304 



Michigan, 824,320,481 



Ontario, .., 28,141,000 



Champlain, 16,750,700 



St. Clair, 639,524 



Showing a total value of $186,484,905. To this must be added the 

 passenger trade of the lakes, valued at ^1,000,000. 



The aggregate value of the tonnage of Lake Erie is $5,308,085; of 

 Lake Huron, $75,000; of Lake Michigan, $564,435. 



STATISTICS OF DETROIT, 1855. 



The following interesting Notes and Statistics were prepared by R- 

 E. Roberts, Esq., of Detroit, and by bis permission we copy them from 

 his "Sketches of Detroit:" 



CITT STATISTICS, 1855. 



The following is a recapitulation of the Statistics of the City, pre- 

 pared and reported to the Board of Water Commissioners, by their 

 Secretary, June 30th, 1855, at which time the City contained: 



Families,* 6,328 



Offices, 175 



Boiler Manufactories, 4 



Saw Manufactory, .-1 



Tanneries and Morocco factories, 9 



Potteries, 2 



Soda and Small Beer factories, 5 



Jail, 1 



Fire Engine Houses, 9 



Private Meat Markets, 24 



Stone and Marble Works, 10 



•This number more properly represents the number of House keepers than the number 

 of Families. The number is mnrle up from those assessed for water, and where families are 

 boarding with others or in boHrding houses and taverns, thev are not set down. The num- 

 ber of families bnardin? is unusually large at present in this city, in consequence of the 

 scarcity of dwellings to rent ; the assessor fiund but 23 in the whole city at the time he went 

 through it, and he passed through every street, and several of these were vacant to repair. 

 This number of families he estimates would average, including single persons, (of which 

 there is a much greater proportion than in eastern cities,) and the fnmilies boarding, at eight 

 each, which would give a population at that time in the city of 50,624. 



