OSCODA COUNTY. 371 



Market garden products sold in 1883, $650.00. 



The contour map of the State shows elevations in the county, varying from 

 two hundred feet in the east and center to six hundred feet or more in the 



west. 



OSCODA COUNTY. 



Oscoda county was set off by act of the Legislature approved April 1st, 

 1840. 



The county seat is at Mio. 



The county lies in the middle portion of the basin of Au Sable river. A 

 few of the southern aifluents of Thunder Bay river, however, rise in the 

 northeastern part of the county. The elevations which separate the basin of 

 the Au Sable from the water-shed of the Saginaw at the south and from the 

 Thunder Bay river at the north are partially in this county, and rise to a 

 height of as much as seven hundred feet above the level of Lake Huron, 

 the general levels varying between three hundred and seven hundred feet 

 above the lake. 



Few particulars are known respecting the settlement of the county or the 

 condition of its agriculture or its horticulture, both of which are believed to 

 be yet in an incipient condition, as shown by the census of 1884, according to 

 which, at that date, this county had of apple orchards, 66 acres, and no bear- 

 ing trees. 



Peach orchards, none, and only a single bearing tree. 



Vineyards, none. 



Nurseries, 10 acres; products sold in 1883, $10.00. 



Market garden products sold in 1883, none. 



The outlets for the business of the county at the present time are by way of 

 the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw railroad, which passes through the western 

 part of the next county at the west, and by water down the Au Sable river to 

 Lake Huron. 



CRAWFORD COUNTY. 



This was laid off as Shawono county by an act of the Legislature approved 

 April 1st, 1840. 



Section 8 of an act approved March 8th, 1843, provides that " The name of 

 the county of Shawono, as now organized by law, is hereby changed to that 

 of Crawford." It continued unorganized and was attached to Kalkaska 

 county for judicial and municipal purposes until 1871. 



The county seat is at Grayling, a village on the Jackson, Lansing and Sagi- 

 naw railroad, at the point where it crosses the main branch of the Au Sable 

 river. 



It occupies the head of the valley of that river. The head waters of the 

 Manistee also take their rise in the west tier of townships. 



This county, therefore, occupies a portion of the central plateau of the 



