Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-03-17
EDITORIAL JUNkET
VISIT ARpxN's MILL AND LUM
RER CAMP
HAVE A PLEASANT EXCURSION
Editor and Mrs. "A. P. Andrews OF
Bruce Entertain County Editorial
Association Tuesday

| On the invitation of Editor A. p.
Andrews of the Bruce Newsletter,
the editors of the county wended their
way to Bruce Tuesday and were treated
to specially conducted excursion through
the mill of the Arpin Hardwood Lumber
Co. at Atlanta, and from there in the
company's elegant motor car, over
the C. V. & N. railroad, fourteen
miles northwest, up into the highlands
of Rusk county, to Camp a. Those
composing the party were A. t. An
drews and w. A. Black burn of Bruce,
Geo. Deuel. of Tony, r. w. Richardson
of Hawkins, F. E. Munroe and A. A.
Hadden of Ladysmith.
Returning to Bruce the company par
took of most appetizing repast pre-
pared by Mrs. Andrews at their COM
Portable home, following which the
evening was devoted to talking shop. :"
The Arpin Hardwood Lumber Co., to
whom we are indebted for this pleasure
trip, is the largest taxpayer in Rusk
county. Some idea of the magnitude
of their plant at Atlanta may be gained
from the fact that their fire insurance
premium amounts to 81 900 dollars per
month. This mill is in class by itself
among the numerous lumber interests
of the county. Here are turned out all
kinds of flooring, mouldings and finish
from the choicest hardwoods of this
region-maple, birch, oak and bass
wood. Unfortunately, break in the
steam-chest of their big engine the day
before had caused the saw-mill to shut
down, but the planning mill was running
full blast. Mr.. A. z. Arpin conducted
the party through the mill.
About fifteen million is the cut of the
Arpin Co. this season, the largest in
three years. They have had four
large camps going, besides several
contractors. This year cleans up their
timber in Rusk county and next sea-
son they will log in Sawyer county.
They still have large tract of young
pine in this county, which they are
preserving for future use.
The company's big steam hauler
which has been in use the past five
years was brought in from the woods
last week, where it has been kept busy
all winter on the ice roads. 1t will
haul twelve to fifthen sleigh-loads at a
time and does not cut up the roads as
badly as horses, besides being other
wise more economical. Another saw
ing practiced by this company is that
of loading the sleighs onto the cars
(circus fashion) and hauling them to
the mill, thus saving handling the logs
twice.
At Camp there was still some snow
on the ground, and about eighty men
and teams were employed skidding logs
and the big steam loader was at work
loading the cars from the immense
rollways along the track, where the
logs were piled fifteen to twenty feet
high. Chef Mcdonald at the boarding
house supplied US with aSlunch, just as
sample of the regular fare. A large
number of men will be kept at this
camp loading logs the greater part of
the summer. The hills in this vicinity
are so steep that our motor car was
propelled at times for over a mile on
the return trip by force of gravity,
sufficient momentum being obtained
descending one hill to carry us over
the next. The return to Atlanta, Ia