MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



LUMBER CUT OF 



THE HURON SHORE. 



. It has been the practice of the lumber sta- 

 tistician in Michigan as a matter of conveni- 

 ence to divide the state into manufacturing 

 districts. Thus the territory lying along the 

 Lake Huron shore from Bay City to and in- 

 cluding Cheboygan, is referred to as the "Lake 

 Huron shore district," the Saginaw river mills 

 are designated as the "Saginaw river district," 

 the mills along the Michigan Central between 

 Bay City and Mackinaw as the "Mackinaw 

 division district/' etc., says E. D. Cowles in 

 the Bay City Tribune. 



The Lake Huron shore has been a lumber 

 and shingle producing district for fifty years, 

 and it is still doing business, though somewhat 

 disfigured. 



As far back as 1869 there was manufactured 

 at these mills 141,815,000 feet of 'lumber, and 

 so rapid was the increase that in 1887 the out- 

 put had increased to over 600,000,000 feet. 



During the last 'fifteen years the output has 

 diminished and also the character of the tim- 

 ber. Formerly the business was confined solely 

 to white pine, while within the last few years 

 pine, hemlock and hardwood have contested 

 for supremacy. 



There is included in this district a magnifi- 

 cent body of as fine hardwood timber as can 

 be found anywhere in the west, and enough 

 to furnish business for mills and factories for 

 many years. 



The first nine months of 1907 were excep- 

 tionally prosperous ones for the lumber trade, 

 but with the money panic in October trade 

 slumped off and the year closed dull. There 

 was less lumber in the hands of manufacturers, 

 however, at the end of the year than usual. 



The output of the Lake Huron shore dis- 

 trict mills last year was: 



Lumber, feet 167,348,498 



iShingles 84,170,250 



'Lath, pieces 32,683,410 



A comparison shows the lumber output last 

 (year was approximately 30,000,000 feet less 

 [than in 1906, when it totaled 197,532,904 feet. 

 In 1905 the output was 184,532,000 feet. 

 : The detailed output as shown by reports of 

 I the mill firms was as follows: 



Twining. J. McCready: 75,000 feet pine; 

 [400,000 feet hemlock; 30,000 feet hardwood. 



Omer, Andrew Kent: 300,000 feet pine; 500,- 

 [000 feet hemlock; 200,000 feet hardwood. 



Turner, M. H. Eymer: 100,000 feet pine; 

 300.000 feet hemlock; 10,000 feet hardwood. 



East Tawas, Gardner & Richards: 250,000 

 feet pine; 1,000,000 feet hemlock; 1,250,000 feet 

 hardwood. 



Prescott, R. H. Cliff: 110,000 feet pine; 58,000 

 feet hemlock; 220,000 feet hardwood. Veit & 

 Miller: 600,000 feet pine; 150,000 feet hemlock; 

 130,000 feet hardwood. 



Rose City, Prescott-Miller Co.: 700,000 feet 

 pine: 7,000,000 feet hemlock; 1,500,000 feet 

 hardwood. 



Au Sable, H. M. Loud's Sons Co.: 1.874,000 

 feet pine; 7,080,000 feet hemlock: 6,347,000 feet 

 jhardwood. Hull & Ely: 1.700.000 feet pine; 

 60.000 feet hemlock. 



Hubbard Lake, William Colby: 25.000 feet 

 pine: 100,000 feet hemlock; SO.O'OO feet hard- 

 Wood. 



ena, Churchill Lumber Co.: 1,000,000 feet 

 10,000,000 feet hemlock; 4,000,000 feet 

 Iiardwood. Island Mill Lumber Co.: 200.000 

 .feet pine; 5,000.000 hemlock; 4,000,000 feet 

 hardwood. F. W. Gilchrist: 173.000 feet pine: 

 4.000.000 feet hemlock: 4,300.000 feet hardwood. 

 [Richardson Lumber Co.: 1,900,000 feet pine; 

 30,000.000 feet hemlock; 1,000,000 feet hard- 

 Wood. 



! Sanborn, Edward Brilinski: 700,000 feet hem- 

 lock. 



Long Rapids. C. Kelly: 50,000 feet pine; 

 100.000 feet hemlock: 80,000 feet hardwood. 



'Turtle, R. Wilkins: 150,000 feet hemlock; 

 40.000 feet hardwood. 



