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ST. CROIX I,UMBER ('OMPANY-Was the third largest sawmill in the world. This huge mill processed pine logs h'om Bass~vood, water and
the U.S. when this photo was taken in 1914. The hmg conveyor pile Burulside, Slmga~a attd Fall I.ake which were cut. skidded to the the mill.
in the foreground was for mnviqg sawdt, st and was the longest iu
rafted to the mill or to raih'oad spurs which took them to
At this point in history. Winton had a population
estimated at about 10,000 people, twice the size of Ely
noted in the letter below, there was a theatre in Winton
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I)ear ttenry, Remember Millie telling us about the fishing industry? ('an you
It's a beautiful ,Yutumn day and I'm wishing you were here to l)elieve there are now six commercial fishing companies right
share the visit with Cousin Mitlie. Things have really changed here? And this only began in 1910. One day this past August over
sb~ee we left Fall I,ake. First thing you notice is NO trees. The two tons of fish came in ! P~ke, Pickerel. Whitefish and l,ake Trout
north shore of Fall Lake is now as bare as the south. Millie says the are shipped by rail expres:; all over the country and there is a big
trees will grow again, but I wonder about the big pines - storage refrigeration plant t,, keep the catcb during the poor
"Norways," you must (/;all them, now! market times. There is a sl ~(e Fish and Game division which
The old Swallow-Hopkins mill is booming. They've added a lath comes up here in the Spring to get millions of minnows tu ship to,
mill and box board department and more than 200 local men are on Mimwsota hatcheries.
the payroll! Oh yes. and out' Village of Fall l,ake aud the St. Croix
Location officially became the town of Winton in May. Wonder But- back to the lumber business. Thursday Millie took me over
how they set up the rules'! Remember how fiercely SL Croix to the St. Croix. They're still using the "Bull" for winching in the
objected to saloons in "Their" location or adjacent ~to the mill? log booms. (The "Bull of the Woods" was a scow sixty feet long
and twenty feel wide. A sh'am engine located in the center turned
tlw paddle ~vhecls on each side and operated thr(~ winch drums,
,each drum car,'yiqg a half-mile of cabh'. It was used for moving
rafts of logs. or booms; il anchored a half a mile from a boom and
~inchcd the boom in, then moved another half mile to |'el)eat the
procedure. ), but everything else ,/as changed. This new company
has added a lath mill. planing mill, picket mill and box board
operalion. Eighl lugs work the logs on Basswood, Burntside,
Shagawa and Fall. There's a two-story store and bank building, a
big (,lub llouse and a Boarding ttouse. A theatrical troupe is there
now - al the Boarding House. The actors must make good money
because each of them pays $1.50 a day for board and room ! Millie
wants to go 1o see "EAST LYNN" tomorrow night - do we dare?
So far, yesterday's excursion is the high point of my sta)
Sunday visitors can ride one of the gasoline launches
We took the "Millicent", naturally, because it's Millie's
- Ha'! Ha! (The St. Croix i,umber and Manufacturing Co.
the "Millicent" and the "Gyp" in its hey day.)
passed the steam tug "Mertie J." towing a large
to the mill. Then we overtook the "Nellie J." going our waY
bargeload of supplies for the Basswood camp. ( Each of
foot tugboats, named for daughters of the owner Ca
Jeffrey, could tow a twenty-five by eighty foot
to hold two "Russell" railroad ears loaded with
railroad cars were put on the tracks of the dock at the Fa
end of the Four-Mile portage for the trip to Basswood Lake.)
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