Looking across the Mississippi River to the gatehouse at the lower dam water power station; the Minneapolis Western railroad bridge is in the background.
View of water rushing through the gates of the lower dam water power station. Also shows the Stone Arch Bridge and the Minneapolis Western railroad bridge.
Lumber was rafted downstream from Stillwater. Boards were arranged in cribs or heavy crates, each 16 feet wide and 32 feet long. A lumber raft might contain as many as 200 cribs.