Bay County past and present . City, the Inter-Urban lines connecting anda portion of the DetroitUnited Railway lines opera-ting out of Flint. Thesecities and towns represent apopulation of 250,000 peopleto whom electrical current isavailable at very nominalprices. Another feature worthyof note is that the farmers along thelines of transmission are able to securethe current with which they can oper-ate their separators, churns, silo fillers,pumps, etc. ing among the women and children of many foreign families living inthe city. They in turn help supply labor for the factories, as the cam-paign
Bay County past and present . City, the Inter-Urban lines connecting anda portion of the DetroitUnited Railway lines opera-ting out of Flint. Thesecities and towns represent apopulation of 250,000 peopleto whom electrical current isavailable at very nominalprices. Another feature worthyof note is that the farmers along thelines of transmission are able to securethe current with which they can oper-ate their separators, churns, silo fillers,pumps, etc. ing among the women and children of many foreign families living inthe city. They in turn help supply labor for the factories, as the cam-paign is in the late fall and early winter when the young men can leavethe farm for a few weeks. And men would not have been willing toinvest capital in the factories if this were not such a favorable place,in climate and soil, for raising sugar beets, or if labor and fuel, foodfor the laborers, and transportation for the beets were too expensive. REFERENCES. Gansser—History of Bay County, 1905. 152 BAY COUNTY, PAST AND W. D. Young & Gc Birdseye view taken by means of box kites wliich. held the camera 6O0ftthe road and railroad is due to the manner in which the picture was taken 1. Office. 2. Flooring- Mills. 3. Warehouse No. 1. 4. Warehouse No. 2. 5. Warehouse No. 3. 6. Warehouse No. 4. 7. Warehouse No. 5. 8. End-Dried White Maple Shed. 9. Wood Yard No. 1. 10. Wood Yard No. 2. 11. Lumber Yard No. 2. 12. Wood YardN 13. Lumber Yarc 14. Wood Yard M 15. Log- Skld-i\-i 16. Dry Kiln No, PERIOD OF TRANSITION. 153
Size: 1678px × 1488px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidbaycountypas, bookyear1918
