Show I HOW A TOWN WAS MADE TO GROW Can a dead town come como back Muskegon Mien Mich answered es and toda today presents proof Dy By 1903 1303 the forests ot or western 1 Michigan bad been stripped of at their valuable timber and only sass dust lilIes and a few lew sawmills to tell the story of or a 11 faded glory 11 when eben ben had 70 mills 11 bere sas screeched and whistles T To 0 years later all alt the tho mills had closed and the town 1 was as 1 1 for burial Hero Is a of at atthe the to town ton n ot of at that time lime as given by one ot of Its citizens Many sections of or the city elty chiefly those that had housed the mill mil workers and woodsmen all but t ed Goldsmiths Goldsmith's Dc Deserted Village lage I be linger finger or of o decay had hadi I touched 0 o every cry ery part of ot tho I Ity Hundreds of oC homos homes untenanted for Cor ears were crumbling Into the I of at weeds where once were well kept ards and gardens Birds nested in chimneys from rom v no moko had bad not Issued sinco tb the hat hat- halcyon don cyon days Grass grew In the center conter ot of the cit city's s 's chief thoroughfare The Tho 11 e a few scars cars before millIons or of o worth north ot of o mm- mm her er had been boen loaded for tor or shipment were rotting in the sun Muskegon v vas as dead and w sas as bur burIng Ing itself In InIta Its Ita own sa sawdust dust Then a a J ne DC new note was las as heard in inthe Inthe inthe the funeral elation and those ho had gathered about the bier to pay their last ast respects 1 to build the foundations found o of a ne now I city Means V were ro rc devised of InterestIng In In- In Interesting 1 industrial concerns In the ot of Muskegon The of o the new city I were ere un sparing In the use ot of their private fortunes In alti acting manufacturing lug organizations that showed promise ot of development des Notwithstanding there thera was as as a pic picture ture o ot of desolation In Muskegon in 1905 within rn five fio e sears ears a complete transformation was waa produced for tor forwe we are told The rehabilitation committee of oC leading citizens composed of oC prominent chamber ol ot commerce members lifted the city by its boot boot- bootstraps bootstraps straps nursed It through the cit cit- crit critical ical bat period common to all Indus Industrial trial centers In the raw and set It on the he road to achievement Since 1910 the tho city has been I carried forward in Its development with a II momentum that has In-ci In In In- In eased each sear ear New has been added lidded The Tha old have e- e e ex expanded The old i d-i s of at the a a and a and saw are toi gotten in the rush to make moke modern factory machines produce at the maximums maximum It If Muskegon by faith and resolution resolution tion and a will 11 III to do was capable of at building a city ot of out or of orthe the wreckage ot of twenty years sears ears a cit of o substantially with no discouragements confront confronting ing it it with unity ot of purpose and anda a determination to lo grow should ho bo able ble to reach In ten sears 3 ears 00 op |