. The advantages and surroundings of Muskegon. ern points at nominal rates,and all supplies for furnaces can be secured by lake or rail at competing prices. The vast amount of commercial business transacted l)y boat is steadily on theincrease, and is nowhere more important than on Lake Michigan. For comparisonwe condense the followiug tonnage movement by water for 1890 : London and Liverpool 33,420,617 tons. All United States Sea Ports 26,983,315 New York. Philadelphia and Boston All Great Lake Ports 51,203,106 All Lake Michigan Ports ,258 • Chicago, Milwaukee and Muskegon 11,1
. The advantages and surroundings of Muskegon. ern points at nominal rates,and all supplies for furnaces can be secured by lake or rail at competing prices. The vast amount of commercial business transacted l)y boat is steadily on theincrease, and is nowhere more important than on Lake Michigan. For comparisonwe condense the followiug tonnage movement by water for 1890 : London and Liverpool 33,420,617 tons. All United States Sea Ports 26,983,315 New York. Philadelphia and Boston All Great Lake Ports 51,203,106 All Lake Michigan Ports ,258 • Chicago, Milwaukee and Muskegon 11,125,846 • Muskegon has great advantages over Chicago in cheap lamls and living, lowtaxes and lake front manufacturing sites at nominal prices. Iron ore, tinib, r, lum-ber, tanbark, hides, and other raw materials, are easily accessible; a score of largeindustrial institutions have located here within the past two years, and when all theforegoing facts aiv taken into consideration tlicrc is every inducement for the goodwork to continue. pr^-.
Size: 1997px × 1251px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidadvantagessu, bookyear1892
