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1904 Mr. Durant formed the Buick Motor Company and the plant was moved to Jackson, Michigan, where the old buildings of the Imperial Wheel Company were utilized pending the erection of the first Buick factory at Oak Park.
During the year 1900, men interested in the advancement of the city conceived the idea of enlarging the area of Flint, to provide for future de- velopment. The result was the platting of Oak Park subdivision to the north of the city limits. The Durant-Dort Company was behind the move- ment, and through the efforts of its officials and with the hearty co-operation of the business men, Mrs. Minnie Loranger, daughter of William Hamilton, who had owned the land, and William C. Durant, acting as trustee for the Flint Factory Improvement Association, arranged for the opening of the plat. About ninety of the three hundred acres platted consisted of a dense oak forest, from which the subdivision received its name. Out of the three hundred acres, one hundred were set aside to furnish sites for future indus- trial concerns. The balance was divided into residence lots and sold. The profits accruing from the sale of these lots were set aside as a fund to be used by the association in bringing new factories to the city. To this move- ment may be credited the securing of the Flint Axle Works (now the Walker-Weiss Axle Company) and the J. B. Armstrong Manufacturing Company. Later, through the constructive genius of Mr. Durant, there came the Buick Motor Company, Weston-Mott Company, the Imperial Wheel Works plant, later occupied by the Monroe Motor Company, and now a unit of the Buick plant; the Flint Varnish Works, the W. F. Stewart Company, Champion Ignition Company and the Michigan Motor Castings Company.
As factory after factory arose where there had been but woodland and cultivated fields a short time before, the western part of the plat became dotted with residences and business places. In 1916 Oak Park is one of most thickly populated sections of the city, being the home of thousands of men employed in the great factories of the north end industrial section.
The first year's output of the Buick Company factory was sixteen automobiles. The second year it produced five hundred, and at the begin- ning of the third year Mr. Durant completed plans for a plant and organi- zation to develop the increasing volume of business which the great Buick Motor plant, the largest group of factory buildings in the world given over to the manufacture of one make of automobiles, was destined to enjoy.
The original three-hundred-acre tract known as the Hamilton farm, is now the site of affiliated factories which cover eighty acres of ground and
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from which in 1916 were shipped sixty thousand automobiles, with a pro- duction of one hundred and twenty thousand planned for 1917.
In 1908 Mr. Durant organized the General Motors Company, of which the Buick Motor Company was a subsidiary plant. Into this corporation was brought the Cadillac Motor Car Company of Detroit, for which the corporation paid nearly five million dollars in cash; the Olds Motor Works, of Lansing; the Oakland Motor Car Company, the Northway Motor Com- pany, of Detroit; the Jackson-Church-Wilcox Company, of Saginaw, the Weston-Mott Company, and the General Motors Truck Company, of Pon- tiac.
The first year the sales of the General Motors Company exceeded $34,000,000, making Mr. Durant the recognized leader in the field of motor cars. The profits of the General Motors Company in 1909 were over $9,000,000, and the second year of business resulted in profits exceeding $10,000,000. From its inception the General Motors Company was a hold- ing company, each unit of the organization being operated upon a separate basis.
The results obtained by Mr. Durant and his associates were most grat- ifying. One of the most important industries secured for Oak Park was the Weston-Mott Company, a small manufacturing concern in Utica, New York, which was induced to transfer its equipment and force of workmen to Flint, to produce axles for the Buick Motor Company. The Weston- Mott Company, starting in one factory building, increased its production in accordance with the demands made by the Buick and other motor com- panies, until today it occupies five immense factory buildings, and has become one of the most important units of the General Motors corporation, by which it was later absorbed.
