The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-29
LUMBER TRAFFIC
ON The DECLINE
ASHLAND PORT COLLECTORS
FIGURES SHOW 1T.
Good Men Said to Be Scarce in the
Woods-Steady Demand for Hard
wood Stocks-Defendants in Con-
tempt Gases Arising from Sabin
Road Litigation Must Show Cause
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Ashland Wis, Dec. 29.-In the past season of
land port collectors office there were shipped
from this port 40 074,00O feet of lumber. Is This
is big falling off from the 1903 Shipments
which were 1875. PIG, 900 feet, and the 1905 ship
ments will be still less.
Two large sawmills closed down for good
having exhausted their supply OF timber and
conservative estimates place next years cut
about 80 per cent lower than this years. There
are three large mills at Ashland, which Will
continue to night and day for several years
to come AL logging railroads. were blocked by
There Is a difference of opinion among opera.
tors as to labor in the logging camps Halt OF
the logging contractors are hiring men from
Minneapolis and st. Paul, while a large per
centage of loggers say there are two men Tor
every job; It seems to be the general opinion
Today thirty woodsmen were brought to Ash
land from the twin cities to work In the camps
of the weyerhaeuser syndicate along the line OF
the Minneapolis, st. Paul & Ashland railroad.
The Weyerhaeusers have four large camps III
operation and four trains of twenty-five cars
each srrye at Ashland each day With an a,na &c
the bay and will be sawed at the Barker 4
Stewart mill next summer.
Shipments of lumber by rail from points IN the
Ashland district were never better. Every IN
land mill in the district which ships by rail e1-
clusively ia running day and night to fill the de-
mand for stocks. and Is selling as fast as the
mills saw the timber. What little lumber was
will nearly all be shipped by rail before naV'ga-
ton opens in April. ~
The hardwood industry is also prosperous. Inc
mill Of the Lake Superior Lumber company, at
Ashland is saving from a large tract OF hard-
wood near Pratt and is running night and day
There is a steady demand for hardwood stocks.
Contempt Cases Up Again.
The old case Of the 'Battle AK" railroad. pro-
NOTED by the late D. NJ. Sabin OF Minnesota 10
again in court. This road has history when
would take pages to tell. 1t was first bult on
bonds supplied by Bayfield, county and later
turned into logging railroad by Its promoters.
It then passed into a receivers hands, ana ne
ordered it torn up and its rolling stock ana
equipment sold at auction. He sent crew or
men to carry out his orders, but they failed to
do the work az Bayfield, county citizens resisted
Among the citizens were Sherih l.. H. !Aen'
District Attorney Mcleod and several others.
They were arrested and cited to show cause why
they should not be fined for contempt. they
we're taken to Madison. and Mcleod and Lien
we're sentenced to serve sixty days In the Dane
county Jail for contempt, and D. NJ MaXcy, W:
H. Lempke, John A. Jacobs Nj. A. Sprague ana
Carl Hirsch were fined $3.50. The Northern Ia
cifc purchased the road and the proceedings were
dropped before executed.
All OF the persons concerned have neen sum
mond to show cause why the sentences should no,
be carried out and the dignity of the federal
court upheld. They will have to appear II
January.