The Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company and Williams Arizona

  SAGINAW AND MANISTEE LUMBER COMPANY:  LOGGING OPERATIONS FROM 1936-1941; 1941-1956 COPYRIGHT: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (3/7/24)      The Company did not operate logging railroads from 1936 until 1941, when the Arizona Lumber and Timber operations in Flagstaff were leased (Glover;4; Stein 40.)  The main Mill continued production during this time period, with the box factory shutting down in 1942. World War II contributed to this decision, as consolidation of operations meant a more efficient use of resources.      The question remains as to how the Williams Mill continued to function without the logging railroads. F or more than forty years, the various railroad lines had been the arteries, providing the lifeblood of logs to the mill. All of the woods engines had now been sold, or soon would be scrapped for the war effort.     Since the installation of the Clyde Loading Derrick in 1928, The mill site had the capacity to store some 3 million feet of logs. Presumably, over the years the stor