How Do I Sign Minnesota Banking PPT

Industry sign banking minnesota ppt easy

welcome to how Clinton built the West our little attempt to provide some content during the shutdown and we're going to take a journey through all the different stages that were needed to turn Clinton which is on the riverfront into they sawmill capital of the world now this map here shows where the land and the river was and all those little black dots over Clinton's leading sawmills were the 19th century let's just say from 1870 to 1895 the little stars are where the sawmill museum is today they're on Main Avenue and then Jefferson Elementary and we'll get back to all the black squares by the end but why clinton became a sawmills best shown in this map here that shows what how much virgin timber there was throughout all the united states and different time periods Chris when the first white settlers came and most everything east of the Mississippi was heavily forested by 1850 right around when Clinton's getting going you can see the especially in the Northeast just how little virgin timber there was but most importantly for us you can see that west of the Mississippi is no longer or there are no trees to speak of so if you are going to be living in these states and you needed lumber to build a house well that's where Clinton kind of figured it out one little note most of the deforestation occurs because of agricultural clearing and then of course but they need the most of fuel and really what clinton was able to do and this this line graph shows the best is control at 1869 to 1899 so the lake states and then really when you look at it the south and the west when you see weird these companies go after 1899 a lot of clinton tony ins go south and west so really we're gonna get at is just how central of a role Clinton and really the Mississippi River logging company was in production you often hear things like Oh Iowa Clinton cut the most lumber anywhere and this bar graph shows it just actually the how little lumber was actually cut here in Iowa compared to the rest of the North Woods of course Michigan's gonna be out producing all of us combined by us I mean Iowa Wisconsin and Minnesota and we'll get to that how the Mississippi River logging company which was headquartered here and Clinton kind of controlled all three of those states but once again you know Wisconsin Minnesota is where they're producing a lot of lumber Clinton's responsible about a third of what's cut in Iowa and really why Clinton had sawmills kind of goes to the little map here the rail coming over Little Rock Island allowed for markets to be reached you had wonderful river flows and sloughs and just very good prime real estate with the river and the rail to build a lumber Empire but the real reason is the Mississippi River logging company or the beef Slough about 210 miles northeast on the Wisconsin is we took over and drove about a billion board feet of logs out of there every year and of course we're gonna slowly take over all of the timber in Wisconsin and Minnesota and build sawmills in Wisconsin Minnesota and kind of force everybody into the Mississippi River logging company and its various different names this here's a map of what Lyons look like initially in the 1840s 50s and 60s there was a current driven log rafts coming down the river and so you can see what Lyons used to look like at 1880s it's mostly steamboat driven traffic this here is a map of Clinton you can see the real bridge again the round house and all the logs piled up along the river that green dots where basically our pool is today of course not when i zoom zoom and once again it's the rails so down in the Quad Cities you have a little guy called warehouser and he can take advantage of the Rock Island line here we have the Chicago Northwestern this here's early picture by the 1880s you can just see how much a Clinton is connected to Wyoming Colorado Nebraska Kansas Missouri and even through Wisconsin and Minnesota a complete supply chain oversimplifying it was almost as expensive to go from Chicago to Clinton as it was Clinton to let's say you know Colorado or and things like that so that's another reason why is very prime to bring those logs and lumber down from Wisconsin to established real connection points and get that lumber out everywhere a cleaned up version of that map once again shows Clinton and Dubuque and Davenport and all the different lines that could be connected well side and the 1940s during World War two Clinton's women and we're on the forefront of keeping commerce alive as they become Rosie the riveters and you can see these photos was just about everywhere but it was these big steam locomotives that were gonna make Clinton a central player and the lumber industry but you had to get logs and that's where our story starts is how we got logs from Wisconsin and Minnesota before settlement this was the diversity of the North Woods you can see just the the the rich biodiversity of all the trees and really we're looking at the central and northern part of Wisconsin and you know a little little north of the the oak forest of the tan part and as a result of the Mississippi River logging company in various entities you have this picture here and you know basically we took out all that green and either cut it into lumber there or send it down the rivers and things like that that was really owning all of that timber that was the idea of warehouser from the Quad Cities the president of the Mississippi River logging company choice young and lam Clinton leading lumber barons where the usually the largest shareholders and eventually all the Knapp stout in Wisconsin are in essence gonna be part of this was just called monopoly in