The Arcadia Furniture Company Sawmill

Early Arcadia Furniture Factory

This is an early photo of the

Arcadia Furniture Factory

looking southeast. Construction

on the factory began in late

1906 after a deal was worked

out with the Fox & Mason

Furniture Co. of Corunna,

Michigan. -- Postcard

photograph. Unknown

photographer.

Selecting Logs

Posing on the left is a New York

buyer. On the right is Charles

Weldt, the “woodsman” for the

Arcadia Furniture Company.

Log Rule and Detail

A log rule was used to estimate the board feet included in a log based on log's diameter as measured

.by the log rule, quality that determined which set of numbers to use, and the log's length

Furniture

Furniture Factory Sawmill Workers

On the far left is New York buyer

Bill Flusser touring the sawmill.

Second from the left is Robert

Starke, the president of the

Arcadia Furniture Company,

who was “proudly showing the

plant’s operations to the buyers

from N.Y.C.” On the right in front

is Maurice St. Pierre. The other

people in the photo are not

identified. Note the specialized

equipment used for handling

logs:

Mill Story

In one End and Out the other End