The Log Crop

í rum the I ort Hurun Times. Logs are now moving in Black lüvur, and wo bulieve aleo in I&illQreek; but uu Bik Creck nothing is doing, and n logs can be moved thero until we hav moro rain. Howard & Son's niill, in t)ii city, is now runniuj;, and will ]irobabl; Vjo able to continm: ojx rations for gom time, and if tho Black JUvur drive 01 m down all right i ■ L the milis wil will be able to start soon. But at th julios we have i spring freshet, bu littlu luinber can be out hero tbis scason. Froni tho Mtnominee Times. Tho weather wbich Lus prevuilud t'u some time past has beun vory uui'ortunat for the drive. Tho snenv is neaily a] gone, and yot few of tho streams aro raisod muota ibovo their gummer'a l vel. T! prevailing cold winds havo dried up tl snow, and tho littlo water it has produo ed has not inore tluin sufflced to flll th swamps whicl) last toison's drought Uf entiroly dry. On the utain Btream of tli Menomiuoc, of courso tliore will bü littlo difflculty, but on Littlo Kiver and othu branoh'es, eilraordinary taiua will bo re quired to enable tho work to m ikü anj re at all. Tho saino obserratíon íioM good in regard to many ot' the river to tho north and south of us, as woll as thoge ia tho Lower Peninsulu, of th:'s State, and unleesa remarkable changt comes over tho weather, not over 50 pur cent of tho luinber tributary to the Chicago market will roach tho booms this soasen.