On This Date in Minnesota History: December 3

December 3, 1909 – The Red River Lumber Company has purchased the big sawmill at Scanlon (near Cloquet in Carlton County) owned by the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, and will dismantle the mill and remove the machinery to Akeley in Hubbard County, to replace the Red River Lumber Company’s sawmill that was destroyed by fire on November 21.

The Scanlon sawmill is one of the largest lumber sawing plants in the state, having a capacity of more than 500,000 feet per day.

R. F. Pray, general manager of the Red River Lumber Company’s interests at Akeley,  said today that the company would immediately begin the work of dismantling the Scanlon plant, and that he expected the mill would be sawing logs at Akeley within 70 days.

The Red River Lumber Company was fortunate in being able to secure the Scanlon mill, which was shut down a year ago due to a lack of raw materials with which to keep the saws in motion.

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer; “Red River Lumber Co. Buys Scanlon Sawmill. Will Dismantle and Remove Mill to Akaley to Replace Mill Recently Burned.”; Dec. 4, 1909; p. 4.

The Brooks-Scanlon Sawmill in 1908 

http://www.hardtocomeby.com/family-histories/scanlon-minnesotajune-1909-.html 

http://www.lakesnwoods.com/Scanlon.htm

http://www.lakesnwoods.com/Akeley.htm 

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