Village of Springvale
In Chandler Township Charlevoix County MI
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The 1907-1908 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory stated about Springvale:
Population 25. In Chandler township. Charlevoix county. 25 miles southeast of Charlevoix, the county seat. 16 from Petoskey, the nearest banking point and 11 3/4 from Boyne Falls, the nearest shipping point. Mail, daily. A.J. Crago, postmaster.
Cobbs & Mitchell (Inc), A.J. Crago
Mngr. General Store and Lumber
Girffin Rev. E A (United Brethren)
Potts David, notary public.
Population 25. In Chandler township. Charlevoix county. 25 miles southeast of Charlevoix, the county seat. 16 from Petoskey, the nearest banking point and 11 3/4 from Boyne Falls, the nearest shipping point. Mail, daily. A.J. Crago, postmaster.
Cobbs & Mitchell (Inc), A.J. Crago
Mngr. General Store and Lumber
Girffin Rev. E A (United Brethren)
Potts David, notary public.
The 20 December 1901 newspaper article above stated: "...Springvale, until recently called Dot, is about sixteen miles southeast of Petoskey..." This was an interesting statement as other information shows that Dot was a separate village from Springvale. Another news article does make mention that in 1901 the Dot Post Office became the Springvale Post Office. According to maps, however, the Village of Springvale and the Village of Dot were in separate locations.
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Click HERE for additional information on this same web site about the Springvale Post Office,
and other Chandler Township post offices.
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Click HERE for additional information on this same web site about the Springvale Post Office,
and other Chandler Township post offices.
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The land here platted is located in the south east quarter of the south weest [sic] quarter and the south west quarter of the south east quarter of section two Town 33 north range 4 west Chandler Township County of Charlevoix State of Michigan and described as follows. Beginning at the quarter post on south line of said section two thence east along the section line 183 feet thence north 480 feet thence west 150 feet, thence north 492 feet thence west 673 thence south 972 feet to the south line of said section two thence east along the section line 640 feet to beginning. Containning [sic] 16.67 acres land which is subdivided into Blocks Lots Streets and Alleys the width of Streets and Alleys and size of Lots are given in feet as shown on the plat below.
Surveyed and Platted by John Keep Surveyor.
Know all men by these presents that we the undersigned W W Mitchell President and Frank J Cobbs Secretary of the above named corporation have caused to be laid out and platted the above described piece of land to be known as the Village of Springvale and we hereby dedicate to the Public use the Streets and Alleys as shown on the plat below. In witness whereof we set our hands and seals this 6th day of December A D 1901. Signed in presence of.
H Ballou.
Fred E Neahr.
State of Michigan County of Wexford} SS. On this 6th day of December A.D. 1901 before me a Notary Public in and for said County William W Mitchell President and Frank J Cobbs Secretary to me personally known who being by me duly sworn did say that they were respectively President and Secretary of the above named corporation and that the seal affixed to said instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by Authority of its board of directors and said William W Mitchell and Frank J Cobbs acknowledged said instrumet [sic] to be the free act and deed of said corporation.
Henry Ballou Notary Public Emmet County Mich.
Examined and approved
December 14th 1901
John F Wilkinson
Deputy Auditor General.
I hereby certify that this ap is correct and that permanent Iron monuments have been placed at all angles in the boundaries… and at all intersections of Streets and streets and Alleys at points marked thus.
John Keep Surveyor.
Registers Office County of Charlevoix} SS. Received for Record this 6th day of January A.D. 1902 at 9 O'clock and Recorded in Liber 2 of Plats on Page. 40
Frank A. Kenyon Register
State of Michigan County Charlevoix} SS. We Frank A. Kenyon Register of Deeds and John Keep Surveyor hereby… certify that we have each carefully compared this copy with the original plat of the Village of Springvale and that it is an exact copy thereof and of the whole of such original plat.
Frank A. Kenyon Register
John Keep Surveyor
Surveyed and Platted by John Keep Surveyor.
