1.38 2.86 1.30 30.07
St. Louis, Mo. 1.93 3.37 3.82 1.99 41.95
Fort Hamilton, N. Y. 2.98 3.67 3.65 3.84 43.65
Pittsburgh, Pa. 2.18 2.17 2.70 3.13 34.96
Philadelphia, Pa. 3.09 2.94 3.43 4.03 43.56

CHAPTER XIII.

Agricultural interest -- Means of transportation -- Railways
and vessels -- Lumber -- Vessels cleared -- Lake cities and
Atlantic ports -- Home-market -- Breadstuffs -- Michigan
flour -- Monetary panics -- Wheat -- Importations --
Provisions -- Fruit -- Live stock -- Wool -- Shipping
business -- Railroads -- Lake Superior trade -- Pine lumber
trade -- Copper interest -- Iron interest -- Fisheries --
Coal mines -- Salt -- Plaster beds.

We copy from the Detroit Tribune of 1860, a somewhat elaborate and
lengthy article containing recent and highly important information in
regard to the industrial interests of Michigan. Though there are
portions of this article which we have to some extent anticipated in
some of our previous chapters, we consider it highly important to
extract largely from it, because of its more recent date. To all
interested in the development and future growth of the Northwest, it
will prove most valuable. The writer, Mr. Kay Haddock, commercial
editor of the Tribune, says:--

"We know of no similar extent of country on the globe so highly
favored by nature as our own State, which but twenty-three years since
emerged from the chrysalis condition of a territory, but which to day,
by the quickening influence brought to bear upon her natural
advantages by an enterprising and enlightened people, possesses
elements of wealth and greatness that might well be coveted by
empires. The characteristics for which she is pre-eminent are neither
few in number nor ordinary in character. She occupies the very front
rank in respect to important minerals, as well as in the extent and
quality of her forest products, while her fisheries are altogether
unrivaled, and, like her mines and forests, are the source of
exhaustless wealth. With regard to the extent and diversity of her
natural resources, it would indeed seem difficult to over-estimate
them. Predictions that seem visionary to-day, are to-morrow exceeded
by the reality, as some new treasure is revealed. A glance at the map
is of itself the most eloquent commentary that could be presented with
reference to her geographical position. As nature does not