SAGINAW COUNTY. 



The following: paper was prepared by the editor of the Saginnw 

 Enterprise : 



STATISTICS AND GENERAL INFORMATION IN RELA- 

 TION TO THE SAGINAW LUMBER BUSINESS. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



Within tho past five or six years, the lumber business of the Saginaw 

 river and its tributaries has been developed until it has reached an ex- 

 tent and importance of which those not acquainted with this region of 

 Michigan could scarcely dream ; and yet the vast pineries which skirt 

 the banks of theso streims, or wave in majestic grandeur upon the table 

 lands between them, have as yet but slightly felt tho invasion. There 

 are yet thousands of acres of e.\cellent pine lands that tho woodman's 

 axe has never disturbed. Year after year the lumbermen have extended 

 their operations, and yet, so far from any scarcity being felt, they con- 

 tinue to make more extensive preparations for the future. The iatt 

 season several large mills were erected, in which an additional capital of 

 many thousands of dollars was invested, and probably more will yet 

 be built. The most that has yet been done by way of using up the 

 pineries has been to cut the best timber from a jwrtion of the lands 

 within a mile or a mile and a half from the banks of the rivers. Even 

 within this distance there is yet much untouched, and beyond it, are 

 vast recesses of the staple timber, which tho lumbermen will continue to 

 penetrate farther and farther for years to come. 



For the benefit of readers abroad it may be interesluig to gi\o a 

 slKtch of tho 



MODE OF 0PHRATI0N9. 



About the commencement of winter, teams, proviiioiis and men, are 