Know all men by these presents that we the undersigned W W Mitchell President and Frank J Cobbs Secretary of the above named corporation have caused to be laid out and platted the above described piece of land to be known as the Village of Springvale and we hereby dedicate to the Public use the Streets and Alleys as shown on the plat below. In witness whereof we set our hands and seals this 6th day of December A D 1901. Signed in presence of.
H Ballou.
Fred E Neahr.
State of Michigan County of Wexford} SS. On this 6th day of December A.D. 1901 before me a Notary Public in and for said County William W Mitchell President and Frank J Cobbs Secretary to me personally known who being by me duly sworn did say that they were respectively President and Secretary of the above named corporation and that the seal affixed to said instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by Authority of its board of directors and said William W Mitchell and Frank J Cobbs acknowledged said instrumet [sic] to be the free act and deed of said corporation.
Henry Ballou Notary Public Emmet County Mich.
Examined and approved
December 14th 1901
John F Wilkinson
Deputy Auditor General.
I hereby certify that this ap is correct and that permanent Iron monuments have been placed at all angles in the boundaries… and at all intersections of Streets and streets and Alleys at points marked thus.
John Keep Surveyor.
Registers Office County of Charlevoix} SS. Received for Record this 6th day of January A.D. 1902 at 9 O'clock and Recorded in Liber 2 of Plats on Page. 40
Frank A. Kenyon Register
State of Michigan County Charlevoix} SS. We Frank A. Kenyon Register of Deeds and John Keep Surveyor hereby… certify that we have each carefully compared this copy with the original plat of the Village of Springvale and that it is an exact copy thereof and of the whole of such original plat.
Frank A. Kenyon Register
John Keep Surveyor
As shown in the above photo from the bottom right hand corner of a copy of the original plat map as shown at the top of this web page: Two of the major streets were named after the owners of Cobbs & Mitchell Inc. railroad... Mitchell Street and Cobbs Street. The other major Street was Rosevelt Street. A Mr. J.B. Rosevelt held a public office in Cadillac so perhaps had been a friend of both Cobbs and Mitchell who had the home office for Cobbs & Mitchell Inc. in Cadillac, Michigan, and thus the street may have been named for him. The East-West running streets had the names of two known families in the area... Holmes Street and Potts Street.
Linda Potts Balderson who descends from the Potts Family of the Potts Street name in Springvale told: "My Aunt Marion [Potts] Pray said that my grandfather Floyd [Potts] became a good roller skater, because he skated in the upstairs of the store. Then they had dances there on the weekends. I think she said that David Potts ran the store, but I could be wrong on that. She said that Andrew and Rachel [Postts] had the biggest house in Springvale. I understand that it burned down. Another family story is that my grandfather, Floyd, delivered mail to Walloon Lake on a horse-drawn wagon in summer, and a sleigh in winter."
About 1899 the Cobbs & Mitchell Railroad extended into Chandler Township to the company town of Springvale... a lumbering town. The logging industry, and the railroad generated a town with businesses, and more pioneers for Chandler Township. The following book explained how the Chandler Township population of pioneers had increased through the years... only to dwindle again about 1916 once the logging industry died out, the railroad withdrew... pulling out the track as it departed, and the town of Springvale eventually disappeared like the tracks of the railroad (see photo below), temporarily leaving behind an old building foundation, and a mounded railroad grade. Springvale had been settled for, and by, the Cobbs & Mitchell Lumbering Company, so Springvale's population vanished with the lumbering industry. In 2013 no signs of a once thriving Village of Springvale exist, only the sight of the lone pine tree in 1976 marking the Springvale Corners.
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LIDAR USGS Map Below: Paul Bricker lives in the vicinity of where Springvale had been located. Paul enjoys exploring, and researching, the Springvale area. He has viewed at least ten holes/indentations; a few big holes and some small holes. He has submitted the LIDAR map below of Springvale. LIDAR maps remove all the vegetation from a map and reveal things that are covered by trees and grass. On this map, Springvale Road is east/west and CCC Road is north/south. The dotted line is Peet Road. All the rectangular holes are foundations or holes near the foundation; possibly a cistern. LIDAR stands for "Light Detection and Ranging", a remote sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges (variable distances) to the Earth. LIDAR maps can show old roads, old railroad grades or homestead foundations. LIDAR maps are available on the USGS [United States Geological Survey]web site.
