The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-26
RAILROAD into
SUPERIOR FOREST
CLOOUET COMPANY BUILDING
ITO MILES OF LOGGING ROAD
TO THE CANADIAN BORDER
WILL LOG TRACT SCIENTIFI-
CALLY.

Campbell & Shells, of Cloquet, a
partnership composed of John Camp
bell and Mortimer M. Shells, have
negotiated a contract for the con-
struction of SO miles of railroad,
running from Cascade, Minnesota,
at the end of the old Alger line, to
Rose lake on the Canadian border.
This particular section of road will
run through the well known Hungry
Jack, Bearskin and Clearwater
lakes district, and will traverse the
center of the Arrowhead country,
opening up one of the largest tracts
of pine, spruce and other timber
now left in Minnesota, according to
the first official announcement is
sued last week.
The present construction is a
further ext ,nsion of former devel-
opments of the Northern Lumber
companies and will result in a con-
tinuous logging road. ITO miles in
length, from Cloquet to the Can
adam border. At the present time
there is in operation 59-mile road
Oh the Duluth & Northeastern rail-
road, running from Cloquet to
Horribly, where it connects with the
Duluth & Iron Range railroad. From
this point work has been started by
the Cloquet construction firm, con-
Meeting the D & N. E. line with
the abandoned Alger line and is al
most completed, according to the
announcement. The Aiger line will
be used by the new road for "a
miles, as far as Cascade lake, from
which point newly constructed
road will continue as far as the
Canadian border.
The route, briefly, will be as fol-
lows: From C1oquet to Horribly, by
d. & N. E. road; distance SO miles.
From Horribly to southern end ofd
Alger road; distance approximately
60 miles. From southern end AL
ger road northward to Cascade lake
distance "a miles. From Cascade
lake to Canadian border; distance
approximately 26 miles.
According to Mr.. Campbell, the
construction on the upper end of
the new road already has resulted
in the grading of 26 miles of the
route. Bridges have been built
where necessary as far as where the
new bed will cross the Gunflint
road north of Grand Marais. With
favorable weather, grading will be
entirely completed this fall and
steel and ballasting will be ready
for operation Of trains by July, 1928
A vast new territory which has
never been reached by modern trans
portation methods, will be opened
up with the completion of this rail-
road. Tracts of spruce, Jack pine
and poplar, used in the manufacture
of paper, will be available for direct
shipment to mills at Cloquet. Nor
way pine and other merchantable
lumber will also be cut and shipped
to Cloquet sawmills.
The timber sections throughout
northeastern Minnesota will not be
destroyed by this new lumber de-
velopment, but viii be perpetuated,
according to the official statement.
Large tracts of cut over and burned
over lands which the new railroad
will traverse are being reforested
already by the Northern Lumber
companies. In years to come this
reforestation will mean a tremend-
Gus yield of merchantable timber.
it was stated.
The United States government re-
Gently announced that it was offer
ing for sale an amount of timber in
the Superior National Forest each
year which would equal the annual