Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-10-24
OCTOBER "A.
Prof. Bead, the veteran professor Of

Prof. Beal, the veteran professor Of
forestry In the State Agricultural Col.
lege, has listed and classified eighty-six
commercial timber woods which grow up
ward of one Soot in diameter in Michigan.
The least vslIuable hard woods are util,
lied for Charcoal, for the numerous char
coal iron furnaces, of which Michigan
has more than any other State in the
Union.
The tan bsrk belt about Traverse Bay
furnishes bark to the west shore tanneries
and Is also Developing a gigantic leather
interest along the east shore. Holland
has the largest tannery in the United
States. Grand Haven and Ludington
also have large ones, and n new plant has
just commihced shipping leather from
Muskegon. Manistee Is building biz
one and n Chicago concern has a plant
at whitehall which turns ont most of the
genuine imported Russia leather used in
the West.
A Salt Producing Center.
In connection with the sawmills at
Manistee and Ludington more salt is
produced than in all the rest of the State.
Manistee 10 now ahead of both Saginaw
and Syracuse and Is the great salt pre-,
ducing cenger of America. Some of her
mills make 1000 barrels day each.
Grand Rapids has the largest and finest
deposits Of gypsum in the United States
About one-half the entire product of the
country is mined near this city and mar
keted as plaster of paris, wall finish and
land fertilizer These mines ship 1000
tons of plaster of paris week to the glass
factories of Pittsburg and Indiana to be
used for molds for the plates when being
polished. 1t is also the principal ingre-
dient in cement, stucco and staff.
Michigan has more water power than
any other Western State. From Mack
inaw south to the State line is a backbone
Of hills which range from 500 to 1000
feet above Lake Michigan and on the
western slope are twenty large streams
with hundreds of first-class water powers.
The MrsBego from its great reservoirs,
Houghton and Higgins Lakes, falls 600
feet to Lake Michigan, and has a water
power every four miles of its 20O-mile
course. In Allegan. Berrien and Kalama-
zoo Counties are some of the largest water
paper mills in the country.
The NEST extensive fishing industry of
any interior State is in Michigan. The
principal lake fishing for whtefsh. trout.
bass, etc, is on the west shore while its
interior streams and lakes furnish the
finest trout, grayling and bass.
Summer Resorts.
The summer resorts of the west shore
are uno-iualed for cool, bracing air and
beautiful scenery. Mackinaw island is
already the largest watering place west
of the Alleghanies. Traverse Bay and
Charlevoix are in the same belt, while
Frankfort, Ludington, Pentwater, White
hall, Muskegon, Spring Lake, Grand Ha
ven, Holland, Saugatuck and South IIa-
ven are delightful points TO visit. The
beautiful inland lakes all along the shore
from Berrien County to Petoskey are uD-
excelled for camping and fishing parties.
In n single article it is scarcely possible
&c enumerate the many resources of West
ern Michigan. Chicago has never fully
appreciated the value and importance If
this really rich ana comparatively un1e-
veloped section of country right lt her
very door which is so rapidly growing in
commercial value.