HARDWOOD RECORD 



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TliAI.N OF CIIKMIIAL WOOD AT PLANT NO. 1'. CADILLAC 

 (-•IIEMICAL COMPANY. 



CnAIiCOAL 



AS rr COMES from coolers, plant NO. 



CADILLAC CHEMICAL COMPANY. 



Miivphy & Digging, who have ,1 considerable 

 (|ii:intity of timber adjoining their own, to 

 Cadillac. McGiffert loaders and skidJcrs 

 are employed in their woods work, and these 

 machines are handled witli accuracy and 

 ilispatch. 



The camps of this company are particular- 

 ly attractive, They are perhaps the only 

 camp buildings in the united States that 

 are painted both inside and out. The men 's 

 sleeping quarters are provided with triple 

 deck iron bedsteads, and are neat and com- 

 fortable; the surroundings are pleasant, the 

 cooks high-class and the food provided of 

 exceptional excellence. 



The company's sawmill at Cadillac is one 

 of the largest plants in that city. Close by 

 is its big chemical plant, whic-li is pro 

 vided with wood from their timber holdings 

 and sawmill. 



This company also has a large hardwood 

 flooring plant, the details of which are very 

 similar to those of the Cobbs & Mitchell, 

 Inc., institution, described elsewhere. Its 

 output is equal to any produced in the United 

 States. While ('ummer-Diggins Company 

 manufactures a considerable quantity of 

 hemlock lumber, its chief output is high-class 

 hardwoods. The company is the owner of 

 some 30,000 acres of choice timber land, 

 enough to keep its big plants in operation 

 for more than tweut,y vears. 



MITCHELL BROTHEKS COMPANY. 



One of the chief Cadillac houses has its 

 l)ig manufacturing plant located at .len- 

 nings, the terminus of a branch of the Grand 

 Rapids and Indiana Eailroad, twelve miles 

 east of the city. This pretty little manufac- 

 turing town has a population of about 1,200 

 and is a model sawmill village. It is located 

 on the bank of a lake which affords storage 

 for logs. Jennings is practically owned by 

 Mitchell Brothers Company. This concern 

 conducts the great general merchandise es- 

 tablishment there and owns the larger num- 

 ber of houses, all of wnich are tidy, well 

 painted structures. 



The company 's plant is the largest one 

 in tliis district. Its equipment consists of 

 one double cutting band mill, two single 

 band mills and a band resaw, with a wood 

 mill for cutting chemical wood, all within 

 one structure. The power for this plant 

 and for the neighboring Cadillac Chemical 

 Coni]iany is supplied by six immense Wickes 

 Brothers' vertical tubular boilers and a great 

 AUis-Chalmers engine. Recently the com- 

 pany's sawmill was entirely reconstructed 

 so that it now has a practically new outfit. 

 The chemical plant is also new, and is the 

 second of the big plants belonging to the 

 Cadillac Chemical Company. 



In addition to the sawmill and chemical 

 plants at Jennings there is located the im- 



mense flooring factory of Mitchell P.rothcrs 

 Company, which is operated on the same 

 general lines as the plant of Cobbs i: 

 Mitchell, Inc. Mitchell Brothers Company 

 is a large producer of winter-sawed, end 

 piled white maple lumber; a picture of tlu' 

 storage sheds is shown. The various fea- 

 tures of .lennings and its manufacturing m 

 terprises are fully illustrated in counectinu 

 with this article. 



The timber holdings of Mitchell Brothers 

 Company are located from twenty to forty 

 miles northeast of Jennings, in Missaukee 

 count}', and are reached by the Jennings tV 

 Northeastern railroad, a splendidly built 

 narrow-gauge road some sixty miles in 

 length. They correspond very closely iu 

 character with those of Cummer-Diggius 

 Company, and Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., being 

 a mixed hemlock and hardwood growth of 

 the Ycvy highest type. They consist of about 

 !2;"i,00il acres — enough to keep their plants 

 running for fully a quarter of a century. 

 The company employs direct connected loco- 

 motives on its main track, to pull its loaded 

 trains of logs into Jennings, and on its 

 woods spurs in making up these trains. Me 

 Gift'ert log loaders are employed in the 

 woods work. Several of the pictures show 

 the character of Mitchell Brothers' timber 

 and woods operations. The company's 

 i-ani|is are well maintained, like others in 



WOOD YARD CADILLAC CHEMICAL COMPANY, PLANT NO. 1. 



PLANT NO. 1 CADILLAC CHEMICAL COJIPANY. 