Wisconsin and eventually Minnesota key difference in Michigan they stay independent owners and and whatnot whereas once again basically Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Illinois was just a handful of dozen plus really large interest a lot of people ask what were the forests like the trees were super tall but they were not necessarily very wide and one source the average width was about 18 inches but they loved trees like this that had basically 80 feet of largely limbless trunk because you cut that tree down and cut it into five 16 foot logs once again it shows you kind of the what the forests look like and the North Woods I really love the the scale that's there I mean you see a two-man saw up up there and of course the first thing you did is you built a logging camp cleared some logs built a camp and then you would clear the forest around it and you would do this during the winter and one of the wood things that where house are loved to do was actually go up there and kind of look while the axe is the most famous tool of the trade you can kind of see one there is really the two men saw that did all the all the work and should get all the glory one of the most important jobs in the lumber camp was the saw filer you can imagine you wanted a nice sharp edge all the time and once they cut the logs they had a load Aman horse lads this here's a shows you how in a basically a porter camp or an earlier camp or just a simple version of using you know basic cut boards to roll the logs up there and sometimes it'd be pegs in those in case you needed to take a break guy on top would all winch him down it once again this work was usually done in the winter so they had all these logging roads throughout Wisconsin Minnesota and these horses could bring the logs to riverbeds that were frozen over and the most important job on I should say the most important but the craziest job was the sprinkler or the icer basically these poor couple of guys went out in the middle of the night and actually literally sprayed the logging roads and then cut grooves in for the log sleds the log sleds usually wait about five tons or so could not imagine in the middle of the night doing this job why you see a lot of pictures like this if you read the the notes there a lot of times they were staged they raised they're purposely staged or sometimes they had contests like a tractor pool to see the largest load of horse steam could pull or you know different things like that a great kind of mosaic of the different pictures you can see all the different ways they move logs and there was really just an amazing amount of work usually done all in the winter and of course what was left this is a great representations you know they were basically clear cutting they cut down all the trees and moved on to the next stand which why it was so important to own timber and so how the Mississippi River logging company in essence came to own timber is that W J Young's benefactor was a guy called McGraw from Ithaca New York who has been a factor to Cornell University Cornell University has a bunch of log land in Wisconsin in 1870 when they try to create the Mississippi River logging company some early seed timber comes from there I really like these pictures because while technically women and children weren't in the camps that was really based on the early camp life as more and more immigrants came in women and children join the camps or they live just outside the camp various different histories but really when you look my favorite version of this is when they wind did like a census in the woods they didn't find any women and yet there was countless Diaries and pictures showing women and children and it was just a really good thing one of the things they thought they were doing right is clear-cutting that allow for farming and of course you already has some ready-made houses but didn't always work out the best really good picture really a more typical log sled and the lumber camp or a logging camp there in the middle of the winter quite amazing eventually you know Shay locomotives and things like that I gotta you know try to replace a lot of this but that's really more after Clinton's guys get done with the North Woods and once again you know this is what kind of left this was all forested mainly pine logs and it was pine logs that was needed to turn into lumber to build houses and businesses and things like that so once again 1870 the guys down here warehouser Joyce young lamb and others created the Mississippi River logging company which stayed one is to control the Timbers abide timber have logging crews and then control the rafting and this here's a great picture of the beef Slough you can see right there in the center where it was all those little waterways that you could build rafts in and actually go right into the Mississippi River just a lens again a little north of Alma Wisconsin this here is the the heart of the operations actually some Michigan owners try to do this they kind of ran out of monies lots of back story and once again 1870 we're sitting down here going would be a perfect place for rafting networks they all had different tools some real fun things the one I'd always stood stood out to me is the boots basically obviously if you're running on logs you needed a special boot to help gain traction more or less cleats but I don't think baseball players today probably fix their own cleats too much but they might what's really bizarre to me is this is all occurring right after the thaw the river drive so it was the snow melts they need to move the logs into basically the river to get to their rafting networks the sorting networks and so these guys would go out and move logs basically