Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
March 1, 1890 Saturday

Dead River Lumber Cut

d. C. Brown, who has been operating on the upper Dead River for
Hawley & McGraw, was in the city last Wednesday and reported a very
successful season. About 25,000 feet of pine has been eut by the
five camps, most of which has been banked at Silver River. The
logs will be run down Dead River to the head of the great falls.
There hoisters have been put in to load them on cars which will
take them down to the South Shore line and then over the uew
Dead River RR., to a new Hawley mill at the mouth of the river.

Mr. Brown has also cut about 10,000,000 feet near Michigamme which
will also be brought to the new mill for cutting.

In conversation with a Mining Journal reporter Mr. Brown express+
ed the strong belief in the advantages of the Dead River site for
future industrial development establishments at Marquette. ‘The
bay is better sheltered by Presque Isle," he said, "than is Iron
Bay in the front of the city. The river and marsh can easily be
dredged out for an inner harbor and afford ample space for mills
of all sorts. If Marquette ever becomes an industrial center I be-
lieve that all the plants will almost of necessity be located about
the mouth of Dead River. Of course, a growth there means advance-
ment for Marquette, for it is just without the city and would soon
be annexed."

Dead River Lor. Co.
DSS&A
Stations - Marquette - Michigamme