Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1898 — Big Lumber Deal. [ARTICLE]

Big Lumber Deal.

Menominee, Mich., July 14.—The sale of the Spalding Lumber company’s Cedar river sawmill and everything appertaining thereto, which includes store and all other buildings, river and bay A shore improvements, also 53,000 acres of hemlock, cedar, hardwood and farming land in Menominee and Delta counties, to Samuel Crawford & Sons, of Pigeon, Forqst county, Pa., for a cash consideration of $160,000 has been consummated. A railroad, 37 miles long, and a large tannery, will be built by the Crawfords.