in some water like this this is just bizarre to me I had to have been a very very tough job and how big some of these logs could get rough water rapids and different things like that and of course this is how the sport of log rolling developed you had basically people who were doing this to survive right as you're hopping from log to log I mean quickly they realized crowds could build up and then if you have a crowd you might as well kind of do a formal event and charge for it but this was life or death for them at first we have a video game here at the Museum that really kind of tells Steven Hanks story he's the first and last river raft pilot our log raft pilot on the river in essence Steven Hanks in 1840s of the young whippersnapper who takes a log raft from Stillwater to st. Louis a roughly a 30 day round-trip but the bulk of that bringing a floating log raft downriver he started in the beaver channel and decided that he was gonna be the first one this here is lumber ramps you can see a log raft and the nasan's worked the same as guys lived on the raft and they actually steered him with giant ax wars and took him through the tributaries of Wisconsin all the way down Leclaire in Keokuk he had Rapids very very very tough work of course their sleep on the rafts eating on the rafts drinking from the river eating largely from the river peeing on the river and different things like that it's definitely uh there's something that I could do once until I if I had to lift one of these giant 16 18 foot oars and actually try to sweep and keep the raft in the current or in the channel then I would probably call it quits but it did actually occurs especially around the west concen del area these kind of very aggressive Rapids the rapids and LeClair in Keokuk were long and drawn-out and just as dangerous but they weren't gonna be kind of here your white rapid rafting but they did have to do this and they would break these log rafts in the small pieces they would pull over at night and eat and sleep once again a beautiful picture of going through a smaller river but just how big those oars are and then eventually they're right they're all driven by steamboats and actually the the brilliance of the Clinton loggers is that they created a thing called the Braille system they actually basically made little cribs of logs and those cribs were then tied together into a large raft and those cribs can be broken into pieces as they came down river every log had its own mark and so you knew which sawmill is supposed to go to and you didn't have to live on the rafts and you can see how they're all kind of tied together with chain and and larger logs they're kind of like tie straps but you know another example of you can see up close just the different ways they were actually able to secure these log rafts and really just how big these log rafts were you know couple of acres just a really good picture and walk out on the log rafts and Lee if you look at Clinton's newspapers a lot of people drowned this way they would come and fish off the rafts and things like that and of course if the log open and you fell in it close on top of you not the best illusion our swingbridge a really cool picture of the van zant has a very important name and he was a basically a maker and a pilot from LeClair warehouser was one of his main business partners once again a great look at how these cribs were created and then tied together and just how long the boat in front actually helps steer the log raft as it came down river so you had the you know the the towel you know in essence pushing and help steer and Lam invented an engine that helped actually kind of steer the the entire log raft and just another version on that picture once again the the duel boats a little bit smaller coming down one of the cool things about Clinton as we had the Upper Mississippi River is only female pilot there's a great article out there about that but that's a pretty cool story and of course now the log rafts are down here and so we'll take a little journey through where the sawmills were and what they are today mmm very far north basically 35th Avenue South you have garner Batchelder and wells and Lyons Lumber Company you can see what this is today a lot of people know about the Pennsylvania tire company remember that one of the office buildings is still a an apartment a little further south of theirs but still in Lyons Joyce Lumber Company that's their office building where bargain bonanza was you have choices slew and various things like that and it was up into the 1970s pretty hoppin where Clinton Lumber Company Santa's where pool basically was more or less but when this the hospira doned that and when they went out of business and they did make sure that this became a green space well really the epicenter of it though is the young and land mills south of the rail bridge this here you know that were giant m lls there was six of them in total Liam had four and young add two and they just produced and an amazing amount of lumber and they're usually the largest shareholders of the Mississippi River logging company and once again what's crazy is you know all these guys also had mills in Wisconsin and Minnesota that produced usually someone like Joyce actually produced two three times as much lumber but once again connecting all of those points south of the rail and then you know lamb was also more or less behind where ADM is today that's pictures pretty close to where they were and then of course the heart of the operation really was the the rail and the sorting networks that you could have all the lumber come and be sorted and sent out we're basically Comanche Avenue is more or less great picture of mr. peanut than everybody