Jody Fournier
Century 21- Future Builders Inc.
Phone: 810-794-5544
E-mail: jfourn3353@aol.com
First page real estate listings for Algonac, Harsens Island and the greater St. Clair County Michigan area.

The Diamond Team of RE/MAX Results
RE/MAX RESULTS
Phone: 989-686-3400
E-mail: thediamondteam@chartermi.net
Serving the real estate needs of the Metropolitan Bay City MI area!

Cathy Tishhouse
RE/MAX Showcase Homes
Phone: 248-647-3200

Birmingham Real Estate
Selling Real Estate in Birmingham Michigan & most of Oakland & Wayne Counties. Great customer service while specializing in Technology & Social Media to market homes and keep clients informed.

Paul M. Ahern
AmeriTrust Realty
Phone: 810-229-5060
E-mail: pmahern@att.net
Livingston County, Brighton, Hartland, Howell, Grand Blanc, Fenton, Fowlerville, South Lyon, Milford.

Brion Perry
Remerica Hometown III
Phone: 734-267-3702
E-mail: brion.perry@att.net
Located in the heart of residential Canton - 6231 N. Canton Center Rd. #106 Canton Mi. 48187.

Steve Hatfield, Realtor
CENTURY 21 Curran & Christie, Inc.
Phone: 313-274-7200
E-mail: steve@steve-hatfield.com
Providing professional Real Estate service in Dearborn, and the Detroit Michigan westside suburbs including:Livonia, Canton, Plymouth, Northville and Farmington.

Bob & Betty Ann Crepeau, Realtors
Century21 Property Mart
Phone: 517-669-2091
E-mail: bobet49@attbi.com
Two hard working Realtors for the price of one! We serve the entire Greater Lansing Area. All property types. Let us put our expertise to work for you!  We'll move mountains for you!

Bruce Simon, ABR
Real Estate One
Phone: 248-752-3088

Specializing in West Bloomfield and Farmington Hills Residential Real Estate. Accredited Buyers Representative. Member of President's Council of Excellence.

Randy Haney
American Associates, Inc. Realtors
Phone: 800-968-2916
E-mail: Rhaney@AARealtors.net
Genesee County, Clio, Davison, Fenton, Flushing, Grand Blanc, Holly, Linden, New Lothrup, Swartz Creek, West Flint Township.

Allan Reed
Coldwell Banker Schmidt Realtors
Phone: 231-334-3006
E-mail: areed@northlink.net
Your select source for cottages, cabins, homes, land and businesses. Leelanau, Benzie, Manistee, Grand Traverse Counties. Wide Internet capabilities. 360 degree home tours.

Cary Beach
RE/MAX Grande
Phone: 888-924-LAND

Hartland, Brighton, Howell, Tyron Twp, Lake Shannon, Lake Fenton, Silver Lake, Linden, Swartz Creek, Flushing, Frankenmuth, Flint, Holly.

Rodwell P. Reed - Associate Broker
Century 21, North Country Agency
Phone: 906-487-5623
E-mail: rrddyy@yahoo.com
Real estate near Lake Superior and Upper Michigan's beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula.

Ken Saksewski
AnJ Statewide
Phone: 989-736-9575 Toll Free 877-655-5735

I've been in real estate 25+ years. I cover Alcona, Iosco and Ocsoda Co. along the East Shore of Lake Huron from Tawas to Alpeana. Please ask for Ken Saksewski if you have any ?'s. I have Lk. Frt., Hunting land, Res.,Large and small and Commercial for someone looking to go in business for themselves.

Andrea Crossman
Woodland Realty
Phone: 616-355-6387

Lake Michigan specialist serving New Buffalo, Sawyer, St Joseph, Saugatuck, Holland, Grand Haven, Muskegon, Silver Lake, Pentwater, Ludington & Manistee.

Rodwell P. Reed - Associate Broker
Century 21, North Country Agency
Phone: 906-487-5623
E-mail: rrddyy@yahoo.com
Real estate near Lake Superior and Upper Michigan's beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula.

Andrea Crossman
Coldwell Banker Woodland Schmidt
Phone: 616-355-6387

Information about Lake Michigan Homes and free property search. Also serving Ottawa County cities of Holland, Grand Haven, Saugatuck and other great locations.

Krista Spicuzza
Century21 Executives
Phone: 800-295-0811
E-mail: szyqy2k@aol.com
For that special attention that you deserve when selling or buying your home.

Cherie Darmis
Sheridan Real Estate
Phone: 810-359-8170
E-mail: cheriedarmis@hotmail.com
Serving Sanilac and St Clair counties.