A History of Northern Michigan and Its People Volume 1
by Perry F. Powers, Harry Gardner Cutler,
published by The Lewis Publishing Company in 1912 stated:
Chandler Township population "shows continuous advance".
1890 ~ 144
1900 ~ 273
1910 ~ 397
By 1878-1879 a post office was being proposed for Springvale with the proposed Post Master to be George Mohortor. The post office was discontinued by about 1923. Early maps of Chandler Township like the 1921 Chamber of Commerce Map show the location of the Village of Springvale as located in Section 2, but on the 1901 Plat Map the location of the Springvale Post Office was located in Section 24 which is south of the Gallop Cemetery Location, so it is confusing as to what, or where, was the actual "Springvale Post Office". Stories have been handed down that the Springvale General Store had a Post Office area within its building, perhaps receiving the mail from the train that passed closely to the store. Chandler Township post office stories also include tales that the post office might have been housed within a private home [James Pearson]... and that space then might move to a different home from time to time. Later, when rural delivery began in Chandler Township, the delivery still did not arrive at every home. Often clusters of mailboxes were located in a central location, sometimes a mile or more from a home, and the resident had to retrieve his mail from that distant location... even though logical thinking would make the resident wonder why the mailman could not just drive even a half mile, or a mile farther to deliver the mail?
Click HERE for additional information (on this same web site) about the Post Office, Post Masters, and Rural Carriers for Chandler Township.
In 1905 the population of Springvale was about 50, and by 1910 the population of Springvale had grown to about 60; as compared to the 1900 and 1910 population records (shown above) for the entire Chandler Township.
The 1921 Chamber of Commerce Map of Charlevoix Co. Michigan and Adjacent Territory Map (by E.A. Robinson of Boyne City MI) highlights the lumber company owned Cobbs & Mitchell Railroad as it leads right to Springvale MI in Chandler Township. The Cobbs & Mitchell spurs off from the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad (GR&I RR) in Boyne Valley Township's town of Boyne Falls MI. It was Cobbs & Mitchell Railroad line that accommodated the lumber industry in Chandler Township and serviced the Village of Springvale.
Charlevoix County is the southern portion of this map below (surrounded by the dark black line), while Emmet County is in the northern portion. Notice that Emmet County has an entire township named Springvale Township just north of Chandler Township's village of the same name... Springvale.
Click HERE for additional information (on this same web site) about the Post Office, Post Masters, and Rural Carriers for Chandler Township.
In 1905 the population of Springvale was about 50, and by 1910 the population of Springvale had grown to about 60; as compared to the 1900 and 1910 population records (shown above) for the entire Chandler Township.
The 1921 Chamber of Commerce Map of Charlevoix Co. Michigan and Adjacent Territory Map (by E.A. Robinson of Boyne City MI) highlights the lumber company owned Cobbs & Mitchell Railroad as it leads right to Springvale MI in Chandler Township. The Cobbs & Mitchell spurs off from the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad (GR&I RR) in Boyne Valley Township's town of Boyne Falls MI. It was Cobbs & Mitchell Railroad line that accommodated the lumber industry in Chandler Township and serviced the Village of Springvale.
Charlevoix County is the southern portion of this map below (surrounded by the dark black line), while Emmet County is in the northern portion. Notice that Emmet County has an entire township named Springvale Township just north of Chandler Township's village of the same name... Springvale.
Description of the Village of Springvale
It is possible that although the Village of Springvale was platted to be in Section 2...
the watertower may have ended up being located in Section 11... just over the section line.
the watertower may have ended up being located in Section 11... just over the section line.
When the 1910 Census was taken, Will Sturgis' occupation was listed as "general store manager".
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Mr. J.V. Moran operated the Cobbs & Mitchell Company Store at one time. Mr. J.V. Moran was the Post Master for Springvale in 1901 which was housed in the store. Walt Huddelston was one of the last managers of the Springvale store. The last store manager in Springvale was James Milford. Also, Archie Crago, in 1903, operated the Cobb & Mitchell Lumber Co. store in Springvale. In 1910 Mr. Crago moved to Clarion where he purchased the W.H. Ransom store and post office. Later he bought a store at Walloon Lake. He operated both for a time, then sold the Clarion store. See the obituary farther below for Archie Crago.