remembers of course I moved to town they're just finishing up Comanche Avenue a great picture of the different rails the Roundhouse and and things like that that really made Clinton such a central part to the nation's economy especially if you're trying to send out lumber and these pictures are of course after the lumber boom here in the night and the base of the 1900s but once again some good pictures so who were the the lumber barons first you have lamb Jane lamb Hospital the YWCA many different things that's Chauncey he had sons Lafayette and Artemis and then James de White was his grandson was pretty popular then you have David Joyce his son William and then William sons James and David and they used to own Eagle Point Park and own the cemetery and their houses still stand there next the administration building on 3rd and 19th of course the last air was Beatrice Joyce and there now when she passed away in the 1970s they're now a billion dollar foundation in Chicago and then you have WJ Young that that family still owns Clinton National Bank and what's really kind of interesting when you look at kind of the impact that's still being made of course is that you know I think it's a half a billion dollars with the asset therefore Clinton National Bank it's not as if this money has just completely disappeared I always talk about ESSEC and prolonged presentations he's a great worker story he loses his arm and leg it kind of gets better it becomes a city treasurer in 1900 yeah basically in 1880 and he's just a young man working at WJ young sawmill and while cleaning up sawdust gets picked up by the track and loses his his arm and leg how did sawmills work in Clinton of course she had to get the logs here first they're generally stored there off the channel and they had different storage units over and Illinois side as well once again South the rail bridge you can see the big smokestacks and then and all the different machine shops that were needed to make things in-house and the fleet of boats to help move logs and just a huge operation here's you know when they're full of logs that conveyor belts there to basically bring the logs into the mill to be processed this is not that same picture but give you another idea of how these logs could be loaded big Corliss steam engines powered the mills these are two three four five hundred horsepower steam engines apparently there's only one left and hit at the Henry Ford Museum of steam engine that was made while Corliss was alive crewless also made a big safe for Clinton National Bank and you'll see a lot of these through history all these interconnections but once again big huge steam engines they just got bigger and bigger and more powerful to run all the belts needed to cut and really well you know band saws would come in in the 1880s this here's a version of the gang saw not the best version what Clinton's look like I've never been able to find what an actual inside of a Clinton sawmill look like I read plenty of descriptions you know oftentimes they were basically blade set and predetermined widths and you could just push logs through they clean in three minutes you could hook a log in the holding pond and bring it through the gang song and stack it as lumber and the lumberyard and once again lots of waste lots of stone and wood and of course just a fire hazard waiting to happen by 1900 though pretty much all the big sawmills are closed here and Clinton are on their way out but once again once I got into the yard it all shipped out west this year you know basically a little switcher train if you will moving those log stacks around and of course supporting the Jew you know they built their houses on 5th and 6th Avenue and of course all lined with elm trees before the elm disease came and took it over this is WJ young zorad I'm sorry WT Joyce's house they are the Joyce mansion and it's by 3rd and 19th by the administration building of course I was originally the East Lake design are a very Victorian design and then they kind of took all that and added a different design in the 1920s the family themselves got tired of everything breaking and then you know right next to the big lumber mansions were the employees houses a lot of them were more or less shotgun houses you know South Clinton Riverside kind of around the big tree and things like that a very wonderful view of basically what you know Clinton would look like you don't know lock and dams and there no levees you don't even have the the River Road they're basically direct access to the river this is what Main Avenue looked like you can say Pape was a longtime business looks very dirty you know you basically had didn't have pavement and cement and all that or concrete but it was a really an amazing picture and lobbies kind of you know goes way back to the different fountains and of course they had interurban rail in different ways to streetcars to get from Clinton to lions and even Clinton the Davenport in other places just lots of different ways of of getting around town lots of businesses while these buildings are very familiar they're still standing and Clinton and Lyons but for me what was quite evident is that yes there's one lots of great houses and lots of great businesses but you also had a very interesting intermixing of different cultures and alcohol lots and lots of bars and really what would happen as this shows is when the basically the lumber rafts arrived and intermixed with the sawmill workers it was quite a day for the police so you had these heavy investment and the police force to basically try to keep a handle on oh you know much 18 to 22 year old drunk men and then as I alluded to about the fact that everything is basically a fire hazard a