Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 27, 1909, Page 29

.E | | BEMIDJI, BELTRAMI COUNTY AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA. LUMBERMEN AND LOGGERS THE CROOKSTON LUMBER COMPANY. This concern is among the largest of its kind in the Great Northwest. Maintaining a lumber mill at this point which employes upwards of 600 men, the Crookston Lum- ber company ranks pre-eminent as a home industry whic. is entitled to the unalloyed co-operation of all our people. This com- pany annually puts thousands of dollars into the pockets of our working people, thus materially benefitting the home mer- chant, and so comports itself in a manner which has won general approbation. It has proved itself a public-spirited concern, and the incescant struggle on the part of The Pioneer for the securing of home pat- ronage, of ‘home industries and wide- spread advertisement of Bemidji has been greatly benefited by this notice of the Crookston Lumber company, which, while it requires no publicity, is mnevertheless more than willing to be slated among the enthusiastic “boosters” of their home city. The company fully realizes the immersur- able importance of publicity proclaiming the city’s resources, natural and creative, as it is a foregone conclusion that universal advertisement means an increase in popu- lation, more new buildings and additional prosperity, which means, of course, a per- septible increase in value of city and county realty. The Crookston Lumber company, as we have before asserted, is mammoth both as to capitalization and output. They operate two huge mills in the north half of Minne- sota, one at Bemidji and one at Crooks- ten, their headquarters being at this point. Inasmuch as they employ 600 men in this city and an equally large force at Crooks- ton, it can be readily discerned that they are factors worth considering in all mat- ters pertaining to a public character. The Crookston Lumber company is own- er and controller of timber, landed and railroad interests to the amount of hun- dreds of thousands of dollars. The officers of the company are men of acknowledged integrity and such who have done their ‘GETTING OUT “RAW MATERIAL. share toward developing the country con- tiguous to Bemidji and Beltrami county. They have always been generous to a fault in the aiding of every enterprise, and their influence has always been lent to the cities in which they operate and in which they are interested. The Crookston Lumber company is a concern whicn is indeed deserving of the popularity it has impelled, both here and elsewhere, and The Pioneer is gratified to make this point patent to its thousands of readers. Then, again, the Crookston Lumber com- pany is noted for its generous treatment of its "employes. They have provided every devise for the protection of life and limb, and in every other way they prove their claim to justice and equity. Under the present management the af- fairs of the company are prospering to a degree flattering to the ability of the executive who oversees its processes. The business of the firm has been greatly in- creased, new fields have been established, and the policy of the company has been brought to that high plane which has made the Crookston Lumber company so power- ful and widely known. The members of the Crookston Lumber company are, .individually and collectively, potential factors in the business, industrial and public of the Northwest, and they represent one of the pushing concerns which have made Bemidji great. CLARK POLE & TIE COMPANY. This concern represents another inviting phase of the varied resources of Bemidji and Beltrami county. Its existence is a positive bid to the investor who is seeking a filed for the purpose of manufacturing wood products, inasmuch as the Clark Pole & Tie company annually transact business in poles, posts and piling, and this year expect to increase their sales by one-half over and above their last year’s business. This company, while it has been in business about two years, has already extended its trade to Illinois, Iowa, Ne- braska, Kansas, Missouri and the Dakotas, not forgetting that they have an extensive trade in this state. Their rapidly increas-- ing trade, and the short time that was re- quired to build it up, can be accounted for by the fact that the company offers only the highest grade timber to prospective buyers, quotes prevailing prices—and per- hars a little bit better—and delivers ac- cording to contract. This company constitutes an important adjunct to Bemidji’'s business interests, and verifies the sentiment for which the Pio- neer so insistently contends — that Be- midji is a railroad center of general avail- ability. The presence of the Clark Pole & Tie company is also evidence of the confidence which business men repose in this terri- tory. Let us digress long enough to state that the Clark Pole & Tie company has de- monstrated by its continuance in business that Beltrami county is bedrock in solidity and thrift and that all industries which Io- cate here bid a field of remuneration com- mensurate with their investment. BEMIDJI LUMBER COMPANY. This is another home concern which richly merits mention in the columns of The Pioneer, so that our thousands of read- ers may become more familiarized with the spontaneity with which this company as- sists all moves of a public nature. Like other mills in the State, this one prcduces lumber in enormous quantities, depending upon competent workmen and peaceable labor conditions to produce their high-class output. They utilize up- wards of 400 employes, with whom they work hand in glove, and there is yet to be heard the first complaint as between mast- er and man so far as this lumbering mill is concerned. There is nothing else to say relative to this lumbering mill except to add that it