Malone Gazette, February 10, 1899
The St. Regis Paper Company of the town of Franklin, Franklin county, was incorporated with the secretary of State this week with a capital of $1,000,000. The directors are: George L. Dodge, Titus Meigs, of New York city; Geo. C. Sherman and David M. Anderson, of Watertown, and Ferris J. Meigs, of St. Regis Falls.
Adirondack News, April 7, 1900
Surveyor H. S. Meekham is accompanying a party of timber estimators over the St. Regis Paper Co. tract. They commenced work Wednesday in the vicinity of Everton. The tract contains some 80,000 acres of land and we understand that the timber on the whole territory is to be estimated.
Malone Farmer, June 13, 1900
MORE ABOUT THE SUIT
Between the St. Regis Paper Co. and Santa Clara Lumber Core. According to the Paper Trade Journal the temporary injunction restraining the Santa Clara Lumber Co. from selling its lands, from which it had contracted to furnish pulp wood to the St. Regis Paper Co., was argued before Justice Hiscock recently on an application for an order modifying or vacating it. The justice refused to continue the injunction which might prevent the consummation of a valuable contract unless a satisfactory bond should be furnished. A bond of $100,000 was therefore given by the St. Regis people, and a little later the parties, and attorneys met and made a partial compromise. whereby the Cooperage company, which wants to buy the land, agrees to assume the Santa Clara contract and carry it out, provided the contract with the St. Regis company is finally adjudged to be in force. The bond required was then reduced to $50,000.
According to that paper the Santa Clara Lumber Company, which is the owner of 32,000 acres of timber land in Franklin county, contracted in August, 1898, with the St. Regis Paper Company, to furnish the latter with 1,200 cords of .pulp wood a month for 10 years at $9 a cord, the St. Regis company to have the option of renewing the contract for 10 years more. Payment was to be made from time to time on the pulp wood to cover the cost of the work, and it was stipulated in the contract that the lumber company should not dispose of the property during the life of the contract. After the St. Regis company had paid about $25.000 a dispute arose as to the payments, which difference of opinion the St. Regis Paper Company offered to arbitrate. The Santa Clara company would not agree to arbitration of the matter and notified the St. Regis company that the contract was rescinded and tendered in repayment the money advanced, which was refused. Soon afterward the St. Regis company learned that preparations had been made by the Santa Clara company to sell 10,000 acres of the land upon which the former depended for supplying its mill now in process of construction with pulp wood, and, as the export duty placed by the Canadian government on pulp timber since the drawing of the contract in question had advanced the price of that material about $3 a cord, it was decided to contest the matter of the repudiation of the contract in the courts.
A Watertown dispatch of Saturday says that Judge Russell has granted a temporary injunction restraining the Santa Clara Lumber Co. from selling its lands and the paper company is secure for the present in the possession of a contract calling for the delivery each year of from 11,000 to 13,000 cords of pulp wood at $9 per cord. The Santa Clara company claimed the right to rescind because the St. Regis Paper Co. had not advanced all the money for getting out the first year's supply of pulp wood, and that there was $15,000 due on the contract. The court held for the purposes of the temporary injunction that this was not sufficient to work freedom from obligation under a contract for $100,000 per year for ten years, but that the defend ants should be protected from loss, so that in case of the success of the Santa Clara company the court shall not have worked them injury. In addition to the general security upon temporary injunction. Justice Russell requires the plaintiff to give a satisfactory undertaking, to take the present cut and pay the balance at $9 per cord, and any additional value found in case it does not succeed, without prejudice to the defendant's claimed recision, and also to take on similar terms during litigation the future annual cut: of timber.
Malone Farmer, April 2, 1902
James L. Jacobs vs. The St. Regis Paper Co. was an action for the interest on a note for $2,000 given by the defendant company in part payment for the Everton tract of timber land in the southwestern part of our county. Dodge, Meigs & Co. contributed 80,000 acres of land toward the capital stock of the Paper Company at prices agreed upon, the Everton tract of 22,000 acres being put in at $6 per acre in stock of the company, the Paper Company returning in part payment some $40,000 in notes, one of which fell into the hands of the plaintiff. The Paper Company refused to pay any of the notes, alleging that the amount of pulp wood on the Everton tract was much less than had been represented, and lack of consideration was alleged. This was denied by plaintiff and this test suit brought. The court directed judgment for the interest on the note, which was all there was due, because the defendant had put it beyond its power t» restore the property, having mortgaged the whole land and later sold the Evertown tract to Rockefeller at $4 per acre. Had both sides of the case been presented Dodge, Meigs & Co. would have submitted proof that Rockefeller had sold the stumpage on the tract to the St. Regis Company for $2.50 per cord, which would net more than $6 per acre. About $50,000 is involved in the controversy. Badger &: Cantwell for plaintiff; Purcell, Walker & Burns for defendant.