fire trap a lot of your your your early you know basically fire department if you will I'm we're heavily funded by the Joyce's and the Lambs and the Youngs they were honorary captains at first and really it was basically neighborhood watch version you would go to the the rail or go to the lumber yard where most of the fires would occur you'd put out that before you went to your house of course the most famous string of fires in 1968 I have to change this when the new schools built but it was awesome you know this is all pre locking dams so you know there was just a completely different you know way you engage the river this is what Eagle Point Park used to look like and of course now it's the widest point on the river or one of the widest points where a dog park is today we had a little mini zoo even had monkeys a lot of people remember that then being on the river we really Clinton County as a whole was a very important part of Iowa's Underground Railroad system but it seems like a lot of it was action south of Clinton more DeWitt in the western part of the county but there are of course some underground railroad houses one of the most famous people who actually got a PI a start and the sawdust piles his dad was a carpenter he might have even worked briefly because you could start working at ten eleven years old and the sawmills Felix Adler goes on to be the clown of course Dukes later another great early person that's basically you know coming about coming of age post lumber boom basically taking advantage of this transition from lumber Center to basically something else why are there no more sawmills in Clinton well the biggest reason was in 1893 there's a giant recession people weren't building houses there have been multiple recessions they've just been able to survive but really 1893 the workforce is drying up the lumber barons themselves start passing away they've moved south and west or looking to move south and west so like Gardner he goes to Laurel Mississippi the joyce's had acquired a bunch of southern yellow pine lamb and warehouser go west where Houser gets a great deal from his neighbor up in Minnesota nine hundred thousand acres of virgin timber for six dollars an acre you can't beat that deal out in the state of Washington so yeah basically there's no work they've cut a lot of the wood they have new markets the rails are connecting a lot of things and of course when they're passing away their kids move on to different things and one of the just the constant things I think had it makes some impact especially being on the river was really just an uncertain basically supply line with the constant floods these are pictures from the 1880 flood which funny enough actually probably helped cement us as the lumber capital after 1880 up in Wisconsin a bunch of Wisconsin guys' logs gets deposited and the beef Slough and as a result we all join forces and become like the Chippewa a logging company or the Chippewa boom come in 1885 because we have such power they all meet here and Clinton to figure out how to start dividing up Minnesota but what it really did have a huge impact in the 1965 of course is the biggest one in terms of its kind of it's the last one so that's why it's the biggest but not necessarily the biggest flawed even though it is it's really just a complete remaking of Clinton's riverfront and so you know curtis company is there and they're flooded and the WGA young machine shop is still there but we're gonna build the levee and clean up the river and what replaced sawmills here in Clinton you know basically value-added production of Oh eventually coin syrup and sugars and then cellophane and of course we got lion Dell and various things today you know basically still processing a raw material into something but you know it all kind of goes back to this just you're really interesting right 1868 you have you know these early orders and go to the University of Iowa and you can you see these basically the beginnings and you know all the different markets that Clinton could meet you know the plant valley grain and lumber company people always looking for jobs that were coming to Clinton one of my favorite little aside stories of course is Portland which RWJ young-sun interaction with Sonora Saban Iowa had a very good education system and Cortland did not necessarily take advantage of that and and simply you know very early on they realized something and I was a very dry a big driving force behind in essence the competitiveness of clintons lumber capital and the American people must learn that a forest whatever its extent and resources can be exhausted and surprisingly short space of time through total disregard in its treatment really meaning that you know basically there was always a new log source always a new timber source it was always the next next next always looking forward to you know basically the next year's quotas even that day's quotas you know instantaneous communication and trying to secure a production line and of course you know it's interesting you have that and then of course you have the button industry right afterwards and really the river was you know highly changed because of the logging industry impacted the river was pretty much just good for log rafts and pearl buttons for there for a while and of course this Renaissance the rebirth is the lock and dams the more and more industry being built right here on the river and rail and it always goes back to the river and rail and that is Clinton's lumber story in about 30 minutes this is almost like a documentary went pretty fast hopefully you can visit sometime soon to see the sawmill in person I can tell you these story is a little bit more detail but thank you for joining me