Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-07-28
PINE TREE LUMBER COMPANY.
Its Mill the Pride of Little Falls, and
s. r One Of the Finest In TIC
Northwest.

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). One Of the Finest In TIC
Northwest.
Fred. III. Gilman.editor OF the Min
neapolis Lumberlnan, visited Little
Falls last week aud thus pays mer-
tied compliment to The l,ig saw mill
and the Pine Tree Lumber company:
Minneapolis is asvcrituble saw mill
city, and there are many well
equipped saw millstlroughout Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, but.
a person would have to travel along
ways before running across a more
nearly perfect saW5mill than the big
mill of the Pine Tree Lumber com
pany at Little Falls, Minn. With the
exception, perhaps, Of one or two of
the new mills now being completed
in Minneap polls, which have all OF the
modern improvements, there is. not a
saw mill in tKts northwest that has
the modern and complete equipments
that this mill has, and 1t is credit
to the officers of the company, Peter
Musser, president; W. G, Norton,
vice-president: Drew Musser. secre-
tary land Charles a. .Weyerhauser, gen
eral manager, in that it Opera tes
such fine plant. Mr.. Peter Musser
is, as is we'll known, ole OF the lead
ing lumbermen in the Mississippi
valley, residing at Muscatine, Iowa,
and Mr.. Norton is the big Winona
lumberman, while all may be said to
be members of the Weyerhauser syn
dicate, whose reputation for doing a
numbering and logging business on a
gigantic scale has extended to the
utmost parts of the lumber world.
The secretary of the company, Mr..
Drew Musser, D. son of President
Musser, as we'll as General Manager
Charles A. Weyerhauser, are young
men and by hard work and a careful
attention to business, assisted by the
sage advice of such men as Frederick
Weyerhauser, w. G.. Norton and
Peter Musser, built and equipped the
plant, and today have the entire
oversight of the immense concern. To
them much credit is due for the sue
cess of the industry which in three
years has built up the city of Little
Falls from a town OF 1000 people to a
prosperous city of over four thousand
inhabitants.
The stranger, arriving in Little
Falls on the Northern Pacific road,
either in the night or day time, is
impressed with the sight of the large
saw mill aud it's accompanying
buildings, and hears the ceaseless
hum and puzz of the saws as they
cut their way through some OF the
finest logs ON the upper Mississippi
river-if in the night time, the sky is
reddened by a glare of the fire in the
big refuse burner, the largest in the
country, haYing adianeter Of thirty
five feet. Both mills of this company
are this year running night and day,
in shifts OF ten hours, and their COM
bined daily cut is over four hundred
thousand feet. The old mill, which is
located on the east side of the river
near the Office of the company, was
built and operated for number Of
years by N. P. Clarke &Co. Itsequip-
ment is one McDonough band saw.
but it will soon have a acompanion, as
the companyis contemplating enlarg-
ing thestructure and puttingin anOth-
er band saw. This mill cuts between
ninety-five and one hundred thousand
feet daily and turns out good
lumber too, as the Pine Tree logs are
the finest in the river. The location
of the mills could not be better, for
at that point the Mississippi, which
at the present time is very low, wild
ems out into a largelake, giving room
for a large mill pond, in which the
company has something like twenty
million feet Of very good logs at the
present time, and probably twenty
million feet more on their way down
the river. In the center OF the river
pass the logs for Minneapolis parties
ON their journey down, all being
sorted apout mile and a half up the
river by the Pine Tree company's
men. The latter company has a
unique device for marking their logs.
Every Pine Tree log bears four spots
of white paint on each end, which
makes them easily recognizable and
aids the men in the work of sorting,
1t also helps General Manager
Weyerhauser in ascertaining whether
any are allowed to slip by.
for by standing ON the low railroad
bridge the logs can be easily seen as
they float down the river. The big
saw mill is just across the river from
the old one, and is conveniently neal
the main office. In front of it arr
pockets, one for white pine logs anC
the other for Norway pine, although
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| there are but few OF the latter.
In company with General Manager
Weyerhauser, | went through boil
of the mills Tuesday and q NOR
agreeable and better posted guild
could not he found anywhere. Iti
a pleasure to go into every nook ant
corner of this big mill, to find every
where evidence of modern improve
ment and neatness, although tn
mill was being pushed to it's full
capacity. It's equipment consists Q
two McDonough band saws and
Wickes 3s-saw gang, with the accom-
panying edgers. trimmers, etc, a
we'll as shingle and lath machinery
This mill turns out 10000 feet {