. Onaway. Lobdell Churchill Mnfg. Co.: 600.- 

 000 feet pine; 800,000 feet hemlock; 12,000,000 



feet hardwood. Gardner, Peterman & Co.: 

 800,000 feet pine; 2,000,000 feet hemlock; 5,000,- 

 000 feet hardwood. Macomber & Bale (Cleve- 

 land branch): 400,000 feet pine. McTiver & 

 Hughes: 1,500,000 feet pine; 3,000,000 feet hem- 

 lock; 3,000,000 feet hardwood. 



Tower, Forest Lumber Co.: 500,000 feet pine; 

 1,590,000 feet hemlock; 550,000 feet hardwood. 

 Keys & Worboys: 1,090,000 feet pine; 1,000,000 

 hemlock; 2,030,000 feet hardwood. 



Millersburg, S. F. Derry & Co.: 58,357 feet 

 pine; 572,612 feet hemlock; 1,321,930 feet hard- 

 wood. Wm. Arkwood (Daust Spur): 10,000 

 feet hemlock. 



Metz, Lombard & Rittenhouse: 50,000 feet 

 of pine; 2,200,000 feet hemlock; 1,073,000 feet 

 hardwood. 



Rogers, J. F. Spens & Bro.: 350,000 feet pine; 

 25,000 feet hemlock; 25,000 feet hardwood. 

 Herman Hoeft & Son: 150,000 feet pine; 1,000,- 

 000 feet hemlock; 100,000 feet hardwood. 



Riggsville, Wolf Bros.: 125,000 feet hemlock; 

 140,000 feet pine. 



Cheboygan, Embury-Martin Lumber Co.: 

 4,000,000 feet pine; 16,000,000 feet hemlock; 

 5.500,000 feet hardwood. M. D. Olds & Co.: 

 5,833,612 feet pine 11,556,677 feet hemlock; 

 2,010,310 feet hardwood. 



Weadock, Wm. Gingrich: 200,000 feet hem- 

 lock; 405,000 feet hardwood. 



The totals were 24,358,969 feet of pine; 86,- 

 647,289 feet of hemlock, and 56,342,240 feet of 

 hardwood. 



The production of lath and shingles has not 

 shown the fluctuations in this district that has 

 characterized the lumber industry. In 1877 

 there was produced in the district a total of 

 58,000,000 shingles, and in 1887 the output was 

 64,500,000. 



In 1907 there was produced 84,170,250 

 shingles, compared with 85,832,000 in 1906 and 

 103,581,000 in 1905. 



Last year the output of lath was 32.683,410 

 pieces, as against 47,572,000 pieces in 1906 and 

 61,633,000 in 1905. 



The detailed output of the respective firms 

 in 1907 follows: 



Turner, M. H. Eymer: 400,000 pieces lath; 

 600,000 shingles. 



Omer, Andrew Kent: 500,000 pieces lath. 



Au Sable, H. M. Loud's Sons Co.: 7,419,000 

 pieces lath; 5,646,000 shingles. 



Sanborn, Edward Brilinski: 1,500,000 

 shingles. 



Turtle, Robert Wilkins: 900,000 pieces lath; 

 1,500,000 shingles. 



Alpena, Richardson Lumber Co.: 5,800,000 

 pieces lath. F. W. Gilchrist: 633,000 pieces 

 lath; 2,543,000 shingles. Churchill Lumber Co.: 

 3.000,000 pieces lath. George Masters: 19,- 

 308,000 shingles. Eales Bros. & Co.: 11,617,500 

 shingles. 



Hubbard Lake, William Colby: 25,000 pieces 

 lath; 2,000 shingles. 



Metz, Lombard & Rittenhouse: 9,000,000 

 shingles. 



Onaway, Lobdell & Churchill Mnfg. Co.- 

 8,000,000 shingles. Gardner, Peterman & Co.: 

 1.000.000 shingles. McTiver & Hughes: 5,000,- 

 000 shingles. Macomber & Bale: 500,000 lath. 



Tower, Forest Lumber Co.: 500.000 shingles. 



Millersburg. P. Y. Thompson & Co.: 1,200.- 

 000 shingles; S. F. Derry & Co.: 970,000 

 shingles. 



Rogers, J. F. Spens & Bro.: 800,000 pieces 

 lath. 



Cheboygan. Embury-Martin Lumber Co 

 6.000,000 pieces lath; 5,000,000 shingles. M. D. 

