The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-28
MINNESOTA
LOG SHIPMENTS TO
DULUTH IMMENSE
D. & I. r. rs DELIVERING OVER
200 CARS DAILY.
Belated Loggers Are at Work at Last
and the Season Is at Full Height
Pulpwood Deliveries Are Small, but
Ties Are Being Shipped on a Large
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! Duluth. Mimi, Jan 2S-About 24O cars Of logs
Ses ep Range a road e 9ery
hours. OF this large quantity all but 100 cars
come down the road from north Of Two Harbors
line Of the Duluth 4 Northern Minnesota and
are delivered at that place to the main ROAD.
[ Belated loggers are beginning to haul and the
size The new Duluth box factory, w. H. Reichert,
manager, has begun business and Is employing
full force. The original factory burned not
long ago and the company has put In an entire
new plant. The brick building occupied Is 80
by 200 feet and fifty men are engaged. The fac
tory is running with orders ahead for some time
| 1t is expected that all important deal for box
making will be contaminated at the head OF the
lakes within few weeks, involving the estab-
Hshment here Of factory controlled by one of
the largest box consumers Of the United States.
| The report is that the old Alexander Edgar
mill at Iron River has been sold to the Hines
! Lumber company, which will operate it at the
old site. 1t was known that persons were fgur-
ing for this mill, but who they were and If this
Hines story is true, it Is impossible to state here
and now.
Heavy Shipments Of Ties.
| The shipment Of ties to various railways from
camps near here is ON q large scale. The North
ern Pacific road is taking fifteen cars day, and
others nearly as many. Martin Brothers and Al
ger, Smith & Go. are chief shippers. With the
single exception of Colvin s. Robb, pulpwood de-
| liverles at terminals small and will be SO
The Duluth s. Northern Minnesota now reaches
soc lose to Lake Superior at Beaver bay that it
! is taking most of the timber that has been fig
ured as to go out by lake. Indeed there are
left rafting concerns on the north shore only
about three interests, the hester estate, Merrill
g. Ring and the Schroeder Lumber company Of
Milwaukee, located at Cross river, and it is prob
able that part Of these will use the road as soon
as it reaches their limits. The change from old
conditions is very marked, particularly along
this north shore, where ideal rafting conditions
Since the completion to Cloquet of the Duluth
& Northeastern, which formerly got as far south
as Island lake, the Weyerhaeuser companies at
Cloquet are hustling things along that line and
it will be more important factor in the supply
for mills there than 1t has been. The COM
pletion Of this road to Cloquet takes away one
Of the stronger arguments against the construc-
ton of the Great Northern Power company orig
| inal plan Of improving the water of the CloQuet
and adjacent streams.
AS to the Kloman.
There has been much talk about the old Klo
man mine and it's new owner, the Flagler Iron
& Steel company, since the latter published q
Kloman Is. The company has spent some time
and money in exploring and unwatering the ole
shafts, and in preparing for resumption Of opera
tions. On account Of defective titles work ha.
not been continuous In the two or three months
since option first taken. Therefore very
much work has not been done. The mine was
mere scram when taken over; it had produced
h1story-not 400, 900 tons stated-and had beer
idle and abandoned since 1882. Records as tt
this mine, from the official reports of the state
of Michigan for 1898. are follows:
4 'Ths property is just across the river {hfichi
gamme) from the most northerly workings Of thu
Republic. 1t was opened in 1872 and continued
active until 1874, when it closed down and fllet
with water. In 1880 it unwatered, the com
pany having sold to the Columbia Iron company
who operated it till 1882 since which. time moth
ing has been done. There were four open pit
and two shafts. depth in the shafts Of 2O
feet was attained, and they had opened on tn
strike Of the for 1,40O feet. The lenses O
specular were similar in appearance to tn
Republic, but the ore was poorer in quality. TIL
lenses finally pinched out, and while there wa
considerable diamond drilling to discover ney
q bodies, none were located.
: Gross Exaggerations.
This was the condition Of the Kloman whe
taken by the Flagler company. 1t has been i'm
possible for the holders, in the limited tim
at their disposal, to have changed the condition
= outlined IN this report to any great extent. Tn
, prospectus Of Flagler Iron & Steel company ind
Gates that the company banks this mine q
the source Of an enormous tonnage, running u
from forty to fifty million tons, and this esttmat
is based on g report made to the company an
copied in it's, report. -. il, Ia;atSz3sE
While there is nothing in the geology Of til
district to indicate the impossibil1ty Of lara
tonnage In the Kloman, any such figure as is pl