The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-14
AN EXCELLENT MILL
The Plant of the Foley-Bean Lumber
Company at Milaca Is Pro-
nounced A Number I.
The Mississippi Valley Lumberman
Gave the Company Good
Write-Up Last Week.
The Mississippi Valley Lumberman

Write-Up Last Week.
On the Eastern Minnesota division of
the Great Northern railway less than
half way between Minneapolis and Du-
luth, is the little town of Milaca, Mimi,
where is situated the extensive lumber
manufacturing plant of the Foley-Bean
Lumber Co. It is on the old Rum
river, which has figured so prominently
in the development of the. white pine
lumber industry of the upper Missis-
sippi. The first logs sawed at old St.
Anthony now Minneapolis, were Rum
river logs, and the quality of the cork
pine made from them has not since
been surpassed on the upper Missis-
sippi. The plant of the Foley-Bean
Co. at Milaca saws Rum river logs.
The plant was built ten or dozen
years ago by the old Mile Laos Lum-
Der Co. and for several years prior to
1894 was not operated. That year
Foley Brothers & Guthrie, we'll known
railroad builders and lumbermen, and
men of sterling business qualities,
bought the plant of the Mile. Laos
Lumber Co. and a year later Messrs.
Samuel Mcclure and Jacob Bean, pio-
neer Saltwater lumbermen and log
gers, joined forces with Foley-Bros. &
Guthrie and the FoleY-Bean Lumber
Go. was Incorporated with 100000
capital. Messrs. Bean and Mcclure
were owners of a large tract of pine
timber tributary to the Rum river,
which is now being sawed by the Mil
AGA plant.
The officers of the Foley-Bean Lum-
Der Co. are: Timothy Foley, st. Paul,
president; Samuel Mcclure, Saltwater,
vice president; Archie Guthrie, St.
Paul, secretary; and Thomas Foley,
St. Cloud, treasurer. The other mem
bers of the firm are: M. H. Foley and
John Foley, of St. Paul, and Jacob
Bean, of Saltwater. The usual output
of the plant is in the neighborhood OF
100000 feet annually. It is SO
equipped that winter saving can be
easily carried on. The summer season
saving was begun April 10 last, and
the total cut for the season, which will
end Oct. Is, will be about 10000, Zoo
feet. The company has in stock about
100000 feet of good lumber, well
manufactured and graded, and is in a
position to saw special bills of timber
of almost any size. - -
The plant of the Foley-Bean Lumber
Co: is worthy of description. It is
equipped with, a McDonough Manufac.
turing Co.'s band and circular, to-
gether with the attendant edgers
slashers, etc. A year ago last August
the planning mill was destroyed by fire
and hardly had the ashes cooled wher
the work of rebuilding was under way
1t is equipped with two 27-inch Wood <
suriacers, one of which also combines
a sizer; a Goodell & Walters 14-inch
matcher;, a 15-inch Wood hatcher, as
we'll as an S-inch hatcher of the same
make, a rip saw, Woods timber plane,
and Benjamin siding saw. The en-
and boiler house are fire proof. In the
engine room of the planning mill is {
dynamo which supplies electricity fol-
lighting the plant and also the village
of Milaca. The average capacity O.
the saw mill is $4,000 feet of lumber il
a day, although as a high as 135,00|
feet have been turned out in ten hours
This season the mill has been running
night and day.
Besides the saw mill, the compan,
operates a large general store a
'Milaca, and adjoining it are the office
of the lumber company. @
With a stock of 24,000,00O feet o
lumber in pile, and with all the specia
facilities for getting out bill stuff o
any size or length the Foley-Bea1
Lumber Co. is prepared to cater to al
wants of the retail lumber trade. T,
keep the stock replenished for tn
spring trade some winter. saving viii
also very likely be done. Last white
some hardwood lumber was also made