Diane Dell
C-21 Hartford South
Phone: 734-464-6760 ext. 231

Also servicing Plymouth, Canton, Northville, Novi, South Lyon with over 14 years of experience.

Carl Willits
Century 21 Real Estate 346, Ltd
Phone: 517-676-6000 ext. 19
E-mail: c21willits@worldnet.att.net
I serve the greater Lansing area.

Bob Allwine & Bev Gilbert-Allwine
RE/MAX 100
Phone: 248-465-1121
E-mail: bobnbev@realtor.com
With over 30 years of combined real estate & marketing experience...we work for YOU & bring HOME results!

Bob Allwine & Bev Gilbert-Allwine
RE/MAX 100
Phone: 248-465-1121
E-mail: bobnbev@realtor.com
With over 30 years of combined real estate & marketing experience...we work for YOU & bring HOME results!

Cathy Tishhouse
RE/MAX Showcase Homes
Phone: 248-647-3200

Royal Oak Real Estate
Selling Real Estate in Royal Oak Michigan & most of Oakland & Wayne Counties. Great customer service while specializing in Technology & Social Media to market homes and keep clients informed.

Dan Gizar
Coldwell Banker
Phone: 810-329-9036
E-mail: dgizar@coldwellbanker.com
St. Clair is a quaint town located on and International waterway with lots of history and beautiful homes.

Bob & Betty Ann Crepeau, Realtors
Century21 Property Mart
Phone: 517-669-2091
E-mail: bobet49@attbi.com
Two hard working Realtors for the price of one! We serve the entire Greater Lansing Area. All property types. Let us put our expertise to work for you!  We'll move mountains for you!

Nancy Chenevey
Charles Reinhart Company
Phone: 734-669-5962

Search NEW Saline real estate listings. We also have NEW properties in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Dexter, Chelsea, Milan, South Lyon and Canton. We will help you get into your new home.

Roger J Roe, CRB, CRS, GRI
Century 21 Advantage Plus
Phone: 800-851-4299

E.U.P. of Michigan, Sault Ste. Marie, Brimley, Pickford, Rudyard, Chippewa County.

Randy Haney
American Associates, Inc. Realtors
Phone: 800-968-2916
E-mail: Rhaney@AARealtors.net
Genesee County, Clio, Davison, Fenton, Flushing, Grand Blanc, Holly, Linden, New Lothrup, Swartz Creek, West Flint Township.

The principal crops grown in Michigan in the late 1990s were corn, soybeans, vegetables, sugarbeets, wheat, and fruit. Sales of greenhouse and nursery products are the other leading source of crop income, producing cash sales roughly equal to those of corn. The state leads the nation in the production of cucumbers, and is behind only North Dakota in the amount of dry beans grown. Other important vegetable crops are celery, asparagus, snap beans, carrots, cauliflower, potatoes, tomatoes, and onions. In fruits Michigan is especially outstanding. The state is first in the nation in the production of sour cherries; it is also a leading producer of sweet cherries, apples, grapes, peaches, plums, and strawberries.

Employing only a few hundred workers, commercial fishing is still recovering from the invasion of the sea lamprey, an eellike fish that nearly wiped out the multimillion-dollar Great Lakes fishing industry. First appearing in Lake Huron in the late 1930s, the parasite had spread to Lake Superior by the early 1950s. After testing thousands of chemicals, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service found a poison that eliminates the lamprey without affecting other fish. The catch consists mostly of whitefish, salmon, lake trout, chub, yellow perch, catfish, and carp. Sport fishing is now more important than commercial fishing on most of the Great Lakes.

Lumbering in Michigan is not of major importance economically, although it does service thriving paper and furniture-manufacturing industries. It concentrates on secondary growth, and pulp and plywood predominate among wood products. More than half the timber for pulp comes from the Upper Peninsula. Spruces and hemlocks are the major species cut for pulp. The western part of the Upper Peninsula also furnishes most of the hardwoods used in the veneer and furniture industries. The area around Escanaba on the Upper Peninsula is the source of most of the bird’s-eye maple in the world.

Michigan’s mineral resources are varied. They include cement, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, salt, and gypsum. The state’s production of iron ore is second in the nation, behind only that of Minnesota. Michigan is the leading state in the production of magnesium compounds and the second leading state, behind Florida, in the production of peat, which is marketed for fertilizer, not for fuel. Among the stones that are extracted are limestone and such gemstones as thomsonite, greenstone, datolite, agate, and a fossil coral called Petoskey stone. By the mid-1970s nonmetals, including construction materials and saline minerals, had become more important than metals in the state’s mineral output. Mineral fuels also became much more significant in the 1970s.

