Production consisted mainly of chairs and bedsteads. The Minnetonka Republican at St. Anthony published a short article describing the area. Large investments are made there. By April it will be 2000 weekly. One million feet of lumber is in the pond, half of it nicely seasoned.
Machinery is on the way for a flour mill.
J. P. Miller is erecting a new hotel. But competition from the mills at St. Anthony, the drowning of the mill's manager in 1857 and a fire in 1860 dashed the lofty hopes. From 1860 to 1869 the mill area had no active mill. At the peak of its production, around 1880, the mill ground 400 barrels of flour daily and employed 18 men. From 1874 to the mid-80 ' s, Charles Burwell managed the Minnetonka Mill Company's operations.