The Press., 1888-07-26
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 There arrived in this city yesterday af. ternoon, from St. Paul, in a superb private car called the "Glacier," distinguished party of capitalists, consisting of Colonel O. W. Griggs, H. Hewitt, Jr., 0. H.Jones, Fl. S. Griggs, A. G. Foster, F. D. Norton and J. F. .Salschreider. They are members of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Com. pany, and filed their articles sf incorpora- ton with Auditor Huggins during the af- ternoon. These gentlemen, with George Browne of New York, compose the mon- ster milling company, the advent of which was announced in the columns of the Ledger few weeks ago. They were ac. ccompanied as far as Orting by nine tim. Der inspectors, whom they left at that point, whence they will go to inspect the large areas of timber lands to the south, embracing SC, 900 acres, which were recent ly purchased by this syndicate.
 A meeting was held in tho office of Geo. Browne last evening, at which the follow ing officers were elected: c. W. Griggs, formerly of St. Paul, now of Tacoma, pres ident A. G. Foster, of St. Paul, vice president and Fl. Hewitt, Jr., formerly of Menominee, Mich, now of Tacoma treasurer and George Browne,o Tacoma, secretary.
 P. J. Salschredia of Green Bay, Wis, is the mill-wright of the company, and will superintend the work of constructing their mammoth mills on the flat in front of the city.
 The capital stock of the company will be $1, ,5O0, 900, divided into 15,000 shares of S100 each. The board of trustees until December 13, 1888, will be Chauncey M. Griggs, Henry Hewitt, Jr., George Browne and Percy ID. Norton, all residents of Ia coma Addison G. Foster and Herbert $. Griggs of St. Paul and Charles s. Jones of Menominee, Michigan.
 The objects of the company, as set forth in the articles, are: To deal in real cs. tate to deal in timber, logs, ties and lum- Der to manufacture, purchase and sell lumber, lath, shingles and any other pro ducts of wood to build, lease and own lumber and other mills wharves, docks, booms, rafts, and any and all other appli- ances, improvements and machinery neces- sary, proper or convenient for the carrying on of a general logging, lumber and mill ing business to build and own water fumes, etc., for the transportation, etc, of logs, wood and lumber to construct and own bridges roads and canals to pur- chase, own, lease and sell railroads, steam CT and other vessels for carrying on a gen- eral transportation business to purchase, lease and own coal, iron and other mines, and to deal in coke, ,steel, etc. to purchase, lease, construct and operate all machinery necessary for working coal and iron mines, etc. to construct and operate irrigating ditches to improve real estate to carry on a general mercantile, storage and com mission business to establish and operate oil refneries, natural gas plants, plants for the generation and distribution of electric ity to manufacture paper and other arti- cles of commerce.
 During the evening Colonel c. W. Griggs, the president, was seen by a representative of the Ledger at The Tacoma. He was found to be q very pleasant affable gen tleman, in the meridian of full developed manhood. Among other thiugs, Colonel Griggs said "The first thing to be done, and at once, will be the construction of a branch of railroad from the main line of the Northern Pacific, across the Puyallup, to the mill site on "the boot" on the flats below the city. Mir. P. J. Salschreider, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, our head mill wright, is with us and will begin the work of constructing the first of the mills i'm mediately. It will beerected on "the boot" below the city, and will be completed and ready for cutting lumber by December l, 1888. This mill will have capacity of O. GOO, 900 feet of lumber annually. As soon Hs 1t tS-cUrnpfCtcrf- -ur0trvr-nil will be com menced with a much larger capacity and pushed to the earliest possible completion.
 "Within thirty days the construction of the Tacoma Southern Railway will be commenced, leading to our timber land, and will be built with all possible speed.
 "We are delighted with Tacoma and in a very few days Mir. Hewitt and myself will begin the erection of our residences, as we propose to make this city our future home."
 Colonel Griggs, the president of the company, formerly of St. Paul, has had q large and varied experience as a capitalist with great fortune running into the mil lions, acquired through enterprise and in
 vestments in and about St. Paul, but extend ing throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin md . Dakota. He will bring his family with him,
 which for years has been one of the charm ing social centers of the Minnesota capital, Colonel Griggs is of New England stock, He was born in Holland Connecticut, and
 settled young man in St. Pau, when tha city was little larger than Tacoma is now His business enterprises have been as di versihed as the wants of the people in [ new and growing country. As grocer, rail
 road contractor, brick maker, coal and woot merchant, real estate dealer, banker ana lumberman, he has displayed great energy upright business principles and eminent
 financial and executive ability. More thal
 POO, 900 acres of timber land have passed . through his hands, and the product O many of these acres has been developed ] by him. He won his title of colonel by l brave service in the third Minnesota reg = iment during the war. He will soon builI 3 handsome residence on the bluff over looking the Sound.