 Olds & Co.: 5.206,410 pieces lath; 2.2S3.750 

 shingles. D. Quay & Son: 10,000,000 shingles. 



MENOMINEE RIVER DRIVE. 



The Menominee river drive this year will 

 total 54,000,000 feet of logs, in addition to the 

 posts and poles and pulp wood. 



The amount driven on each of the branches 

 is as follows: On the main river, 18,000,000: 

 the Brule, 1,500,000: Paint river, 5,000,000; 

 Fence and Deer, 500,000; Pine and Poplar 

 8,000,000; Sturgeon, 6.000,000; Pine Creek, 

 2,000.000; Peminee, 5,500,000, and the Pike 

 4,500,000. 



While the complete arrangements have not 

 been made for the driving of the streams, it 

 has been ascertained that the Poplar river 

 will be driven by Albert Houp, and the 

 Sturgeon and the Paint by the A. Spies Com- 

 pany, of Menominee. 



While the drive will be smaller than last 

 year, there are still 5,000,000 feet of timber 

 remaining in the river from last year to be 

 sorted. With the large amounts of timber 

 that have been brought in by rail the cut of 

 the season in the twin city mills promises to 

 be fully as large as it was during the year 

 1907. 



Lumbermen estimate this season's log cut 

 in the Menominee river district at 223,000,000 

 feet of mixed timber. This is about one-third 

 of the timber cut in 1900 and about the same 

 as that of 1907. 



FOREST FARM COMPANY. 



The Au Sable Forest Farm Company filed 

 articles of association at Saginaw. The pur- 

 pose is the propagation of forest trees and 

 timber. The authorized capital is $30,000, 

 divided into 300 shares of $100 each. The 

 entire stock is subscribed and the amount paid 

 in is $16,000. The stockholders are F. B. 

 Squire, of Cleveland, 75 shares; Charles W 

 Ward, Saginaw, 75 shares; Wm. B. Mershon 

 Saginaw, 75 shares; Charles H. Davis, Sag- 

 inaw, 75 shares. 



OLD SAWMILL DISMANTLED. 

 The last of the old Ramsey and Jones mill 

 machinery has been taken from the mill site 

 at Menominee and sold for scrappage. Two 

 loads of fly, pulley and friction wheels and 

 many pieces of dismantled machinery were 

 loaded on cars to be shipped away. The own- 

 ers felt that the rust was only destroying the 

 old steel and iron and that they might as well 

 get rid of it as let it lay about for another 

 fifteen years to be wasted away. 



BIG ELM LOG. 



A. McAfee & Co., of Manton, have been 

 fortunate in having lumbered the largest elm 

 tree in northern Michigan some three years 

 ago and again this winter they lumbered 

 another elm tree, which made the largest load 

 of elm ever hauled into Manton. This load 

 contained three elm logs which scaled 1 225 

 1,225 and 1.296 feet, making a total of 3,74fi 

 feet, and was hauled by one team over a nine- 

 iile road to their factory in Manton, where 

 the logs were manufactured into staves. 



LOGGING 18,000,000 FEET. 

 J. C. Cleary. the veteran lumberman, form- 

 erly of Gladwin, is general superintendent of 

 the Ward lumbering operations at Deward. 

 Four camps are being operated this winter 

 m the vicinity of that place with about 400 

 men employed.. One of the camps alone has 

 1S7 men.. Mr. Cleary is putting, in 10,000,000 

 feet of pine and the same amount of hardwood 

 this season, and 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 of the 

 latter will be taken to the W. D. Young & 

 Co. plant in Bay City to be manufactured. 

 Mr. Cleary says that this winter has been 

 excellent for putting in logs and that there has 

 been no difficulty in securing men to work. 



GEORGIAN BAY LUMBERING. 



From the best sources obtainable Saginaw 

 valley dealers in pine lumber have thus far 

 contracted for the sawing of very little stock 

 over in the Georgian Bay district for summer 

 delivery. Last season about 60,00,000 feet of 

 lumber came to the Saginaw river from Can- 

 ada. The depression in business and uncer- 

 tainty as to the future of trade and to prices 

 is the cause for this. 



In the Georgian bay district the quantity of 

 logs put in this winter is estimated at 70 per 

 cent of the output a year ago. 



W. E. Jones, of Pulaski; has banked 1.000,000 

 feet of logs on the railroad north of Alpena 

 which have been sold to the Churchill Lumber 

 Company, of Alpena. 



