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Saginaw City Directory 1924, 1924
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1SAGINAW
3The Commercial and Industrial Metropolis of Northeastern Michigan—A City Determined to Forge Ahead
5(By Saginaw Board of Commerce)
7Saginaw, Michigan is the one-time center of the lumbering industry in Michigan which, when the lumber gave out, made good its transition into a modern manufacturing city with varied interests which have tided her through every storm that has shaken American business and led her into a continuous normal growth.
9Sharing in the development of the automobile business in Michigan, the center of the Michigan coal fields with their heavy production of bituminous coal, the place of manufacture of dozens of articles of nation-wide fame, Saginaw besides is the center of one of the finest agricultural districts in the United States. Its farms are an effective complement to the efforts of the city people and furnish an ever increasing field for the city's business activities.
11CITY HAS HEALTHY GROWTH
12The 1920 federal census gave Saginaw a population of 65,648, but since that time the city has enjoyed a growth which, according to careful estimates of the Board of Commerce, has increased the population to more than 69,000.
14The metropolis of north-eastern Michigan and the judicial seat of Saginaw county, the city is situated on the Saginaw river, approximately 90 miles north-west of Detroit and in the geographical center of the fertile Saginaw valley. Three main railroad systems, the Pere Marquette Michigan Central and Grand Trunk, and the one interurban line, the Michigan Railway System, connect Saginaw with every part of the state. Five divisions of the Pere Marquette and two of the Michigan Central center in Saginaw.
16SAGINAW NOW INDUSTRIAL CENTER
17While millions of feet of pine of sawmills, it is as an industrial community that the city now has its greatest influence. Industries numbering 120 manufacture 125 main classes of products with many associated articles.
19Many of these industries furnish products that are nationally known. Six plants of the General Motors Corporation group of industries manufacture automobile motors, steering gears, crankshafts, grey and malleable iron castings, plate glass and other products for General Motors and other cars.
21PRODUCTS GO ALL OVER WORLD
22The Lufkin Rule Co. turns out rules and tapes and other measuring instruments that find a market in every civilized country in the world. The United States Graphite Co. produces here, from raw materials mined in Mexico, a large part of the pencil leads and graphite lubricants used in the United States.
24One of the principal factories of the Michigan Sugar Co. turns out beet sugar from beets raised in huge quantities in the Saginaw valley. Wickes Bros. and the Wickes Boiler Co. produce vertical water-tube boilers used all over the world, crankshaft lathes on which the shafts for more than a dozen of America's leading automobiles are machined, and gang saws which help to cut the timber of the south and west. The principal plant of the Sonora Phonograph Corporation is located here, while the American Register Co. does a heavy business in foreign countries as well as in the United States.
26BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PROSPEROUS
27According to the most reliable estimates about 16,000 men are employed in Saginaw's industries. They form a con
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