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'* 152 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. 8 Although Michigan is nota prairie State, its pastures are well adapted to raising and fattening cattle. In fact, the excellence of the grass fed beef of the State is already appreeiated in eastern mar- kets, and when our farmers have learned to reduce the feeding of stock to a system, there is no doubt but immense quantities of superior beef will be shipped from this State. ['The above statements are compiled from ie statistics published by the State, from the annual statement of the Detroit Tribune, which great pains are taken to make accurate, and from other authen- tic sources, and may be relied upon as truthful and accurate. | GROWTH OF MICHIGAN. In the year 1864, the authorities of Michigan took a census of the State, which showed an aggregate population of 803,745. Large as this seems, the great majority of it is located in a few counties along the lines of the principal railways traversing Southern Michigan. The county of Wayne, in which Detroit is located, con- _ tains 83,326 inhabitants. The whole of the copper region of Lake Superior, has only 18,811 inhabitants, and Marquette county, with its vast iron resources, has but 3,760. The progress of Michigan is shown by the following statement : Year. Population. Ratio of increase. BGO. 6 ad «boi dea Veenis oe 4.762 be TOG, eo BAAR ceric SS 8.765 86.81 is eb es oss ks ees fs te ae 31,639 2059.65 RO eon ia vans SP Rs 8 570.02 RO FE Ee Ae 897,654 87.34 1000 iccibdens aii cn ead ss 749.118 88.38 BT a tr aarti a he ee 803,745 740 The progress made in the iron and copper regions of the Upper Peninsula is much slower than could have been anticipated. It is manifest that the actual progress of Michigan depends upon the com- pletion of her railway system, for population clings to the neighbor- hood of these iron highways,