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Show 'TOWN FOR SALE Small Town In Michigan Up For Sale NAHMA, Mich. - The town of Nahma (population 750), located on the upper peninsula, li for sale. The community Is losing its only Industry, the Bay de Noquet Lum. ber Co. sawmill after 70 year's operation. It would probably cost $2,500,-000 $2,500,-000 to replace all the buildings and other property in Nahma, but the lumber company, which owns it, Is willing to sell for 10 cents on the dollar. There's only one catch. The company wants to sell the community to another company that would establish a new industry indus-try to keep the 230 workers employed. em-ployed. For a quarter of a million dollars, dol-lars, the purchaser will get 102 occupied dwellings; a modern community com-munity center; industrial buildings; build-ings; brick office buildings; general gen-eral merchandise store; an eight-bed eight-bed hospital; a 17-room hotel and three-story boarding house; barber shop; a nine-hole golf course, an airport, and five rustic cottages on a fine sandy beach on big Bay de Noc. Railroad Fart of Deal Thrown into the deal is the Nahma Nah-ma & Northern Railway, with miles of trackage, two steam locomotives, 100 log cars and a roundhouse. Nahma has a good harbor to moor boats of 14-foot draft and three docks. In addition, the buyer will get 4,400 acres of land, partially timbered. At one time, Bay de Noquet company com-pany owned 200,000 acres of timber tim-ber land In the Nahma area. All has been cut over, and is now located lo-cated within the boundaries of the Hiawatha National forest. Charles E. Good, president of the firm, reported recently: "We want to dispose of the town to some company that will start a new Industry here. We have 250 loyal workers and we want to see them taken care of." The company set up a $100,000 fund to provide for severance pay for workers who remained with the firm until it ceases operations. Folks Want to Stay "I am not encouraging a woodworking wood-working plant for Nahma," Mr. Good explained. "There are enough already In this area. This should be a good place for a metal, garment, gar-ment, or plastics industry of some kind." Nahma folks dislike the idea of leaving the home town. They have enjoyed a comfortable living, with ample opportunity to go hunting and fishing in nearby woods and waters whenever they wished. There is a fine bathing beach on Bay de Noc, a short walk from the center of the village. Nahma has the township form of government The community has an accredited high school. The Bay de Noquet Lumber company com-pany was organized in 1881. In the early days, several boatloads of lumber went out daily from Nahma Nah-ma to Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Buf-falo, North Tonawanda, N.Y., and other ports. The company had 75 miles of tracks two decades ago when it had logging camps operating in the area north of Nahma. The tracks were pulled up three years ago In the cut-out country. Since then, logs have been trucked from operations on the Lake Superior shore. |