. The advantages and surroundings of Muskegon. ea, liesprincipally north of latitude 46, rises in the Porcupine mountains to the height of2,000 feet, is unprotected on the west, and may rightly be termed a cold, bleakcountry. It is[318 miles from east to west and 164 miles in breadth. The easterncounties have some good farming lauds; the western portion contains extensiveforests and a large timber trade is annually transacted. The principal feature,however, for which Northern Michigan is celebrated is its great mineral largest copper and Bessemer ore districts in the Union are found
. The advantages and surroundings of Muskegon. ea, liesprincipally north of latitude 46, rises in the Porcupine mountains to the height of2,000 feet, is unprotected on the west, and may rightly be termed a cold, bleakcountry. It is[318 miles from east to west and 164 miles in breadth. The easterncounties have some good farming lauds; the western portion contains extensiveforests and a large timber trade is annually transacted. The principal feature,however, for which Northern Michigan is celebrated is its great mineral largest copper and Bessemer ore districts in the Union are found in this re-gion. This, taken in connection with the fact that Michigan stands first in lumbermanufacture and lake transportation facilities, with her nearness to great dis-tributing centers, make it reasonable to presume that Muskegon, located on thefinest harbor ou the lakes, already the largest city on the eastern shore of LakeMichigan, will continue to keep up its record of the three past decades of doublingits population every ten
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