Gratwick, Smith and Fryer Lumber Co., promotional booklet (1880).jpg

Gratwick, Smith and Fryer Lumber Co., promotional booklet (1880).jpg

This illustrated booklet details the business of the Gratwick, Smith and Fryer Lumber Company, showing how they were able to be successful by controlling all phases of lumber cutting, transporting and refining for market. Their Tonawanda dock, yards and planing mills would fuel the growth of the village of Gratwick, named for them.

Illustrations:

• Cover: Men rolling logs in a river
• General office of the company at Tonawanda N. Y.
• Dock yards and planing mills at Tonawanda N. Y. - Storage capacity, 16,000,000 feet
• Steam barge William H. Gratwick and her consorts, Robert L. Fryer and Selden E. Marvin
• Saw mill and docks at Frankfort, Michigan. - Annual capacity, 20,000,000 feet.
• View of wharves and yards at Albany, N. Y. - Storage capacity, 20,000,000
• Showing the company's model saw mill, salt works and docks, at Oscoda, Michigan. Annual capacity 35,000,000 feet of lumber and 75,000 barrels of salt
• The mill at Kane, P. A., used exclusively for sawing cherry and maple - Annual capacity, 6,000,000 feet
• The company's saw mill and lumber yard at Ostego Lake, Michigan - Annual capacity, 15,000,000 feet
• One for he company's hardwood mills at Crawfords, P. A. - Annual capacity, 10,000,000 feet

SS William Gratwick at Wikipedia.

1880