The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-06
CONDITIONS IN
The WOODS GOOD
SNOW RATHER DEEP, HOWEVER,
IN SOME SECTIONS.
When Four Feet on the Level Chop.
pers Have Trouble - Extensive
Hardwood Operations in Mackinac
County, Where an Ohio Concern Is
Cutting-Railroads Doing an I'm
mense Business in Freighting.
Special to Tho Journal.

Special to Tho Journal.
Calumet, Mich, Jan. 6.-Conditions. in
the woods are quite satisfactory. The
snow is rather deep in some sections.
however, being four feet on the level,
and gives some trouble to choppers. Con-
dit1ons in the cedar camps are improving,
and IN most places swamps are SO that
skidd1ng and hauling can go on. The
ice roads are In good condition in high
places and a large amount of logs is being
hauled to railroads.
Fred Carney, Jr. says the Carney Lum-
Der company has started camps near Mas
sey, Ont, and will get out upward of
100000 feet Of logs there.
General Manager Brown Of the Pewa-
bic iron mine says that his company has
let contracts to Iron Mountain jobbers for
100000 feet Of mine timber, which means
work for over 100 men.
Some extensive logging operations are
in progress north Of Hessel, in Mackinac
county, where the Buchanan Cooperage
company Of Ohio is numbering a large
tract Of hardwood 1t is reported that a
manufacturing plant will be built near
Hessel in the spring. 1t is calculated that
about 50, 900, 900 feet Of logs will be shipped
into Menominee and Marinette, Wis, this
winter.
Samuel Crawford & Sons of Cedar River
have a large crew of men in the woods
and expect to put in full stock Of hem
lock by next spring.
Logs by Rail to Green Bay.
The Pankratz Lumber company of Stur-
geon Bay has a. large logging camp in
operation near Cedar River. It is ex-
pected that about 100000 feet Of timber
will be put in. The logs are banked on
the bay shore and in the spring will be
towed to Sturgeon Bay. The Milwaukee
railroad has commenced to haul logs for
ia
will be hauled at the rate OF forty car
loads a day from Ontonagon to Green
Bay, Wis.
Twenty teams will be used by the Man
istique Iron company to haul wood from
the choppings to cars; at Garnet 1t ID
expected that years supply for the fur
naces will be cut before the snow leaves.
August Nessman of Thompson says the
Thompson & Northern railway Is being
extended about a mil eand half and that
log shipments have commenced. The VII
liam Mueller company of Blaney is In
need of seventy five men. Its operations
have been restricted by labor shortage.
Mixed Logging.
/ Albert Lamont has secured contract
! from the Worcester Lumber company to
get out 100000 feet Of mixed timber,
/ consisting of femlock, spruce, pine and
cedar. The camp is eighteen miles vest
| of Baraga. A Clyde steam log loader
has been placed In commission on the
| Escanaba 81 Lake Superior. railroad:
| Heretofore the old fashioned method OF
/; loa ding cars with logs by means of teams
| was used.
James Garfield has just finished his log
ging operations for the hester estate and
has disposed Of his outfit to the Sparrow
| Knoll Lumber company of kenton. MI.
| Garfield will move to Idaho early next
spring, where he expects to continue In
the numbering business. H. G. Mead OF
Sidnaw is putting in 100000 feet OF
hardwood for D. A. Hapeman's mill, which
it is expected will go into operation In a
| few days. -
About $50 men who were working in the
woods near Nathan quit work and went
to Green Bay, Wis. Ihey, were olssat-
| isf,ed with the accommodation and wages
| offered them.
The lumber market is expected to be
| livelier in a few weeks. There Is de-
cidedly optimistic feeling among the trade.