The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-07-31

electric light plant. 100000 feet
of lumber is manufactured daily
in addition to the output of lath
and box boards. This mill is Oper-
ated continually six months of the
year, running two shifts, day and
night manufacturing, and each
season millions of feet of lumber
is piled in their large lumber yards
and when dry is shipped out by car
and cargo lots, principally to the
eastern trade.
In connection with their own
lumber cut, the Swallow & Hop
kins mill also cut the timber of
the Michael Ward Company,
Michigan concern who have ex-
tensive holdings in this vicinity,
logging each season in the neigh
borhood of 100000 feet, which
is all taken to this mill to be man
ufactured. This branch of the
Ward concern is under the super
indendency of Mr.. j. P. Ward,
who makes Winton his head
quarters.
The logging department of the
Swallow & Hopkins Company is
a big industry in itself, for each
winter from four to five camps
are kept in operation, employing
on an average from $50 to 800
men. A railroad is run from Fall
Lake, on which body of water
their mill is located, to the heart
of their timber holdings about IA
miles from the town, and during
the summer months a train load
of logs is hauled to the dock on
Fall Lake daily where it is emp
tied into the lake and towed direct
to the mill.
Perhaps no other section of
Minnesota, aside from the great
lake ports, is the commercial fish
ing business carried on to as large
an extent as at Winton, for here
six fishing companies are located
and each day, when fishing is in
progress, hundreds of pounds are
brought to WintOn daily, and
shipped to the different Minnesota
markets. On numerous occasions
as many as two tons of fish are
brought down in day and ex-
pressed out from this point these
fish are comprised of the Pike,
Pickerel, White Fish and Lake
Trout species. This fishing is all
carried on in international waters,
chiefly in the Eastwood Lake
waters, where the fish are trans
ported to Winton by motor boats
and over the portage by railroad
motor car service. A large re-
frigeratOr plant and storage ware
house is now under the course of
construction at WintOn, where
the fish will be stored, thus al
lowing the local fishermen to store
their fish here instead of disposing
of them during the dull market
season. The Minnesota Fish and
Game Commission also take adj
vantage of the fish crop at this
point, for every spring they take
from local waters millions of
spawn which is distributed to
the different hatcheries in the
state.
WintOn is fast becoming known
as summer home for tourists,
but as yet this great lake region
is too little known, however, dur
ing the past two years big
change has been noticed in the
number of pleasure seekers COM
ing to this place, and this year
gives better promise than ever be-
fore. There are numerous chains
of fine spring bass lakes that are
easy of access to the tourists, so
this region also affords the best
kind of fishing to the Sportsman,
as well as to the Commercial
Fisherman.
To the Sportsman who wishes
to isolate himself from the rest of
the world, where he can be right
back to the very heart of nature,
"a place more suitable than the
country north of Winton cannot
be found there are not the large
lighthouses to be found as is the
case with the greater number of
summer resorts located elsewhere,
but here the campers content
themselves with tents which can
be easily moved to suitable spots
to suit their own pleasure. To
one wishing such trip, need but
write Mr.. Leo Chosa, of Winton,
who will furnish all information
needed and likewise furnish
guides, etc. Boats run each day,
leaving Winton for all points on
Fall Lake, connecting with the
railroad motor car service between
Fall and Eastwood Lakes, and by
appointment will connect with the