nc
smallpox scare. and more scare than
smallpox in the other parts. Without
mention of the greatly advanced stump
age costs, which will make lumber dearer,
there will be added costs to the logger
this winter in wages and supplies. The
wage scale now is about $50 on the aver
age, though some are paying trihe less
and for high grade men the price Is
much higher. Top leaders are getting $50
to $40.
An important branch of the numbering
industry is the cedar business. 1t is es-
tiubated that about 1000 men are en-
ployed near here in getting out cedar
poles, posts and ties, and one local hrm
expects a crop of about 100000 ties.
100000 telegraph poles, and 600 cars OF
posts for the year. Most OF the cedar
Is cut along the Forth shore, and on the
upper waters of the ST. Louis and tribu-
taries.
Another important branch is pulp wood
cutting, though 1t is not so feverishly
active as a year ago, when the paper
mills were buying everything they could
again. now, and there is a scarcity OF
ground wood, but such was the surplus cut
Of last winter that the mills are not here
TO the extent they were then. Colvin &
Robb are cutting about 5000 cords on
the upper st. Louis to be sent east by
water.
Winter saving is under way extensively
in this district. The mills Of Alger Smith
& Co.. Hubbard G Vincent. and the St.
Louis Lumber company are all working
the first on its own timber, the second
for Richardson 6 Avery, and the other
two for the Red Cliff Lumber company
The mill Of the Nebagamon Lumber COM
pany, at Lake Nebagamon, that of the
w. T. Bailey Lumber company, at Vir-
ginia. and that of the SauntryCain COM
pany, at Carlton. are at work Besides
these, there is more work under way al
Cloquet than in any preceding winter
The Northern Lumber company is prepar-
ing for an allWinter run that will COM
mence next week. and the Johnson Went
worth mill viii! be at work in three OF
four weeks. The Brooks Scanlon mill
will soon be running very heavily.
The Duluth & Iron Range road is haul
ing to Duluth about 100 cars a day aside
from the four trainloads, or 1O4 cars
that are delivered TO the road from the
Duluth &: Northern Minnesota (Alger
Smith & Coz The Scott Graft Lumber
company is 1ufnlSQlQS tue ~fOdu Will
thirty cars daily, and Red Cliff Lumber
company about forty, the Mitchell & Nc
Clure twenty. Nolan Bros. & Laird about
five, LeSun Lumber company five, and
others some more. Companies operating
OF several of the spurs that have been
put in this winter have not commenced
shipping but will in few days, and in a
week or two the daily delivery at Duluth
from all points On the line. will be at
least $50 cars a day. There are about
twenty-five cars 20 a trainload.
This road is hauling some milling tim
Der, and about fifteen cars a day OF pulp
wood to Two Harbors docks. So that the
logging traffic Is very important branch
of it's business. The Great Northern
Northern Pacific and Duluth. South Shore
& Atlantic roads are increasing their log
business into Duluth and Superior, and
the former is now hauling to- the North
ern Lumber company at Cloquet. The
Duluth, Virginia & Northern, which is
under rapid construction, will be deliver
ing logs in quantity at Duluth to the
Northern Pacific for Stillaw7ter in about
three weeks: The Taber Lumber COM
pany, of Keokuk. will get in all 5000, OO(
feet under this agreement, and ,00(
feet more to be delivered elsewhere.