The last Hotel Springvale manager was Mrs. Chambers.
Photo Above Labeled as: "Manager of Springvale Department Store (Clyde Mattison, Celia his wife in buggy, Earl son)."
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This newspaper photo/article above stated: "Cobbs and Mitchell operated here in the lumbering days and this was their store at Springvale as it appeared Dec. 9, 1911 according to Mrs. Richard C. Robinson, 21 Hazelwood Apt. 18, Detroit. Left to right are: Bill Williams and son Billy Jr., Vernon "Buster" Brown of Petoskey, Bill McLaughlin, Bill Harriman of Calif., and William Allen the Bookkeeper." Original submitted by Helen Milford Jackson Another version of the above text, for this same above photo, found in the 24 November 1949 Northern Michigan Review, Petoskey Michigan was the same as above except for the photo identifications stated: ..."Bill Williams and son Billy, Jr., Vernon "Buster" Brown of Petoskey: Bill McLaughlin. Bill Harriman of California: Max Powers, of Detroit: unidentified man. and Fred Allen, the bookkeeper." |
Photo Above: Jim Milford was listed on the 1920 Chandler Township census records as the "Manager General Store" and his daughter Helen's occupation was "Bookeeper General Store". They were listed with Jim's wife Ethel, and their other daughter Thelma, and two sons Hilton and Mark. The news article toward the top of this web page spelled Jim's last name as Melford. Article Below: Evidently Jim Milford had owned a grocery in Charlevoix MI before becoming the General Manager of the Cobbs & Mitchell General Store in Springvale MI.
The 17 August 1921 Petoskey Evening News announced: "Miss Helen Milford, of "Springvale, and Mr. Lauterman, of IndianRiver, were married last week. Miss Milford is well known here having spent some time in the Springvale store. Her many friends extend the best of wishes."
1921 Article Below:
"During the past few weeks Delco lighting systems ahove been installed
in the Cobbs & Mitchell store at Springvale..."
"During the past few weeks Delco lighting systems ahove been installed
in the Cobbs & Mitchell store at Springvale..."
The Village of Springvale had its own baseball team, which was made reference in the older Gaylord Herald Times newspaper issues.
Evidently, Springvale resident teams not only participated in competition with baseball,
but also as reported in the news item below, "shooting" in a county fair contest.
but also as reported in the news item below, "shooting" in a county fair contest.
"Mrs. Everts taught the Springvale school in 1925, that was the last year Cob Mitchel [sic] lumbered there,
in camp number 44, of of the Cob Mitchel camps."
was written in the 4 July 1957 Otsego Herald Times article toward the top of this page.
in camp number 44, of of the Cob Mitchel camps."
was written in the 4 July 1957 Otsego Herald Times article toward the top of this page.
1924
Dell Traverse had made many real friends in our vicinity while living at Springvale. He was taken ill at his home at Springvale where he was employed working in the store.
He was taken to the Petoskey hospital where he died, having been ill only a little over a week.
Dell Traverse had made many real friends in our vicinity while living at Springvale. He was taken ill at his home at Springvale where he was employed working in the store.
He was taken to the Petoskey hospital where he died, having been ill only a little over a week.
1925
Springvale was a company town–
when Cobbs & Mitchell's lumbering operation railroad was torn up,
the town was done.
Springvale was a company town–
when Cobbs & Mitchell's lumbering operation railroad was torn up,
the town was done.
