Additional Surnames: VanWoert, Northrup, Eaton and Lewis "Other Industries" Greig Upon Otter creek, in the eastern part of Greig, is a mill for cutting up spruce timber into sounding boards for pianos. It is owned by Alfred Dolges who also has a larger establishment at Brockett's Bridege in Herkimer County. For this use, none but the best of timber can be used and that of slow growth and very uniform texture is sought.The logs are first quatered and than sawed by an upright gang, across the rings of annual growth, into bords five eighths of an inch thick. When planed it is three eights of an inch thick and each piece is squared upon the edges as wide as it will allow, there being a use for every piece down to those three inches wide and ten inches long. From seven to eight thousand feet are cut in a day. A planing mill for finishing the preparation is run at Port Leyden by Mr. G. W. Chase upon premiese formerly a tannery. Mr Dolges also cuts flooring and other stuff as materials come innot suitalbe for finer usesand employs fifteen to twenty men. Lower down upon Otter Creek there is a saw mill owned by Charles Partridge and still below this a gang sawmill formerly owned by A. C. Eaton but now by Richard Carter (formerly of Troy) and run by Thomas J. Lewis. The timer and other stuff made at this mill is tansported to the river bank by a wooden tram-road using horse power.. Still lower down on Otter creek is a mill owned by Edwin Pitcher and below this is another belonging to Duane Norton for the manufacture of lumber and lath. This completes the list of lumber mills upon this stream at the present time. There was formerly another still lower down but tits dam was carried away some years since and it is now in ruins. The sawmill of Richard Carter on Otter Creek in Greig was destroyed by fire on February 21 1870. The mill was a valuable one and contained a gang of thirty six saws and was insured for $4,000. which did not cover the loss. The orgin of the fire was not known. To Be Continued