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HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS CONNECTED WITH WYANDOTTE AND
VICINITY BY DR. E. P. CHRISTIAN
Standing there, he might now see passing, the largest steamers from the extremes of the lakes, Duluth and Chicago, laden not only with the wheat and other products of the great northwest, but with the teas and silks of China and Japan, and the sugar and fruits of the Sandwich Islands and California, and the products of Oregon and Alaska, followed by the immense barges laden with the iron and copper of Lake Superior, some of these rounding to and tying to the wharf at Blue Jacket's home to discharge their cargo at the furnaces which have consumed in charcoal the forests in which he was wont to hunt the bear and deer; or by the lumber barges in majestic tows from northern Michigan and Wisconsin, or by cargoes of salt from the Saginaws and other of the numerous salt producing points, or the products of the fisheries planted on every island, point and shelving beach of the lake and river
shores. These,. together with sail and steam pleasure yachts flitting here and there like a swarm of butterflies on the wing, make the river a beautiful sight to look upon at almost any time from April to November, and the constant agitation of the waters, if not calculated to impart to them healing virtues, like to that of the biblical pool, when the angel stirred the waters, has at least imparted growth and strength and wealth to the communities and general development to the tributary country.
As regards the agricultural development of this immediate neighborhood, it. in common with much of the border territory, has not, perhaps, been equal to that of much later settled interior southern parts of the State.
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