Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-05-29
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The Minneapolis ::Lumberman
Contains Another Article On
Local Interest.

Contains Another Article or
Local Interest. 3,
Last weeks Minneapolis Lum.
herman devotes about two pages
to the Pine Tree Lumber company
and the article gives very good
description Of the plant in this
city. It includes illustrations of
the two saw mills and the office
building Of the company, and por-
traits Of G. A. Weyerhaeuser,
Drew Musser and E. N. Hoover.
We quote at considerable length
from the article, but omit the
greater part, that is a detailed
description of the mills and plant
in general. The Lumberman
says:
There are two Of the finest mills
in the country on the Mississippi
river above Minneapolis, and one
Of these is at Little Falls, MINI.
Very few people who are interested
in lumber have failed to notice the
car cards OF the Pine Tree Lumber
company on the big Northern P q.
cific freight cars. The two tall
pine trees that appear at each end,
of the card, as if standing guard
over the name between them,
might be called the emblenls Of the
Pine Tree Lumber company. "a
little girl out in a small Montana
town, writing to a friend Of hers
in Little Falls, said in her letter:
"You live at the place where the
lumber company is that has on its
cars the pictures Of the big pine
trees, don't you? I have seen
them so often on the cars, that 90
by here. think it must be a very
nice place. And to be sure it is.
The Pine Tree Lumber company
is to a large extent the father Of.
Little Falls, for when the work Of
erecting the immense plant Of the.
company there some six years ago.,
was begun, it was small village.
Today 1t is town Of three or four
Thousand inhabitants and the life.
of it is the big lumber manufac.
turing plant.
The Pine Tree Lumber company
is one of the successful organiza
tlons formed by Frederick Weyer.a
haeuser and those associated with
with him, to manufacture their.
extensive timber holdings tribu-.
tary to the upper Mississippi. It's
officers are Peter Musser, Musca-;
tine, Ia, president; NJ. G. Norton,
Winona, Mimi, vice-president; ;
Drew Musser, Little Falls, secre..
tary. and treasurer; Charles a..
Weyerhaeuser, Little Falls, general
manager, and E. NJ. Hoover, Lit
tie Falls, assistant secretary and
treasurer. The resident workers
in the company are the last three
named, and especially to G. A..
Weyerhaeuser and Drew Musser.
is due the credit for looking after
the extensive business of this. com.
pany. Mr.. Weyerhaeuser is the
second son, in point Of age, of
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, and is.
rapidly developing into the same
careful and sagacious man that his
father is. Drew Musser is the son
| Of Peter Musser, the president of
the company, and a former Musca.
tine boy. Mr.. Hoover is also from
Muscatine, where he was formerly
in the employ Of Mr., Musser's
Muscatine concern. =
Both sides Of the river are taken
up with the mills and yards of the
Pine Tree Lumber company. Go
ing up the broad avenue from the
hotel, the fine new office building
! Of the company is first reached.
This was completed in 1893, and is
without doubt, the most complete
lumber Office in the country. It
is made Of brick, two and a half
stories in height with basement,
in which is the heating plant.
On the first floor is the general
office with depalt ments for mana
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