A Raft Pilot's Log cont. Lyons, Iowa 258 Gardiner, Batcheler and Welles mill No. l. Gardiner, Batcheler and Welles mill No. ll Lyons Lumber Company mill. David Joyce's mill. Fulton, Illinois David Joyce- The old Langfors and Hall mill. Clinton, Iowa Clinton Lumber Company. W.J. Young ans Company, the Upper mill. C. Lamb and Sons, The Stone mill. C. Lamb and Sons, the brick mill. W.J. Young and Company, The Big mill/ C. Lamb and Sons, the Riverside mill. C. Lamb and Sons, Riverside mill, lower. Camanche, Iowa W.R. Anthony, successor to Anthony and McClosky. Fort Byron, Illinois Fred S. Gates mill. LeClaire, Iowa J.W. Strobeen, the old Van Sant and Zebley mill. Moline, Illinois Dimock,Gould and Company, originally a water power mill and manufact- ed tubs, pails, washboards, etc. The J.S. Keator and Sons mill, started in 1859. Rock Island, Illinois Mills on Sylvan Water Slough between the water works and the C.R.I. and P. station, owned and operated 259 from 1878 by the Rock Island Lumber Company, in which Weyerhauser and Denkmannheld the controlling interest. Previous to 1878 the style of the operating firm was Anawalt, Denkmann and Company. Mill of Weyerhauser and Denkmann at teh 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 Weyerhauser, 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 dor sale. In 1860 Mr Weyerhauser and his brother-in- law, Mr. F.C.A. Denkmann, bought the mill for $3000.00. They operated it continuosly and very successfully until the log supply was exhausted. They made extensions and improvements increasing 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 2864. 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 amd generously given to the city for what has become the landing 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 Hornsby. In 1874 George W. Cable bought it and later organized the Cable Lumber Company which operated the mill until the supply of logs was exhausted. 260 The Renwick mill, built in 1854, operated by Renwick and Son, later by renwick, Shaw and Crossett and last by Weyerhauser and Denkmann. Was an extremely hard place to land and hold logs as the water was not deep but very swift. In 1849 Strong Burnett built a saw and planing mill at foot of Scott street, later operated by Denkmann and Schricker, then by Schricker and Mueller and after 1883 by Chr. Mueller and his sons, later incorporated as the Mueller Lumber Company, still a going business. In 1849, A Mr. Howard built a mill about warren street, later owned by French and Cannon and then by French and Davies. It was later operated by Paige and Dixon and under the management of Mr. E.W. Dixon. Its career was interupted by the financial complications arising from the suicide of Mr. S.B. Paige of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who killed himself in his room in the Burtis House one Sunday afternoon in March, 1883. After the tangled affairs of Paige and Dixon had been cleared away, a new company called the Davenport Lumber Company took hold of the old mill and started sawing in1887. S.J. Keator was president and Henry Jager was Manager. They pushed the business with vigor and success until their log supply gave out and the mill closed for good in 1891. "Mueller Lumber Company's new mill" at Cooks Point. The old mill at Scott Street burned in 1901. The larger, modern mill was erected in 1902 and continued sawing until the logs gave out in 1907. As Stated elsewhere, our company took care of all Mueller logs where rafted and supplied the old mill from March, 1887, until it burned in 1901, and we supplied every raft cut at the new mill during its prosperous run. 263 We never had a difficulty of any lind or any unpleasant 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.oo. to be cont.