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Saginaw county at that time numbered only 920, and Bay county but 104.
We at the north saw this great disparity in the population between these counties, yet knew that great undeveloped wealth lay in the northern portion of the lower peninsula, in its salt springs, plaster beds, its magnificent forests of pine, oak and maple, and other valuable timber; saying nothing of the upper peninsula, with its extensive fisheries, copper mines and inexhaustible beds of rich iron ores, equaling in quality and richness any in the world; besides an area of rich agricultural lands, by far larger than were embraced in the three southern tiers of counties herein named; together with large navigable rivers and bays, ensuring commercial advantages not surpassed by any other portion of the State.
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