Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 2, 1898, Page 1

4 Grand Rapids WeraldRebier. Vout VI—No, 31. GRanp Rapips, Irasca County, MInN., SATURDAY APRIL 2, 1898 SORAASRS RASA SEER E REE ESHER TERENAS SESH SEEE CESS HSS OEE EES Don’t You Know? at the Itasca Mercantile Company We have just what you want. ae ee Ae ae a ee ee ee a aaa Are You Sick? get the doctor’s prescription filled. 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UST visit our Dry Goods and Clothing De- partment where you will find all kinds?of Dress Goods Wraps for kinds of Clothing-and [ frnishings for the gen- tlemen, Also boots and shoes. rit ttt ttt itt tri rit ttt ttt t rete t id the jladies, and all EAE EE eA eae a eae eae a ae ae eae a 3 SUST OUT. ; é | The very latestit everyth in shelf and heavy hardw lumbermen's supplies, et matter what you may want. you're tie Mt partic uality of the art in Norther Minnesota as you can here. | Hoodwinked yrices. They stand goods. Goodness >» toget® = at who tries to reconcile one with | the other must do so at the ex- peuse of honesty. If you want honest hardware paints, otis, gl men's suppiles, ¢tc.. at honest prices, buv them he you may bring them in and get your money back, s. sporting goods, lumber- re!and if they don't sult, W. J. & H. D. POWERS. @QVQVOUB ———= To Reduce our ' Stock of ; | Overeca We offer our line ‘of Twelve Dollar Frieze Coats for =e Also ainumber of S | Good Warm Heavy Coats tron $4.00 to $8.00. | BARGAIN 22 5 area See eee Tee SS, In all lines of © winter goods. THE SEASON'S WORK Reservation Logging on Winnibigosh- ish a Satisfactory Success. FIFTEEN CAMPS IN OPERATION Over Twenty-five Million Feet of Dead and Down Timber Cut During the Past Winter and Prosperity Among the Indians Has Followed. No element of industry ‘in Itasca county has ever brought more. satis- factory results, accompanied by such general prosperity, as the Indian log- ging on Winnibigoshish ,reservation during the past winter. It may be truthfully said that these operations have had a greater effect in producing an improved condition of the resi- dents of this county than all other agencies combined, so far as the sea- son of 1897-8 1s concerned. The Indians have lived luxunously. They have been better ,clothed, better housed and better fed than ever be- fore. A personal inspection of the time books of the different operators by a Herald. Review representative dis- closed the important fact that more than 50 per cent of the entire pay rolls are made up of Chippewas. Contrary to popular belief, they make first-class woodsmen and have displayed a greater degree of industry and adap- tibilty than the average white man was inclined to credit them with. Not only has the logging furnished direct. employment for all who desired to avail themselves of the opportunity, but indirectly, as well, the cutting of this timber has been a great boon to the red man, In an- ticipation of the winter's work a large amount of hay was put up on the reservation. It found ready sale at good prices with the loggers. Others have made money at. fishing and hunting, as the contractors bought all in that ne that was offered. The sqauws have reaped a_ harvest in the manufacture of moccassins and blank ets for men in camps. One notable custom among the operatots on the resevation was feeding of all Indians who appeared and asked for a meal at any or the camps. Hospitality in the lumber woods of northern Minne- sota is proverbial, and nowhere has it ever been more conspicuous than among the Indian loggers during the season just closed. Hon. J. L. McCoy, who has had immediate supervision of the oper- ations on Winnibigoshish, has dis- charged his important duties in a most satisfactory manner in the inter- aim has veen to deal out justice with entire impartiality, and the general opinion 1s unanimous in declaring that he has discharged this trust : most worthily as representative of the gov- ernment, the Indians and loggers. | rt i | | | } | 4 | | eee | ests of all parties concerned. His} Mr. McCoy has been about the busi- est man among the camps since the work began. His careful watchful- ness over the cutting has prevented all violations of the rules and -regula- tions and asa consequence no long- drawn out and expensive suits for damages will follow. He demon- strated at the outset that the laws must be absolutely adhered to and that irifringements upon «exempt tim- | ber would not be tole:ated im a single instance. ‘The situation is far different than that of six years ago. An un- worthy and grasping superintendent at that time offered a premium on violations, and the natural outcome’ was the stopping of all work on the red man’s domain: in Minnesota. Under the ‘ present movement of af fairs there has been no conflict of interests, and the harvesting of twenty- five millions feet of logs has ‘moved contracts will all make some money, and another year they will be in fine shape to continue the work. Following 1s a list of the finns who received contracts and the amount of logs put in: Galbraith & Harry Shere! Fairhanks & Pi Seeley & Porte Burns & Root ‘500,000 Geo. Lydick Taylor 800, John Ly 000,000 Wm. Lyon: 000,000 Smith & Nason. 