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logging railroad, belonging to Mitchell Broth- 

 ers Company, extend northeast, and from Cad- 

 illac in a northwesterly direction, the logging 

 road of Cummer-Diggins Company, which han- 

 dles the timber from their holdings as well as 

 from those of Murphy & Diggins. From 

 Boyne Falls, seventy-five miles north of Cad- 

 illac, another extensive logging road owned 

 by Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., penetrates their 

 timber properties in Charlevoix county. Dur- 

 ing the coming year another logging road will 

 be extended still further north from the main 

 line of the Grand Eapids and Indiana, by the 

 Cadillac Handle Company, to penetrate their 

 Emmet county holdings. Both trunk lines of 

 railroad are used extensively for the trans- 

 portation of logs to the mills at Cadillac. 

 These two systems, with the connections, form 

 admirable outlets for the manufactured prod- 

 ucts of the city. 



Cadillac has most of the advantages and 

 none of the drawbacks of much larger cities. 



Its main street is excellently paved; its resi- 

 dence streets are macadamized, with cement 

 gutters and curbing; its cement sidewalks 

 extend to the very suburbs, and between them 

 and the streets proper are handsome grass 

 plats ; it has excellent waterworks, sewerage, 

 electric light system and gas plant. It is the 

 judicial seat of Wexford county and boasts 

 of a fine city hall building, public library, 

 haudsome high school, four graded schools. 

 Baptist, Catholic, Congregational, Methodist, 

 Presbyterian, Swedish Lutheran, Swedish 

 Baptist and Swedish Mission churches. There 

 are two banks, both strong financial institu- 

 tions, a handsome new Y. M. C. A. building 

 in process of construction, a hospital nearly 

 completed, two daily newspapers, and many 

 minor and worthy business enterprises not 

 separately mentioned in this article. 



Cadillac is an exceptional city among lum- 

 ber manufacturing comnuinities in that the 

 greater portion of working men employed 



Panoramic Vieti) of the City of Cadilla 



about the several manufacturing plants are 

 owners of their own houses. These homes 

 are homes in fact as well as in name. Al- 

 most without exception they are neat frame 

 structures set on stone or concrete founda- 

 tions, well painted, and attractive both inside 

 and out. They have lawns and gardens and 

 are kept up in the perfection of neatness that 

 prevails throughout the entire city. 



Fortunate is Cadillac in its recreation priv- 

 ileges. The twin lakes, Cadillac and Mitchell, 

 afford fine boating and fishing and the nu- 

 merous small streams within reach of the city 

 are a delight to the fisherman. The lakes 

 with their sandy beaches provide excellent 

 bathing in many places, and the wooded banks 

 make delightful picnic and camping grounds. 

 On one of the beaches of Lake Mitchell many 

 Cadillac citizens annually erect tents and port- 

 able houses for residence dining the months 

 of July and August. This little community 

 of tent dwellers is known as the ' ' White 

 City. ' ' 



Panoramic View Part of Lumber Yard, Maple Flooring F 



