Grand Rapids Herald Review

CHRISTMAS TREES REACHING MARKET
CARLOAD SHIPMENTS LEAVE GRAND RAPIDS, DEER RIVER AND OTHER TOWNS HERE.

Christmas tree cutting is quite an industry in northern Minnesota. Many people find the cutting and marketing of small evergreens a source of added income during November and December. During the past week or ten days a large number of truck loads of young spruce and balsam trees have been dispatched to the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis and to points to the west. Several carloads have been loaded and shipped by rail from points in Itasca county to Chicago, Davenport, Iowa and to Omaha and Kansas City.

Two carloads of spruce and balsam trees were loaded in Grand Rapids since a recent advertisement pointed the way to a market. These trees were all of even size, properly bundled and carefully packed. It is anticipated that they will bring a good price when they reach the Chicago market.

CHRISTMAS TREES
REACHING MARKET
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Some people, especially those not familiar with the woods of northern Minnesota, have expressed the belief that Christmas tree cutting was a bad practice and that large areas were denuded of small trees which would otherwise make marketable timber in a few years. This is not true, at least locally. The trees cut for shipment and sale are generally taken from stands where the young trees are too close together for proper growth. In other cases they are cut in low lying spruce bogs where the moss is so deep and the soil so cold that trees never mature. In still other instances tops of spruce trees taken for pulpwood have been worked up into saleable trees fit for market. Tops from these larger trees are frequently adorned with heavy crops of spruce cones which add to their attractiveness when they reach the city markets. A considerable quantity of Christmas trees of this character have been marketed this year from Deer River. It is reported that they bring a fancy price in the city markets.