HARDWOOD RECORD 



Sale o£ Michigan 

 Hardwood Timber Lands 



Comprising Probably the Finest Hard Maple 

 and Gray Elm Timber Now Standing 



THE lands in Michigan belonging to the late David Ward, not disposed 

 of by the Trustees during the existence of the trust created by the 

 residuary devise of his will, have been ordered by Decree of the Circuit 

 Court for the County of Bay, In Chancery, in a suit for the partition thereof 

 therein pending, to be sold by a Circuit Court Commissioner in and for the 

 County of Bay, Michigan, at public auction to the highest bidder, at the front 

 door of the Court House in Bay City, Michigan, on the fourth day of August, 

 A. D. 1914, at 10:00 o'clock A. M. 



Some 7,000 acres and upwards of the timbered lands included "in said sale 

 are splendidly timbered with a fine quality of hard maple and gray elm, with 

 a sprinkling of other varieties of timber. These lands were personally selected 

 by the late David Ward upwards of a quarter of a century ago, and were espe- 

 cially selected for the excellent quality of the timber thereon, at a time when 

 opportunity was available to select hardwood of these varieties as good as the 

 very best that originally stood in Michigan, and they are practically the last 

 offering of hard maple and gray elm timber lands selected under such conditions. 



All of these lands are very accessible to the Detroit & Charlevoix division 

 of the Michigan Central Railroad, while part of them are also accessible to the 

 Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, the Manistee & Northeastern Railroad and 

 the East Jordan & Southern Railroad. 



Aside from the timbered lands, some 25,000 acres of denuded lands, and 

 lands the timber on which has been heretofore sold and conveyed, will be offered 

 at this sale, and also the saw mill plant, buildings and appurtenances, at Deward, 

 Crawford County, Michigan, built and operated by the Trustees under the Will 

 of David Ward, and likewise certain parcels of land and town lots, dock prop- 

 erties, boomage and riparian rights at or near East Jordan. Charlevoix County, 

 Alba, Antrim County. Manistee, Manistee County, or Bay City, Bay County, 

 Michigan. 



All of the lands will be offered in parcels as fixed by the Decree of the 

 Court, the same ranging in size from 320 acres and upwards for the timbered 

 lands and 80 acres and upwards for the cut over lands, and lands the timber on 

 which has been sold and conveyed. 



For further particulars write Hurdis M. Ready, Circuit Court Commis- 

 sioner, Bay City, Michigan, or Chamberlain. May, Denby & Webster, 1406-10 

 Dime Savings Bank Building, Detroit, Michigan. 



