William Map was enumerated as having a sawmill and grist mill in Rusk County, in 1870. The mills were worth, respectively, $2,400 and $600. The sawmill, from $1,300 in raw materials, milled 200,000 feet of lumber worth $4,000, and the grist mill, from $750 worth of corn 1,000 bushels of cornmeal, a value of $1,000.. Four men were paid a total wage of $800 for eleven months fulltime work.