Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-04-22
From Tuesdays's Dolly.
THE NEW SAW MILL.
1t Saws the First Log Yesterday-The
Machinery Works Satfsfac.
tOrily.

The magnificent mill Of the Pine
Tree Lumber company made it's
trial heat" yesterday and certainly
has shown great speed. Steam was
gotten up several days since but only
to dry The covering on the boilers
and yesterday witnessed the first
log sawed. Mr.. F. McDonough Of
Eau Clare, who built the mill for the
Pine Tree company arrived Saturday
and personally overlooked the
details of the start. Everything
worked smoothly for a new mill
throughout, and from now until the
100000 feet, which the company
will cut in this and their East Side
mill this season, have been disposed of
the roar OF the great whistle will be
heard in and for miles about the city.
Messrs. Musser and Weyerhauser ex-
pect to be saving in full blast to-
morrow. The following is the list
so far as obtainable of the men in
charge Of the various departments OF
the mill: Superintendent and fore
man, Edward Kelley; band sawyers,
C. G. Gillette and c. Rogers; gang
sawyer, e. O. Berg; settlers, Jacob
Proctor and---- band
filler, w. H. Davis, gang filler, Jas.
Mccoy; chief engineer, A. H. Bryant;
fireman Robert Kestner; shingfe and
lath man, C.. Bridgham; millwright,
D. 5. Reed.
The following is taken from the
columns of the October Northwest
Magazine and is considered a fair
"write-up' of the mill so far as then
completed:
"The great lumber corporation that
last spring commenced operations at
Little Falls by the absorption Of the
Little Falls Lumber Company, with
all it's properties and rights,-The
Pine Tree Lumber Company-has
now almost complete sawmill
plant that is without a single excep-
ton equal to anything of the kind in
America. The figures given below
will give interested persons a better
idea OF it than could be done other
wise. The main building is 2OOx64
feet in size, two stories in height,
with a 4Sx66 wing. The boiler house
is solid brick fire-proof structure
60X90, with sixteen inch walls, iron
roof and trusses, a brick smoke-stack
125 feet high, and ten high grade steel
boilers from the works of Kenny
Bros, ST. Paul. The engine is of
Wicks Bros. make, having a thirty
two-inch stroke. The sawmill prop
err consists OF two band mills and a
large gang; one of Wicks Bros
heaviest gang; two gang edgers; pat
ent trimmers, with the necessary slab
and edging cutters; lath and shingle
machinery, with a McDonough pat
ent lumber ;lssOrter, which asserts
the lumber to lengths. The fling
room is equipped with the latest i'm
proved automatic machinery. The
waste fuel consumer is Il huge affair,
140 feet high and thirty feet in diane
ter. The planning mill has a cores
ponding capacity with the sawmill,
and contains everything in the way
OF matchless surfacers, moulders, re-
saws and timber planners. The log
harbor is supplied with a Kline log
loader and Hill log roller. and the
facilities for handling and storing are
almost unlimited; in this respect the
plant is not excelled by any on the
Mississippi River. Construction is
going forward now on piers and
bOoms for the asserting and storing
of logs for the coming season. This
company controls the "shore right"
for several miles above Little Falls,
and has on hand at the present time
100000 feet of white pine There
will be eighty acres of yard room,
ample for piling 1OO.OOO,0OO feet. The
capacity of the mill is estimated to
be from 300, 900 to $50, 900 feet in twen-
ty-four hours. Experienced work
men only will be employed. These,
with the greatly improved niachin-
cry, will, it is expected, cause older
mills to stare their eyes out in amaze
ment, tiguratively speaking.
The mill was designed by and the
construction is going on under the
superintendent of Mr.. f. Nc
DOnough, OF Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
In this work he is ably assisted 10y
Mr.. D. S. Burns, a veteran mill builder
of Saltwater, and by Edward Kelly:
of Eau Claire. The officers, OF the
Pine Tree Lumber Company are
Peter Musser, of Muscatine, Iowa,
president; NJ. G. Norton, Of Winona,
Mimi, vice president; 2. NJ. Musser,
Muscatine, secretary; William Saun-
try, Saltwater, general manager;
Drew Musser, assistant secretary,
and Chas. Weyerhauser, superintend-
ent."