WHITE PINE LUMBER COMPANY
Swan Lake
July 16, 1920: "The White Pine Lumber company's mill at Swan Lake is completed and the first log was sawed yesterday. Everything went well. A few adjustments and additions are yet to be made but Monday morning the mill will start the season full blast, with a crew of 60 men and an output capacity of 50,000 feet daily, one shift. Later a second shift may be put on.
Leslie Rogers and John Moore, of the First National bank of this city, are president and secretary, respectively, of the White Pine Lumber company and were present yesterday when the first log went through the mill.
The other officers of the company are Marion and Preston Nine. The former is vice-president and manager and the latter is treasurer of the corporation. The company has sufficient timber to keep the mill running for four or five years. By the time that they have to first seasoned lumber ready for market it is expected that a branch of the Strahorn railroad will have been built to the mill. The spur will be about two miles long." (The Evening Herald)
Leslie Rogers and John Moore, of the First National bank of this city, are president and secretary, respectively, of the White Pine Lumber company and were present yesterday when the first log went through the mill.
The other officers of the company are Marion and Preston Nine. The former is vice-president and manager and the latter is treasurer of the corporation. The company has sufficient timber to keep the mill running for four or five years. By the time that they have to first seasoned lumber ready for market it is expected that a branch of the Strahorn railroad will have been built to the mill. The spur will be about two miles long." (The Evening Herald)