Industry: Saginaw, MI - Saginaw Lumber District

1892. Railroads take more lumber traffic from water vessels. [SAG-1892-0304]

1895.

The Sanborn-Perris Map Company, Ltd. lists the following companies/industries in the district as of 1895. They note that the Saginaw River varies in width from 300 to 7090 feet and is navigable. In addition to the regular fire department there is one fire-boat kept by the mill owners. The surrounding buildings are mostly one and two-story. Streets are practically level and generally paved.

• Acme - planing mill and lumber yard
• Ayres Lumber and Salt Co. - planing mill and salt block
• Blind Slip Dock
• Bliss, A. T. - Saw mill, planing mill, lumber yard and salt block
• Bliss, C. S. & Co. - saw mill, lumber yard (east and west yards)
• Bliss & Van Auken, 4 lumber yards, saw mill, planing mill, salt block and lumber yards
• Brand & Harding - single mill and salt block
• Briggs & Cooper - saw mill, lumber yards and salt block
• Briggs & Cooper - north and south lumber yards
• Britton & Barber Hoop Co. - hoop mill
• Brown, A. T. - The New York Works
• Camp, L. - stave mill
• Central Lumber Co. - saw mill, salt block and lumber yard
• Desham, Sweaf & Co. - stave mill
• Eastman, E. O. & S. L. & Co. - planing mill, lumber yard and salt block
• Eddy, C. K. & Sons - saw mill, lumber yard and salt block. Also, new and old lumber yards
• Flint & Pere Marquette railroad - lumber yard
• Front Dock
• Gebhart & Eastabrook - saw mill, lumber yards and salt block.
  • Also lumber yards east and west of log boom.
• Gould, E. F. - saw mill and salt block
• Grant, C. L. & Co. - saw mill and salt block
• Green, Ring & Co. - saw mill, lumber yards and salt block
• Gyde, H. A. - stave mill
• Island Lumber Dock
• Lee, Charles - planing mill and lumber yard
• Melbourne Works, Whitney & Batchelor - saw mill, salt block and lumber yards
• Melcher & Nerreter - saw mill and salt block
• Mershon, W. B. & Co. - planning mill, cutting mill, shingle mill and lumber yard. Also northwest and west yard
• Merrill & Rings' Blind Slip - north and south, and south dock
• Michigan Lumber Co. - sawmill and lumber yard
• New York Works, The. A.T. Brown, Proprietor
• North Dock
• Patterson, Merrill & Tillotson - furniture factory
• Phinney Mill
• Ring, Merrill & Tillotson - furniture factory
• Rust Brothers & Co. - lumber yard
• Saginaw Lumber and Salt CO. - saw mill, salt block and lumber yard
• Schutte, William & Co. - planing mill and lumber yard
• South Dock
• Stoine, S. & Co. - salt block and shingle mill
• Straight Dock, South
• Sutherland, W. W. - lumber yard and dock
• Swift Slip Dock
• Tarts, Leander - salt block and solar salt works
• Thomas, Jackson & Co. - planing mill and lumber yard
• Thompson, Lamp & Co. - lumber yard
• Tindle, T. & Co. - heading mill
• Tyler, S. W. & Son - lumber yard at Saginaw; salt block and shingle mill at Crow Island
• Wall & Weber - saw mill, lumber yard and salt block
• Whitney & Bachelor - Melbourne Works
• Whittier & Co. - single mill and salt bock
• Wiggins, G. B. - saw mill, lumber yard and salt bock
• Wright. A. W. Lumber Co. - saw mill, lumber yards and salt block;
  • yard north of Bristol, west of Niagara;
  • yard south of Bristol, west of Niagara;
  • lumber yard north of Bristol, east of Niagara;
  • yard north and east of planing mill
• Wylie Brothers - single mill and salt block
• Wylie, J. T. & Co. - hoop mill
• Yard Dock

Notes

Time Line

1877. The salt manufacturers in the Saginaw Valley are beginning to use dynamite torpedoes in their salt wells, and with good effect. [LCS-1101]

1895. The Michigan Central had a freight depot on the Saginaw River at Van Buren Street.