In 1908 the Durant-Dort Carriage Company established, in this indus- trial section, the Flint Varnish Works. From a very small beginning the company has grown to be the largest maker of high-grade finishing material for automobile and railroad use in the world. The company was sold by the Durant-Dort concern and reorganized as the Flint Varnish and Color Works, and William W. Mountain, who had been the general manager, became president of the organization. The company now produces every- thing in the line of paint, colors, enamels and varnish utilized in the finish- ing of automobiles and cars. In 1916 the company increased the size of its plant, enabling it to more than double its production, and also added a Canadian branch at Toronto, Ontario.
Also located in the center of this great industrial center of Flint are
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SOUTH SAGINAW STREET, LOOKING SOUTH, FLINT.
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the following manufacturing institutions: The Champion Ignition Com- pany, with its capacity of seventy-five thousand spark plugs a day, and the Michigan Motor Castings Company, which in 1916 occupied a new foundry building costing six hundred thousand dollars and having a capacity of two hundred and fifty tons of gray iron per day, both of which are units of the General Motors Company; the W. F. Stewart Company, producing automo- bile bodies; the Walker-Weiss Axle Company; the J. B. Armstrong Com- pany, makers of steel springs; and the million-dollar plant of the Common- wealth Power Company. The latter plant is used to transfer the one hun- dred and forty thousand voltage brought three hundred miles overland from the Au Sable river and used to furnish electricity for commercial and do- mestic purposes, including the operation of all factories and the city street car lines.
Flint had sprung from a town of thirteen thousand in 1900 to a city of thirty-eight thousand in 1910, enjoying at this time the distinction of having the largest increase in population and also in postal receipts of any city in the United States, according to the government statistics. Meantime property values had made phenomenal advances, the real estate dealers had placed thousands of residence lots on the market, streets were cut through portions of the city previously used for garden lands, factory building after factory building was being erected, and Flint in 1910 was the typical boom town of the West.
The peculiar conditions of this period may be noted with interest, as it was impossible in any way for the city officials to provide.for the influx of its rapidly-increasing population. Up to the time of the erection of the present postoffice building, patrons of the general delivery window would stand in line for one hundred feet to receive their daily mail; hotels and boarding houses were turning people away, and lodgings were at a premium, . some of the keepers of large boarding houses in the factory district renting their beds to first day and then night "shifts." It is said that about this time a theatrical company and a base-ball team who were scheduled to appear in Flint were forced to seek accommodations for the night in the neighbor- ing town of Lapeer. In 1909-10 there were estimated to have been one thousand people who were living in tents along the river banks and in the woods adjacent to the factory buildings.
In 1912 Mr. Durant, the genius who was becoming a center of attrac- tion in the manufacturing and financial world, organized the Chevrolet Motor Company, which was soon followed by the establishment of subsidiary plants in New York, Tarrytown, St. Louis, Oakland, California; Bay City, To-
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ledo, Fort Worth and Oshawa, Ontario. The Chevrolet Motor Company is anticipating an output in 1916 of eighty thousand cars, and is making plans for a production of one hundred and ninety-four thousand cars in 1917.
The Chevrolet Company first occupied the buildings of the old Flint Wagon Works and later took over the plant of the Mason Motor Company. In 1915 these structures became overcrowded with machinery and em- ployees, which necessitated plans for a number of large additions. Those already completed or in process of construction are a large new plant for the manufacture of Mason motors, a mammoth three-story factory, an axle plant, and a separate heating plant. This enormous expansion has made necessary the construction of several miles of railroad sidings, the erection of a new steel bridge for factory and railroad purposes only, and a new city bridge at Wilcox street, to care for the greatly increased traffic.
What the Buick Motor Company and other plants have meant to the north end of the city, the Chevrolet Company has meant to the western sec- tion. The fourth ward, originally known as "The Pinery," a rather less improved section of Flint than the other wards, in 1916 became crowded with thousands of workmen who sought residences in the near vicinity of the great manufacturing plant. The expansion of the city by platting has resulted in the erection of homes as far as three miles beyond the city limits, where a real estate concern platted twenty acres into one-acre and half-acre plats, and sold them all within a few days.
