"michigan And Its Resources."

The following statistics regarding the resources of this State are taken irom a recent pamphlel by Immigration Commissioner Morley.and will be of interest to our readers : THE IBO2J MINES. The pig metal produced by the upper península furnaces during the year 1880 had an approximate market value of $1,941,000 aud thewhole of the total output of the Lake Superior iron raines for that year was about $19,500,000. The aggregate product of these furnaces and mines between the date of the Jackson discovery and the close of the last calendar year was more than $118,000,000. The product of 1881 promises to exceed$2),í)00,000 in value. THE IBÓN AND STBEL INDUSTRIE. In what are called the iron and steel industries - including in these terms fnrnaces, rolling milis, stetl-works, forges and bloomaries, and excluding mines - Michigan ranked as the eighth state in 1880 according to the figures coliected for the United States census of that year. It was surpassed by Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Illinois, Ñew Jersey, Wisconsin and West Virginia, lts increase in this production from 1870 to 1880 was 65 peí cent, and the totals of the returns for 1880 were as follows: Nuinber of cBtablishtnentB 22 Aiuount of capital invested i4,175,S86 Number of employés 8,089 Total of wages pald to employés in Valué oí'materiáisiiséd i'nÏ8SÖ.'. . .'..$8,27P420 Valué of the total produ-.t of 1880 : . . $4,691,613 Weight of the product oí i 880 (in net tous) 142,718 Weight of ttiH product of 1879 (in uet tona) Rfi.flT THE OOPPEE PRODUCT. At the close of 1880 the Lake ; rior copper di8tricts had produced ( 654 tons of reflned copper valued at , $142,616,137. The total output of that . year was 24,869 tons valued at ; 673, which was taken from thirty ! mines. The production of 1881 will j surpass that of any previous year. A paragraph which appeared in an upper peninsula newspaper stating that "he net earnings of the Lake Superior copper mines tor the flrst half of the year 1881 exceed those of any preeious metal mining state or territory in the Union," was submitted f or verification to eastern mining authorities, and elicited in reply the following statement, fully substantiating the assertion of the newspaper referred to. The figures given show the net earnings of the gold, silver and copper mines of the states and territories embraced in them for the flrst six months of 1881. California 9 995,000 Nevada WLW Utah 875.000 Atizona 9Wm Bakota 660.0Q0 Solorado g ttontaua 240,000 [ïfioi iria o,U0U 1S::::::. wwo Total $6,244,250 THE PRODUCTS OF A TJCAB. Tb e natural products of the state in 1879- thelatestyear concerning which statistica are complete- were estimated by Gov. Jerome in Ms message to the legislature at the beginning of 1881, to amount to a valuation of nearly $170,000,000, made up of the following items : aSSK.!::::;::::::::l8S!B ffr;;;;;;;:i-::::::-::.::::::io ::::::::::::::::::::.::::::::: ÜSSKK THE VEMKL mXEKEST. According to the tonnage statistics ] iL the United States for the date of ( 'une30th, 1880, (as given in the Amer can almanac for 1881) not one of the itates lpcated away from the ooean ' oast equals Micnigan in the number of essels osvned by ita citizeng or in ;heir aggregate tonnage. The exact ïgures are given inthis table: State. No of Total vessels tonoage. SSSC:-.;:::::::::::: Z &L SBTÍ :.:E iSSSS Missouri.! 319 U1.975 [The figures of other inliind otates are smail.l Michigan also surpasses, in this respect, the seaboard stat of Connecticut, New Hainpshire, Rhode Islsnd and Oregon, and all the cotteu and gulf states, while it f ar outstripsin tonnage both Virginia and Maryland, although surpassed by them in the number of vessels. It exceeds California in the number of its vessels, but not in the tonnage total. The coast line of Michigan is only surpassed by that of Florida, and It has ports upon four of the great lakes. lts coasting trade is exceedingly valuable, and its vessel interest representa much capital and enterprise, and deserves an important place in a catalogue of its sources of . employment for labor. In this connection the fact should be mentioned that ship yards are located at Detroit, Wyandotte, Port Huron, Bay City, Marine City, St Clair, Grand Haven and other shoretowns and ports. Nearly 2,000 years before Christ the art of making wine from rice was known to the Chinese.