East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1859-12-22
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EAST SAGINAW CRY, Dec II, 1859.
While business at this point is appar
emily dull, because all the active and in
dustrious men are in the woods, engaged
in securing logs for the next season.
saving, you must not suppose that bus
mess and Improvement are at a stand still
Such is by no means the case, as a most
cursory glance in at the large warehouses
OF Curtiss & Bliss, Derby & Co. and 9TH
ers will show The sales of the large
houses here average some three of four
hundred dollars per day, cash or its equiv
alent, while the smaller ones think sales
of from one to two hundred q small day.
work. Along the banks of the river the
march Of improvement may be seen in a
very large and fine new saw mill in pro-
cess Of erection by Warner Eastman &
CO., the frame and chimney stack of which
is completed, and the whole Of which will
be ready for work in early spring In
addition to this an energetic firm are Just
completing the machinery to manufac-
fury by steam power, barrel slaves of ev-
cry kind for pork barrels, oil casks, whisky
casks, (hcaven foriend that there should
be any demand for the latter) and vari-
Gus other casks and barrels require by
commerce. With the boundless supply
in this vicinity of all kinds of the very
best timber slaves, heading and hoops,
there is no reason on earth why East
Saginaw, with capital enough, should not
manufacture all the barrels and casks re-
quircd in the northwestern world. This
new establishment, it is anticipated viii,
within the next SIX months, be tasked to
it's very utmost, to manufacture barrels
for the domestic Saginaw Salt, which will
be procured in this vicinity very shortly
after the present salt we'll shall have de-
monstrated the truth Of poor Houghtons
Geological Theory, that the valley ofthe
Saginaw is the centre of the great salt
basin Of the northwest. The brine
now thrown off from the salt well
is sufficiently strong to more than Justify
the expectations Of the cnterprising gen
tlemcn who commenced the work Of sink
ing it. Rest assured that within the next
six months the demonstration will have
been finished, that the Saginaw Valley
can produce all the domestic salt required
for it's own use and all the surrounding
country.
But onward, the march of improve
ment, like that Of the Empire holds its
way, and here on this beautiful river, the
great house Of Amcs & Co, Of Massa.
ahusettS, have found the precise spot to
secure at the lowest possible cost, the
very best possible ash and hickory Tor
shovel and pick handles for their great
establishment, that supplies our whole
country from Maine to Georgia and from
Missouri to California, with their nipple
ments for the miner, the farmer and the
railroad contractor One Of their con
tractors has completed, or will soon do so,
his arrangements 10 furnish to Amcs 4
Co., shovel and pick handles to the amount
of $4,000 per annum, as long as the
contractor may choose. Thus you will
sec that my prediction of 1857 viii soon
have a reality, that the oak, and ash, and
hickory, and elm, and black walnut of the
Saginaw Valley, will prove as valuable
as the mines that nro now Skinned from