Today the great companies, the General Motors and the Chevrolet, which Mr. Durant organized and which have meant so much to Flint, have a combined volume of business of $200,000,000, which is more than the income of the New York Central and Lake Shore railroads.
In 1914 Mr. Durant disposed of his holdings in the Durant-Dort Car- . riage Company. Shortly after this the Dort Motor Car Company was or- ganized, with J. Dallas Dort as president. The new automobile concern took over a large portion of the carriage plant and increased its output so rapidly that in 1916 it became necessary to expand. There was no vacant land adjacent to the Dort group of factory buildings, so the company pur- chased two entire blocks of residence property between Smith street and the Flint river, and South street and the Grand Trunk railroad tracks, razed the dwellings thereon and started the construction of a mammoth two-story assembling plant which will cost when completed ninety thousand dollars. The company has also purchased twenty acres at the south end of the city at the intersection of the Pere Marquette and Grand Trunk railways. In 1915-16 the output of the Dort Motor Car Company was nine thousand cars.
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Though motor car manufacturing has evidently become the principal interest of Mr. Dort, still he has not yet abandoned the manufacture of carriages, considerable space in the Durant-Dort Carriage Company plant being still utilized for the building of carriages, the output of this branch of the business being fifteen thousand jobs in 1915.
Other accessory companies to the automobile industry are the Marvel Carburetor Company, the Imperial Wheel Company, the United States Brass and Iron Foundry, Flint Pattern Company, and several minor manu- facturing concerns.
In the meantime the W. A. Paterson Company, the pioneer vehicle manufacturers of Flint, had also turned their attention to the building of automobiles. A large portion of the group of factory buildings, located in the heart of the city, were devoted to that industry, the different models proving from the outset very popular with the public. The Paterson Motor Company is now building about fifteen hundred cars per annum.
Thus from the establishment of a single industry has arisen a vast combination of allied interests, which are known the world over. While the growth and progressiveness of any one commonwealth can only be due to combined efforts, still the citizens of Flint realize that without the foresight and genius and generalship of such a leader as Mr. Durant, Flint would not have been the manufacturing and commercial center that it is in 1916 when this book goes to press.
POPULATION.
Strange as it may seem, Flint never had an organization as a village, but from a simple township leaped into a full fledged city. January 18, 1855, a citizens' meeting was held to consider the subject of a city charter, and the act of incorporation became a law by approval of Governor Bing- ham, February 3, 1855, and on April 2nd following the first charter elec- tion was held, and the Hon. Grant Decker was chosen its first mayor.
The population of the new city of Flint when incorporated was about two thousand. The following figures best show the phenomenal growth of Flint for the sixteen years since 1900:
1855
2,000
1890.
9,830
1900
13,103
1910.
38,550
1916 (estimated)
85,000
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CITY OFFICIALS OF FLINT.
The following is a complete roster of the city officers for 1916:
Mayor
Earl F. Johnson
President pro tem.
-George C. Kellar
Clerk
.Delos E. Newcombe
Treasurer
John H. Long
Attorney
John H. Farley
Engineer
E. C. Shoecraft
Health Officer
Don D. Knapp
Milk and Food Inspector and Sealer of
Weights and Measures. Edward J. Friar
Plumbing Inspector G. C. M. Shaw
Electrical and Building Inspector George D. Hanna
Chief of Fire Department.
Edward H. Price
Chief of Police James P. Cole
Superintendent of Streets. Lee Davison
Superintendent of Poor
Frank L. Wells
Superintendent of Water Works.
F. N. Baldwin
Sexton of City Cemetery
Frank Moyer
Market Keeper
Frank S. Thompson
Justices of the Peace
William L. Landon and
James M. Torrey
Aldermen-
First Ward-Edward J. Clark. John W. Collins. Second Ward-George H. Gordon, Homer Vette.
Third Ward-Fred R. Armstrong, William D. Clark.
Fourth Ward-George C. Kellar, Frank C. Torrey.
