The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-11-29
Houehton Department

country as lies out OF doors; We raise
the nucst OF apples, piums, berries and
every kind OF small fruit known In
this zone No country has vegetables
/ 90 compare with those % the upper
/ peninsula.
where. a Few years ago the copper
country was o5liseI Co rely GA Chicago
land Milwaukee markets for their pota-
! toes. they now produce enough so that
Y last FAN Houshton and Heweenaw
county alone shipped out over 200
carloads Of a quality which command
ed the highest price in the market.
Lake Superior Apples Best.
1T may be a surprise 10 some 20
know that apples raised along the
south shore Of Lake Superior in quail
.ty are unsurpassed, 10 equalled. in the
United states oct !, I visited Stew
arts cove, twelve miles north and
west Of Marquette lying directly on
the lake. Mr.. Stewart has apple trees
which We're planted three years ago.
that bore from one-hah 10 one and
one-half bushels Of apples each this
f season. and trees Of six years growth
/ that averaged ten bushels of apples
each 7 saw such plums as those we
gathered here. While there Mr.. stew
art informed me that his cherry trees
were filed this season. In small fruits
: he has black. white and red currants,
black raspberrles and cultivated black
berries. There is nothing IN the vege-
table line that surpasses those raisd
by Mr.. Stewart on his fran. I give
this simply as an illustration of what
I saw.
There are. know, farms IN this To-
caUty that are growing many IL not all
of tho same kind OF products At ska
nee. Mr. Won Zellan has an apple or
chard which produced over 1000 bush
els of apples this fall They are mar
lyeted az Houghton, Hancock and Calu-
met at from 800 20 SIPS per bushel
NO great enterprise can today be
successfully conducted without COM
bined capital 40 man alone would
think Of equlpping a large factory
wholly on his own money In union
there is strength and today IL takes
the united capital Of many men %
accomplish great results
Think what IT means 20 a city 10
have plant employing 1000 men,
enough 20 support city Of 10000 peo-
pie. have received from firms we
visited while IN Detroit, replies to a
few questions propounded 10 them
which ! believe viii be Of interest 10
an readers.
Factories Start Small.
"To show what benefits are TO be
derived from small beginnings, the
manufacturers of the Packard motor
cars. now Of Detroit, commenced bust
ness in Warren, Ohio, in 1893. The
pay roll consisted OF seventeen men.
The pay roll in Aug. 1911 numbered
1915 men, and the amount paid out
IN wages that month was 1924, 407. The
output Of 1912 touring cars, without
taking INTO consideration the truck end
Of the business, will be in excess Of
$4,000. 900 The floor space occupied
by this concern is thirty-three acres
al present. WIN l'ui dNlt5 HlA'I ''i-
struction. Think what one factory
like the Chalmers Motor company Of
Detroit would mean 10 any of our up
per peninsula cities, employing $500
men at an average wage Of twenty
eight cents per hour; a plant occupy
ing thirty acres on which are fifteen
buildings with floor space Of 100000
square feet
I'VE have in the upper peninsula
thriving plants, too, which give en-
pIoyment 20 quite a goodly number Of
people. What would Big Bay be, were