This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...to one, and value of instruction, I am quite willing to believe, equal in proportion. The growth of Saginaw valley (and I cannot speak of any one part without including the whole) has been peculiar to itself. It has owed nothing to commerce outside of the trade in its own productions; has been in no sense a commercial ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...to one, and value of instruction, I am quite willing to believe, equal in proportion. The growth of Saginaw valley (and I cannot speak of any one part without including the whole) has been peculiar to itself. It has owed nothing to commerce outside of the trade in its own productions; has been in no sense a commercial center; has had no manufactures except the product of its own timber fields and salt mines, and the equipment needful for them. In the broadest and most manly sense, the wealth of these fair cities, and that they export annually, has been honestly earned by the sweat of the brow and by sturdy blows. For the past two years the productions of this valley in in lumber, shingles and other products of timber, salt and ships have been not less than $15,000,000 per year, nearly all of which has been exported or is held for export. We may safely challenge any community of equal population for so large a result from labor; it is all labor except the small value of timber in the forest and salt in the earth, and equals $214 per year of exportable product for every man, woman and child! The same rate of production for the entire population of our country would pay our national debt of $1,550,000,000 in less than eighteen months. Hand in hand with J;hese exportable productions these cities have grown. We arc connected by rail with every part of the Union. We have all the comforts and improvements of older communities. More than all this, we have raised men, self-reliant, active, enterprising, forcible in whatever they do. We have a growing population of young men, strong, hopeful, aspiring, educated to affairs, but not many in schools of the higher sort. Not many to books, but everyone in a larger sense than obtains in any communities I have known, compet...
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