Adirondack News, August 9, 1902,
The N. Y. & O. came near getting two or three cars and an engine into the river last Monday evening, near the St. Regis Paper Co rossing mill. The Paper Co. have, a side track that comes up close to a bend in the river and the high water had evidently undermined the track and when the engine reached that point the bottom slid out nearly tipping the engine over. The wrecking train came to the rescue and soon pulled the engine out of her perilous position.
Malone Farmer, August 27, 1902
Some idea of the immensity of the new paper mill of the St. Regis Paper Co. at Deferiet can be had from the fact that it turned out 107 3/4 tons of paper the other day—over five car-loads.
Malone Farmer, June 24, 1903
The manager of the St. Regis Paper Company declines the request of employees for an 8-hour day, but says that if there are no labor disturbances in the meantime the request will be granted June 1, 1904, and the same stand is understood to have been taken by the International Paper Company.
Malone Farmer, May 17, 1905
The Santa Clara Lumber Co. has won its famous suit with the St. Regis Paper Co. in the appellate division, that court having affirmed the holding of Justice Kellogg, dismissing the complaint of the St. Regis Paper Co., which brought the suit. The case was tried in Malone and involved the delivery to the St. Regis Co. of from 11,000 to 13,000 cords of spruce pulp wood per year for a period of ten years. The Santa Clara Co. abrogated the contract ; because of alleged failure to advance funds according to its terms. The judgment against the paper company is said to be in the neighborhood of $30,000.
Malone Farmer, July 22, 1908
In the vicinity of Santa Clara and Meno forest fires did considerable damage last week. Three cars load- ed with logs, an empty car and two million feet of hardwood logs on skid-ways belonging to the Brooklyn Cooperage Co, were destroyed and a mile of railroad track was ruined. One of the St. Regis Paper Co's. camps and its contents was also destroyed. The occupants of the camp were driven by the flames to the river and two pigs and a number of hens were [cre]mated. The Paper Co. lost 400 cords of pulp wood. The Blade camps were also destroyed. The logs burned were part of this season's stock for the St. Regis Falls stave and heading mills and the loss of them will compel the mills to close for a time which will mean considerable loss to St Regis Falls.
Potsdam Courier and Freeman, May 20, 1925
START ON BIG LUMBER JOB
ST. REGIS PURCHASES THE PULP WOOD ON 20,000 ACRES
Work has been started at McDonald, Franklin County on a lumber contract for the St. Regis Paper Company of Watertown which will involve several million dollars before its completion seven or eight years hence.
The St. Regis Paper company has purchased from Bay Pond Inc., the pulpwood on 20,000 acres in townships 10 and 17. The contract calls for.the cutting annually of 25,000 or more cords of pulp and represents an outlay or more than half a million dollars each year.
At Wolfe Pond on the Bay Pond logging road a large jackworks has been erected which will be capable of loading 30 cars daily for shipments via the New York Central lines to paper mills at Watertown.
Interested in the large lumbering deal are four men from Tupper Lake employed by the St. Regis Paper company; Charles Kelly superintendent, who has been looking after the company's lumbering contracts at Beaver River for several years; John Bruce, who is to be foreman of the Wolf Pond jackworks; Earl A. Trudeau and Robert Lines, its timber inspectors both having been employed under Mr. Kelly at Beaver River.
The tract of land on which this extensive contract is to be carried on is the famous William Rockefeller preserve at Bay Pond about 25 miles north of Tupper Lake on the Otttawa branch of the New York Central.
The palatial summer home and adjoining cottages at Bay Pond formerly occupied for years by the Rockefellers are kept in splendid condition by Superintendent Redmond and are occupied frequently by the stockholders who came up from the city for hunting, fishing and other forms of recreation.
Tupper Lake Free Press and Herald, May 27, 1987 (1932)
Fire broke out 55 years ago in woodland owned by the St. Regis Paper Co., about a mile and a half north of Floodwood and nine miles from Tupper. Ranger Delbert McNeil recruited 18 “volunteers" from this village and had the fire under control after five hours.
