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The Log Cut Of The Past Season

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
March
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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Indications ïiiultiply that the aew cut of logs are to add muoh less to the lumber product of 1874 than had been expected earlier in the season. The early break up of the season whioh now seeins to be a finale to operations iu the woods has come at least a month sooner than waa hoped for. Very little hauling was accomplished until after the middle of January, and at that time thero was so little frost in the ground that gcod roads were almost out of the question. With scarce a month of indifferent hauling the roads have for the past two weeks been failing to such extont that inany camps woro abandoned beforo tho recent thaw, which has brokon up the camps and in a niajörity of cases fully destroyed tho roads, loaving vast quantities of logs on the skids iu the wóods. We hear of one instance wbero out of 4,000,000 feet skidded but 1,000,000 has been banked, of another whero barely one hundred thousand has been put in out of a million on the skids. These cases niay be set down as samples of a rulo which has numerous confirmations. The prospecta for running are scarcely more favorable. Tho suow has gone off so gradually as to ha've but comparatively littlo effect on tho stroams, and unless copious rains shall improvo matters a large proportion of tho timber banked might as well bo on the skids, so far as running is concerned. The recent action of tho boom company in resolving to throw no booms across the stroams abovo Midland will have the effoct to prevent the logs in the tributarios from reaching the main river until the high wator having paesed will havo left them on the bottom. The old stock which reached the niain rivers last year will largely come down, but thii will prove utterly inadequate to supply the milis. Meantime holdurs of stook whioh is " sure" are jubilant at stiffehing ratos indicativo of advancing prices. - John B. Gough says thut he is " on the fence " as to tho woiuau's piaying crusade against the liquor sellers, but should regret to see his wife and nisce crusading.

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Old News
Michigan Argus