MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



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Standard Oil Company has been made from its 

 foreign departments, there remains $20,000,000, 

 or 20 per cent upon its capital, which have been 

 made from its business with the people of this 

 country, which means that 25 cents per capita 

 profit has been made by the Standard Oil Com- 

 pany out of the people of this country from the 

 conduct of the business of manufacturing petrol- 

 eum and its products and distributing the same. 

 Including for the moment whatever portion of its 

 income may have been earned from its dealings 

 with the people of foreign countries, and assum- 

 ing that its entire divided income has been earn- 

 ed from its business with the people of the 

 United States, the entire annual dividend shows 

 that the Standard Oil Company has earned 50 

 cents per capita from the conduct of its business. 

 It has earned less money than the government of 

 the United States itself levies upon the business j 

 of manufacturing tobacco. It has earned a vastly 

 smaller sum than the amount of the tax which 

 the government of the United States itself levies 

 upon the business of manufaacturing and distri- 

 buting alcoholic liquors. It has earned from the 

 people of the state of Michigan a sum very much 

 less than the sum which the same people of the 

 state of Michigan tax themselves as consumers 

 for the operation, of breweries and saloons. These 

 comparative figures simply show that there is a 

 good deal of tempest in tea-pot about the wrong's 

 that are being done the general public by the 

 exaction of the Standard Oil Company. It must 

 be remembered that the dividend profits of that 

 corporation represent the margin of profit real- 

 ized by it upon a most extensive and world wide 

 business and we doubt whether, if the most dras- 

 tic legislative regulation that is proposed by any 

 of the reformers were made effective against the 

 Stand Oil Company today, that it would mean 

 the reduction of oil used in this country today. 



These considerations are simply such as appear 

 upon the face of the question and they are worth 

 pondering over. There may have been in the 

 case of the people against the Standard Oil Com- 

 pany- a greater waste of nervous energy than the 

 results will repay. 



MUSKEGON'S PIONEER LUMBERMAN. 



The oldest living lumberman on the east 

 shore of Lake Michigan is A. V. Mann, of 

 Muskegon, president of the National Lumber- 

 men's Bank. He began his career in the lum- 

 ber business in that city just fifty years ago. 

 Since that time his lumbering interest has 

 passed and he has become identified with 

 banking and many of the manufacturing pur- 

 suits which contribute to Muskegon's welfare, 

 fare. 



.Air. Mann has watched Muskegon grow 

 from a hamlet with 500 or 600 population to 

 the present splendid city. He is one of the 

 very few residents of the Muskegon of half a 

 century ago who are yet living. Mr. Mann 

 says: 



"As I look down the lake I can picture very 

 clearly the eight sawmills of 50 years ago, 

 those of C. Davis & Co., Chapin, Marsh & 

 Foss, L. G. Mason, Durkee & Truesdell, Al- 

 bert Trowbridge, George & John Ruddiman, 

 and the two mills of Ryerson & Morris. I 

 would very much like to see it all again." 



The first interests Mr. Mann had in Muske- 

 gon were in some timber that he cut on the 

 present 'site of Evergreen cemetery. The 

 tract consisted of about 120 acres. He cut 

 the logs and hauled them to the mill. 



The following March he purchased 480 acres 

 of timber land in Cedar Creek township, ly- 

 ing one mile and a half north of the present 

 Muskegon river bridge. He continued oper- 

 ating there until all of the timber was cut. 



"At that time," says Mr. Mann, "a large 

 part of the logs were rafted from the boom 

 directly to the mills, especially those in the 

 upper part of the lake, instead of being towed, 

 as in later days. 



"The others of the logs were furnished by 

 tow to two very small sidcwheel steamboats. 

 The latter were the Peggy, owned by George 

 Ruddiman, and the Algomah, belonging to 

 Ryerson & Morris. 



"It did not require very large boats, for the 



capacity of the mills was not what it was la- 

 ter. From 20,000 to 35,000 a day was con- 

 sidered a big cutting. In later days the cut 

 ran from 100,000 t0 250,000, feet. ' The ' mills 

 were just as large in size, but the cutting ca- 

 pacity was much smaller. Improved machin- 

 ery afterwards made the latter larger. The 

 entire population when I came was dependent 

 on the mills for its support, there being no 

 factories of any kind. 



