SAGINAW LUMBER DISTRICT. 

 Capacity for luviber manufacture in the Saginaiv Valley.^ 



513 



Saint Charles and Saginaw Coanty Mills. 



Saginaw City 



East Saginaw 



Florence 



Carrollton 



Crow Mand 



Zil waukee 



Melbonrnp 



TVilliamstowa 



FrankerlnRt 



Stone Island 



Bay City 



Sa'zburg 



Menona 



Banks 



West Bay City 



Kawkawlin 



Total , 



Establish- 



Men employed. 



Capacity for lumber manu- 

 facture (day sawing). 



000, GOO 

 OCO, 000 

 500, 0(0 

 000, 000 

 000, 000 

 000. 000 

 000, 000 

 000, 000 



500, 000 



0(10. coo 



300, 000 

 000, 000 



20. 000, 000 



810, 500, 000 



57, OCO, 000. 



dfi, COO, roo 



10-, 000,000' 



38. 500, roo- 



35, 000. 000 

 10. COO, 000 

 3H. (It 0, 000 

 20, 000, 000 



5, roo, 000 



2, 000, 000 



6, 000, 000 

 305, 500, 000 



112, .500, 000' 

 20, 000, COO 



1 This table is prepared from statistics published in the Lumberman's Gazette, at Bay City. 



Comparative productions of lumber in the Saginaic Valley in 187G. 



For convenience of illustration, we have prepared the followins: dia- 

 prara, in which, assuming? the total production of the Saginaw Yalley 

 in 1876 to be represented by the total length of the figure, the propor- 

 tional quantity manufactured at each place would correspond with the 

 relative area of the several compartments as numbered: 



1. Saint Charles and Saginaw County 

 Mills. 



2. Sagiuaw City. 



3. East Saginaw. 



4. Florence. 



5. Carrollton. 



6. Crow Island. 



Several of the establishments in the foregoing tables run two mills, 

 aud most of them have salt-works connected, by which they are able 

 to economize the waste steam from the engines in the evaporation of 

 brine, aud to use the sawdust and slabs as fuel to great advantage. In 

 fact nowhere can so little refuse material be seen around great lumber- 

 ing establishments as here.^ 



'Tbe existence of salt-bearing strata promisiug remuneration for investment, was 

 first suggests d by Dr. Douglas Houghton, from the geological features of the country 

 and occasional salt-licks. From the earliest period the Indians were known to supply 

 themselves from native spring.s. The report of Dr. Houghton, first made in 183d, was 

 not followed by successful operations until about twenty years afterward. In 1859 

 the manufacture was begun at East Sagiuaw, and for a few years the business was 

 encouraged by a State bounty. The prodnction, however, increased so rapidly that 

 it soon become evident that ic needed no further aid from the State, and the produc- 

 tion has already, in a large degree supplanted that from the Onondaga salines of New 

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