Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 5, 1911, Page 1

Grand Rapids Vor, XXII. —No 2 Granp Rapips. Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 5. !gII Two Dollars a Year SUPT, M'GUIRE ON CLEARING LANDS Says Between Seeding and Haying Is One of the Best Times To Clear Land BURN THE STUMPS AND BRUSH In Blasting, Dynamite Should Be Placed Directly Underneath the Stump and Deep in the Ground. Every farmer in the timber section who has land to clear should do some clearing each year. Between seeding and haying is one of the best times to clear...An acre clear- ed in Northeastern Minnesota is an acre bought and an acre worth from $50 to $75 per acre based upon its productiveness and the profit that |¢*Pense in clearing land may be realized from its proper cul- tivation. Cutting the Brush. A light double bitted ax and a brush scythe are the tools required | @r cutting brush. Cut the and small trees even with the ground. This is important as the land ‘can then be mowed over, which is impossible when the stubs are left five or ten inches above the ground as is commonly done. The brush should be piled closely | not thrown together, or it will net | burn well. | The Down Timber. Old logs and trees should be skid- ed together with a team and if dry at the time, should be burned same day, as a large pile of logs, half di yed, will dry out slowly when rained upon. If the stumps are to be removed at the same time the brush and down timber is removed. it is well to defer burning the brush fand piling the logs till the stumps out, then pile the stumps on the all a brush and log piles, and burn together: The Burning. To pile everything up in good shape and then start a fire in each! pile and go away and leave the burning to take care of itself is to oftimes, more than double the work) of burning. | Burning requires the care and | skill of a fireman. A big fire will| | method of blasting is probably has to be kept big by rolling the parts closer together as they burn, by throwing the outside material in- to the center. By keepjng the parts together, it will all burn, and burn easily and quickly; but let the fire once go out, with the pile only half or two thinds burned, and it will what remains as if the first fire was carefully tended. In gathering up stumps that have been blasted, it is well to burn them at the same time. Start the fire ‘and pile the stumps on the fire in- stead of piling all the material be- fore burning. Start three or four fires in different parts of the field. so that the loads will not have to be hauled too far. By burning the ing three or four fires going at once, the loads can be driven up close to the fire and thrown in by anand, Piling each successive load on the fire that is most burned out so that the heat will not be too intense to work near it. Where very large stumps are to be burned it may be necessary to use a derrick for piling. For de- scription of derrick see Farmers In- stitute Annaul No. 21. | Removing Stumps With Dynamite. The chief obstacle and source of are the stumps may stumps. In number, The only practical methods _ thus far discovered for removing stumps brush } 4re the stump puller and the use of! are dynamite. These) two methods sometimes combined, splitting the stump with dynamite and loosening the dirt, and pulling the pieces out with the stump puller. Of the two methods, the use of dynamite exclusively, is now the most commonly practiced. Dynamite properly placed under a stump will blow it completely out of the ground and break it up into pieces, so that j it can jbe readily piled and burned. The amount of dynamite required will vary with the size and kind of stump, the number of years it has been cut, and with the kind and condition of soil. When dynamite can be bought by the farmer at wholesale price, the the cheapest, easiest and quickest way to remove stumps. With a cheap ex- plosive and a general knowledge of its use among the farmers, the great problem of clearing land would be practically solved. The Price of Dynamite. Dynamite js a product which the business men of Northeastern Min- privilece of buying at cost, for the burn anything and everything but it (Contjnued on last page.) Capilal $2 5,000,00 In time of distress, no matter the cause, a bank account will ren- der its aid, and it is at such times that those without one regret their folly for not sooner heeding the injunction to have one. First National Bank GRAND RAPIDS, MIN Suiplus 5,000,00 OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge. Jr Cashier, C. E. Aiken. Ass’t. Cashier, J. G. Peterson DIRECTORS F. P. Sheldon D. M. Gunn. A G. Wedge W. C. Gilbert. Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfeit H. D. Powers. require twice as much work to burn’ material in small piles and by hav-! run all the way from ten to two hun- dred per acre and some times higher. jrun and Grand Rapids pounded three pitchers for fourteen runs. The Jun- iors also played |and while errors were plentiful they were not as numerous as the nesota should grant the farmers the} GRAND RAPIDS [5 SUPERIOR TEAM Juniors Had It All Over Twin Ports Team In Sunday and | Monday Games. 