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• ' <br /> r <br /> 4.,'K't , 3 . ''' , I 7-4'i/ ' :A',::' " '-'1 -1 1 <br /> 7 <br /> „ , .. , ,. . , ,, ,, „.....,„ . „„, , , . <br /> ,, . g 1 „„ ''''' ,,,,,,,, .. .,'„ '''/,' - .;" .1 I ' - ' <br /> ✓ <br /> ,f, / <br /> c c,e f b* '" ram <br /> • , - .: , '',, 44'44 <br /> The 1884 steel bridge and the Elk River Milling Company flour mill,ca. <br /> 1910.Photo:SCHS. <br /> Industrial Development after Ard Godfrey <br /> Spurred by the agricultural economy,the northern Minnesota <br /> lumber boom, and an expanding population, Elk River's <br /> small flour and lumber milling industry prospered <br /> for many decades. Saw milling was the greatest <br /> manufacturing activity, sustaining local companies and <br /> employees from 1851 into the early twentieth century. Flour <br /> and starch production also contributed to early industrial <br /> activity,with both active into the early twentieth century. <br /> • <br />