Ground has been broken at Baudette for the new sawmill 

 of the Engler Lumber company. It will be bigger and more 

 modern than the one destroyed in the fire of several weeks 

 ago, and it is said that it will be about the size of the Shevlin- 

 Mathieu mill. 



The contractor who built the Spooner mill has also the con- 

 tract for the Engler mill. The officials of the company state 

 that everything will be ready for operation when navigation 

 opens in the spring. 



Deputy Came Warden J. H. Jones at Fergus Falls received 

 word from Ashby that the fishermen who seined Pelican lake 

 made a record-breaking haul, bringing in 20,000 pounds of 

 buffalo fish in one catch. Some of the fish were of enormous 

 size. Two of the largest weighed fifty-eight pounds each. They 

 weie about thirty-three inches long. 



The Mohr-Stotzer Lumber company has acquired about 

 50,000,000 feet of standing timber on 6,000 acres lying twenty 

 miles east of Phillips, paitly in Price and Oneida counties, 

 Wisconsin. The timber is pine, hemlock and hardwood mixed. 

 It is not far west of the Valley division of the Milwaukee 

 road and can be reached by building about ten miles of spur 

 hack. This will mean a new sawmill for Pi ice county and 

 the people there are much pleased. 



Preparations for logging operations in the vicinity of Ash- 

 land are getting under way. The John Stearns Lumber com- 

 pany will employ 1,000 men on the Odanah res;rvaticn this 

 winter and will log- 60,000,000 feet. 



The Schroeder Linrber company will log about 20,000,000 

 feet north of Saxon and will log and bank about 5,000,000 

 I'eet in the mountain region near Lone Rock en the shore of 

 Lake Superior, in Northern Michigan. 



Bush & McRea will log and bank about 4,000,000 feet of logs 

 in the Porcupine Mountain district near the Little Carp river. 

 Olson Bros. & Peterson of Ironwooct, have taken the contract 

 for doing the work. Messrs. Bush & McR-ae w'.ll also log 



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