1902 "Hardwood Record" Magazine
Article And Photos Regarding
The Village of Springvale Chandler Township Charlevoix County Michigan
Article Titled:
"Industrial Cadillac
An Illustrated Review of the Commercial, Manufacturing, Agriculture, and Social Features of the Trade Center of Northern Michigan"
By Henry H. Gibson
Article And Photos Regarding
The Village of Springvale Chandler Township Charlevoix County Michigan
Article Titled:
"Industrial Cadillac
An Illustrated Review of the Commercial, Manufacturing, Agriculture, and Social Features of the Trade Center of Northern Michigan"
By Henry H. Gibson
COBBS & MITCHELL, INCORPORATED:
"The largest manufacturing institution at Cadillac is that of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc. Their timber involves 32,000 acres in Charlevoix and Cheboygan counties. From Boyne Falls, seventy-seven miles north of Cadillac, the company has built a railroad running in a northeasterly direction, and about evenly dividing its immense timber holdings. The road is of easy grade and follows a wide valley nearly its entire distance; the land is rolling and there are no abrupt hills. (On each side of this main line, spurs are projected a mile or so apart, and penetrating the great forest. It is estimated that eventually nearly 100 miles of railroad will be necessary to reach all the timber on the tract, and while railroad building is comparatively easy in this section, the total cost will be formidable.
Near the center of this tract has been located the executive headquarters of the woods operations, the little settlement being known as Springvale. Here is a large general merchandise institution conducted by Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc. It is a big building, having a frontage of fifty-four feet and depth of 160 feet, and is two stories in height, with a large cellar under the entire structure. In the rear is a hay shed 180 feet long. The range of merchandise covered in this store is surprising; everything from agricultural implements to pins and needles is sold. It is a veritable department store in the back woods, and contains all the necessities and many of the luxuries desired by the local inhabitant or the woods worker. The list of departments comprises drugs, hardware, carpets, bedding, clothing, boots and shoes, general dry goods and notions, farm machinery, etc. It is heated by steam and lighted by gas. The store is located about fifteen miles east of the city of Petoskey, in the middle of a forest, but it does an annual business of about $100,000. This, however, is not astonishing, when it is considered that Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., offer at this establishment a market for everything the farmers of that section wish to sell — eggs, cedar ties, logs, hay, vegetables, grain of all varieties, and they can buy goods at reasonable prices.
Across the road from the store, the company has constructed a sixteen-room tavern, which is as good a country hotel as can be found. It is steam-heated, lighted by gas and finished in gray elm. with hard maple floors. The bedrooms are supplied with excellent furniture and rugs. Near the hotel is a little park which has been reserved from logging operations, and in the summer time it is filled with flower beds and shade trees.
As before noted. the woods operations of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., are model in character. The camps are comfortable and cleanly. The men are provided with good and clean beds and 7 1/2-pound regulation army blankets. The beds have springs and mattresses, and sheets and pillow cases which are washed once a week. A washerwoman is one of the regular employees of every camp. Each man is assessed eighty cents a month to have his clothes kept thoroughly laundered. No vermin are found in any of the camps, as at regular intervals all bunk shanties, cook houses, and other buildings are thoroughly fumigated with steam jets from the locomotives. Above all, the men are well fed. The bill of fare at one of these camps is far better than the traveler will find at the average $2 a day hotel.
Logging operations are carried on the year around. The logs are loaded upon standard flat cars with the aid of McGiffert log loaders, as fast as they are skidded out to the tracks, and are promptly manufactured into lumber after arriving at Cadillac; thus no logs are left in the woods during warm weather, to dote and stain. One of the most interesting and economic appliances used in these woods operations is the McGiffert log loader, of which the company employs two. An average load of logs, as depicted in the accompanying illustration, may be loaded within ten minutes. The machine propels itself on its own wheels, disposes of the loaded cars, pulls other empties underneath its own framework, and spots them for loading.
At Boyne Falls, Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., maintain a roundhouse and repair shop, where all the railroad machinery and logging appliances are kept in repair. At Cadillac, as the pictures show, the company operates two band mills. The maple logs are manufactured at mill No. 1; the hemlock and minor quantities of hardwood at mill No. 2. This lumber is all sold to the jobbing trade, retail yards, or wholesale consuming element, save the maple, which is very largely retained for the company's big flooring factory. The model character of these mills and the manufacturing methods employed are well set forth in the illustrations.
The officers of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., are W.W. Mitchell, president and treasurer; F.J. Cobbs, vice president and secretary. Henry Ballou is superintendent of the company's operations and M.R. Thomas is sales manager."
