
          158

All statements on page 157 relative to lake Shore region
are by Harrison Hutchins, of Fennville.

Harrison Hutchins of Ganges township has  ninty [ninety] acres of
peach orchard--seventy in bearing (date not given, probably
1886?), and his son has thirty acres more. Ibid. p. 297.

Influence of Lake Michigan on temperature. Ibid. p 298.

"Senator Lewis has good reason to estimate the value of 
the peach crop of the lake shore towns at $200,000, and that
of the town of Ganges alone at $50,000 to $70,000' and no one
questions this; while from two warehouses in Douglas 147,593
packages of peaches were shipped this season; and from Fennville
137,566 baskets." Allegan Journal on crop of 1879.
Ibid. p. 299. [Probably peck baskets]

In the report of Saugatuck and Ganges Horticultural
Society, 1881, appears the following statement:  "The wildest
prophecies about the extent of the fruit business of this
region bid fair to be more than realized.  From reliable data
I [the Secretary] have ascertained that in the three towns
        