MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



CUT OF MILLS 



ALONG THE M. C. 



The Michigan Central Mackinaw division, cx- 

 tendi.ig from Bay City to Mackinaw City, a dis- 

 tance of 183 miles, traverses one of the most ex- 

 tensive belts of timber in Michigan, and for 

 many years it has been the chief source of sup- 

 ply for the logs which stock the Saginaw river j 

 mills besides furnishing logs for a score of saw I 

 mills along the main line and branches of the 

 road, says E. D. Cowles, the lumber statistician 

 of the Saginaw Valley. 



This road was originally the northern exten- 

 sion of the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw rail- 

 road, but a little more than a quarter of a cen- 

 tury ago it was taken over by the Michigan Cen- 

 tral. Lumbering began at an early day on this 

 line. Away back in 1863 D. A. Ballou & Co. 

 erected a mill at Kawkawlin, and from that year 

 on and up to and including 1875 that firm manu- 

 factured 140,000,000 feet of lumber. S. A. Kaiser 

 also operated on that stream a number of years. 



In the year 1872 eight saw mills were erected 

 north of Kawkawlin up as far as Ogemaw. Deep 

 River, White Feather, State Road Crossing, Pin- 

 conning, Standish, Culver, Ogemaw Springs, 

 were all important lumbering points in the early 

 days. 



From 1870 to 1907 inclusive, there has been 

 manufactured on the line of this Mackinaw divi- 

 sion and its branches, the enormous total of 6,- 

 100,000,000 feet of lumber. 



The more important lumbering points at pres- 

 ent on the line are West Branch, Waters, Deward, 

 Grayling, Lovells, Gaylord, Vanderbilt and Wol- 

 verine. 



All of this product is moved to market by rail 

 via Bay City. 



There was manufactured on this line last year 

 a total of 144,776,613 feet of lumber, classified as 

 follows : 



Pine, feet 43,048,519 



Hemlock 57.297,836 



Hardwood 44,430,258 



The output of these mills in 1906 amounted to 

 156,654,175 feet. 



A detailed statement of the output follows : 



Bomanville Boman Lumber Co. 128,426 feet 

 of pine, 877,086 feet of hemlock, 702,164 feet of 

 hardwood; Highwood Mcllvenna-Kingsley L. 

 Co. 260,000 feet of pine, 350,000 feet of hemlock, 

 378,000 feet of hardwood; Nolan E. A. Coan 

 25,000 feet of pine, 200,000 feet of hemlock, 223,- 

 000 feet of hardwood; West Branch Batchelor 

 Timber Co. 45,219 feet of pine, 6,614,664 feet of 

 hemlock, 5,562,087 feet of hardwood ; Hardgrove 

 Hardgrove Lumber Co. 50,000 feet of pine, 

 600,000 feet of hemlock, 466,000 feet of hardwood ; 

 Hardgrove Engel Lumber Co. 75,000 feet of 

 pine, 555,000 feet of hemlock, 4,251,000 feet of 

 hardwood ; Grayling Sailing Hanson Co. 4,694,- 

 592 feet of pine, 11,292,554 feet of hemlock, 9,495,- 

 509 feet of hardwood ; Deward David Ward es- 

 tate 27,000,000 feet of pine, .2,000,000 feet of 

 hemlock ; Gaylord Humphrey Bros. 50,000 feet 

 of pine, 300,000 feet of hemlock, 25,000 feet of 

 hardwood ; Lovells T. E. Douglas & Co. 854,415 

 feet of pine, 434,339 feet of hemlock. 21,303 feet of 

 hardwood; Lewiston Michaelson-Hanson Lum- 

 ber Co. 1,520,867 feet of pine t 9,331,233 feet of 

 hemlock, 9,505,198 feet of hardwood; Waters 

 Stephens Lumber Co. 7,200,000 feet of pine, 8,- 

 500,000 feet of hemlock, 4,600,030 feet of hard- 

 wood ; Sailing L. Jensen 200,030 feet of pine, 

 4,000,000 feet of hemlock, 630,000 feet of hard- 

 wood; Johannesburg Johannesburg Mfg. Co. 

 3,000,000 feet of hemlock, 7,000,000" feet of hard- 

 wood; Trowbridge Est. L. Cornwell (Saginaw) 

 808,000 feet of pine, 1,033,000 feu of hemlock, 

 276,000 feet of hardwood; Wolverire Est. L. 

 Cornwell (Saginaw) 112,000 feet of pine. 2,620,- 

 000 feet of hemlock, 1,249,000 feet of hardwood; 

 Logan Yuill Bros. 5,300,000 feet of hemlock; 

 Lupton W. A. Bates 25,000 feet of pine, 250,- 

 000 feet of hemlock, 85,000 feet of hardwood. 



The production of lath and shingles has also 

 been a great industry along this line, although it 

 has diminished of late years to q-.ti'.e an extent. 



Last year there was manufactured 35,828,250 

 shingles compared with 29,962,250 in 1906. The 

 lath production in 1907 amounted to 24,699,150 

 pieces, as against 22,526,000 pieces in 1906. 



