Source: The Daily Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
Saturday, Jan. 19, 1889
What is Meant
Not long since the Mining Journal noted the presence in the city of R. H. Hawley, the well-known Cleveland capitalist and his somewhat mysterious moves while here. Mr. Hawley refused to state what had brought him up to Marquette in midwinter, but it is now announced that "T. H. McGraw & Co., have sold their white pine on Dead River, purchased from T. H. Thurber, to R. H. Hawley & Co., of Cleveland. It will take eight years to harvest the crop at the rate of 20,000,000 feet per year. Hawley & Co., will take it at a straight price. The logs will be towed to Cleveland. In the coming spring McGraw & Co., will build a logging railroad to connect their lumbering operations with the South Shore. It will be four miles in length."
This means that the McGraws will begin lumbering operations on the Dead River tract on an extensive scale this spring, an announcement which means much to Marquette.
T. H. McGraw & Co.
R. H. Hawley & Co.
DSS&A Ry.
Dead River RR.
