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We never had a difficulty of any kind or any unpleas- 

 ant experience with this company during the twenty- 

 one years we handled their logs which ran about fifteen 

 million feet annually. Our work for them amounted to 

 $360,000.00. 



MUSCATINE, IOWA 



The Muscatine Lumber Company mill, burned in 

 1886. 



Hershey Lumber Company mill, started by Jacob 

 Hershey in 1852, was in control of Benjamin Hershey 

 until his death and continued sawing to the last of the 

 logs. My first contract, when I got charge of the 

 steamer "Last Chance" in 1882, was to run ten million 

 feet of logs from Beef Slough to this mill. 



The Musser Lumber Company had a large mill that 

 sawed about fort>'-five million feet annually. Richard 

 Musser, Peter Musser and P. M. Musser were all fine 

 men. I was clerk on one of the Van Sant and Musser 

 raft-boats for three seasons and did occasional work for 

 them later. Their mill was built in 1870 an'd it was 

 vigorously operated every season. The Van Sant and 

 Musser boats earned over a million dollars towing for 

 the Musser Lumber Company. 



The Burdick mill in South Muscatine, for a time 

 owned by Benj. Hershey, was sold by him in 1893 to 

 John Kaiser who incorporated the South Muscatine 

 Lumber Company. 



BURLINGTON, IOWA 



The Harmar Manufacturing Company mill. 



The Burlington Lumber Company had a big mill 

 that had a long, steady and prosperous career. 



FORT MADISON, IOWA 



S. and J. C. Atlee mill ran steadily until the last. The 



