Thursday, November 16, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: November 16

November 16, 1906 – It was announced today that the sawmill of the Winona Lumber Company will not open again next season, having been closed permanently when the last log for this season was sawed on Wednesday. This is the third Winona sawmill to close in the last few years, and there remains only the mill of the Empire Lumber Company, which will remain in operation for two or three more years.


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The reason for the closing of this mill is the lack of log supply owned by the proprietor of the mill. Practically all of their own logs are used and they find it too expensive to operate the mill on logs purchased in the open market. The Youmans Bros. & Hodgins Mill was the first was the first to close for this reason some years ago and the mill of the Laird-Norton Company was shut down last fall.

The exhaustion of the log supply was hurried forward several years by the great forest fires in Wisconsin some years ago. If the millions of feet of timber that burned could have been saved, the mills of Winona and others along the upper Mississippi could have been kept in operation a number of years.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Winona Sawmills Close for Good. Three Concerns Will Not Open Again Next Season. Lack of Logs Is the Cause of Suspension. Great Forest Fires in Wisconsin Hurried Death of industry.”; November 17, 1906; p. 3.

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