The Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company and Williams Arizona

                                           THE NORTH CHALENDER LINE 1902-1904(6): HARDY HILL SPUR COPYRIGHT; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (5/10/22) From 1902 until about 1904, steam engines ambled through the forests as timber was harvested along the North Chalender Line. The history of the line has been shrouded in mystery, but one thing is certain; timber was the source of profits for the Saginaw, and the Sitgreaves Mountain area grew it in abundance. T he market for lumber continued to expand.  The mines at Jerome and growing communities needed the lumber for buildings, and timbers to shore up new diggings.  Miles of new railbed for the Atlantic and Pacific, merged into the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (henceforth to be affectionately referred to as the Santa Fe), required carloads of new ties. Even the mill seconds, those ties rejected by the mainline railroads, were used to expand their logging cousins.  The Saginaw Lumber Company was well-placed to harvest the vast Ponderosa

 I was reviewing a number of my early posts, in particular the one regarding the North Chalender Line. Evidently, some of the maps have vaporized, and I must say that the early post did not do justice to the importance of the line. I will be reworking the information and will provide maps and photographs of the area. In addition, the Chalender South lines and the Mill post will also get a redo.      I know I did several maps, but then again computers have a mind of their own.