Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-12


low watermark-the highest railroa,
bridge in Michigan. It's total longtl
will be 986 feet. with two truss SPAN
Of 100 and $50 feet. combination o
wood and iron. Therest Of the lengtl
consists of trestlo work, with twelv,
8xS posts in each bent. 1t will hav,
a strength of two tons to the foot, SUI
ficient for any standard gauge road
The trusses will be put in by Smitl
Bridge Company Of Toledo. Tn
trestle work is being done by A. j
Dubuis, of Detroit. 1t will contain
over half a million feet Of timbe
and will cost in round numbers $50,
600. The timber is all white pine
which grew on the banks of the Riff,
river, was RATED to Detroit, sawed il
this city by Mofiat, Eatherly q Co.
and shipped back to the Rifle. View
ing the bridge from the wagon road
below, it bears striking resem
blance, though on a smaller scale, t.
the great Portage bride, at Hornells.
vile, n. Y.
Next in Importance to the crossing
Of the Rife is the bridge across the
Au Ores. This is also trestle and
truss bridge, is AZ feet above the bed
of the river and is LOO feet long
There is heavy grade at the north.
ern approach to the bridge, which will
be taken out. Here is about the only
point where any considerable grading
had to be done.
There is an extensive belt of hard
wood timber which the road passed
through beyond the Au Ores, which
will develop into valuable. farming
section. Whitemore Station is in the
center of this belt and has already
become an important supply point.
But the chief business interest which
lies along the road is numbering.
There is at low estimate 500, 000, 900
feet of pine tributary to the road, be-
sides what may be brought into that
relation by branches. There has al
ready been about 400,000,O00 feet
shipped over the line. Last season
they took out of the east branch of
the Au Ores alone and forwarded
about AZ, 100000 feet. The first camp
after Alger is that of Moffat, Eathe-
ly & Co., of Detroit. Their timber
is all long pine and goes into the Rifle
river. Barney Mills, of Port Huron,
owns from 100000 to 10O,OOO,000
on Mansfield Creek, which will most
ly go over this road. G.. III. Prescott,
of Bay City, the former owner of the
Tawas & Bay County road, owns 3d.
100000 to 100000 feet of pine,
which is contracted to go over this
road to Tawas, 100000 a year.
The Keystone Salt & Lumber Com
pany of Bay City, have about years
cutting, which the road will carry.
Heretofore this pine had gone into
the main stream of the Au Ores.
Henry w. Sage owns the largest
amount of pine in this section. His
product has gone, heretofore, into the
Au Ores and Rife rivers. The road
will do considerable hauling for him.
w. F. Whitney, of Cincinnati, o.,
has about two years cutting on the
line of this road. The old road has
hauled for him the past three years.
His mill is situated at the Au Ores
Point, at q town called Whitney.
The Saginaw Salt and Lumber Com
pany own large tract tributary to
The road. A branch runs into their
pine. Large amounts have been put
by them the past season into the East
Branch of the Au Ores, hoisted by a
steam engine, loaded on the cars and
shipped to Tawas. Jerome e. Will
Jams, of Saginaw, handle large
of timber in the same way.
Emery Bros, Of East Tawas, own
considerable pine on the line of the
'oad, and also put into the Au Ores.
There are other firms operating on
his road. j. and T. Charlton, Of
Lyndock, Ont. own tract of long
timber on the line of the road, OH
which they have been cutting five
years. They have about 100000
eet left. Beside the timber, single
Mills are operated along the line by
Bailey & Thompson, John Arm, James
McIver and VIM. Mills. There are
hree extensive saw mills at Tawas
Jity, operated by Sylvester Hale, AL
,xander McBain and G. III. Prescott.
At East Tawas are located the large
Mills of the East Tawas Salt and
Lumber Company, owned by Geo. P.
smith, of Detroit, III. B. Smith, of
Bay City, and II. N. Loud, of Osco-
la; w. N. Locks circular mill.
emery Bros mills, and the pumping
works of the Oscoda Salt and Brine
supply Company, who pump brine 10
)scoda, thirteen miles distant, through
Nyckoff pipes. Between East Tawas
md Tawas City is located prosper
JUS grist mill, run by Mr.. Inglesh.