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Linns History of Centre and Clinton Co, page 245
"This enterprise, now carried on by E. M. Sturdevant & Co., was founded in 1879. The business of the mill includes the a. manufacture of dressed and rough lumber, sash, doors; frames, blinds, shutters, etc. Building contracts are also taken to a large extent. Employment in all departments is given to about sixty hands. Sturdevant & Co. have also a large saw-mill in Rush township on Moshannon Creek, which has been in active operation since 1868. Its capacity is about twenty thousand feet daily. The product of the mill embraces rough and dressed lumber, shingles, boxes, etc. At the mill and in the woods forty men are employed. In addition to the business pf the two mills, Sturdevant & Co. engage during the logging season in rafting lumber on contract down the Susquehanna to the Lock Haven and Williamsport booms. From twenty-five to thirty millions of feet are thus i-un by him during the season. Fully three hundred men are employed in this branch of his business. The practical management of Sturdevant & Co.'s mill and logging operations is in the hands of Mr. John Ardell, of Bellefonte. Mr. Ardell was a lumberman of long standing when he came to Bellefonte in 1865, and has since been constantly and extensively engaged in the same pursuit."
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