Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-11-16
Additional Alpcna.

Additional Alpcna.
Fr m the Bay City Call.
1t is not the purpose Of the writer t
bore Bay City readers with innumcl
able columns relating specially to tn
local concerns of the metropolis q
the shore" but business interests, per
sonal and social relations are 30 clo>el
intermingled between the two cite
that notes of the progress of the young
er city can scarcely fail to strike re
spending cord in the sympathies of tn
older. Hawley, the tasteful and enter
prising dry goods man Of Bay City, i
also the leading dry goods man Of Al
pena, Aiken, the boot and shoe man o
Bay City. is also the boot and shoe
man of A pena; Beach, who was of the
firm of Tousey, Jennison & Beach
hardware dealers in Bay City. is now q
prominent hardware dealer in Alpena
our esteemed personal friend, Adoni-
ram Damn, once of the Wolverton
house in Bay City, has now, as he has
had for years past and rs We hope he
may have for years to come, charge of
the Fletcher house, y lpena, and so YOU
meet them on every hand.
Business, however come. tramping
on the heels Of sentiment in this dav,
generation and pinev favored common
wealth, and 50 with Just three lost
chapters Of this Alpena gospel We
shall dismiss the congregation until our
next trip up the shore
Only few years ago il WAS regarded
as rank heresy if any one at Alpena
proposed to utilize the beautiful bay in
front for the purpose Of manufacturing
lumber George Prcntiss was The first
70 Try the experiment, Fletcher, Pack
& Co, followed, and finally +. O..
Avery has struck the same lucky lead ;
bat our purpose is only in this conuec-
ton 90 mention Geo. Prentsss improve
ments.
The mill at the foot Of Chisholm
street is about 500 feet from the shore
line, broad pile and slab dock filling
the intervening space, the mill is 140
feet in length and beyond this tho
main and tramway dock, % feet wide.
extends 900 feet out into the bav.
Three hundred feet from the mill is a
croas section Of tramway dock of same
width designed 10 extend 1900 feet
each way from center Of main dock
and at end of main dock. another cross
section Of same dimensions; between
outside and second cross sections the
water Is Is feet deep, atfording ample
shelter for any number of lake craft.
and inside in the reserved spaces Is, or
rather will be, boomage for 100000
feet of logs.
Lumber is piled only one tier deep.
the docks built by driving piles. and
piling in edgings cost very little more
than 1t would cost to burn this now
yalueless refuse, and when the work is
completed this will be as slightly, sub
stantial, spacious and convenient a mill
property as can be found between
Mackinaw and Saginaw. Mr. Prentiss.
who has adopted the plan Of sorting
lumber and selling direct to manu-
tacturers or builders will have all the
space needed for seasoning and snip
ment, and the very best part of facili-
ties for handling, which facts being al
ready understood he is shipping to
ports in half dozen different states
and daily extending the area Of useful.
ness incident to his new departure.
"A pena was never without mystery
and promise of a big bonanza out
side Of her legitimate business of lum-
Der, fish, and cedar poles Many years
ago the entire inland region opposite
sulphur Island was purchased by an
enthusiastic outsider as oil lands, but
there were never any oil developments.
Now there is copper mystery and
solid citizens go TO and fro with bits
of copper and quartz and fragments of
all sorts Of rocks, aqueous, carbonifer-
Gus, trappean, silicious and suspicious.
peering into encyclopedias, works on
geology and minerology, on mining
assaying, copper manufacture, and
there are fabulous stories Of land pur-
chases, Of excavations, shafts, drifts,
tunnels, lodes, and loads Of wealth to
come, but an average vest pocket
would hold all the copper thus UNI
hearthed, and still leave ample margin
FIR the entire oil product Of ancient
days.
Deer-hunting is carried on in the
vicinity of Alpena to an extent which
brings it almost up TO the dignity of a
business, one dealer, G. n. Blackburn,
handling last year $3.50 pelts and ship
ping in three months twelve tons Of
venison, and his shipments represented
only two-thirds Of the deer crop This
year party Of Indians from Cross Vii.
lage, near Mackinaw, have encamped
on hunting grounds in the interior and
tributary to this point, and is estimated
that by the still-hunting process they
will bag at least n thousand deer.
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