A description of the company
reads, "Cooperation in the production of logs was extended
through such subsidies as the Cloquet Tie & Post Company,
which dealt with trees and products the main companies could not
handle. For example, cedar and tamarack were an embarrassment
to loggers of white pine. They were the copper residuein gold
ore, and most veteran woodsmen disdained them as "brush."
But because the demand for tamarack ties and cedar poles was active,
Cloquet Tie & Post logged the trees, which in the boggy lands
of the St. Louis were numerous, and profitably manufactured the
products." [Taken from "Timber and Men, The Weyerhaueser
Story," Hidy, Ralph W., Frank Ernest Hill, Allan Nevins,
the MacMillan Co., NY p. 193]
Another book describes the Cloquet Tie & Post Company; "This company was organized in 1900 for the purpose of utilizing certain classes of timber products, which had until that time been valueless, and which it was felt should not be allowed to go to waste.
The company operates mainly on the lands of the Northern and Cloquet Lumber Companies on the St. Louis and Cloquet rivers above the city.
It's products consist of spruce pulpwood, cedar and tamarack ties, and cedar posts and poles. Of the first it's annual output is from 5000 to 7000 cords of ties, 200,000 of posts, about the same; and of poles, 75,000.
It has an immense yard, one and one-half miles long, on the St. Louis River at Brevator about ten miles above Cloquet."