A large oil and natural gas field was discovered in 1969 in the northern part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. In 1999 production amounted to 8 million barrels of crude petroleum and 277 billion cu ft of natural gas. While production of natural gas was increasing, the amount of oil being pumped was substantially less than in the mid-1980s.

Limestone is the most abundant and valuable of the stones mined in Michigan. It is used primarily as a flux in the steelmaking process and in the chemical and construction industries. Major deposits are found along the northwestern and northeastern shores of the Lower Peninsula. The manufacture of portland cement is based on native limestone and is one of the state’s leading mineral products. Lime, which has a number of industrial uses, is produced primarily in Wayne County. The Lower Peninsula, with abundant supplies of sand and gravel, provides the state with basic materials for its construction industry. Gypsum, used locally in the manufacture of wallboard, exterior sheathing, lath, and plaster, is mined in the Grand Rapids area and quarried at Alabaster.

The state is a leading salt producer. Salt is mined in the Detroit area, where there are vast underground deposits. It is also obtained from brines in the central Michigan area around Midland, Saginaw, Bay City, and Whitehall. Natural salines, including bromine, calcium chloride, calcium-magnesium chloride, other magnesium compounds, and potash, are also extracted from brines in the Lower Peninsula.

Although Michigan has a diversified economy, it stands out as an industrial state, ranking fifth in the United States in value added by manufacturing in 1996. Transportation equipment, industrial machines of many kinds, electronic devices, and metal processing dominate the state’s manufacturing. Michigan leads the nation in automobile production. Other important manufactures include plastics, pharmaceuticals, soaps and cleansers, milled grain, dry cereals, agricultural machinery, office furniture, dairy products, preserved fruits and vegetables, printed matter, electrical equipment, construction materials, and measuring and control devices.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Michigan’s automobile industry was devastated by national economic recessions and competition from foreign manufacturers. Foreign cars that were smaller, more fuel-efficient, and more reliable than U.S. cars captured a big share of the U.S. market while economic recessions also reduced sales. Massive layoffs in the U.S. automobile industry soon resulted. But by the mid-1980s the industry had partly recovered, primarily through sales of trucks and of luxury automobiles. The recovery was complete by the 1990s, although increased automation and the opening of production plants elsewhere in the country left the industry permanently changed.

The manufacture of motor vehicles is centered largely in Detroit, Dearborn, Flint, and Pontiac. Much of the income generated by manufacturing in the state originates in Wayne, Macomb, Oakland, Monroe, Lapeer, and Saint Clair counties, which the U.S. census calls the Detroit primary metropolitan statistical area. The Detroit area is the home of the so-called Big Three automotive manufacturers—General Motors Corporation has headquarters in Detroit, Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, and Chrysler Corporation in Auburn Hills. Best known of the Detroit area industrial establishments is Ford’s River Rouge plant in Dearborn. The plant is virtually a manufacturing city, with more than 160 km (100 mi) of railroad track within the industrial complex. Body and automobile parts manufacturers are spread throughout the Greater Detroit area in such places as Hamtramck, Warren, Sterling Heights, Wayne, Southfield, and Troy. Farm machinery, machine tools, and chemicals based largely on salt are also important products in the Detroit area. Other significant industries are steelmaking, food processing, petroleum refining, and printing and publishing.

Among the other leading manufacturing centers is Flint, which has been virtually a one-industry city because of its dependence on automotive production. The majority of its manufacturing workers are employed by General Motors. Automobile parts are also part of Grand Rapids’s manufacturing structure, although that city manufactures a considerable amount of furniture. Grand Rapids has lost a great deal of the low-cost furniture market and now is stressing its skill in manufacturing quality furniture. Lansing, another important automotive center, has developed research facilities and industry related to science, technology, and agriculture. Saginaw, in addition to manufacturing automobiles, produces foundry work and machines and is a food processor. Muskegon also specializes in foundry work and has become a manufacturer of sporting-goods products, namely billiard tables and bowling equipment. Paper manufacturing is especially important to Kalamazoo as are pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Limestone quarrying and shipping are major activities in the Alpena region. The city is a center for portland cement and concrete production and has wood product processing and metals industries. Bay City, home to a major Great Lakes port that distributes regional agricultural and industrial products, has a variety of industries, including shipbuilding. Smaller cities with manufacturing specializations include chemicals in Midland, cereals in Battle Creek, baby food in Fremont, furniture and other wood products in Holland, petroleum headquarters in Mount Pleasant, household appliances in Benton Harbor, and automobile, electronic, and aircraft parts in Jackson.

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