Output Heavier Than It Was Last Year, But Not as Great as

In Some Previous Years.

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ACTIVITY COMPLETED- WEATHER EXCELLENT

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Total Cut This Year About 200,000 Feet. Hard and Soft Lumber Turned Out From Logs.

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The past season at the sawmill, operated at the foot of Center street on the Minnesota river bank by Tauer & Fritsche was more active than the previous one. Last year about 175,-000 feet were turned out. In the sea-son of 1922-’23 the cutting amounted to 200,000 feet, while in the year 1921-’22 it was 300,000 feet.

Operations have ceased and the work is being cleaned up. Weather conditions could not have been better, but there was insufficient snow-fall to facilitate log hauling at times. Logs can be bobbed with less exertion than any other way, and this per-haps militated somewhat against the total cutting of the season.

Logs of All Kinds.

Logs of all kinds were hauled to the local mill for sawing. The soft woods, such as cottonwood, butter-nut, basswood, poplar, together with other varieties, such as hickory, walnut, ash, hard and soft maple, etc.,were represented in the huge pile of logs, which were turned into lumber by the hungry saws at the local mill. The operations at the mill are not restricted to any particular kind of logs, but every variety of trees, suitable to be turned into lumber, grown in this section, were bobbed to New Ulm and piled up near the mill.

A large part of the logs were turned into dimension stuff. This lumber will be used for a variety of purposes about the farms of those, who bobbed the logs to the mill.

Building Operations.

With the high price of building material those, who had suitable timber on their farms felled a number of trees, trimmed them up and brought the logs to New Ulm to be turned into lumber. This will be used this year for erection of barns, sheds, and a variety of buildings on various farms in this vicinity. Others will use the lumber secured in repair work on various buildings. Dimension stuff never goes amiss on the farm. Some of the larger logs were turned into heavy timbers, to be used in the erection of the large buildings.

The big saws hurl themselves through a log several feet in thick-ness in no time at all. The slabs, or the outside barky part of the log is sawed off and the remainder is cut up into the desired lumber.

Among the logs turned into lumber this season was one five feet in thickness. The saw is not sufficiently large to cut through a log of this size in one cut, so it is placed on the skids and the saw is run through one side and then the workmen split off this part. The monster was pared down to a size the saw would handle in this manner and then was sawed into dimension lumber.

For a number of years the New Ulm saw mill has turned out a large amount of lumber each season and there seems to be no retardation in the demand. Most of the logs are felled by farmers in this vicinity and the lumber used in improvement operations.

Brown County Journal,

April 17, 1925

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