1 PLAYED A LOOSE GAME, HOWEVER Daluthians, Who Defeated Proctor Some Time Ago, Are Outclassed In All Ways of t ! The Game. j It. was expected the series of ‘games between the Twin Ports Clothing Co. team and the Grand Rapids Juniors would be one of the most exciting of the season, but the ;Duluthians were clearly outclassed Jin both the Sunday and Monday games, although they defeated the | Proctor t8am not long ago. | In the game Sunday the Juniors 'played very ragged ball and had it ;not been for the fact that the visit- ors were also out of form, the story ‘would have been different. Grand Rapids secured a total of fourteen runs, while the visitors could only tally six. Following is the score by innings: Grand Rapids..0 3 20125 1x—14 | Twin Ports....0 0 3 1000 1 1—6 ! The Monday game was a repitition {of the preceding cne, but for fact ; that Twin Ports only secured one in better form day ‘before. The Twin Ports put up a "good exhibition the first two innings, , but went to pieces in the third, when Grand Rapids ran in six scores and ; this evidently took the heart out of them for Grand Rapids scored at ; Will in the next five innings. For Grand Rapidg Whaling pitched Sun- day’s game and Alder was on the mound Monday. Erskine was at the receiving end in both games. ; The score by innings is as fol- j lows: Grand Rapids..0 0601610 x—14 Twin Ports....000000010—1 ORE OUTPUT NOT ON THE INGREASE Work of Taking Out Iron Ore Is Normal But The Tonnage Is Not Increasing. It will be read with much interest, the fact that the mining of iron ore this season is not so great or it is on the increase over the other years. The large mines are sending out a norma] amount, but are not increas- ingthe output to any appreciable ex- tent. The Mesabe Miner in com- menting on the sjtuation says: “Ore shipments over the Missabe railroad this week practically will be un- changed, the hoped for increase in number of cars loaded at the big nits of the Hibbing district not having materialized. Four or five trains are being sent! down each twenty-four hours from Mitchell over the Missabe and one train from the new Hull yards. The shipping from the Shenango pit is about 150 to 200 cars per day. The Burt is loading only 40 cars in the 24 hours, the Pool, 40. The Hull last season shipped close to 500 cars a day and its total product for the season was three million tons. The Burt—Pool is one of the largest pits | on the range and could easily ship two million tons or more a year. The Morris, which is fully as large, is i not loading ore this year at all. All the shafts of the district, hoawere, are working double shifts with the exception of the Glen, which js work- ing a day shift only. The G WN. yards at Kelly Lake, however, is the scene of mid-season _ activity. About 12 trains a day of 125 cars each are being sent down to the docks at Allouez. Nearly all the ore pits that are served by the G. N. are working vigorously, including the Mahoning, Stevenson, Lenord and Dale-Uno. fba as Judge Gary told the commit- | Gary explained that its terms pro-) CURPORATION HAS HOLDINGS IN CUBA Judge Gary Tells of the Steel ~ Corporation’s Acquisitions in Cuba. NOTAS LARGE AS THE MESABA BODIES Talks of Mineral Leases and Said Largest are on the Mesaba Range and Do Not Exceed 45 to 50 Years. The fact not generally appreciated in the iron and steel trade that the United States Steel corporation is abquiring iron ore reserves in Cuba, was stated in official form by Chair- man BE. H. Gary, in the course of one of his recent examjnations by the Stanley investigating committee at Washington. A member of the committee inquiring into the ore holdings of the corporation had turned his questions to the subject of Cuban iron ore mines, and in ans- wer to the query as to whether the United States Steel corporation had any interest in Cuban ores Judge Gary said: “We have some inter- ests. We have taken up some claims and made some explorations and I hope will eventually secure some of the Cuban ores as a reserve. Of course, we must have a very large reserve of ores to carry on our busi- ness.” Judge Gary said he did not consider the Cuban ores as good as the Superjor and northern ores be- cause, for one eason, they are very wet in their natural state and re- quire a costly treatment*in order to concentrate them to make them usable. While they are very exten- sive, he said, he did not | consider the Cuban deposits to be as__ large as those of the Mesaba bodies; The principal shipping operations in Cu- tee, are conducted by the Spanish- American Iron company, a subsidi- ary of the Pennsylvania Steel com- pany, and by the Jaraqua Iron com- pany, a subsidiary of the Bethlehem | Steel company. Judge Gary said it was his information that the Penn- sylvania Steel company was pos- sessed of many hundreds of millions of tons of Cuban ore. Some typical analysis of one of the leading Cu- ban ores show, by dry assay, fifty-seven to sixty per cent iron ore, ten per cent silica, 0.24 to 0.45 per cent sulphur, 0.22 to 0.40 per cent phosphorous, 0.10 to 0.12 per cent manganese, and from 0.80 to 1.40 per cent moisture. Some _ speculative statements as to the