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Alpena City Directory 1883 • H. G. BEACH, Stoves· and Tinwafe. 20 A ~-08 om Jil m a 0 ~ I Pt IL IH 1'01.K & co. '11 Lumber. Lath. A E O ' 6° 000 000 .. ..... · . ,1 • • • • • • • • very, . . .... • • • • · · · · , • 000 Bewick, Comstock & Co.. 111,000,000 8,ll00,000 12,000, Butterfield & Crable. . . . . . 14,000,000 8,309,0liO .. · · · · · • · Churcbllt, W . J,. & H. D .. 17,2:W,OOO 4,ll00,000 . ..... . . , Fletcher, Pack&, Co ..... . , 41,000,000, 6,000,000 . ... .... . Folkerts & 1ttuters. . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . ....... ' 11,000,000 Gllchrlst 1 F. W . .. .. ..... ! 21,500,000 4.300.000 ....... · · 11111800 Lumber Co ... .. ... 13,700,000 4,ll00.000 ?,lloor Lumber Co...... . . 16,ll00,000, 8,ll00,000 ...... , , • Potter, W H. & E. K. ... 11,000.000 4,000,000 18,!l()0,000 Preotl88 Luml>cr Co. . . . . . 19,000,000 ....... , . . . • • • • • • • Richardson, C. W.. .. .. . . 14,000,000 8,948,000 6,830,000 Warner & Davis .. : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .. , . · 14,000,000 Next in imvurtance to the lumbering bnRineM in Alpena come her li11herie11. Attention WI\K first paid to thi11 most important branch of industry by Mr. Paxton, who in IR50 engaged extem1ively in gill-net fishing, since whiuh time the h11Hine11s has increased 110 rapidly that it now stan~l~ s1•cond only to the lumber- ing intere11t in the city, an!l there arc at the present time o tugH 11nd 25 Hail boat!! in active . operation. The total Hhipment of fi11h from Alpena for the year ending 1882 amountcrl to 2,868,000 pound~, while that for tht• pn•111•nt yl•ar will prohahly . be much larger. The principal fif1hin!{ g rounds are Sugar Island, Round bland, 1\li11Pry Point, Patrirl1-:e Point, North P oiut., Sulphur I11la11d 1 and O11sincke, a11d t,he regular fi 11hing boat11 remain out there tlnring the season, rnn boats being omployed tc, bring bar.k each day's . catch ·and to take out, the necessary storc11 and pro- ' vi11io11s to the ti11hermen on the iHlandt<. · The first mail arrivc.-1 in Alpena on tl1e eyening oT January )7th, t8iiS, andwM nncvcnt or great import- WM. P. MAIDEN, M. D~, • f I • • L~ Dopll..JJ.:!: FLOUR, FEED an GRAIN A l,rKNA' "!,T\" 011110:f:TOR\". anoe to the settlPrs at I hat periucl: It was <·nrri1•'1 by Iudian11 a11d half-brec,!11 from Bay Uity to the Sault , the course being arou11d th1• Mhore, a11d the train being drawn by rlog,.. · Tlw mail arrived onco a week in winter, hut in enmmer till' only uha11c1• to get, it wa11 whcn a_ny of the citizen,; w~nt down for a trip, when the poslm~t<l!•r would give him an ordcr for the mail. How ch1111gecl all that i!I now, when the only cl~y 011 which t h,•r<• is 110 mail from below is Monday. The following statement will i<how, that in t hi11, n11 in every other depa~tme_nt, every year addH to the importance of the city: In 1882 the total numl,er of money ordel'll issued was :l,812, for 858,450.76, ag ainst • :l,0~6, for 841,1!09.-48 in 1881, or a gain of 11-4,641.28; for the year; the numbcr of registered letters issued in 1881 wM·l,118; number in 18R2, 1,269; gain over preceding year, 151; re1:eipt11 for 11tamp11, SA I, 86,016.il ; . 1882, 87,048.55; gain, *1,032.84. Perhaps the wor11t calamity which_ ever vi11itt.,d Alpena was the great fire of .July 12th, 1872, which swept through the businesl! part of th<' town, laying wute in a few 8hort hours 15 a<•rc11, nnd cnu@ing a· 101111 to the citi1.e11s of ovcr •176,000. I 1111tea,I . of being di~ouraged by tbi11, the inhnhitant11 11eemeq to hav~ . been stimulated to frc11h <!Xertioni<, anrl a fow month11 after the d i8allter, handsome hrick hlock11 wne <'rec,ted on the 11ite11 of tlll' hurnt frame huil<li11g1<. 'fhi11 fire had anotlmr goorl effect; tlrn 1•coplc com- !DCnced to a.,itate thu 1111estion of building wnter works, and accordingly, in the fall of 1870, workK 011 the Holly sy11tem were · erecterl, with a 1rnmping oapanity, in oa11e of nc1•<'flllity, of :1,0011,000 gnllo1111, m ::r: M :;t1 ~ 0 0 tJ .. At E. C. NASON..'S, ~ ENTENNIAL ■LOOK,