500 MICHIGAN The exports consist chiefly of grain, flour, hogs, lumber, beef and pork and their pro- ducts, tobacco, cotton, and railroad cars. Of the exports through the district of Huron a large proportion is transported by land car- riage. The number of entrances in 1873 was 4,335, with an aggregate tonnage of 1,357,462. The number of clearances in the same year was 4,275, tonnage 1,340,332. The vessels engaged in the coastwise trade for the year ending June 30, 1874, and the number built during the pre- vious year, were as follows : ENTKJ NCK8. CLKAB ANTES. BEGI8TE KED. AC. BOLT 1 H 1878. Veueb. Ton*. Vessels. Tons. Vessels. Ton*. Vessels. Tons. Detroit 5,190 858,127 4,412 885,070 865 88,099 89 14,788 Huron Michigan Superior 8,448 10,947 2,184 1,027,835 2,061.789 944,070 8,589 11,289 2,194 1,066,338 2,123,074 948,040 814 196 64 58,265 17,592 4,527 80 18 6 12,841 1,032 146 Total 21,769 4,886,821 21,484 5,017,522 939 158,483 98 28,802 The vessels belonging or registered in the state consisted of 368 sailing vessels of 52,907 tons, 358 steamers of 68,239 tons, and 213 unrigged vessels of 37,337 tons; those built included 42 sailing vessels of 15,383 tons, 34 steamers of 8,834 tons, and 17 unrigged vessels of 4,585 tons. The number of entrances in 1873 was 18,124 of 4,205,694 tons (4,783 of 2,056,040 tons steamers) ; clearances, 18,436 of 4,300,173 tons (4,855 of 2,070,157 tons steamers). The number of miles of railroad in the state in 1844 was 206; in 1854, 444; in 1864, 898. The lines in operation in 1874, with their ter- mini and their mileage within the state, were : RAILROADS. Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore. Branches... Chicago and Canada Southern Chicago and Northwestern (Peninsula division). . . Branches. Chicago, Detroit, and Canada Grand Trunk Junction Detroit and Bay City Branch Detroit and Milwaukee Detroit, Hillsdale, and Indiana Detroit, Lansing, and Lake Michigan Branches -I Detroit, Monroe, and Toledo* Flint and Pere Marquette : Branches . Fort Wayne, Jackson, and Saginaw Grand Rapids and Indiana , Grand Rapids, Newaygo, and Lake Shore.. . . Grand River Valleyf. . Hecla and Torch Lake Jackson, Lansing, and Saginawt Kalamazoo and South Havent Kalamazoo and White Pigeon* Kalamazoo, Allegan, and Grand Rapids*. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Branches Marquette, Houghton, and Ontonagon. Branches Michigan Air Linet Michigan Central. . . Michigan Lake Shore Mineral Range Northern Central Michigan* Paw Paw.... Peninsular^ Port Huron and Lake Michigan! '. Saginaw Valley and St. Louis.. . St. Clair and Chicago Air Line. . . Toledo, Canada Southern, and Detroit. Traverse City New Buffalo, on Michigan Central railroad, to Pentwater. . Holland to Grand Rapids Muskegon to Big Rapids Grosse Isle to Chicago, 111. (250 m.); completed to Fayette. Menominee to Escanaba. Escanaba to Lake Angeline mine To mines Total. Port Huron to Detroit Detroit to Bay City Lapeer to Fish Lake Detroit to Grand Haven Ypsilanti to Bankers Detroit to Howard Ionia to Stanton Kidd ville to Belding Toledo, Ohio, to Detroit (65 m.) Monroe to Ludington (255 m.) ; completed to Reed City. . . East Saginaw to Bay City Flint to Otter Lake Saginaw to St. Clair Junction Jackson to Fort Wayne, Ind. (100 m.) Fort Wayne, Ind., to strait of Mackinaw (352 m.) ; com- pleted to Petoskey (332 m.) Grand Rapids to Newaygo Jackson to Grand Rapids Houghton county Jackson to strait of Mackinaw (295 m.) ; completed to Gay- lord's Kalamazoo to South Haven Kalamazoo to White Pigeon Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids Buffalo, N. Y., to Chicago, 111. (539 m.) Adrian to Jackson Adrian to Monroe Marquette to L'Anse To mines Jackson to South Bend, Ind. (114 m.) Detroit to Calumet, 111. (270 m.) Allegan to Muskegon Copper Harbor to Ontonagon river (100 m.) ; completed, Hancock to Calumet Jonesville to Lansing Lawton, on Michigan Central railroad, to Paw Paw Lansing to Chicago, 111. (205 m.) Port Huron to Lansing (112$ m.) ; completed to Flint. . East Saginaw to St. Louis St. Clair to Jackson (120 m.); completed from Ridgeway, on Grand Trunk railroad, to Washington Toledo, O.. to Detroit (55 m.) Traverse City to Walton, on G'd Rapids and Indiana R. R. . . Miles in opera tion in the 170 24* 36 59 108 5 189 65 164 54* 207 12 19 5 46 272 36 84 4* 58 116 46 3S| 63 108| 221 57 12* 60 4 108J 22 50 26 8,267
- Operated by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad. t Operated by the Michigan Central railroad.
| Consolidated tii 1878 under the title of the Chicago and Lake Huron railroad.
