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SAINT CLAiR COUNTY.
WO hundred years have elapsed since the schooner  Griffin" h-rst naviigated the w aters
of1'. Lake St. Clair."  The day on which this Vessel entered these w!aters was N e
feast day of 44 Sainte Claire'' and thus the lake wa s named iM lonor of that cia',.
Some confusion exists in the minds of the people touching the namingic of ouIr c.LInty, and the:
lake of the same name, o\vi ng to the *fact that two officers wvho iL rted very prominen tlyv in the..(.Arlk
history of this locality had very similar names. One, a British ohhevt-r, was iianied
Sinclair;" the other, an American officer, named i, St. ClPir" elakeandcoutya-Iver
derived their namfles from the latter.
As late as iSo6 the Indian title to the lands eormp[risi n-o this cocunty was niot extnl<uishcl.
It is now more than ioo years since the first permane-nt setLtlemernt of St. Clair cint;v.
I shall not attempt to give a technical oeolocrical description of this co'untv; It I'S (.1(W)1to
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odoriferous petroleum  and its accompanying gas. There ai-re situated in this coiunt InsmantV
beautiful farms susceptible of a very high stage of cultivation, althou h for the great(_r part of a
century acriculture langcruished in the shade of the lumber interests.  )otted over the co(u)[nt\
were magnificent forests of \white pine, and even amidst the oakm and ash and the beach and.
maple and basswood, which grew in g-reat profusion on the banks of its rivers and stre-ams, the
massive pine would rise majestically as if in token of its superiority. From  this county,
however, the pine tree has vanished, leaving only its roots to mark the sptot of its former life and
growth. So long as the pine tree remained so loncr men turned to it as a means of earn*ing" a
livelihood. It is clearly wvithin the memory of the middle-aged citizen when - Pino river'" and
Black river were covered with saw logs and huge saw mills were situated at St. Clair and Port
Huron, erected for the purpose of manufacturingC lumber from logs floated do\\wn the rivers just
named. A few saw mills yet remain, one at Port Huron and one at NIArysvillc, six mileCs belio2w,
but the saw logs are mostly the product of Canadian forests.  Indeed the pine forests of the
Canadian  Georgcrian Bay tract furnishes most of our eastern Michitan saw mills with the raw%
material. Port Huron saw mills do not supply the home marke2t with l.umber; in(deed m1illions
of feet are brought by rail and by schooners from the forests of pine LbeyonVd the Sa(Yinaws.
The writer does not deplore the force of cii-rcumstances which combined to clear this county
of its forests of pine, as beautiful homes now adorn the landscaple xvhere once the mightli- forest
sentinel was supreme; lawns and me-adows and cultivated fi elds have t.aken the( placi of the_
jungles and briars which abound with unerring certainty in the xidinitv of forests of pi
Domestic animals now dwell in peace and luietness wlhere o aln  a few  ears go w the wolf and theI
bear were nightly prowlers. The cultivated strawberry and the luscious peach are now xitlinl
reach of the epicurean, and all that tends to make life enjoyable are within the reach of our
thrifty, frugal and industrious farmers.
During the transit from what may be termed the era of lumber to the era ofl IgricultTIre,
farming seemed primitive in St. Clair county.  Our rural population depended Iartlv  u
farming and partly ulpon what they could earn in the lumler xwoodls for a living, a nI as the r'sult
the fields and fences were neglected. Farmers from the neighboring proxinee )f Ontario and

especially the old country farmer who hadl made Canada his tenimora ry home, and xxo elan
to pay a visit to Michigan, was sure to make unfavorable coi-men t uon th     skill oI c0ur