The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-01-23
A Dav at Even.

A DaV at EVEN.
The editor OF the SENTINEL had
occasion to visit the embryo city called
EVEN. few days ago, and though his
visit there was purely private business
he could not help noting the wonder.
full growth and prosperity of the
place.
With the exception of perhaps a
dozen buildings the entire village has
been built mp within the last year.
No accurate estimate Of the population
can be given at this time, but q count
would considerably exceed 1000 prob
ably. although there are comparatively
few families on account of scarcity of
dwellings,.
New buildings are springing up on
every hand like mushrooms, the new,
pine colored structures looming up
among the trees on the outskirts of the
village. Stores, saloons, boarding
houses and shops Of all kinds are going
up at rapil rate despite the extremely
cold weather.
The several branches Of business are
quite we'll represented. but in place
Of such rapid development there is al
ways room for more. The greatest
need Of the place just now is a good
hotel. There are several we'll kept
places, among them the Union house,
in which Mr.. Robert Connacher is the
presiding genius, but their capicity is
entirely inadequate to the needs of the
place. Much of the time there is
standing room" only and guests are
compelled to make their stay as brief as
possible on that account. Messrs.
Stewart & Trotter, the real estate
dealers, have fine corner lot reserved
for any person or company who will
put up first class hotel, and in oil pro-
liability the site will not long remain
vacant.
Already village charter, water works
and electric lights are talked OF and arc
among the possibilities during the COM
ing simmer. The electric lights are
almost certainty, the power for such
plant having been offered at nomin.
al cost by the Lake Superior Lumber
company whose saw and single mill at
Even has Just been completed.
Most strangers coming to this place
are at loss to account for the sudden
growth Of the village, but when one
comes to figure up the immense amount
Of numbering being done in the south.
ern part OF Ontonagon county this
wonderful development is not at all
phenomenal.
It is estimated by those pretty well
posted on logging operations in this
vicinity that the log crop Of Ontonagon
county this winter will approximate
$50. 600, 900 feet. Among the operators
in the vicinity OF Even and scattered
through the southern end Of the county
the following are mentioned to give
some idea Of the magnitude OF the
lumber interests Of this part of the
country.
Diamond Match company. This
concern has seven camps OF its own
and will bank thirty million.
The Nester Estate has three cam ps,
one on sec. 24-4S-4O. enc on sec. AT.
40 and one on sec. 9O-4S-39- They will
put in from fifteen to twenty million.
James Norton will bank about nix
millions from sec. 29-48-39 secs. Q and
21-47-4O. In addition 10 this he Il get.
ting ont about $4,000 feet Of board
timber.
ID. J. Norton & Co. Cameron Bros.
jobbe-s. four and one half million first-
class white pine. Sec. III 47-4O.
John Higgins, jobbing for Diamond
Match. Three millions. Sec. 13-47-
40.
Thos. Carmioheal. for Diamond
Match. Four million. Sec. 9-47-lO.
J. B. Simpson. for Diamond Match,
Two millions, sec. 49, 1910. +.