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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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eks. As soon as I was able I proceeded to Detroit, where Ifound that a friend had been to Port Huron, discharged the faithlesscaptain, paid off the crew, and stopped some of the heavy expensesthat were running against me. While at Detroit I determined to pro-ceed with the building of the mill. I found on my arrival at Ports-mouth that Mr. Barney had finished his part of the contract by havingit ready to receive the machinery, and during the winter I had all mystock of goods and every pound of iron that was used in building themill hauled in sleighs through to Portsmouth, and we got the mill run-ning on the first of April, 1837. Such were the difficulties involved in the first days of the lum-bering industry in our county. This first mill was no sooner com-pleted than the business panic set in and there was no demand forlumber, either m the valley or farther away, at any price that wouldpay for the work and shipment, so the mill became idle in a very short BAY COUNTY, PAST AND PRESENT.
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EARLY DEVELOPMENT—LUMBERING. 99 time. It was later (1841) purchased by James and James J. McCor-mick, who shipped the first lumber from the Saginaw River to otherports. This mill was the only one in operation in Bay County untilafter the business conditions had become improved. In 1844, James Fraser and Cromwell Barney, with the assistanceof Israel Catlin, began the erection of the second mill, the first oneoperated by water-power and located at Kawkawlin. (1) The firstmill in Lower Saginaw, and the second steam mill in the county, wasstarted the next year (1845) by Hopkins, Pomeroy, and Fraser onWater street just south of Center avenue. The next one was erectedby Catlin and Fraser in 1847, on Water street between Eighth andNinth streets. From this time on the erection of mills was rapid, andby 1857 there were fourteen mills in Bay County. This developmentcontinued for many years, and by 1880 suitable land near the riverbank for new mills was hard to find. Each new mill attempted to

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