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ated from 1878 by the Rock. Island Lumber Company, 

 in which Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann held the con- 

 trolling interest. Previous to 1878 the style of the oper- 

 ating firm was Anawalt, Denkmann and Company. 



Mill of Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann at the lower 

 end of Rock Island. In 1857 the firm of Mead, Smith 

 and Marsh operating this mill got in financial trouble 

 and the mill was shut down. Mr. Fred Weyerhaeuser, 

 who was in their employ, took hold of the property and 

 operated it on his own account. When the affairs of 

 Smith, Mead and Marsh were finally closed up the mill 

 was offered for sale. In i860 Mr. Weyerhaeuser and 

 his brother-in-law, Mr. F. C. A. Denkmann, bought 

 this mill for $3000.00. They operated it continuously 

 and very successfully until the log supply was ex- 

 hausted. They made extensions and improvements in- 

 creasing its output until it was known as one of the "big 

 mills" sawing over forty million feet annually. 



DAVENPORT, IOWA 



The Lindsay and Phelps mill at Stubbs' Eddy was 

 erected in 1864. It had the advantage of an excellent 

 place to land and hold their rafts in the Eddy. This 

 mill had a long and very prosperous run with the same 

 ownership and when it had to close for want of more 

 logs to saw, it was dismantled, and the lumber yard 

 cleared off and generously given to the city for what 

 has become the leading feature of East Davenport, 

 Lindsay Park. 



In 1868 L. C. Dessaint built a sawmill just above the 

 water works. It was later owned by Price and Hornby. 

 In 1 874 George W. Cable bought it and later organized 

 the Cable Lumber Company which operated the mill 

 until the supply of logs was exhausted. 



