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Excerpt from Yesterday and Today: Being a Story by Word and by Pictures of the City of Bay City and Two of the Leading Institutions Thereof
E tocoueville's visit was in the days of the trapper and the fur trader. The most authentic annals state that nearly forty years before, the first white man had visited this section in quest of the wealth of furs with which the land abounded. And for a generation after he came the trapper and trader were predominant. To them the vast forests, which later formed the basis of immense fortunes, meant nothing except that they furnished a home for the fur-bearing ani mals which they sought. That they had no vision of the future is best seen in the fact that while many amassed wealth in those days, the names of none of the ear liest comers to Bay City are connected in delibly with the lumber industry. And the early lumbermen, the pine barons, so called, have left their imprint upon the city the same as did, the fur traders, but many of them failed to peer deeply into the future, and when the forests were de pleted of their pine trees, transferred their activities to other lands where primeval forests still awaited the woodsman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
