The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-10
LUMBER MEN SHIP SUPPLIES
Buying Up the Carload from Local
Firms and Shipping to the Woods.

Lumber companies and large con-
tractors have begun to figure on sun.
plies with local firms and this is taken
as a sure sign of cold weather. The
companies get supplies in carload lots
for use in the pine woods around
Bemidji, Cass Lake and other points
In northern Minnesota. For several
weeks past the contractors who are
establishing from one to two or three
camps in northern Minnesota have
been shipping supplies from this city
In comparatively small quantities. but
now the "big fellows" are coming into
the market and getting prices. not on a
few barrels of flour, a few bushels of
potatoes or beans and few hundred
pounds of meat, but the best figure
they can get on provisions and on meat
in carload lots.
1t Is believed that in another week
shipments, in carload lots to various
campo and distributing points for
camps will begin in dead earnest. The
lumbermen feel pretty we'll assured
OF cold weather from now on. They
have been hesitating about ordering
perishable goods, especially fresh
meats in large quantities, unless rea-
sonably certain that the stuff will not
spoil by reason OF a warm spell of
weather.
Some camps use a side Of beef in a
week, while Others will consume the
whole "critter" or, possibly, more than
one Of them. There are some big
companies operating in this part of the
country that order their supplies for
distribution among a number Of camps
at various points, and these have been
known to order a carload of beef q
week during the busy period when the
camps were filled with men.
This does not take into account,
however. the immense amount Of other
provisions that are necessary to feed
the army of woodsmen scattered
throughout the many logging camps.
Winter logging is strenuous work,
and the average woodsman is human
machine that requires plenty of fuel
to keep steamed up to full capacity
for work. Past experience has taught
the camp providers the necessity of
keeping the larder pretty we'll stocked.
While the staple articles are said by
some loggers to be beef, beans, pota-
toes, bread and coffee, the camps of
the present times furnish their men
with numerous things in the way of
eatables and even delicacies which
which make the camp bills aggregate
a pretty big figure. This trade is a
source Of considerable revenue each
winter to the local wholesalers and
jobbers, and 1t Is a trade that is very
dollars come into the city and Crooks
ton every month during the winter
season for camp supplies, to say moth
Ing Of the revenue of retail merchants
from outfits furnished the woodsman
when he starts out for the camp at the
opening of the seasons work.
Local men that are engaged in the
business Of handling horses for log
ging work are receiving weekly ship
ments, sometimes oftener. of the heax-
Ter class of horses, which seem to be
most in demand for heavy hauling
operations. A great many Of the log
gers buy their teams at the opening
of the winter season and dispose of
them when the camps close In the
spring. unless they have contract work
in sight such as railroad construction.
They claim 1t is cheaper for them to
buy their teams, use them all winter
and sell them In the spring, than it
Is to attempt to feed and care for them
during the summer and fall period.
Some carload lots of nice looking
horses suitable for the purpose have
been received lately, and at the horse
markets the business with the loggers
Is reported to be first-class.