"The largest manufacturing institution at Cadillac is that of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc. Their timber involves 32,000 acres in Charlevoix and Cheboygan counties. From Boyne Falls, seventy-seven miles north of Cadillac, the company has built a railroad running in a northeasterly direction, and about evenly dividing its immense timber holdings. The road is of easy grade and follows a wide valley nearly its entire distance; the land is rolling and there are no abrupt hills. (On each side of this main line, spurs are projected a mile or so apart, and penetrating the great forest. It is estimated that eventually nearly 100 miles of railroad will be necessary to reach all the timber on the tract, and while railroad building is comparatively easy in this section, the total cost will be formidable.
Near the center of this tract has been located the executive headquarters of the woods operations, the little settlement being known as Springvale. Here is a large general merchandise institution conducted by Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc. It is a big building, having a frontage of fifty-four feet and depth of 160 feet, and is two stories in height, with a large cellar under the entire structure. In the rear is a hay shed 180 feet long. The range of merchandise covered in this store is surprising; everything from agricultural implements to pins and needles is sold. It is a veritable department store in the back woods, and contains all the necessities and many of the luxuries desired by the local inhabitant or the woods worker. The list of departments comprises drugs, hardware, carpets, bedding, clothing, boots and shoes, general dry goods and notions, farm machinery, etc. It is heated by steam and lighted by gas. The store is located about fifteen miles east of the city of Petoskey, in the middle of a forest, but it does an annual business of about $100,000. This, however, is not astonishing, when it is considered that Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., offer at this establishment a market for everything the farmers of that section wish to sell — eggs, cedar ties, logs, hay, vegetables, grain of all varieties, and they can buy goods at reasonable prices.
Across the road from the store, the company has constructed a sixteen-room tavern, which is as good a country hotel as can be found. It is steam-heated, lighted by gas and finished in gray elm. with hard maple floors. The bedrooms are supplied with excellent furniture and rugs. Near the hotel is a little park which has been reserved from logging operations, and in the summer time it is filled with flower beds and shade trees.
As before noted. the woods operations of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., are model in character. The camps are comfortable and cleanly. The men are provided with good and clean beds and 7 1/2-pound regulation army blankets. The beds have springs and mattresses, and sheets and pillow cases which are washed once a week. A washerwoman is one of the regular employees of every camp. Each man is assessed eighty cents a month to have his clothes kept thoroughly laundered. No vermin are found in any of the camps, as at regular intervals all bunk shanties, cook houses, and other buildings are thoroughly fumigated with steam jets from the locomotives. Above all, the men are well fed. The bill of fare at one of these camps is far better than the traveler will find at the average $2 a day hotel.
Logging operations are carried on the year around. The logs are loaded upon standard flat cars with the aid of McGiffert log loaders, as fast as they are skidded out to the tracks, and are promptly manufactured into lumber after arriving at Cadillac; thus no logs are left in the woods during warm weather, to dote and stain. One of the most interesting and economic appliances used in these woods operations is the McGiffert log loader, of which the company employs two. An average load of logs, as depicted in the accompanying illustration, may be loaded within ten minutes. The machine propels itself on its own wheels, disposes of the loaded cars, pulls other empties underneath its own framework, and spots them for loading.
At Boyne Falls, Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., maintain a roundhouse and repair shop, where all the railroad machinery and logging appliances are kept in repair. At Cadillac, as the pictures show, the company operates two band mills. The maple logs are manufactured at mill No. 1; the hemlock and minor quantities of hardwood at mill No. 2. This lumber is all sold to the jobbing trade, retail yards, or wholesale consuming element, save the maple, which is very largely retained for the company's big flooring factory. The model character of these mills and the manufacturing methods employed are well set forth in the illustrations.
The officers of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., are W.W. Mitchell, president and treasurer; F.J. Cobbs, vice president and secretary. Henry Ballou is superintendent of the company's operations and M.R. Thomas is sales manager."
This photo above from the collection of Ross Renwick was unidentified. I am sure that the photo is of the Hotel at Springvale as in the photo directly above, labeled in the 1902 "Hardwood Record".
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