History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . f many people each season. VARIED INDUSTRIES. So closely interwoven are the mutual in-terests of Bay County, that an injury to eitherthe industrial or agricultural interests is boundto injure the other. \Mien all the homes ofBay City are filled with well-paid and con-tented people, the farmer will have a readymarket for his products right at his doors,prices will be good and land values the other hand bountiful harvests meanmuch ready cash to our rural population, withincreased purchasing power, and correspond-ing pros
History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . f many people each season. VARIED INDUSTRIES. So closely interwoven are the mutual in-terests of Bay County, that an injury to eitherthe industrial or agricultural interests is boundto injure the other. \Mien all the homes ofBay City are filled with well-paid and con-tented people, the farmer will have a readymarket for his products right at his doors,prices will be good and land values the other hand bountiful harvests meanmuch ready cash to our rural population, withincreased purchasing power, and correspond-ing prosperity for the business institutions ofBay City. Many of our farmers find steadyemployment each winter in the fishing andother industries, an advantage not enjoyed bymany farm communities, most of whomthroughout the country can do little but sitaround and eat up during the winter the ac-cumulations from the summers work andharvests. The ship-building industry has done muchfor Bay City in the last 30 years, and inci-dentally furnished employment for many farm-. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 249 ers (luring the winter seasons. Bay City hasever offered unrivaled facihties for ship-build-ing. Practically unlimited supplies of oak andother timber were at hand for the wooden ves-sels of a decade ago. The presence of the broadand deep Saginaw River, on which hundredsof vessels, from the smallest to the very lar-gest and latest addition to the fleet of the GreatLakes, have been launched here for 50 years,and without one single mishap, meant much tothe industry. During all those years, the local ship-build-ing plants kept pace with the growing demandsof the lake traffic. The schooner Savage,built for river traffic in 1831-37: the stern-wheeler Buena Vista, all hold and no cabin,launched in 1848, commanded by Daniel Burns,he of State-wide celebrity as a humorist andbuffoon; some fishing boats built about 1849;and the first large boats built here by H. & Company in 1857-58, the
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