Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 31, 1900, Page 21

el COHASSET, ITASCA COUNTY, MINNESOTA. are many indications that Cohasset is destined to be, in the near future, a town well provided with MILLS AND FACTORIES. Before the purchase of the townsite by Mr. Neal a saw mill was built by Geo. W. Moore and Joseph McCarthy in the upper part of the village and on the Mississippi river, with a capacity of 25,000 feet per day. The mill saws pine and hardwood lumber and _ shin- gles, also cedar, which is very abund- ant in this vicinity. This season the mill is to be improved, and its capaci- ty increased to 40,000 feet per day. Messrs. Moore & McCarthy are en- terprising and up-to-date, and are do- ing a prosperous bnsiness. A picture of part of their mill appears at the top of this page. AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE. D. A. Dunn and G. A. Marcia are the owners of a new enterprise of much importance to Cohasset. Last summer they built a new saw mill in Cohasset with a capacity of 50,000 feet perday. Itisa very fine mill, as may be seen by the middle picture on this page. This mill started last fall and sawed 1,000,000 of lumber. It will run at full capacity this season, and will saw both pine and hardwood. There is an especially good market for hard- wood, and as Cohasset is in a hard- wood country this mill will saw at least 1,500,000 feet of that kind of lum- ber this season. The shingle mill in connection will saw a car load of shin- gles per day, very largely of cedar, as cedar shingles are in great demand. Dunn & Marcia have also a large gen- eral store, a large stock of goods and a steadily growing trade. A CEDAR MILL, Maurice O’Brien intends to build a large and excellent cedar mill at Co- hasset this season, and will make shin- gles, posts, poles, piling, etc., all cedar. He has a cedar mill in operation near Cohasset at the present time. There is cedar enough tributary to Cohasset to last for many years. The past sea- son one concern shipped more than 100 car loads of cedar poles from this vil- lage, and the shipments will doubtless be much larger this season. OTHER MANUFACTURING. Among the manufacturing enter- prises expected to be established at Cohasset soon is an excelsior mill, a lath mill and a box factory. These establishments will utilize the7differ- ent kinds of timber that grow so plen- tifully in the vicinity. Mr. Neal is offering every possible encouragement to enterprises of that kind. PART OF MOORE & M’CARTHY’S SAW MILL IN COHASSET. DUNN & MACIA’S SAW MILL IN COHASSET. CAPT. LOUIS KIRTS’ “LITTLE EAGLE’’ ON A TRIP FROM COHASSET. 11