Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-05-14


gives a glowing description of the
plant of Sailing, Hanson
s. Co, which is profusely illustrated,
and will give the outside world some
idea Of the large business here con-
Quoted. 1t has grown SO steadily In
our midst, and is 90 familiar to our
people that but few realize the mag
nitude OF the work. We quote briefly
from the article.
"Some facts about the lumber pro-
ducing plant of Sailing. Hanson u
Co., and their business at Grayling,
which runs the whole year around,
both in the trout season, and Ia the
time when the crust is on the snow,
and when Shopenagons sees ''three
suns"
So the TIMBERMAN has caused to
be made several views of the plant,
accompanied by q portrait OF 4. N.
Sailing, and will herewith, In the
text, tell the story Of the rise of the
business of these men Of Crawling.
1t was in 1860 that the copartner-
ship of Ernest N. Sailing, Erasmus
Hanson and Nels Nicholson was
formed, and it has run trim and true
as a Yankee yacht In the direction Of
success ever since.
They began business as log jobbers,
always buying timber with the prof.
its and sifted history of the con-
Germ shows that there was not a time
when tho jobbing account was on the
wrong side of the ledger.
The company came to Grayling In
1879, and began operations lumber
ing for various interests-and always
buying land. They owned 5000 or
5000 capacity mill at Grayling. They
increased 1t to 10000 daily capacity.
But Sailing, Hanson and CO. live
very much in the present. Their
past has been wonderfully successful
or there would be no present it is
Of the present that we shall partic-
ularly deal.
They cut last year %, 500, 119 feet
of lumber with their two mills, being
daily average for each day in the
year of IS, 364 feet OF lumber.
The company owns In Crawford
county $500 acres, upon which there
are $4,000, 900 feet OF cork pine still
standing, and also 2S0,000,000 of
plain white pine and norway, In
Montmorency county they hold 1880
acres of white pine and Norway,
which will cut $4,000, 900, and in OF
sego 1850 acres of white pine and
norway, (which will cut 10000, 900.
This makes for the company an own
nership in white pine Of 5000, 00O
feet, located on 1l,120 acres of land.
In hardwoods Sailing, Hanson & Co.
have 5,S40 acres in Crawford county,
which will cut "a, 900, 900, and IL, 6ic
acres In Otsego county, which will
cut 100, 0C0, 900 feet, making all told
l24, 600, 900 feet of hardwood lumber,
located on II 800 acres of land.
With the present capacity of the
mills at Grayling the cork pine, white
pine and Norway will last about five
years. With what can be bought in
hemlock and piue logs the life of the
Grayling plant will be prolonged five
years more, Or ten years all told from
this date.
Some time In the future plant
will he erected in Otsego county to
cut their lumber in that locality.
The logging operations are con-
Quoted over the Michigan Cen tral
tracks, one of the branches of that
-oid runs from Gray:ing twenty.
eight miles northeast to Lewiston,
Mich. Branches run out from that
road to the various camps. This
part OF the business Is In charge OF
Mr.. N. p. Sailing, and is successfully
accomplished. No more minute de.
scription of that part of the business
seems necessary to the writer, fol
northern logging is northern logging,
but there are vast di fferences in logs,
and 1t is more concerning logs than
logging that this article will treat
Mr.. B. E. Ferno, of the United
States Forestry Department, is max
ing an exhaustive examination OF
white pines, and recently made ex
tensive researches on Sailing, Hanson
4 Co.'S land near Crawling. When
the report Is made 1t will ontaiu
much interesting data.
The cork pine OF Sailing, Hanson
Hanson s. Co. is located on the NORTH
half OF township q, range 3 west
Of Crawford county, Mich. 1t rum
three or four logs to the thousand
and the logs run so per cent shop ant
better.
| The two saw mill plants, which de
liver the black smoke into the arm
of the north wind In the winter day
lare the best of their kind.