Sawmills and their Owners 



I can only tell about those in operation at different 

 points along the upper Mississippi while I was in the 

 rafting business. There were many small and a few 

 large mills on the Saint Croix, Chippewa and Black 

 rivers that sent out an immense quantity of rafted lum- 

 ber to be taken to the many down river yards ; but I had 

 no line on their activities; and as the office of surveyor- 

 general of logs and lumber in Wisconsin was abolished 

 four years ago, I am unable to get at the records to 

 compute the output of these mills, that supplied the 

 yards of 



Knapp, Stout and Company at Dubuque, Fort Mad- 

 ison and Saint Louis. 



P. J. Seippell Lumber Company at Dubuque. 



Rhodes Brothers at Savanna. 



Daniel Stanchfield at Davenport. 



S. G. Stein and Company at Muscatine. 



Gilbert-Hedge and Company at Burlington. 



Rand Lumber Company at Burlington and Keokuk. 



A. S. Merriam and Company at Quincy. 



John J. Cruikshank at Hannibal 



LaCrosse Lumber Company at Louisiana. 



LaCrosse Lumber Company at Clarksville. 



Shulenburg and Boeckeler at Saint Louis. 



Eau Claire Lumber Company at Saint Louis. 



Methudy and Meyer at Saint Louis, and others. 

 A large part of the lumber to these yards was hauled 

 out, piled and seasoned and then shipped west to build 



