Louis Sands Salt and Lumber Company (Manistee, Mich.)

The Sands Salt and Lumber Company was one of the largest lumbering concerns in Manistee, Michigan. The firm was founded by Louis Sands, a Swede who was born on July 2, 1826,and who immigrated to the United States as a young man. After spending time in Boston and Chicago, Sands came to Manistee around 1853.

Between 1853 and 1856, Sands worked as a lumberjack. In 1856, he engaged in his first entrepreneurial venture, signing a contract to log another man's property. By 1864, Sands had saved enough money to buy an interest in a saw mill, and in 1870 he purchased for himself a small saw mill located in Eastlake.

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