Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its SurroundingsStrickland, W. P. (William Peter)
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Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings
Strickland, W. P. (William Peter)
Great Lakes (North America); Mackinac Island (Mich. : Island) -- History; Michigan -- History
Jan. Feb. M'ch. Dec. Total in year.
Charleston, Mass. 2.66 2.22 4.08 2.27 35.83
Montreal, Canada 2.84 1.84 2.69 2.58 47.28
Fayetteville, Vt. 3.93 3.91 4.07 3.55 53.99
Cincinnati, Ohio. 3.35 3.51 3.93 4.29 46.89
Green Bay, Wis. 1.19 0.87 1.70 1.30 34.65
Detroit, Mich. 2.18 1.38 2.86 1.30 30.07
St. Louis, Mo. 1.93 3.37 3.82 1.99 41.95
Fort Hamilton, N. Y. 2.98 3.67 3.65 3.84 43.65
Pittsburgh, Pa. 2.18 2.17 2.70 3.13 34.96
Philadelphia, Pa. 3.09 2.94 3.43 4.03 43.56
CHAPTER XIII.
Agricultural interest -- Means of transportation -- Railways
and vessels -- Lumber -- Vessels cleared -- Lake cities and
Atlantic ports -- Home-market -- Breadstuffs -- Michigan
flour -- Monetary panics -- Wheat -- Importations --
Provisions -- Fruit -- Live stock -- Wool -- Shipping
business -- Railroads -- Lake Superior trade -- Pine lumber
trade -- Copper interest -- Iron interest -- Fisheries --
Coal mines -- Salt -- Plaster beds.
We copy from the Detroit Tribune of 1860, a somewhat elaborate and
lengthy article containing recent and highly important information in
regard to the industrial interests of Michigan. Though there are
portions of this article which we have to some extent anticipated in
some of our previous chapters, we consider it highly important to
extract largely from it, because of its more recent date. To all
interested in the development and future growth of the Northwest, it
will prove most valuable. The writer, Mr. Kay Haddock, commercial
editor of the Tribune, says:--
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