The' detailed statement of the lath and shingles 

 output in 1907 follows : 



Bomanville Boman Lumber Co. 171,500 pieces 

 lath, 3,567,000 shingles ; Highwood Mcllvenna- 

 Kingsley Lumber Co. 2,300,000 shingles; Nolan 

 E. A. Coan 1,800,000 shingles ; Grayling Sail- 

 ing Hanson Co. 3,533,850 pieces of lath, 4,138,250 

 shingles ; Lovells T. E. Douglas & Co. 1,794,- 

 000 pieces of lath, 2,884,000 shingles; Waters 

 Stephens Lumber Co. 5,064,000 pieces of lath ; 

 Vanderbilt Frank Kelly 5,000,000 shingles; De- 

 ward David Ward Est. 6,000,000 pieces of lath, 

 000,000 shingles ; Lewiston Michaelson & Han- 

 son Lumber Co. 3,535,800 pieces of lath, 5,239,- 

 ii n shingles ; Sailing L. Jensen 2.700,000 pieces 

 of lath; Logan Yuill Bros. 1,900,000 pieces of 

 lath; Wolverine Wylie & Buell Co. 6,000,000 

 shingles ; Le Grand Wylie & Buell Co. 4,000,000 

 shingles. 



During the last 28 years the territory desig- 

 nated as the Mackinaw division district has fur- 

 nished a large supply of logs to the saw mills on 

 the Saginaw river. 



This is a distinct industry by itself and is 

 not included in the foregoing statistics of the lum- 

 ber, lath and shingles manufactured in the Mack- 

 inaw division district. The logs are cut and load- 

 ed on railroad cars constructed solely for the pur- 

 pose and they are hauled to Bay City and dumped 

 into the mill yards to be manufactured. 



Often as many as 150 car loads of logs a day 

 come to Bay City over this line of road. During 

 1907 the Michigan Central railroad hauled on this 

 division and its branches 136,417,160 feet of un- 

 manufactured saw logs. In 1906 there were haul- 

 ed 130,969,270 feet, and in 1905 there was hauled 



From 1880 up to the close of 1907, just 27 

 years, the Michigan Central hauled to manufac- 

 turing points on its line, chiefly the Saginaw river, 

 the enormous total of 3,372,348,879 feet of unman- 

 ufactured logs. 



Then there are vast quantities of shingles, lath, 

 cedar posts, ties, hemlock "bark and wood, pro- 

 duced along this line of road and its branches, 

 which find an outlet at Bay City. 



During the last year the Michigan Central rail- 

 road acquired what is known as the Detroit & 

 Charlevoix railroad, built by the late David 

 Ward, extended from Frederic, on the Mackinaw 

 division of the Michigan Central, east to East 

 Jordan. It is about 47 miles long and was con- 

 structed chiefly for lumbering purposes. There 

 : * fully one billion feet of timber traversed by 

 this road, all of which is tributary to Bay City and 

 should be brought there and converted into mer- 

 chantable products. 



for Eddy & Belheumer, Lake Linden. This 

 firm also had a camp of its own back of Chas- 

 sell, where more than 1,000,000 feet have been 

 cut, including hardwood. The hardwood logs 

 will be shipped by rail, and the other logs 

 will be brought in by water. These cuts, with 

 logs on hand, will give Eddy & Belhumeur 

 between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 feet to keep 

 their mill going the coming season. 



MICHIGAN LUMBER NOTES. 



Wylie & Buell Lumber Company cut 6,000,- 

 000 shingles at Wolverine last season, and 

 4,000,0(10 at the mill at LeGrand. . 



Frank Kelly manufactured 5,000,000 shingles 

 at Vanderbilt last season and is putting in a 

 stock of logs for this season's run. 



The Michaelson & Hanson Lumber Com- 

 pany, Lewiston, last year manufactured 1,520,- 

 t(67 feet of pine; 9,331,233 feet of hemlock, and 

 9,505,198 feet of hardwood lumber; also 3,535,- 

 800 pieces of lath and 5,239,000 shingles. The 

 company is getting in a stock of about 15,000,- 

 000 feet of logs for the current year. 



McTiver & Hughes, of Onaway, manufac- 

 tured last year 1,500,000 feet of pine, 3,000,000 

 feet of hemlock and 3,000,000 feet of hardwood 

 lumber; also 5,000,000 shingles. They are put- 

 ting in 8,000,000 feet of logs this winter. 



M. H. Eymer, of Turner, manufactured last 

 year 100,000 feet of pine, 300,000 feet of hem- 

 lock and 10,000 feet of hardwood; also 400,000 

 pieces of lath and 600.000 shingles. He is get- 

 ting in 200,000 feet of logs this winter. 



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NORMAL LUMBER CUT. 



"The lumber cut at the mills of Marinette 

 uid Menominee will be fully as large the com- 

 n ; summer as it has been in any season 

 v'thin recent years," says a well known Meno- 

 Tiinee lumber inspector. He says that, while 

 he entire cut for the year will be cut down 

 ^ome because of the late start of the mill> 

 tlr't usually run all winter, the summer output 

 will be fully as large as usual. The inspector 

 savs that all of the mills on the Marinette 

 side will have fully as much timber as they 

 1 .i-d last year and in addition will have con- 

 v'derable left from last season's cut. The 

 Menominee mills may cut a little less than 

 hist year, but it is not likely that the difference 

 vill amount to much. He says that, while 

 low prices are being received for lumber, the 

 sh'n^le market is firm, and it is impossible to 

 secure all the shingles needed. Lath at the 

 present time is very plentiful and there is no 

 verv heavy demand. The inspector is of the 

 opinion that prices will improve all along the 

 line. 



BIG SUPPLY OF LOGS. 



Peter Thibodeau has finished his cut of logs. 

 liru-k nt' Miserery bay. and has them banked 

 n the shore of Lake Superior, to come down 

 in the opening of navigation. He cut up- 

 wards of :.',<:< :<>.< no feet of logs, and they are 



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