period of time that will ensue before the ex- haustion of the Mesaba range de- posits were made in the inquiry touching upon ore matters. Judge Gary gave to Chairman Stanlye his opinion that the Mesaba ores would be exhausted in much less time than sixty years, the estimate by some authorities, which was made a part of the chairman’s question. Judge Gary sajd that the longest leases of the corporation on Mesaba range properties did not exceed for- ty to forty-five years in term, as he remembered them. The chair- man of the Steel corporation said the time of the exhaustion of the Mesa- ba range deposits would, of course, depend upon the quality of ore, which, it would be subsequently de- termined, could be considered usable. As to the lease held by the Steel corporation upon the ore lands of the Great Northern railroad, Judge | vided it could be cancelled in 1915, provided notice was given in 1913. Unless notice of cancellation is then given, the leases continue in force until the ore is exhausted, provided that it és within the terms of such properteis as are under lease to the Great Northern interests and are sub-leased to the Steel corpora- tion. Special Fire Wardens and Rangers. The new Forest Law which came into effect on April 12, 1911, repeals that section of the old Forest Law, Sec. 1782, Chap. 22, whjch made it the duty of certain Township, Vil- lage and City officers to act as Fire Wardens. WILL A q The specially appointed Fire War- dens of last year do not hold over. Under the new law, the work of preventing forest and prairie fires becomes the duty of the State Forest Service. District Rangers will be C4 COMPETITION appointed and each one assigned to. First Report of Com. Smith on a definite district embracing in. most cases several counties. Under each Ranger there will be from five to twenty patrolmen, who will be em- ployed for the fire season only and devote all their time to the work of much more effective than the old sys em under which fire patrol and fire fighting were made incidental to a lo cal officer's duties. While your official obligation to us no longer exists, we will greatly appreciate your co-operation and sup- port. I think you must realize what tremendous annual loss has resulted especially through the burning of young timber. In spjte of the or- ganized force of rangers and patrol- men, the area to be covered is so large that you must realize also the necessity for voluntary effort on the part of every citizen to prevent and fight forest fires. Under Section 20 of the New For- est Law “every road overseer or other local officer having charge of the highway, who finds that any per-| son has left a camp fire burning in his district, shall extinguish the same, and take prompt measures to| competition was a prime object prosecute the person or persons who | so left such fire.” Under the regula- tions of the State Forest Service no funds appropriated by this law can be used excepting under the direc- United States Steel Is Made Public. CONTAINS NO RECOMMENDATIONS. 'Says Monopoly Is Chiefly Through Controlling 75 per cent of the Lake Superior Region Iron Ores. long expected and much dis- of The cussed report from the bureau corporations on the United States Steel corporation, recently submitt- ed to President, Taft, was made public last week. Signed by Herbert Knox Smith, commissicner of corporations, the report makes n recommendations and is almost wholly narrative in form. Mr. Smith declares that restriction of of the organizers of the Steel corpora- tion, or so-called “trust.” Capitalized at $1,402,000, the cor- poration, he asserts, had tangible property worth only $628,000,000. By tion of a duly appointed forest offi-|4 constant reinvestment of earnings, cer. If there is sufficient evidence to warrant prosecutions the neara.t forest officer should be notified of the case, and the expense of the however, the report points out, much of the “water ” jn the company has been eliminated. The Steel corporation now owns 75 prosecution will then be borne by the state. Wm. T. Cox, State Forester. from |} Will Nisbett and A. A. Garris each took a party of friends out to} Sand lake Sunday morning to spend the day. fishing and on the return [ Mr. Nisbett, who was in the rear, | scared up a rabbit. The animal im- mediately started ahead, but shortly ran into Mr. Garris’ car. He then started on the back trail and for a time it was feared he would wreck both cars. per cent of the lake ores, having re- cently concentrated its efforts in se- curing these properties. On this point the report says: “Indeed, in so far as the Steel corporation’s position in the entire iron and steel industries is of mon- opolistic character, it is chiefly through its control of ore holdings and the transportation of ore.” Discussing in detail how “the im- pending struggle of the giants’ was averted almost over night by the formation of the great combination of (Continued on last page) Dear Amy:- ALL doctors wilt tell Letter when eaten in a S went down town the What a difference thi dine. Row S'm groud o “serve” we have a party day night. F. 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