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Description Third Street Bridge, with Sage Mill in background, Bay City, Michigan. The bridge collapsed in 1976 after being hit by a freighter.
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Identifier: baycountypastpre1910butt (find matches)
Title: Bay County past and present
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Butterfield, George Ernest, 1883- ed Bay City (Mich.). Public Schools Bay City (Mich.). Board of Education
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Publisher: (S.l.) : C & J Gregory
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rveyor can satisfy, andwhich puts all calculations astray. It commenced operations in Mayof 1865 and cut during that season 9,048,000 feet. In 1866 it cut20,225,000. The capacity for one season is really 40,000,000 feet. (2)In the banner year of 1888, enough lumber, over 4,000,000,000 feet, wascut in the mills along the Saginaw River to make a sidewalk of two-inch planks, four feet wide, that would reach entirely around the earthalmost four times. (3) Bay City and the Saginaw Valley became knownthroughout the United States, and even in Europe, on account of theirrapid development and the quantity and quality of the lumber pro-duced. Of course this immense increase in lumber manufacturing called (1) A water power mill was built on the Pine River as early as 1S35. Pine Riverwas for a long- time in Bay County, but is .now in Arenac County. (2) Directory of Bay City, Portsmouth, Wenona and Bangor, 1868-9, page 264. (3) For lumber statistics, see Appendix. 100 BAY COUNTY, PAST AND PRESENT,
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«4HO bo S EARLY DEVELOPMENT—LUMBERING. 101 an ever-increasing number of laborers of all kinds, including thefarmer, merchants, professional men, and investors, to Bay City andthe surrounding country, and stimulated every sort of business ac-tivity. There was unbounded confidence in the brilliant future pros-pects of the place. The idea that the timber in this region would in afew years be used up was laughed at as ridiculous. But by 1880 themills were bringing logs from an ever-increasing distance back from .i^^^i^- The Big Wheels Used in Hauling Logs. The team in the distance is bringing the logs to the roadway. Here theyare placed with one end off the ground on a cross piece. The wheels are drivenover the logs, a chain is passed under them, fastening them to the wheels. Theblock holding the wheels is knocked out, and the load is ready to be dragged tothe railroad. the river. They no longer depended on the streams, but built railroadspurs in all directions into the forests. By 189

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