Abstract

These United States-XV. Michigan: The Fordizing of a Pleasant Peninsula

The article discusses the picturesque U.S. state of Michigan. Michigan is a pleasant peninsula, or peninsulas, for there are two of them-the only State in the Union boasting a spare part. It is a land of undulating hills, spendthrift in wild-flowers. Save for desolate stretches of cut-over timber land trees abound. On the east lies Huron, on the west Michigan with its yellow dunes, and on the north Superior-blue waters, cold and beautiful. Inland along the courses of many streams are little lakes and ponds estimated at from five thousand to fifteen thousand in number. The older residents love Michigan for these things, but the new find reinforced concrete more gratifying to their eyes; and the new constitute the State.