000,000 McDonald . Total’... County Fair for 1898 The annual meeting of the Itasca Agricultural ‘Society was held at Vil- lage hall on Thursday afternoon, a large number of stockholders being present. The constitution of the so ciety provides that at the;annual meet SUPERINTENDENT J. L. Mccoy. concern. This fact is largely duz to the fine executive ability of Superintendent McCoy. General Superintendent Rosa made a visit to the. camps on the progress of operations and spoke ‘ing the work of Mr. McCoy. It 1s to. be hoped that the rules and regulations will be so changed before another season’s logging begins as to permit the cutting of isolated trees. As the rules now exist much valuable timber is enurely lost owing to the fact that no green trees can be cut. Every dollar contracted by the log- gers will be paid in full by the fifteen- th of April. “Labor claims and supply bills will be paid by the’ governmént along as smoothly as if the work had | been under the'supervision of a private; shall be elected, and the meeting C j uanimously re-elected D. W. Doran, | president, and Rev. C. V. Gamache, isecretary of the society. ing the officers for the ensuing year ‘The board of directors chosen was N. Washburn, Chas. Leeman and Geo. Kremer. this reservation in| February and ex- The date for holding® the annual fair pressed himself as much gratified with’, was fixed: for September 15 for 1898, . This is, considerably later nd 1 lin the highest terms of praise concern- than the. dates upon which the fairs of former years have been ‘held, but it was thought best. to make the selec- tion as above stated on account of the crops of this section being late in maturing. ‘The officers intend mak ing the fair for 1898 an event long to be remembered in agricultural circles of this county, and to that end solicit the heartiest , co-operation of all oyr people. The premium list will em- brace a wider range for competition than before, and it is the intention to out of the price of the logs. The'have some special attraction. 006 | Review’s attention was called to THE WASTE OF PINE. What Might Be Realized From: the’ Refuse of Pine Timber. In conversation with -a fair-haired son of Norway this week the Herald- the fact that in our pineries a vast: quan- tity of material 1s going to waste which should be turned into articles of commerce. The forests are quickly disappearing and only the logs find their way to market, while according to our Scandinavian friend, the more valuable portions of the trees are left to rot where the trees ;are felled. In Norway the stumps, tops, branches and roots of the pine and fir trees are manufactured into tar, resin, wood naphtha, turpentine, spiritine oil, wood creosote oil, tar oil, and other simular substances of great value in the commercial world. . Our infor- mant states that while the pine refuse of his native land is more valuable for these purposes than the pine of Northern Minnesota, yet he has proy- en. to his own satisfaction that a good quantity of tar, etc.,can be made from the refuse which our lumbermen now look upon as valueless. He _ experi- mented in the manufacture of tar not long since at his ‘homestead above Deer River, and succeded in manu- facturing a barrel of tar which he says is as good in quality as any he has seen on either side the Atlantic. The methods employed in his ex- periment were crude, the tar bemg made by a process sunilar-to that em- ployed in the manufacture of char- coal, yet he obtained promising re- sults. In view of this fact, it would seem that with the aid of chemicals the refuse now going to waste could easily and profitably be - utilized, and thousands upon thousands of dollars realized therefrom. True it is,that the pineries are disappearing, and it is only a question of time when no more the woodsman’s axe will'resound in the forests, and it therefore behooves our lumbermen and our pine owners to investigate this problem, “and if the whole tree can be turned to profit they themselves will be the gainer thereby. Surely ’tis worth the trouble to investigate the matter and prove jor disprove the feasibility of manu- facturing what now goes to waste in our pineries into merchantable com- modities. Millinery Opening. Mrs. K. C. Lent requests the Her- ald-Review to announce that her spring opening will occur next Mon- dan and Tuesday, when she will be pleased to have her old customers and others call at her establishment and inspect her stock: Her stock this spring is truely a magnificent array of ladies’ and children’s headgear, rib- bons, trimmings, feathers, etc., and her «prices -will be found to suit the prospective purchaser.. During the past week she has been. busy unpack- ing large consignments of those dainty millinery goods whichrshe will have in readiness for the inspection of the ladies of Grand Rapids Monday next, and which * ‘will cause the feminine hearts to paipitate. with joy on be- holding. 1