2,000

BEC SCIE'S RIVER.
R. Gardner 15,000
Chamberlin & Co. 20,000
Name unknown 2,000
Harris & Co. 10,000

IONIA COUNTY.
Estimated Aggregate 100,000
All others, on West Slope, estimated 350,000
Capital Western Slope 2,669,500
Total Capital of State $8,029,500

An intelligent gentleman who, at our instance, visited all the
establishments around Saginaw, and procured statistics, reports the
amount of lumber manufactured as follows:

Place. No. of Mills. Feet.
Bay City 11 20,000,000
Portsmouth 4 5,000,000
Zilwaukee 1 3,000,000
Carrollton 1 2,800,000
East Saginaw 8 19,750,000
Saginaw City 4 14,000,000
Bad River 2 4,500,000
Rafted Lumber 4,000,000
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Total 73,050,000
Valuation, at $8.50 per M. $620,925

Of the above lumber, 63,000,000 has been shipped; the rest is now on
the docks.

Shingles manufactured 25,000,000 at $2.50 $62,500
Lath " 5,000,000 at 1.00 5,000
Oak Staves
and shipped 2,000,000 at 30.00 60,000
Add Lumber 620,925
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Total $748,425

The supply of pine in some few localities is becoming exhausted, and
some few mills have ceased operating. This is the case at Lexington,
but the machinery and capital have been taken elsewhere. At the
present ratio of consumption, the supply of pine must rapidly become
diminished, but profitable employment will then be found in the
manufacture of hemlock and hard-wood. Some little has already been
done in the way of turning out hemlock. The manufacture of hard-wood
lumber is increasing very rapidly.

The copper interest of Michigan was first brought into public notice
by the enormous speculations and the mad fever of 1845. The large spur
of country which projects far out into the lake, having its base
resting on a line drawn across from L'Anse Bay to Ontonagon, and the
Porcupine Mountains for its spine, became the El Dorado of all
copperdom of that day. In this year the first active operations were
commenced at the Cliff Mine, just back of Eagle River harbor. Three
years later, in 1848, work was u