THE FINAL PHASE

When the lumbering days drew to a close the few sailing schooners still in operation in the area carried mostly tan bark to the Boyne City tannery, though some lumber was still hauled from the local mill. Much of the tan bark came from Beaver Island.

THE "ROUSE SIMMONS"

Loading tan bark on a small scow, for transfer to the ROUSE SIMMONS, a three-masted schooner that carried tan bark from the south end of Beaver island to Boyne City. In 1902 she was lost with her entire crew of eleven in a sudden wild storm that struck as she was on her way to the Island.

THE FERRY SEED COMPANY

Pile drover and crew working on the establishment of a dock for the Ferry Seed Co. on Lake Charlevoix. It was pile drivers of this type that did much of the work on the channel revetments.