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Saginaw City Directory 1901, 1901
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1INTRODUCTORY.
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4The twenty-second edition of the Saginaw Directory is herewith presented to the public, with the assurance that the information therein contained is as accurate, complete and up-to-date as it is possible to make a work of this kind. None but experienced directory canvassers and compilers have been employed, and the result of their labors will no doubt be as satisfactory to the public as it is to the publishers.
6This volume contains 22,563 names, exclusive of firm names, and an estimate based on this number of names would give Saginaw a population of 56,407. This estimate includes residents of Carrollton and other adjoining localities, that are really a part of Saginaw, but not being within the corporate limits, are not included in the U. S. census.
8The publishers note with pleasure the great increase in prosperous business conditions during the year.
10Since the publication of the first edition of this directory Saginaw has almost completely changed from a lumber and salt-producing district to a general commercial and manufacturing center for this part of northeastern Michigan. Twenty-two years ago Saginaw was recognized as the principal mart in the United States, and for that matter in the world, for white pine lumber. Lumber called it into existence. Its salt was, and is today, known all over the United States for its uniformly fine quality. With reference to its lumber industries, Saginaw has been in a transitory state for the last fifteen years, but it has practically closed out that product, and today is the center of diversified interests, as an examination of this directory will show.
12While there are still many large wood-working industries in the city, there are only one or two of the old-time saw mills represented, and these have been obliged to vary their product in order to keep pace with the decline of the pine forest, but the many large industries
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