January 10, 1916 



iaCUAI!US(3N I.UMBKU CU.Ml'ANY'S MILL. BAY CITY, 

 and one of-the best-known and best-liked and most effunent lumbermen 

 in northern operations is W. D. Young, its founder and owner. Mr. 

 Young has had an intimate knowledge of northern lumbering in all 

 its departments for well over forty years. Prior to establishing his 

 present business at Bay City twenty-five years ago this month, he 

 went through all of the stages of 

 lumbering, at one time being en- 

 gaged in carrying logs from Can- 

 ada to operations on the lake 

 shores. Today he is a man of 

 wealth, affluence and standing; 

 his home is one of the show 

 places of Bay City; he is inter- 

 ested in other businesses of note- 

 able proportions and owns an im- 

 mense amount of property besides 

 his timber holdings. 



Mr. Young started at Bay City 

 twenty-five years ago operating 

 one flooring machine; the style 

 •of his operation then was as now. 

 In the intervening years he has 

 built a remarkable organization and operates the largest flooring 

 l)lant in the world, owning sufficient timber in Otsego, Cheboygan 

 and Antrim counties to operate for the next ten or fifteen years. 

 Seventy-five per cent of this is hardwoods. He began buying lumber 

 and having logs cut for him but eventually built his own sawmill in 

 conjunction with the flooring operation, the mill being constructed 

 about twenty years ago. He is also interested in another mill, known 



BIRCH LUGS OK UICUAUDSU.N LL.MBKU ( 'OMl'A.N Y . 



as the island mill. The operations of W. D. Young & Co. cover an 

 immense territory, as can be seen from the illustration at the head 

 of this article. They include, besides an immense flooring mill, vast 

 planing mill facilities and a very well equipped sawmill. There is 

 everything in the plant that is necessary for the efficient manufac- 

 ture of high-grade products of 

 flooring and general planing mill- 

 work, as well as hardwood lum- 

 ber. 



Mr. Young has associated with 

 Iiim in his organization, which is 

 not incorporated, P. B. Wheedon, 

 who is general sales manager, 

 Frank Elliott, assistant sales man- 

 ager, Paul Haggerty, traffic man- 

 ager, and Meade Clover, who has 

 charge of the entire operating 

 end. 



ROSS & WENTWORTH LOG POND. 



Richardson Lumber Company 



The Richardson Lumber Com- 

 pany is distinctly a sawmill prop- 



osition. F. L. Richardson organized the company in 1901 and it was 

 incorporated in the same year. Mr. Richardson is a man who has 

 never sought the limelight, but nevertheless has made a remarkable 

 success in lumbering and stands today as one of the strongest, most 

 respected and genuinely successful northern operators. His interests 

 have spread far beyond the confines of Michigan, reaching as far 

 west as the Pacific coast and as far south as Florida and the Gulf 



KNEELAND-BIGELOW COMPANY'S MILL. 



KNEELAND-BIGELOW COMPANY'S LOG POND. 



