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tion as either an agricultural or horticultural region, and little is generally 

 known of its actual capacities for such pursuits, although the proposed con- 

 struction of railroads through its territory is beginning to attract the atten- 

 tion of settlers. 



The census of 1884 shows that it contained, at that time, but five acres 

 of apple orchard, but at that date witliout product, and that it produced and 

 sold but 1350.00 worth of market garden products. 



Its present limits are wholly eastward of the elevated mineral regions. 



LUCE COUNTY. 



Luce county consists of what was formerly the west five ranges of town- 

 ships in Chippewa county, together with a tier of five townships taken from 

 the north side of Mackinac county. At the north it borders on Lake Supe- 

 rior, and it is bounded on the west by Schoolcraft and Alger counties. 



It was set off by act of the Legislature, approved March 1st, 1887, and its 

 organization was completed in pursuance of the provisions of such act, by 

 the election of the proper county oJBficers, on the first Monday in April, 1887. 



The county seat is at Newberry, a town on the line of the Detroit, Macki- 

 nac & Marquette railroad. 



The county was named for Hon, Cyrus Gr. Luce, who was governor of the 

 State at the time of its organization. 



Lying, as it does, without the mineral regions, with no prominent com- 

 mercial point upon the lake, its settlement and organization as a separate 

 county, are doubtless mainly due to the location of the railroad through 

 hardwood lands, which may be expected to supply charcoal for smelting pur- 

 poses, while such lands, when cleared, will be adapted to agricultural pur- 

 poses. 



Owing to its very recent organization its census returns, as well as any facts 

 respecting its agricultural and horticultural capacities, are embodied in 

 those of the original counties. 



SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTY. 



Schoolcraft county was laid off and organized by an act of the Legisla- 

 ture, approved April 3d, 1848. The seat of Justice was established at Onota, 

 a village on Grand Island harbor, on the south shore of Lake Superior, but 

 the recent organization of Alger county transfers the village and its vicin- 

 ity to that county. The present county seat is Manistique, a port on Lake 

 Michigan. 



Little information is at hand respecting either the agricultural or horticult- 

 ural development of this county, and as mining localities are not near 

 enough to create local demand, no very considerable enterprises of this char- 

 acter are to be anticipated, save at points favored with railroad or water 

 transportation. 



