Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-09-17
The Great Fruit Growing Region Of North
western Michigan.

A correspondent OF the Detroit Free Press,
writing from South Frankfort, says:
The session OF the State Horticultural Society
at Frankfort Harbor, BenZie Co., NJ ch., has
drawn aside the curtain that has seemed TO
hide this portion of the Peninsular State from
view, and all eyes are now directed 10 its many
natural resources that have been developed in
the past
1t is now claimed by fruit men that A. G.
Butler has the largest crab app e orchard In
Michigan, numbering full 800 ees of Whit
ncy's No. 20 Last year was its first sea- on
and this year its immense Weld viii establish
the success of this order of fruit culture at
this point. This plant also has plums, pears,
appl.s, etc. and al looking fine and yielding
well. Mr.. Butler orchard covers fully forty
acrcs-all under cultivation.
llr. Isaac Voorhees,. has also a line plant of
twenty acres of as fine trees as ever adorned
an orchard. The Doctor has made a spec atty
of plums In past years and his celel rated
"Pond,s seedlings" have found + ady sac on
the Chicago and Milwaukee markets. so line
are they that local Ia d alers have ben CIV
ing them dress Of fancy colored tissue paper
and rs California plums at five ceEis each bave
found thcic way 10 the retail fruit stands Of
those cities. The Doctor thinks that the honor
and glory Of the Frankfort fruit region ought
not 10 lie given away to California. ] have
unly mentioned afew of the leading orchards.
\. A. Parker, VIM. III. Francis, Axtell and
others have given considerable attention to
lis agricultural resources are by no means
noncsscntials. We have had, on our flying
visit nj this point, the pleasure OF visiting the
new farms of Anderson Brothers Ct. {. and
John Anderson), Of James &. Wolcott and
others, and have seen as fine corn, potatoes
and wheat as are to be found 100 miles south
of this point All kinds of vines are natural
to the soil. Mr.. L. w. Crane b rs made recent
purchase of 100 acres, almost entirely cleared
and proposes to demonstrate that BeDz.e coun-
~ Is farming country. He is actively engas-
ed IN the hardwood lumber trade at South
Frankfort and is directly interested In making
the farming lands of this region practical Tor
cultivation.
The Frankfort Lumber company of South
Frankfort, Is also an active factor in this field
of industry.
Mr.. A. g. Butler is now putting dowL a salt
well, only a few feet east OF his mills on the
north SIDE and has already gone down since
June 20 last some 800 feet They expect to
reach paying brine at LOO feet
OF In S hartor town proper IL can be said
that Frankfort Harbor is one OF the most
pleasant and picturesque points on the whole
east shore. The town Is on both sides OF the
small inland lake. The north side has the
largest population. but the south side has a
T. putation for being one of lveiest com
mcrcial and shipping points for its size on the
whole shore. Detroit capital has foothold
here In an immense charcoal iron blast fur
mace, that cost originally, 1t is claimed, up
ward of S250,O0J.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor IL North -Michiq an
railroad will be completed next June, TO CadIl-
lac, and will, in the course OF next year, reach
Frankfort Harbor, its terminus. Would II not
be well for Detroit capital TO, either through
that railroad, the Flint ~ Pere Marquette rail
road, or the Detroit, Lansing IL Northern rail
road, look 10 this section OF the state, and no.
let the trade be carried to Toledo, or continue
an active factor 20 Chicago's commercial sue
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