Fifth Ward-Eslie G. Frazer, Nahum W. Long.
Sixth Ward-George F. Streat, Otto M. Ramlow.
Board of Health-C. D. Chapell, Noah Bates.
Board of Hospital Managers-W. E. Martin, J. D. Dort, F. W. Atwood. Orson Mil- lard. George D. Flanders.
Park Commissioners-C. B. Burr. P. R. Doherty, George E. Mckinley, George E. Pomeroy. C. S. Mott.
Police Commissioners-Fred Weiss, Fred D. Lane, Charles H. Miller, Frank R. Streat.
Water Commissioners-Benjamin F. Miller, William Veit.
Standing Committees, 1916-1917.
Finance-Kellar, Armstrong, Gordon, Collins, Ramlow, Frazer. Fire Department-Armstrong. Streat, Collins, Torrey, Frazer, Vette. Buildings-Gordon, Kellar, E. J. Clark, W. D. Clark, Long, Ramlow. Streets-Torrey, W. D. Clark. E. J. Clark, Long, Vette, Streat. Sewers-W. D. Clark. E. J. Clark. Torrey, Streat, Vette, Long. Ordinances-Collins, Kellar. Streat, Armstrong, Frazer, Railroads-Streat, Kellar, Gordon, W. D. Clark.
Bridges-Ramlow, Long, Torrey, Gordon, Collins, W. D. Clark.
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Licenses-Frazer, Vette, Ramlow.
Lighting-E. J. Clark, Torrey, Long, Ramlow.
Water-Long, Armstrong, E. J. Clark.
Sanitary-Vette, Streat, Torrey.
Parks-Vette, Armstrong, Frazer.
Conventions-Gordon, Armstrong, Frazer, Collins.
Cemetery-Kellar, W. D. Clark, Gordon.
Number of City Employees (Sewer, Paving and Street) 700
Number of City Firemen 43
Number of City Policemen
39
Assessed Valuation of Flint $47,594,444.00
FLINT CITY PLATS, ADDITION'S AND SUB-DIVISIONS.
There were several plats of the village of Flint River filed in the office of the register of deeds. The first one was filed by A. E. Wathares in 1830. He called it a plat of the village of Sidney. The territory embraced in this plat covered four blocks -- from Saginaw street to Clifford, east and west, and from the river to First street, north and south. This was followed by a re-survey in 1833 and the name of Flint River was substituted for Sidney. The new plat covered the territory embraced in the Sidney plat and extended to the present Fourth street and on the east to Harrison street. In 1836 this village plat was extended to East street and included thirty-two blocks.
The village of Grand Traverse was platted on the north side of the river in 1837 and the plat was filed on January 16 of that year. It extended from the river to Seventh avenue, north, and from Smith's Island-St. John's street-to West street, now known as Stone street. This was platted by Chauncey S. Payne.
The village of Flint was platted by Wait Beach, July 13, 1836. It ex- tended from the river to Eleventh street, south, and from Saginaw street to Church-all being west of the Saginaw turnpike, now Saginaw street.
Elisha Beach filed a plat on September 22, 1836, extending the limits of Flint village to Pine street, adding twenty blocks and on February 28, 1837, Gen. C. C. Hascall platted an addition to the village, east of Saginaw street to Clifford and from Court street south to Eleventh-sixteen blocks. But while all these plats showed villages, there really never was an incor- porated village of Sidney, Flint River, Grand Traverse or Flint. There was always a township organization and then a city.
Up to 1900 there were over sixty "additions" to the territory origin- ally embraced in the limits of the city of Flint. These additions vary in size from a few lots to nearly fifty blocks. Among the most important may be
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ASSESSED VALUATION, TAX RATE AND AMOUNT RAISED FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS.
Rate, per $1,000 Valuation.
