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SAGINAW AND MANISTEE: A PREQUEL TO THE WILLIAMS OPERATION

  SAGINAW AND MANISTEE: A PREQUEL TO THE WILLIAMS OPERATION  The following comments are meant to be a prelude to the history of the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company in Williams, Arizona. Comments and references are based on the book "Indians, Jacks and Pines," by Stuart Gross (1962.)                                                                                                          ..... The Michigan forests that surrounded the town of Saginaw were considered to be so dense that it would take "a hundred years to cut." This comment was often spoken, and then repeated, from the New England forests to the magnificent stands of mature trees in the Pacific Northwes...