The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-17
SHIPMENTS OF
LUMBER HOLD UP
SALES OF INTERIOR MILLS ARE
SIMPLY ENORMOUS.
The East Is Taking All the Stock It
Can Get and the Movement from
Duluth and Superior Harbors Is as
Heavy as in Times Past-Large Lots
Cleaned Up.

Special to The Journal.
Duluth Mimi. Aug. 17.-Lumber shipments
are very heavy, more 50 than expected by
those who have not been in closest touchi with
the immense sales of interior mills. The amount
of lumber available by distinctively deep-water
mills-that is, those on the harbor front of
Duluth apd Superior-is growing less, and Is
smaller this summer than in many years, and
this fact has led most persons interested in the
trade to think shipments from here would fall
off correspondingly But the sales Of Interior
mills to the east are enormous. ~
There are five large vessels loading at the
docks of the Duluth, Missabe & Northern road
at this city. all lumber from the Brooks Scanlon
mills at Scanlon. The yards of the Northern
Pacific today are full of lumber trains from the
Weyerhaeuser mills at Cloquet, and very com
pany of the three there Is represented. There
are steady and heavy shipments down the Mis-.
sabe line from Virginia mill, amounting to about
900 feet a day, and the docks ut Two Har,
bors are now handling from the mills Of the
Fall Lake and Tower Lumber companies about
900 feet daily. The st. Croix mill expected
to enter this trade this year, but decided moi
to do so at the last moment, and Is still selling
its entire stock thru well-known Minneapolis
broker for the southwest.
amounting to about 70,O00000 feet a month
and out of Lake Superior there is going east
ward the great total OFFS from 125,O0O,0 t.
40, OOO, 900 feet;~ for July 1t was 145 1885, COX
feet. OF this half Is from Duluth. .l- ~
Sales small, for the simple reason thai
all large lots have been cleaned up and there
Is little but Odds ana ends Tor the buyer. A
| the season advances this will be changed some
what, new, lumber coming on the market Il
| some quantity, 20 nearly all the mills have solo
pretty we'll up "a the close Of navigation. There
are some inqut8es for next year, and thu
| product Of mall or two is closed out fo
several years to come at tood prices AL
sellers are talking stiff figures, tho there il
| little change for the past month. They quot
No. and better at $50. II
few days ago a large raft Of wood was de
lvered at Grand Marais This was more o
less Of an experiment, it has been though
that green spruce was too heavy to raft well
and that much Of the wood would be lost, es
pecially in case Of any heavy weather; but thi
raft was handled without loss Of any kind.
| In consequence it is probable that pulpwoo
| will be RATED to harbors this city, Gran
Marais or others, and there loaded on boar
| ship scow for delivery. - -
| The pine-distilling plant that was put In a
Hinckley about a year ago is working nicely
| and is making satisfactory product at
reasonable profit. Pine stumps are retorted b.
a process invented by one of the owners Of tn
plant, a native Of Russia, and the distillate
include tar, turpentine, pyroligneous acid an
charcoal. The acid is further refined elsewhere