The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-03
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

mills Of New 9 YeDk AIMEE M Ma ReR9
ufacture over two-thirds Of the paper Of
the country, are paying Sc to -$l2 per
cord for spruce for woodpulp, the wood
can be delivered at the mills in Inter
The value and scarcity Of wood for pa
per-pulp is shown by the fact, that even
the Wisconsin mills this season are COM
PEELED to import from TIC north shore
Of Lake Superior, and are paying So de-
Ivered at Duluth and Two Harbors.
Seven-eighthss in value of all the ma
terial used for paper manufacture in
power is the only power that can be
economically employed for the wood
grinders. So that international Falls,
with its 10000 horsepower, and enough
tributary paper:.gulp material to run
for a paper industry that is likely to
reach large proportions.
Strategic Point for Flourmilling.
Flourmilling on the Rainy rests upon
the fact that Port Arthur ships east
ward. 100000 bushels of wheat a
milling material in the world, can be
milled en- route at Fort Frances and
International Falls, free of the tariff
taxes which hamper it's manufacture in
the United States. Last year 100000
bushels of Manitoba wheat passed over
Winnipeg. to. Port Arthur, being car
ried within forty rods Of Koochiching
Falls. From Winnipeg, in the Red
River valley, to Port Arthur on Lake
Superior, the Canadian Northern rate
is only 10 cents per hundred, as COM
pared with IA cents from the southern
end Of the Red River valley, at Fargo,
the Winnipeg price for cash wheat is
| to 10 cents less per bushel than the
Minneapolis or Duluth price. Conse-
quentlX, the new milling company, with
100000 capital, believes that its
great waterpower and vast tributary
wheat resources, is the logical spot for
mill, with Andrew Kelly of Brandon
as manager, is expected to begin grind
| ing on the 1905 crop. The -four will
find local market in the logging and
lumber camps and iron ranges, besides
the eastern and export markets avail
able via the Canadian railroads and
the lake-and-canal route.
| The Lumber Outlook.
The lumber industry of the Rainy
River region has already attained
strong. development. For a distance of
$50 miles east and west along the in
ternational boundary, from Rainy lake
tage, at the northern extremity of Lake
of the Woods, logging and sawmilling
are industries always within sight or
sound. This district will manufacture
into lumber in the season of 1904 not
far from l5o,oo0,o00 feet Of logs, or
nearly half the log supply used BY the
district at. the town Of Rainy River,
the Rainy River Lumber company, com
posed of the leading members Of the
Shevlin Carpenter and Backus- Brooks
lumber companies of Minneapolis
opened up on May big sawmill of
100000 feet daily capacity, one Of the
try, with planingmill plant to take
care Of the output. It is estimated that
the Backus-Brooks company, T. H
Shevlin, E: L. Carpenter, the Rainy
River Lumber company and the Rat
Portage and Keevatin lumber interests
together, including both company ano
Individual holdings, have acquired &
pine and spruce stumpage Of 5000,
| year supply for their mills. A fur
Their stumpage of 100000, 900 feet OF
birch, Eastwood and sundry hard anC
soft woods, will be utilized for furni
ture, sash and doors, telegraph poles
barrels, railroad ties and cordwood; the
cedar industry being already we'll ad
| vanced. sss ..,a i.
Present rail connections between the
towns at Koochiching Falls and thu
twin cities are via Winnipeg and the
Canadian Northern railroad, which was
completed past the falls to Port Arthur
in 1909. Three roads from the Mime
sofa side are surveyed and partially
completed, while the Great Northern
branch north of Hibbing is only sixty
five miles away. The three new roads
that have been surveyed to Information
al Falls as their terminal are the Min
Northern Pacific; the Duluth, Virginia
& Rainy Lake, which has begun con
struction from the Mesaba range north
erly, and the Minneapolis & Interna
tional, which has recently taken owe
- the ltasca Lumber company road. Eacl
of these roads is within sixty miles O.
the falls. The Minnesota & Interna
tional has contracted to reach within
thirty miles by Dec. 81. The Virgini;
road is built to Ashawa, west of Yer
million lake. The plans of the Grea
extended north Of Hibbing about TWEEN
ty-fve miles and is believed to have tn
towns at the falls in mind as norther,
terminal for the purpose of completing
direct connections between the Rain,
River valley and Duluth, thereby secu1
ing the haul for the lumber and agricu,
tural productions of the Rainy river dis
| Duluth Superior, with the return me1
chandise and passenger traffic, which
likely to be large another season.