Chapter 11

The entrepot of a vast commerce -- Surface drained -- Superiority of Mackinaw over Chicago as a commercial point -- Exports and imports -- Michigan the greatest lumber-growing region in the world -- Interminable forests of the choicest pine -- Facilities for market -- Annual product of the pineries -- Lumbering, mining, and fishing interests -- Independent of financial crises -- Mackinaw the centre of a great railroad system -- Lines terminating at this point -- North and South National Line -- Canada grants -- Growth of Northwestern cities -- Future growth and prosperity of Mackinaw -- Chicago -- Legislative provision for opening roads in Michigan -- The Forty Acre Homestead Bill -- Its provisions. 205