Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
January 3, 1891 Saturday

Along The Line

On the Duluth division this winter there is great activity
as far as logging operations are concerned the Nester estate
is getting out over 4,000,000 feet of logs at points near
O'Brien for shipment to the Nester mill at Baraga and the logs
are being forwarded as fast as possible, about 18 carloads be-
ing shipped each day. The train of flats used is the one equip-
ped with air brakes for the haul from Dead River to the Hawley
mill.

Near Trout Creek some of the homesteaders are putting logs
into the Ontonagon again for the Diamond March Co. It is un-
derstood that the price is $8 per thousand in the river. Fer-
dinand and Fuller, at this place has a contract to get out
1,500,000 feet for F. W. Read & Co., for rail shipment to their
mills at Michigamme and Eagle Mills.

McRae, the board timber man, is getting out a large amount of
board timber at Devon, near Matchwood. The logs which will not
make the timber go to the shingle and saw mill of Clark & Car-
nahan at Ewen. He is shipping there heavily now.

Mc Arthur Bros., who are operating in Ontonagon county for
the second season now, have quite a lot of board timber, which
they are banking on the line of the road at Read's siding and
Crystal Lake for shipment to Marquette in the spring, to be tak-
en from here by vessel to the European market.

A big industry has sprung up along the eastern end of the
division in the shipment of timber for stulls to the mines of
the Marquette range, which use timber for this purpose almost
all together while the mines of the Gogebic range use hemlock.
Taylor and Anthony were the pioneers in this line and their
permanent camps at Anthony are the model camps of the penin-
sula. Their operations are on the usual scale this winter and
Provost at Trout Creek and other contractors along the line are
also getting out considerable timber of this kind.

At Crystal leke Kimmel Robertson & Co., are running their
mill 12 hours a day and are working hard to keep up with orders.
They have sold 260,000 feet of timber to the Champion and Iron
Range, or Turner road, for construction purposes, and are fur-
nishing the South Shore about 200,000 feet for bridge renewals,
etc. Much of the timber used in the Polygonal turning works
building in this city came from their mill, the bill amounting
to over $2,500. They are also furnishing the timber for sev-
eral new buildings here.

Ashland and other northern Wi., points are shipping quite an
amount of manufactured timber to the eastern market over the
South Shore. It strikes the road at Saxon and is sent east via
S. 5. Marie.

DSS&A - Nester Estate - Diamond Match Co. - Ferdinand & Fuller
F. W. Read Co. - Clerk & Carnahan - MCArthur Boos. -
Kimmel & Robinson Taylor & Anthony --Kimmel Robertson & Co.