The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-24
DRIVES BOOMING;
MILLS RESUME
MARKED ACTIVITY OFF LUMBER
PURSUITS IN PENINSULA.
Streams Are High and All Manufac-
turing Points Will Soon Be Supplied
Lumber Shipments Are Good and
Saving Plants Are Starting for
Long Runs.
Special to The journal.

Special to The Journal
Calumet, Mich, May 24.-The drives are
coming along nicely and mills are resum-
ing operations in all parts of the peninsula.
The streams are high and there Will soon
be plenty Of logs at all manufacturing
points a'@N
One of the largest timber deals has been
made at Ontonagon. The .Ontonagon
Lumber and Cedar company has bought
10000, 900 feet of pine logs from the Dia-
mond Match company. The logs are in
the Ontonagon river and were cut last
winter. The Diamond Match company will
finish the drives The timber will be man
ufactured at the new plant of the Onton-
agon company This marks the end of the
operations Of the match company in Mich
igan forests. a. ~ -
The shingle and tie mill of the G. H.
Worcester company at Munising is In OPP
Grafton After closing down last year,
supposedly for all time. the Donovan &
O'Connor mill at Menominee will open
shortly for full seasons run. 1t will
cut a largo amount Of pine and mixed tim
Der for the Sawyer Goodman company Of
Marinette, Wis.
The Mason Lumber company has started
it's plant at Gladstone. A large stock Of
logs Is on hand and 100 men are en-
ployed. Lower Michigan lumbermen who
own 40,000,000 feet of hardwood timber
near Manistique contemplate erecting a
hardwood sawmill at that point. They
have secured options on other large hard
wood timber tracts near by.
The first crew Of drivers to finish in the
Menomlnee country has arrived from
Pembine, where it completed work for the
Hamilton &c Merryman company on the
Pemene. The drive contained Is, 100000
feet. The drive Of Warren & Spies on the
Sturgeon, in charge Of A. P. Farrell, has
passed thru the dam at Foster City. 1t
contains 100000 feet and will arrive at
the mouth of the Menominee river in thir-
ty-hve days. Hebard & Sons sawmill at
Pequaming has started for the season. It
Is certain that the hester estate will oper-
ate It's mill at Baraga this summer The
mill Of the Jerry Madden Single company
at Rapid River started up a few days ago
with full crew at union wages.
Lumber shipments have been lively. The
steambarge S. M. Stephenson has taken
cargo from Cedar River for the Hines
Lumber company Of Chicago. The schooner
Alice cleared from the same port with a
cargo Of heInlock for Milwaukee men. The
schooner w. Q. Goodman left Cedar River
with q cargo of cedar ties for Chicago.
The tug Nellie Cotton brought 1000 cedar
poles and ties from N M. DeFIaas'
camp, Skanee. to the Worcester Lum-
Der company, Chassen. Crawford G.
Sons Of Cedar River shipped cargo of
lumber to Menominee on the schooner
Sea Foam. It was unloaded there and
transferred to cars for eastern shipment
over the Ann Arbor road. The steamer
Barth and barges Galatea and Nirvana
took on lumber at the Hines docks at
Menominee for eastern shipment The
steam barge Ashland passed thru
Rortage' lake last Week With -four. svesssls
In tow. The five vessels are lumber car
riers and were bound for Ashland, where
they, were to take on cargoes. . ..a
The Badger Cedar and Lumber company
Of Koss placed it's new plant in commits
sion this week The N. Ludington com
pany's new mill on the Menominee river
will be ready for service by June 5.