The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-11-18
A FlouuishIng Young city.

One OF Tue agents OF Mr. george hdWeS,
who is canVassing the State of Michigan for
his forthcoming Directory of that State, has
discovered some as rapid and magical i'm
provements up in those hyperborean regions
as we claim to have in what is termed the
West" Here how he writes Of Saginaw:
EAST Saginaw, Saginaw county, is stu
ated on the east bank of Saginaw river, Is
milessfrom its entrance into the bay of the
samezname, and 100 miles north north-wes
from Detroit. The land upon which it stands
vas purchased by the founder Of the city,
Alfred NJ Hoyt, Of New York, in the winter
OF $50. At the time OF this purchase, the
whole country for miles around was an un-
broken wilderness, and upon what is now
embraced within the corporate limits, only
six frarae buildings were erected-Onesteam
saw mill, one boarding house, one dwelling
house. one trading house, (Arnerican Fur
Company one Office near the mill, and one
bytrn-a few shanties were dotted around
IA 4ar the mill, and an Indian trader had
log house near where the Bancroft House
now stands.
These buildings were scattered along the
banks OF the city for two or three miles;
only three or four acres in all, were cleared,
the balance was covered with donse forest
of giant oaks, hickorys, elms, butternut,
lynn, etc. Nineteen months from this time,
tarough the industry and perseverance of
Hon. n. Little Mr. Hoyt's agent), q splen-
did plank road was completed to Flint, 81
miles-and dwellings, stores, mills, etc,
were built by magic. Up to, and some. time
after, the completion of this road, the town
was supplied with its mail matter from
Saginaw City, no Office having as yet been
established. Mark the change. Upon the
spot where stood the traders log hut, a
splendid brick block has been erected, and
the city now has population of four thOus-
thousand. The Flint and Pere- Marquette
/ Railroad is nearly completed to the city of
Flint, and a locomotive is already running
; on portion of it.
/ Seven lines of steamers, and one line of
propellers, arrive and depart from the port
! regularly; two daily lines OF stages, with a
/ daily mail from Detroit. The city is lighted
( by gas, and has magnificent hotel, 100 by
/ l2O feet and four stories high, furnished
I with baths, steam, heating and cooking ap-
paratus, and all the other modern improve
! mentS.
There are. numerous steam saw mills,
many with gangs of saws, and capable of
: saving IfOu tour 10 AVe HilillonS uurlnS the
usual season drumming; grist and Touring
mills, with four runs Of stones; planning
mills, one of which last year turned out over
seven million feet of planed lumber; brew
cries, foundries, machine shops, churches,
printing Offices Masonic Lodge, public
halls fire and hook and. ladder companies,
brass bands, military companies, ship yard,
where some of the finest steamers and YES
sal- IN the rivers and lakes have heeu huiit.
over two miles of dock, mammoth stores,
whose cash trade average $500 per day; a
banking office, whose operations are very
extensive, and through whose hands more
money has passed for the last six months
than the whole banking capital of the State
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