The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29

BIG WEEK FOR TRADE
Sales of the Lower Grades of Lum-
Der in the Duluth Market
Ruled High.
Shipments Were So Heavy That
Docks Are Much Easier-Au-
gust Good Month.
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Duluth. Mimi, Aug. 29.-The lumber
sales during the past week amounted to
from 100000 to 100000 feet. Alger,
Smith & Co., the American Lumber COM
tpany, Tower Lumber company and 9TH
ers contributed to the total. One sale Of
No. boards was made at $11.75 and the
seller is now asking $12 fiat, which is the
top of the market so far. sale OF NO. l
and 2 strip is said to have been closed at
about 81 better than what would be an
ordinary price. Lower grades are said
to be stiff and stiffening gradually, while
the higher grades nothing more than
STEADY, If that.
The week has been very heavy in ship
Iments, and docks are pretty easy. A
large fleet has been in port both here
and at Two Harbors. and August will
Iprobably wind up as the best for ship
ments ever known in the Duluth district
For the week total of 100000 feet were
shipped. ..
The various cloquet mills, which had
been expected to close their night runs
last Wednesday on account of scarcity
of logs, did not do so, and will not till
the end of the saving season. They were
tout of logs on account Of low water on
the st. Louis. but rains have helped them
out, and they now have plenty OF logs
and water enough to bring lot more.
The river has raised 20 inches during the
past few days.
While the Wey erhaeuser mills at Clo-
quet get a fair share of their logs by
rail, the roads dump most OF these logs
into the st. Louis and Cloquet rivers,
some distance above the rapids, and that
water is necessary to get them from land
ings to the mills.
The Bonnell Lumber company's saw
mill at Hawthorne, Wis, starts up Sept.
is and will run steadily thru the season.
There is a good quantity of logs on hand
and the mill will operate day and night.
The state auditor will offer for sale a
large amount Of standing pine In the
northeastern part Of the state in the five
northeasterly counties, Oct. q. There are
about 100, 900, 900 feet in the lot, which Is
widely scattered, but most Of which Is
convenient for logging. Good prices are
expected for this timber, which is to be
sold at auction. State estimators are now
at work and will have their estimates
completed by the date Of sale. It Is be-
leved the state will receive not less than
100000 for its school funds from this
sale.
The quantity OF timber used at the head
of the lake this year in dock and ware
house construction has been unusually
small, and about the only important oper-
attons in that line have been the Great
Northern ore dock and extensions to some
of the coal docks. In earlier years this
work was the chief consumption of lum.
Der locally.
It is likely that dock work another win
ter and summer will be greater than fol
the twelve months just passed. The
Northern Pacific has plans for very large
and important additions to It's warehouse
and dock capacity in Duluth; the North
western Fuel will probably duplicate it!
immense coal-receiving piers at Superior
new ore docks are to be built and othe
work Of an important character Is in thu
air.
Most Of the timber for such operation
does not now come, however, from loca