The Western Mill Company
Prominent local business leaders organize a new, modern lumber mill on the shores of Lake Union.
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A meeting was held at Harke Rusk's office last evening for the purpose of organizing a company to erect a new sawmill near the old shipyard at this end of the lake. It was decided that the name should be 'Western Mill Company'; that a mill should be built and be in running order within sixty days from date; that the mill should have the latest improved machinery and a capacity of between 15,000 and 20,000 feet of lumber per day. The following officers were elected: L. B. Andrews, James McNaught, J. W. Beers, Charles Wood, and Albert Kettner. Contracts for getting out the foundation piles have already been let, and the work of construction will commence at once.
“A city without saw mills and brick yards grows slowly, but a city well supplied with such facilities grows pretty rapidly.”
The transition of Lake Union from an industrial resource-extraction site to the heart of modern urban Seattle is one of the most drastic geographic transformations in the city's history.
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