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
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