Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-23

often leaves the sufferers in condition to en-
JOY better state Of health than they had
previously enjoyed. Besides all this, it is a
fact worthy of hote that the health Of the
inhabitants III almost every locality in the
State has improved rapidly, year by year, for
the last ten years, as the country has inn
proved under the magic touch of Yankee
enterprise and progression, and the people
have exchanged the contents of the pork
barrel and potatoe bin alone, for the pleasing
and wholesome variety of food furnished from
well cultivated fields and luxuriant gardens,
and from orchards bending under their bur
dens of pulpy luxuries-the primeval food Of
man. Take it all in all, we firmly believe
the State of Michigan will compare very ia
vorable, indeed, with any State of the Union
in point of health, as well as in the enter
prise aud go-ahead spirit of its inhabitants.
Mill PoINr AND ITS M1LIs.--Having oc-
easion frequently to pass the village of Mill
Point we notice the spirit of enterprise at
work in some good degree, in the improve
ment of the general appearance Of the place,
and in the erection of comfortable and re-
spectacle looking dwellings; but could the
grubbing hoe, the plough and scraper be
brought into requisition more frequently and
continued for longer periods, it might enable
that village to vie successfully with others in
the Grand River Valley, for the palm to be
awarded to the most beautiful, or to the one
making the msst noticeable improvements.
But the greatest glory of Mill Point consists
in its extensive Steam Mills, for the manu-
facture of lumber. The four owned respec-
lively by the Messrs. WHITE, BARBER and
HOPKINS, are capable of manufacturing some
100000 feet of lumber weekly, besides cut
ting large quantity of lath,
0, would it not make the eye of an East
ern manufacturer of lumber accustomed only
to the slow motion produced in an old fash
Toned water mill, dilate with wonder and as
constituent, if he could be suddenly trans
ported from that relic of the spirit Of re, to
the whizzing, putting, buzzing, whirling at
mosphere of one of our modern Grand River
Mills The sight of such an one would well
repay the toll Of a journey hither, and the
useful information that might be acquired III
the art of making lumber in the fastest and
most economical manner possible, would prove
a profitable investment of the outlay requisite
to gain such information.
By the way, we notice in the mill of the
Messrs. WHITE, an improvement not intro
duced as far as our knowledge extends, into
any other mill in this vicinity. Instead o.
the plummer blocks usually employed as rests
for the shaft, attached to the upri ght saw,
and which have heretofore been considered in
dispensable, as alone capable of affording a base
Of sufficient solidity to the proper adjustment
of motion SO rapid and powerful, frame
similar in construction to an engine frame
has been completed and recently placed il
the Mill by Mr.. CADY, of Grand Rapids
This frame elevates the shaft some six fee
above the floor, and is put together with Sc
much solidity that it efectually resists al
Earring from the motion of the saw. The Messrs
WHITE consider this great improvement
upon the former arrangement, and well wor
thy the adoption of mill owners generally.
We shall soon have further matter in re
lation to other mills in our immediate vicinity
ES" Friend TURNER, of the Grand Rap
ids Eagle, seems to be waxing wroth at The
treatment received from the proprietors o
the Daily Enquirer, growing out of the
settling of preliminaries by the respective
parties, on the eve of the late town and city
elections. We would advise him to take i
cooly, and not forget that Christian forbear
ance is cardinal virtue.
LAKE NAvIGATIoN.-Fors several days pas