Within the past two years lumber associations and other 

 agencies have taken up actively the work of compiling and 

 publishing lumber prices in most of the lumber-producing re- 

 gions. Under these circumstances it is considered unneces- 

 sary for the government to continue this work, except to the 

 extent necessary for its own information. 



The Shelvin lumber interests have purchased the holdings 

 of the Weyerhaeuser company in the vicinity of Bemidji and 

 Crookston. This means the passing of the Weyerhaeusers 

 from that section of the state. The deal involved about 

 $5,000,000. The Shelvin company will immediately start the 

 erection of a new $100,000 mill. Logging operations will be 

 pushed with renewed vigor. It is expected that the timber 

 remaining to be cut and sawed will be disposed of in the next 

 twelve years. 



William H. Weller, a patrolman in District No. 9 died on 

 April 1 and was buried two days later at Menagha. 



The lumberjack has been metamorphorized into a "river 

 pig." Spring has come, the ice on the rivers in the northern 

 part of the state is beginning to go out, and will it comes 

 the exodus of the lumberjack. Lumber companies, who are 

 unable to get their timbers out by rail, are accustomed to pile 

 it up on the frozen river. When the ice breaks up the lumber 

 begins to move. Then does the cutting cease, the lumberjack 

 is no more and the "river pig" takes its place. Equipped 

 with spike shod boots, Mackinaws and peavy poles some 25,000 

 are now on their way down the various streams in the north- 

 ern part of the state, conveying vast flotillas of logs, prevent- 

 ing jams, forcing the stray and tary logs back into the center 

 of the stream and otherwise earning their springtime name. 



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