1911 $11.50
1912 $12.75
1913 $11.96 9.30
1914 $12.20
1915
Total . Summer
$11.80
Total Winter
10.03
6.95
7.88
8.95
Total
$21.53
$19.70
$21.26
$20.08
$20.75
City Summer
8.00
8.25
8.54
7.70
7.42
City Winter
1.85
1.28
1.89
1.25
1.25
*City Total
$9.85
$9.53
$10.43
$8.95
$8.67
School Summer
3.50
4.50
3.42
4.50
4.38
School Winter
1.55
1.47
1.73
1.70
1.80
*School Total
$5.05
$5.97
$5.15
$6.20
$6.18
County
2.30
1.50
1.65
1.50
1.50
County Road
1.00
.80
1.00
1.50
1.50
*County Total
$3.30
$2.30
$2.65
$3.00
$3.00
*State Total
3.33
1.90
3.03
1.93
2.90
Grand Total, city_
9.85
9.53
10.43
8.95
8.67
School, State, County and County Road
11.68
10.17
10.83
11.13
12.08
Total
$21.53
$19.70
$21.26
$20.08
$20.75
Assessed Valuation
$23,555,106.00
$24,569.228.00
$33,902,697.00
$35,267.451.00
$37,166,190.00
Amount Raised-
City
$232.017.83
$246,404.54
$351,755.20
$315,660.44
$326.576.83
School
118.953.30
160,698.53
173,869.19
218,646.05
229,703.64
County
54,248.54
51,750.20
56,204.02
53,079.18
55.749.58
County Road
23,555.10
27,341.74
33,902.69
52,897.14
55,749.58
State
78,300.46
64,638.00
102,488.45
67,631.77
107,119.10
Total
$507,075.23
$550,833.41
$718,219.55
$707.968.55
$774,898.73
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mentioned: McFarlan & Company's Western Addition, forty-nine blocks; Thayer & Eddy's, sixteen blocks; Stockton's eleven blocks; Fenton & Bishop's, fourteen blocks; West Flint, twelve blocks, and Oak Park addi- tion, embracing thirty-four blocks. When the present site of the water works was selected, that location still remained in the township of Burton, but it was subsequently added to the city.
The following plats have been filed in the office of the register of deeds of Genesee county, Michigan, beginning with the year 1900, to July, 1916, a total of twenty-two thousand two hundred and five lots, to which may be added several plats laid out during the latter part of 1916 and bringing the number of lots platted in six years to nearly twenty-five thousand.
Name of Plat
No. of Lots.
Name of Plat No. of Lots.
Adelaide
60
Homedale Subdivision
581
Arlington Place 185
Lucy-Mason-Howard Plat 155
Beachdale 177
Kearsley Park Subdivision 200
Becker Heights Addition 41
Kirby's Addition 27
Bickford Park 60
8
George LaDue's Addition
37
Buick Heights
91
Liberty Street Extension
22
Buick Park 262 1
21
Bang's Re-Plat 33
Collingwood
228
A. McFarlan's Re-Plat. 51
Columbia Heights
266
Maines' Re-Plat 13
Courtdale
97
Wright's Re-Plat 18
Dewey Homestead Addition
289
Veit's Re-Plat 60
Mclaughlin's Addition 38
Eastern Addition to Homedale
540
Maines' Flint Crest. 120
Edgewood Plat 34
Maplewood Annex 305
Elk Park Subdivision
42
Motor Heights 130
Elm Park Subdivision
412
Motor Heights Second Subdivision 288
Fairfield Subdivision 149
205
Murray Hill 121
Fairview
255
Murray Hill No. 2.
176
Flanders & Houran's Subdivision.
91
Re-Plat of Reserve and Lot 95 of Murray Hill 5
Franklin Park 242
Northern Addition to Fairview 128
Fenton Heights (Supervisor's Plat)_
31
Oakland
110
Gilkey Ridge
126
Oak Park Subdivision 638
98
Gillespie & VanWagoner's Subdivision Garner's Re-Plat
8
Parkland No. 2.
