The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

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three-story brick block that company
owns In the center of the village. It's
province Is to drive, boom and deliver
the logs to the mills.
Cloquet Tie and Post Company.
Two years ago 1t was concluded by
the Cloquet interests that a good deal
Of material left on the lands after
loading operations was going to waste.
and SO in October, 1900, the Cloquet
Tie and Post company was organized
for the purpose of manufacturing ties.
posts, poles and pulp wood. II. c.
Horribly Is president Of the company,
R. M. Weyerhaeuser is vice president,
and H. M. Dickson is secretary and
treasurer. The company operates along
the st. Louis and Cloquet rivers, prin-
cfpally on the cut-over timber lands
of the Northern Lumber company and
the Cloquet Lumber company.
The output consists Of cedar and
tamarack ties, spruce, pulp wood. and
cedar posts and poles. The annual
output is about 100000 ties. 5000 to
1000 cords Of pulp wood, 100000
posts and $4,000 poles. They are
banked along the rivers and their
tributaries and driven down to tho
booms and camps at Brevator, Mimi,
about ten miles UP the st. Louis from
Cloquet. Here Is also big yard of
the company. It lies about one and
half miles along the st. Louis river
and between 1t and the Great North
ern tracks. The stock is hauled out
Of the river by power furnished by
a gasoline engine, and on an average
thirty men are employed the year
around.
Shipping Facilities.
The railroad service of Cloquet Is
provided primarily by the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern railways.
Both Of them make direct connection
with Duluth and the Superiors. both
Minneapolis, both OF them reach west
thru the prairie country OF western
Minnesota and the Dakotas. while the
Northern Pacific reaches as far east as
Ashland, Wis. But these connections
mean more than appear on the sur
face.
Thru the Northern Securities COM
pany these roads and the great Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy system
make one grand aggregation which
goes far toward covering all the ter
ritory north Of a line drawn from
Chicago to st. Louis, thence to kan
sas City and thence to Denver.
But there Is another practically d.
rect connection, for the Chicago, Mil
year lease of trackage rights over the
old st. Paul & Duluth road, now
part of the Northern Pacific system.
and the Cloquet agent bills lumber
shipments in the name of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul. Cloquet ship
ping facilities therefore, cover prac-
tically all the country west Of Lake
Michigan, but, Of course, the eastern
connections Of the great railways rep
resented at Cloquet give thru rates and
shipments to any and all eastern
points.
In addition Cloquet has the advan-
tage Of water shipments on practically
even terms with Lake Superior ports.
A Progressive City.
This northern town is a city Of about
6 900 people. Most Of the residences
are at an elevation of fifty to one hun
dred feet above the river. Cloquet is,
except for q small earlier settlement,
about ten years old; but is looking for
ward to an active business life which
warrants the construction OF a good
town. It Is ornamented with some
good business buildings. fine schools
and handsome churches One OF the
features Of the town Is the public
library, in which the lumbermen take
great pride. It stands In the next
block to the beautiful office Of tho
lCloquet Lumber company.
The streets of tho town are we'll
graded, some Of them are macadam-
lied, and altogether 1t Is an unusually
attractive place for the new northern
nine country. 1t has wide-awake
Commercial club. /,
Taken all in all, Cloquet is re-
markable sawmill town. Nowhere at
any milling point can the eye cover at
one glance SO much lumber as at
Cloquet Those who are interested in
/ white pine would be we'll repaid in
what they would see in mills and yards
| by visit to this growing center Of
white pine production