The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30
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employ several hundred men in town
and a still larger logging crew in the
woods. Likewise, as head Of the Kooch
iching Power & Development company
Mr.. Backus is prepared to state that
the year 1907 will see the completion
Of the big dam across the Rainy at
the Falls Of Koochiching, adjoining
the city Of International Falls, upon
which work has been in progress dur.
ing the past eighteen months; and
power, which will possess 10000 horse.
power, or the equal of the great water
power plant Of st. Anthony falls in
Minneapolis, is ready for use, the com
pany will erect large paper and pulp
mills with daily capacity at the start
Of ITS tons Of news print and giving
employment to further force of sew
eral hundred men at the works and
several times that number in getting
out pulpwood in the forest.
Industry Of the North.
AS a theater of industrial activity
only a comparatively small portion OF
the public is aware that the Rainy
River valley, which is tapped by the
Big Fork extension, has already this
past season turned out a log-cut OF
200,000,000 feet, which almost equals
the total log-cut of all lumber com
panies doing business in Minneapolis
The Rainy River log-cut this past sea
son has given employment to 1000 men
in the woods at one time. Moreover
the sawmills at the towns of Beau
dette and the town of Rainy River, only
forty-fve miles from the new road at
it's Little Fork crossing, and within
convenient access by an easily con
structed logging road, already manu-
facture 125,,0O0,0OO feet of lumber
Rainy river itself is a busy water
thorofare filled with steamboats,, log
RATS, booms and small craft, which ply
up and down between Internationa!
Falls and Fort Frances on the east and
the Lake of the Woods towns on the
west.
The Canadian Wheat.
The Canadian Northern railroad
which on it's route east from Wlnnlpes
/ cuts down into Minnesota south Of the
Lake of the Woods, crosses the Rainy
at Beaudette and thence thru thu
thickly settled Canadian side Of thu
river goes the entire length of tht
valley via Fort Frances and Inter
| national Falls easterly to Port Arthu1
on the Lake Superior north shore. The
Canadian Northern carries eastward {
heavy wheat tonnage from Manitoba
and Saskatchewan, which soon will stoT
| over at the Falls on a milling-ln- transit
| rate and be converted into -four before
lake shipment at Port Arthur.
| More significant than this fact i:
| the greater one-that Canadian whea'
which now blocks Duluth terminals
! will be diverted to Port Arthur. owe!
the new line, this giving American
| wheat it's fair chance at the head o:
the lakes
At International Falls the new BIZ
Fork extension will connect with tn
Canadian Northern via a bridge owe
the river to Fort Frances, and thereby
give MINNEAPOLIS direct connection b.
rail with Port Arthur and the famous
Nipigon country. Thlrty-slx hours
with a half day stop-over at Inter
national Falls and Fort Frances, viii
convey Minneapolis travelling salesme1
or tourist to Port Arthur and For
inaccessible because Of the long an
way Of Winnipeg.
An important factor in the construc
ton and operation Of the new exten
sion is the organization Of the Inter
| national Falls Bridge and Termina
company, which holds large termina
property at the Falls and has secured
charters for bridge construction acros
the international boundary channe