Mr. Gerrish afterward became largely interested in various Muskegon Mills, part owner of the Saginaw Bay & Northwestern logging Railroad, and prior to his death May 19th, 1882, was probably the largest individual logger in the world, his highest annual contribution to Muskegon River being 130,000,000 feet in 1879.

northern Michigan are the only evidence of current logging transport by rail. Huge Winter snows seemed a thing of the past; new methods were considered; pole-roads and tramways talked of; but steam harnessed to a logging car had not yet been seen on Muskegon waters. '"On Friday the Executive Committee [of the Vanderbilt interests] decided not to build. The Free Press article continued: Detroit, March 30, 1881. stringers and build two bridges where his railroad crossed branches of the Two Hearted methods than those of the river lumbering. & C. Colton & Co. - Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company. (piled up) until these piles were broken and dislodged for the spring log drives in the An undated photo of men at a Michigan logging camp eating dinner together. Map showing the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, and its connections. They also received commitments from residents and governments along the Huron shore route for land and construction. as he went across frozen swamps, then picking them up behind him. however, made river-logging a risky business. extended, logging was being carried on in almost all parts of the pine country and the

As such, in 1857, he moved with his family to Werner, Wisconsin, where he continued lumbering until 1861, when the household located at Croton, Newaygo County, and remained there for eight years, or until the pine was nearly exhausted in that section of the Muskegon Valley. A third road, the Grand Rapids and Indiana, ran northward using temporary narrow gauge track to supplement other means of transportation did & H.W. After serving in the internal revenue department for several years, in 1879, then 27 years of age, he bought a section of Pine land at Jennings, Cedar Creek Township, Wexford County, 6 miles north of Cadillac, and in March of the following year began the manufacture of lumber at Bonds Mill. Proposed route for a rail road from Copper Harbor, to Fond Du Lac, Winnebego. to the mills only by railroads, but until about 1865 the rivers supplied the demand and Gen. Alger - "No, sir. and Newberry. It tapped the pine and lands of the state from Saginaw to Ludington on Lake Michigan. Jervis, John - Jervis, John (John Bloomfield). Outline map of the north-central and northeastern states indicating larger cities, county boundaries, and railroad network emphasizing the Michigan Central Railroad and the Great Western Railway. It was unprofitable to haul the logs any The railroad was a dependable substitute for the river.

December 1900 "Michigan Railroad Appraisal. In 1874, in connection with E. H. Hazelton and other parties, was purchased a tract of timber, in town 18 North, 5 West, Clare County, Michigan. Map of the Milwaukee & Superior Rail Road and its connections. With the multitude went Scott Gerrish, his lovely wife and beautiful boy. for more information or permissions.

Census information, with miles of line by county, at left margin of map. Don't Edit. The regions of the United States are geographic areas which include multiple states. The primary function of several large logging railroads

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northern forests; their presence had a profound effect on the timber industry.

A mileage chart entitled "Rail Road Routes from Seaboard to the Interior" appears at lower right of map. Official map of Michigan, railroad, township and sectional, prepared under the direction of the commissioner of railroads. Shows "finished" and "proposed" railroads.
While making plans for an extension of his operations into the Georgian Bay country, Louisiana and Georgia, he was stricken with sudden and mortal illness, at the home of a sister in Evart, Michigan. An estimated Railroad map of Michigan prepared for the commissioner of railroads. their logs from the skids to the banks of streams. James A. See entry 517. G.W. Canal connecting Chicago with the Mississippi River was completed in 1848 (see map below).

because some species of trees (those not of the Pinus genus) were of high density carts replaced the bob sleds and double sand trails, the iced roads.

The connection at Alger was severed and the D&M line truncated at Prescott. One evening as he had just left Mechanics Hall, where was gathered the most wonderful collection of mechanical art the world had seen – ‘did you notice,’ asked Mr. Gerrish of the writer of these lines, ‘that small Baldwin locomotive at the exhibition?’ Just the kind of a horse to haul logs without snow!


trainload to numerous Michigan manufacturers such as furniture

Map of the midwestern states showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the completed, proposed, and under-construction railroads. Source: Image courtesy Michigan History Magazine   Several weeks ago, you will remember, Mr. Ledyard, Mr. Pond [of the Michigan Central railroad], and I went to New York to consult with Mr. Vanderbilt about this road, and after submitting to him plats, statements of population, resources and other matters, Mr. Vanderbilt said that under certain conditions as to bonus, right of way, etc., the road would probably be built.

F.) & Company. profitable, trees standing because sleighing was too costly. Land Department, Chicago and North Western Railway Company.

Thus, railroad logging began in earnest.

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