A Raft Pilot's Log cont. Sawmills and their Owners 255 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 riversthat sent out an immense quantity of rafted lumber 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 Wisconsinwas 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, Stoutand Company at Dubuque, Fort Madison and Saint Louis. P.J. Seippel 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.Meridiam and Comapy at Quincy. John L. 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 buildhomes, barns and fences in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. 456 STILLWATER, MINNESOTA The big Shulenburg and Boeckeler mill later owned by Isaac Staples, E.L. Hospes and Samuel Atlee and finally owned by George H. Atwood who cut forty-eight million feet of lumber a season. Hersey Bean and Brown mill; which in 1882 came under the management of George H. Atwood. The Saint Croix Lumber Company. The Eastside Lumber Company(Bronson and Folsom mill). South Stillwater mill(Durant and Wheeler and David Tozer). Hershey Lumber Company mill. R.W. and A.R. Turnbull mill at lakeland. The Eclipse Sawmill Company at South Stillwater. The Fall and McCoy mill at Lakeland. Teh Musser-Sauntry mill. Hudson, Wisconsin(Mouth of Willow River) The Purington mill, built 1850. Destroyed by fire. It was replaced in 1883 by a modern mill owned by the Hudson Lumber Company, that cut 700,000,000 feet and sent the last raft down river in 1915. Glenmont,Wisconsin Olds and Lord mill-later owned by Gillespie and Harper. Prescott, Wisconsin The John Dudley mill. Red Wing, Minnesota The Red Wing Mills Company, The Charles Betcher mill. 257 Winona, Minnesota(Four large mills) Youmans Bros. and Hodgins-1856-1898. Laird Norton and Company started in 1857. Winona Lumber Company started in 1881. The Empire Lumber Company started in 1887. LaCrosse, Wisconsin(at mouth of Black river) C.L. Clomans mill. John Pauls mill. N.B. Holways mill. Sawyer and Austins mill. G.B. Trows mill. P.S. Davidson Lumber Company mill. McDonald Brothers mill. Lansing, Iowa Lansing Lumber Company, John Robson of Winona , principal owner and manager. McGregor, Iowa W. and J. Fleming mill, c.W. Cowles, manager. Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin Stauer and Daubenberger mill. Guttenburg, Iowa Zimmerman and Ives mill. Dubuque, Iowa Knapp, Stout and Company's mill. Ingram, Kennedy and Day, later Standard Lumber company. M.H. Moore's mill. Bellevue, Iowa Dorchester and Huey's mill. to be cont.