. The advantages and surroundings of Muskegon. ray Bros. Maimfg. Co. conduct a manufactory of no mean importanceat the corner of Park and Hovey avenues, Muskegon Heights. Their Iniilding is60x150 feet, tAvo stories high with power house 40x60, all thoroughly equippedwith modern machinery, having a planing and car diessiug capacit3 of 100,000 feetdaily. Employment is given to about 50 hands, and all varieties of dressed lumber,haid and soft Avood and interior finish is turned out. Car dressing, sash, doors,blinds, moulding, siding, flooring, ceiling, stair Avork, office fixtures, etc., comes in
. The advantages and surroundings of Muskegon. ray Bros. Maimfg. Co. conduct a manufactory of no mean importanceat the corner of Park and Hovey avenues, Muskegon Heights. Their Iniilding is60x150 feet, tAvo stories high with power house 40x60, all thoroughly equippedwith modern machinery, having a planing and car diessiug capacit3 of 100,000 feetdaily. Employment is given to about 50 hands, and all varieties of dressed lumber,haid and soft Avood and interior finish is turned out. Car dressing, sash, doors,blinds, moulding, siding, flooring, ceiling, stair Avork, office fixtures, etc., comes inthe line of this firm. F. G. and F. M. Gray are natives of Conn., and Avereformerly doing business on Clay avenue, fiom whence they remoAcd to presentlocation July, 91. They manufacture all the AVood-work for the Mosely FoldingBath Tub, an article that must be seen to be appreciated. The Mosely Co ofChicago, Avill hoAvever, gladly send circulars to interested parties, Avhich explainthe merits of this useful and unique piece of GRAY BROTHERS PLANING MILL AND FACTORY. CITY OF NORTH MUSKEGON. On the north side of Muskegon Lake, and betAveen it and Bear Lake, is abeautiful peninusula about 4 miles in length and averaging half a mile in AA^ surface of this plateau rises some 30 feet above the Avater level. A goodportion of this is coA^ered Avith oak groA^es interspersed with pine; the Avhole sur-Iounded by a strip of low. shore line Avide enough to afford ample room forwharves and manufactories, giving three and a half miles of water-front from 15 to30 feet in depth, through Avhich any Aessel afloat on our great lakes can readilycome up to the docks of North Muskegon. The tAvo lakes are connected by a shortchannel at the western extremity of Bear Lake. This was formerly obstructed bya dam which Avas built in 1837 by Jonathan H. Ford, agent for the Bufialo & Black 47 Rock Company, to furnish power for a watormill. Tlie mill was honglit by HiramJiulson & Co. in
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