Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
April 26, 1890

Cut in the Pine Woods

Ishpeming - The cut of pine logs this winter at the various
camps of the Michigan Lumber Co., will exceed that of last win-
ter by several million feet. There are now ten camps, employ-
ing about 500 men on Dead River, and 25,000,000 feet of logs
have been skidded, half of which are banked. About 5,000,000
feet more will be cut this winter.

On the Peshekee River, north of Michigamme, there are five
camps, employing about 200 men, who have already skidded six
million feet of logs, and will cut about as much more. At this
rate the cut for the present season will exceed that of last
winter by about four or five million feet.

The timber is from lands owned by T. He McGrath, the Detroit
lumber operator and pine land owner, and the cut has been bought
by the Cleveland Saw Mill & Lbr. Co. The larger part of the cut
will be sawed at the Hawley mill at Marquette, the balance being
towed in rafts to lower lake ports for sawing. The logs from
the Dead River district will be taken to Marquette over the Dead
River railroad, and from the Peshekee district over the South
Shore.

Hawley Lumber
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Dead River RR.