Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-07
LUMBER IN WISCONSIN
1t is Claimed That There is Just as
Much as There Ever Was.

There is just as much lumber ayailabI
In Wisconsin today as there ever was. !"
said w. d. Connor of Marshfield. Wis tn
| Star man at the New Willard today
when people say that there is practically
no lumber left in the. state they know not
whereof they speak. OF course, there il
foundation for belief in the eyes of some
people, these being the men who formerly
conducted mills where nothing was turned
out, but white Norway pine goods. It
Is true that this kind of wood is nearly ex-
terminated. But where quarter a GEN.
fury ago there was little wood other than
pine used in constructing buildings, the
harder woods are now being used and we
can start all over on these kinds, which
exist in abundance. New lumber companies
are being organized in the state constantly
and rev mills are in the process of cree
ton. Hemlock. cedar and birch trees are
being cut up in the woods of Marathon,
Iron and Forest counties. where there are
still miles and miles of woods which are
almost untouched by the ak and saw.
The actual cutting of timber is Still be-
ing done in the winter mostly. in spite
of the fact that railroads have made
1t possible to ship the logs at any time of
the year. The cause for this probably rests
largely in the fact that the men feel more
like working during the frosty days and
that they can also find more congenial
work on the farms during the warm wealth
er. In Marshfeld where we have a mill
We ship logs down from past Athens dis
lance OF some sixty or seventy miles al
though we have another plant up in the
woods near Stratford. where we still float
the logs from the woods In the spring
THE land up there makes fine farming
country when the trees are cleared Off and
1t is settling as rapidly as room is found for
more people. A few years ago almost the
only people to come there were immigrants
from Germany or Scandinavia, who were
attracted by the low price of land and the
ease with which any cone could find good
employment. All this has changed now
however. and the people who are now fill
ing up the region are educated progressive
farmers from southern Wisconsin and ILL.,
nois There Is no finer. class of people in
the world than these and they are making
the country boom. AS yet most of their
time and money have been spent in getting
their property in first-class shape, and
there are some things, such the condi-
ton of the roads, which show that the de-
velopment is not complete But this is be-
Ing overcome rapidly. nuly
Zen years ago there were no roads
whatever In most sections. The travelling
was done through the woods on the lumber
trails. which had been opened during the
winter. The Improvement has been marked
and but for the difficulty of obtaining grav-
Ell In large quantities everything would be
in frst-class shape now, In connection
with the ingress of farmers in order to
show the extent of this 1t is only neces-
sary to call attention to one case during
the last month when a party of Illinois
agriculturists bought up entire section
OF land and will move there Immediately
with their families There are plenty of
similar instances. and 1t is reasonable to
part of the state will be nearly as thickly
settled as the southern section"