 The secondary industries included the Northwest Paper Company, the Cloquet Tie and Post Company, the Berst-Forster-Dixfield Company toothpick factory, and the Rathborne, Hair and Ridgeway Company box factory.These secondary industries would eventually ascend to the primary industries, but the recovery of the primary industries was much more complex.The Northern Lumber Company, which was responsible for a significant percentage of Cloquet's economy, had been destroyed.