Michigan And Its Resources

Author : Michigan Commissioner of Immigration
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ISBN 13 : 9781330691731
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Michigan and Its Resources written by Michigan Commissioner of Immigration and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Michigan and Its Resources: Sketches of the Growth of the State, Its Industries, Agricultural The State of Michigan is 9,000 square miles larger than the State of New York; 10,000 larger than Pennsylvania; 16,000 larger than Ohio; 23,000 larger than Indiana; and 1,000 larger than Illinois. The entire area of the six New England States is not quite 12,000 square miles larger than that of Michigan. When the State was admitted into the Union, less than 50 years ago, it ranked twenty-third among the States in the order of population. It is now the ninth. It has a coast line of 1,600 miles - more than half the distance between New York and Liverpool - around which vessels of 2,000 tons may sail without losing sight of its territory. The largest body of fresh water in the world forms its northern boundary; the second largest its western; except these two, there are no lakes in Europe, Asia or America larger than that which washes its eastern borders; and it has ports on two others. Lying in the embrace of these immense seas, its climate has no equal in the moderation of its temperature in any State or territory situated on the same degrees of latitude east of the Rocky Mountains. Most of the southern peninsula of the State lies between the same lines of latitude as the State of New York. The shore line of its upper peninsula on Lake Superior is mostly south of the latitude of Quebec. No part of Michigan is as far north as Paris. It has more than four thousand miles of railroad. Fifty-one county seats out of sixty-seven in the lower peninsula have railroad connections; nine others are lake ports; there are only seven which have no outlet either by rail or water, and none of these is more than twenty miles from a railroad. In the upper peninsula there is only one, and in the lower peninsula there are only seven counties, which are not reached by railroad connections already in operation or in process of construction. The farmers of Michigan have also the assurance of permanent competition in the rates of transportation to eastern and seaboard markets not only by various rival lines of railroad but by natural and artificial waterways. Every dollar saved in reaching consumers is added to the gains of the producer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.