. The advantages and surroundings of Muskegon. KELLY BROTHERS MANUFACTORY. eernihle, as tlio rocoipts for Ana:. 1)2 show that somo of our astute liinibermeuhave clisooveretl that tliis is a good point to receive, inspect, grade and i-e-sliip toconsumers. There are numerous reasons wliy this shouhl be made a lumber mar-ket, as many skilled lumbermen reside here and abundance of unused dockagecan be found for this purpose. A sliare of the 750,000,000 feet of lumber that an-nually tinds its way to Tonawanda, N. Y., and is thence re-shipped l)y rail tosouthern points, could be handleil from th s p
. The advantages and surroundings of Muskegon. KELLY BROTHERS MANUFACTORY. eernihle, as tlio rocoipts for Ana:. 1)2 show that somo of our astute liinibermeuhave clisooveretl that tliis is a good point to receive, inspect, grade and i-e-sliip toconsumers. There are numerous reasons wliy this shouhl be made a lumber mar-ket, as many skilled lumbermen reside here and abundance of unused dockagecan be found for this purpose. A sliare of the 750,000,000 feet of lumber that an-nually tinds its way to Tonawanda, N. Y., and is thence re-shipped l)y rail tosouthern points, could be handleil from th s place with greater pn^tit and the timber of the interior is rapidly becoming exhausted, Muskegon can neverhope to regain its prestige as a lnml)er manufacturing center, and our attentionshould be turned to the great distributing advantage-;. If this is rightly consid-ered, Muskegon may still hold a prominence as a lumber market. In 18!)0 the aggregate shipments by water from this port were 355,515,000 feet oflumber; 90,808,000 shin
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