"There were only two small hotels, but 

 every mill had its boarding house. Most of 

 the mills also provided stores to supply their 

 men with provisions and such merchandise as 

 they might need. Very little money was paid 

 out. Store pay was generally taken by the 

 employes and some of the time in those early 

 days they were mighty glad to get that, for 

 money was sometimes very scarce. The men 

 would -take the orders on the stores, and if 

 they could not use them they would get them 

 discounted at a large rate of interest. 



"In 1860, just previous to the breaking out 

 of the war, there 4 was a vast emigration to 

 this middle-western country. Chicago and 

 Milwaukee and the territory contiguous to 

 those cities required a very large amount of 

 lumber, and prosperous times commenced. 

 The towns grew very fast. Both market and 

 supply were created." 



BIG TIMBER DEAL. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company, of Bay 

 City, has closed a deal with White Bros., of 

 Boyne City, for the purchase of 2,600 acres 

 of timber land in Montmorency county esti- 

 mated to contain between 25,000,000 and 30,- 

 000,000 feet of mixed timber. This timber will 

 come to the Kneeland Bigelow Company mill 

 in Bay City to be converted into lumber. 



White Bros., of Boyne City, own 43,000 

 acres of timber land east of the Michigan 

 Central. This timber was purchased with the 

 idea of extending the firm's operations con- 

 tingent upon the extension of the railroad 

 constructed by White Bros, 'frpm Boyne City 

 to Gaylord east from Gaylord to Alpena. 



This project, it appears, has fallen through. 

 Last spring at a special election held at Al- 

 pena a bond issue of $62,500 was authorized, 

 the proceeds to be turned over to White Bros, 

 as an inducement to secure the . buil.ding. of 

 the road from Gaylord to that city. It ap- 

 pears that a close estimate of the cost of 

 the Alpena extension largely exceeded the ex- 

 pectation of the firm and the projected con- 

 struction was abandoned. It also developed 

 that while White Bros, are carrying on one 

 of the largest lumbering operations in the 

 state at Boyne City with a vast body of tim- 

 ber behind it, they saw their way clear to 

 enter the Pacific coast field and organized a 

 company, with, a capitalization of $1,000,000 

 and invested in 1,000,000,000 -feet of standing 

 timber with the intention of engaging exten- 

 sively in the lumber business at Portland, Ore., 

 and vicinity. The 43,000 acres east of the 

 Mackinaw division was at once placed on the 

 market and the Kneeland-Bigelow Company 

 has taken one block which is contiguous to 

 their own timber in Montmorency county. 



It is expected the entire 43,000 acres will 

 come to the Saginaw river to be manufac- 

 tured. Bay City Tribune. 



BAY CITY MILLS. 



Frank Buell is the most extensive log oper- 

 ator in Michigan. He is intere'sted in several 

 firms in mill properties and standing timber,' 

 and besides cuts and rails logs for several 

 firms aggregating about 60,000,000 feet this 

 year. He is Operating eight logging camps 

 and has a crew of 600 men at work. An aver- 

 age of 100 cars are loaded , every day, the 

 greater portion of which 'go to Bay City. He 

 is also interested in two shingle mills, one at 

 Wolverine and the other at Le Grand, and 

 both will be operated all winter. 



Besides the logs that Mr. 'Buell sends to 

 Bay City, the Kneeland-Bigelow Co. bring 

 down a train load every day from Montmor- 



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eney'county, and the Kern Manufacturing Go. 

 receive a train load of pine logs every, day 

 from off the: Ward lands, on the Ward rail- 

 road. W. D. Young & Co. also -are bringing 

 down over 30,000,000 feet this year. 



W r hen the Richardson saw. mill, at Bay City, 

 begins operations in October it: will require 

 nearly a train load of logs daily to keep the 

 mill in operation. These will come from the 

 company's own lands in Moixtmorenoy. .county. 



