The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-17
An East Superior Enterprise.

The Weyerhaeuser mill company, Of
which something has been said from
time to time is so far advanced in its
pfeIimniaries as to be worthy of a
more extended notice. The plans of
TINS company contemplate one of the
largest manufacturing plants in the
world, of its kind, if not the argest
IN The first place the company have
secured over half the timber lands of
Douglas county, comprising all the
pine lands CT the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha railway
company, together with their inn
mense hardwood tracts. There is up
on the land over five hundred million
feet Of pine timber and an almost I'M
limited quantity OF hard wood This
land and the timber is all easily ac-
cesslble TO the site selected by the
company for their mills and factories
at the mounth of the Nemadji river.
The sight is not only selected but
scured, and the work of constructing
The plant will be begun as soon as the
consolidated land company complete
their preliminaries The first part to
be constructed viii be the saw mill
which viii be after the most modern
plans and upon the most extensive
scale The saving capacity viii be
three hundred thousand feet of lum-
Der day or nm W million feet a year
II run the year around. At that rate
1t would take six years running every
day III the year except Sundays to ex-
haust the pine alone upon their lands
But with the saw mill viii be all the
auElllaries for working up the refuse
into every conceivable product which
has marketable value In c0nnec-
ton with the lumber mill viii be i'm
mense drying kilns for the seasoning
Of lumber to be manufactured into
sash, doors, blinds, moulding, and all
the inside and finishing works of
general wood manufacturing business.
These viii be on a scale to correspond
with the enormous capacity of the saw
mil and of the market to be supplied.
But vast as are the features already
mentioned, still another of no less i'm
portance Will be the hardwood mills,
where the timber-Which this region
has never yet had a market viii be
worked up into every conceivable pro
duct. This will involve chair and fur
mture factories, turning and planning
mills, and many side industries which
will all employ labor. To be brief, we
are Informed upon good authority that
this company intend putting in one of
the largest if not the largest general
wood working plants in the world. It's
value TO the city of Superior can not
be overestimated. The plant viii en-
pley when complete IN all its branches,
men by the thousands, at Superior and
inAthe country surrounding.
"A secondary consideration of no
small moment to the city will be the
rapid clearing and opening up of thou
sands of acres of good farming lands
which Will be made available for
farmers at a mere nominal cost. The
man who has no capital and only a
quarter section Of land requires a life
time of hard work to even get start
at clearing a farm, but when the tim
Der is off it does not take long to get a
good productive farm. All things
, considered, this Enterprise is one of the
most important yet projected at the
head of the lake, and one which Will
not require as long to materialize as
dothe more permanent but slow grow
ing iron manufacturing plants.-Eyen-
| ing Journal.