The Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company and Williams Arizona

  THE SAGINAW AND MANISTEE LUMBER COMPANY MILL, WILLIAMS, ARIZONA  1893-1941   COPYRIGHT; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (5/10/22) Updated and Revised 7/2023, including the Fire Department, The Roundhouse and Commissary                        An overview picture of Williams Township and the Mill, looking westward,                                circa 1920s. The town was situated on an East-West axis; the mill was on a more                          N or th-South axis. The mill site was just west of town.  (All Historic Photographs in this section, unless otherwise noted, are from the  Arizona Memory Project: Williams, Arizona Collection. A copy of the original scan is available at the Williams Historic Photo Project, located in Williams, Arizona.)   The year 1893 would be a pivotal time for the upstart community of Williams. Reports of tall stands of Ponderosa pine reached the desks of mid-west businessmen. Well-established and financially prosperous logging companies needed new sources of tim

  THE SAGINAW AND MANISTEE LUMBER COMPANY MILL, WILLIAMS, ARIZONA  1893-1941, PART  II; COMPANY MILL  MAPS; A STUDY IN TIME    COPYRIGHT:  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (5/10/22)      (All Maps in this section, unless otherwise noted; Williams, Arizona Sanford Insurance Maps; Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division) MILL SITE 1901     Mills and Factories operating within the property, circa 1901:       At the Main Building (bottom center on map) was the Sawmill and a Lath Mill.     At the Planing and Box Factory building (located at the top center on map): Planing mill, sash and door factory, box factory. Storage for dressed lumber, and warehouse for box shooks were on the westside of the structure.     All of the various mills produced enough hog fuel, sawdust and shavings to power all of the company's boilers, the Williams Electric Company, and the public school. In addition, the employee housing must have been amply provided for, and yet the great iron burner was kept smoldering.

   THE WILLIAMS BREWING CO MPANY BOTTLING WORKS COPYIGHT; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (5/10/22) Revised 7/2023      Close up view of the site (Images from Williams, Arizona Sanford Fire Insurance Maps, 1898; December 1901:  Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)     A small, but unique structure is indicated on the Sanford Fire Maps. This was the Williams Brewing Company Bottling Works.   It was located just north of the Saginaw and Manistee Planing Mill, at the west end of town. To a small town like Williams, having its own brewery would prove advantageous.     The story of this brewery began in the early years of Williams.  According to the map, starting in 1898, this brewery was owned by Mr. A.M. Conrad.  The  Williams News  posted a notice on April 4, 1905, indicating that Mr. George H. Barney and Mr. J.H. Attwood, then proprietors of the plant, sold their interests to Mair and Zobelein Brewery, for $2,000. Mr. Attwood was retained as manager.      The brewery continued to bottle