The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-17
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TIMBER THIEVES !! )
ARRESTS AUTHORIZED BY STATE
OF WISCONSIN.
Private Owners Have Also Suffered and
Persons Living Near Minong Are
Under Suspicion-Lumber Sales Are
Few just Now, but Prices Remain at
High Point.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi, March 17.-Much state timber
has been stolen from Wisconsin lands in the
northwestern corner Of the state, and wardens
have been sent to Superior to make examinations
| and arrests when found desirable. Arrests are
| said to be scheduled for certain persons in
claimed that private lands have been robbed,
and owners are making Investigations.
1t is again reported that Cook & O'Brien will
build a large mill in the northern part of this
county, possibly at Virginia, possibly at Pelican
lake: This is in line with the original plans
Of Mr.. Cook before the control Of the Rainy
giles crowd, and now that it is coming back
| to him again it is very probable he will carry
| out his plans. But it is doubtful if any new
mill is erected either at Virginia or Pelican
| lake.
! Coovin & Robb are considering building
small mill on Bassett lake, on the line of the
| Duluth & Iron Range road near the St. Louis
They are cutting pulpwOOd In that section, and
| find it desirable to cut what else is the land
and to have mill adjacent to saw it up.
Lumber Prices Strong.
| Few sales are made now, tho there is good
| inquiry for the summer cut. One of the leading
mill firms of this district has made prices only
on the January cut, tho it has practically placed
with buyers the main part of its cut for well
into the summer. Prices are very strong, and
the tendency is upward. On low grades espe-
cially is there marked change from year
ago. Some Of these seem to be at a price that
/ hardly gives the buyer much chance to get out
at profit. 54aE b. '..-e
On account of the slow winter and the loss
of logs, it is probable that several mills in
| the northern woods will not run double time
| this summer. and some have SO announced.
/ Said a freight conductor on one of the lines
that hauls much pulpwood: 'This Japanese war
is playing the dickens with pulpwood trade,
and where we should be moving train after
train of wood to the mills we cannot get a
car a day. All the cars are hauling copper
to the Pacific for the Japs to make cartridges
with While this is probably exaggerated.
1t is true that lot of ears from the roads
overtime moving copper westward for the Chi
| nese trade. loaded with copper is SO
long getting back that it does not take very
/ many of them to tie up a lot of rolling stock
Judgment for Malicious Arrest.
/ In the third trial of his against the
! Cloquet Lumber company, John Shea of Ely
lake secured a verdict for $4,000. He obtained
81 900 In trial No. l, and the thing has been
working back and forth in the various courts ever
| since. This was for malicious arrest in con-
| nection with the ownership Of timber along the
/ lake. In the meantime the logs cut by the
Cloquet company four years ago and dumped
| into the lake are being destroyed, and are even
NOW worth very little. They might have been
| all taken out and sawn. under bond, and have
| been Of value to whoever the owner might prove
| to be. .5G
The Edward Hines Lumber company has near
| " finished logging at Weile near Superior and
will soon pull out and remove the men there to
new camps under construction not far from Iron
River The company expects to be able to cut
| 5000, 600 feet before the breakup, and these will
be dumped into small lake near the site
Of the camps and when summer comes will be
forked out and taken by rail to mill. In order
to- get these logs and those to be cut later
at the same camps to the mill. the Northern
Pacific road will be obliged to build a spur sew,
eral miles in length from the main line to the
lake.