398
Grant Heights
401
Park Heights Addition
298
Hamilton Homestead Addition
23
Parkview 47
Loyal Guard Square Re-Plat. 21
Pasadena
789
Woolfit & Macomber Re-Plat 15
Pomeroy-Bonbright Addition 530
Hillcrest 793
Pomeroy-Bonbright Second Addition_ 172
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Motor Heights Third Subdivision 124
Fairmont Addition
Floral Park
110
Gilkey Ridge No. 2.
122
103
Durant-Dort Carriage Co.'s Re-Plat _. Parkland
346
J. D. Dort's Addition
20
Maplewood 305
Burr's Addition
Knob Hill 26
Bishop's Re-Plat
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Pomeroy-Bonbright Third Addition __ 597
General Motors' Park 545
Rice's Addition
11
Miner's Subdivision 54
River Addition to Fairview
337
Brookfield Addition 23
Riverside
186
Vineland No. 1 19
South Park 128
Fenton Park Addition 92
Piper's Re-Plat
29
Suburban Gardens 828
Stevenson's Plat
36
Fenton Street Subdivision 359.
Stewart's Plat
138
Indian Village 422
Stewart's Plat No. 2
335
Metawaneenee Hills No. 1 141
Stone-Macdonald Addition
355
Mason Manor 284
Stone-Macdonald-Kaufman Addition.
473
Lincoln Park Subdivision 454
Third Avenue Terrace Addition
144
Maplewood Annex No. 1 450
VanTiffin Place
14
Plat of Bellaire 135
Vineland
113
Mason Manor No. 1 152
Windiate-Pierce Subdivision
213
Virginia Place Subdivision 324
E. O. Wood's Plat.
53
Woodcroft Subdivision 130
Woodlawn Park
393
Clarkdale Subdivision 140
Woodward Plat
26
Nickels Park Subdivision
176
Highland Park Subdivision
61
Mannhall Park 197
Kummer's Addition
37
Atherton Park Subdivision
591
Cloverdale No. 2
512
Boulevard Heights Subdivision
591
Total number of lots. 22,205
Flint's area in 1916 is seven thousand and forty acres. It is a city of homes. Many of its workingmen either own their homes or are buying them on the contract plan. The greatest problem of Greater Flint has been to supply the unusual demand for houses. There are fifteen hundred factory employees who live in Saginaw, thirty miles away, and twelve hundred who live in Bay City, forty miles away, and there are also between three hundred and four hundred who live in the more accessible villages of Clio and Mt. Morris. The crying need is for five thousand more homes. Capitalists are bending their energies to supply this demand so that the industrial progress of Flint may not be stayed. The Civic Building Association, organized with a paid-up capital of two hundred thousand dollars in 1916, is trying to alleviate the situation. It has planned the completion of five hundred mod- erate priced homes for workingmen by the close of 1916. There were at the beginning of the year 1916, twelve thousand five hundred residence buildings in the city. With the plans for the construction of many new houses and the completion of those under way there are prospects of from fifteen thousand to sixteen thousand homes in the city by January, 1917.
Building permits for the first half of 1916 passed the total of 1915, when thirteen hundred and two permits for new construction work and three hundred and thirty-nine for repair work were issued from the city
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CITY HALL, FLINT.
MASONIC TEMPLE, FLINT.
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clerk's office from January I to July I. The value of buildings for which permits were granted during this period was approximately two million five hundred thousand, or nearly one million dollars ahead of the total amount for the year 1915.
The record in the city clerk's office shows that building permits for structures to cost one hundred dollars or more during the past five years have been issued as follows : 1912, 181; 1913, 290; 1914, 416; 1915, 1,398; 1916 to July 1, 1,302. Of the thirteen hundred and ninety-eight permits in 1915, twelve hundred and four were for houses, twenty-four for flats, twenty for stores with flats, eighty-eight for barns and garages, and the remainder for business buildings.
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