The Schroeder Lumber Company from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, established a camp there in 1895, on the Cross River.

The loggers had plenty of white pine, balsam fir, and spruce trees to cut.

Lumberjacks ate a lot, and if the food wasn't to their liking, they would leave and seek employment with a different company.

The company owned and operated every step in the lumber supply chain, from cutting down trees to shipping the logs to milling and manufacturing wood products.

Owner John Schroeder died in 1905, and although his sons ran the firm for several decades afterward, the company went out of business in 1939 and the Milwaukee lumberyard was closed.