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driveable streams carrying the logs for several hundred miles from 

 their sources, quickly to lake ports and lumber was there man- 

 ufactured in large quantities at the well known lumbering man- 

 ufacturing ports of Saginaw, Bay City, Alpena, Oscoda, Che- Famous Lum- 

 boygan, Traverse City, Ludington and Manistee, Mich., and in Other Years 

 that greatest of all lumber manufacturing markets of the Great 

 Lakes for many years Muskegon, Mich. where at one time 

 there were forty-seven sawmills located, manufacturing in a single 

 year over one billion feet of lumber, and practically all of it 

 white pine. 



The manner of marketing lumber at that time was indeed 

 very crude. The manufacturer gave careful attention and ex- 

 pended time and money to avail himself of the most scientific 

 methods of logging his standing timber and making the logs so 

 that the product in lumber would be of the best quality possible. 

 Every facility; every means of economic operation were carefully 

 supplied and adopted. Provisions were made for reduced costs 

 of manufacture, and such men as David Ward, David Whitney, 

 Hon. Isaac Stephenson, Royal C. Remick, Charles Hackley, the 

 Sages, Merrills, Rusts, D. A. Blodgette and numerous other oper- 

 ators in Michigan made the early history of logging manufac- 

 turing, epoch-making and interesting. 



The lumber was piled on docks available only for water 

 transportation; the various grades, thicknesses, widths and lengths Lun e Jf.~ 

 together. In one pile there would be everything from a 4-inch out Regard 

 10-foot No. 3 strip to a 1st and 2d Clear, varying in value from to Sizes 

 $10.00 to $50.00 per thousand feet. That lumber in nearly all 

 instances would be loaded on what was then known as sailing 

 schooners carrying from 150,000 to 250,000 feet. 



In those days Chicago was the greatest lumber market in 

 the world, having at one time eighty-six lumber yards, almost every 

 one under separate ownership, hence a larger number of these vessels 

 were consigned to what was then known as the Chicago Lumber 

 Market, and at times, owing to unfavorable winds, the boats be- 

 came bunched and with the first favorable wind would come to 

 Chicago in great numbers. I have seen as many as 107 boats 

 at one time loaded with lumber tied up in the Chicago River from 

 the Randolph Street bridge to the mouth of the river for sale. 



