SAULTE SAINTE MARIE

city and made county seat of Chippewa County, Mich., logical, on Sainte Mary’s River and the Saulte in Sainte Marie Ship Canal, near the outlet of Lake Superior. It is served by the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Saulte Sainte Marie and the Duluth, South Shore and 1918), Atlantic Railroads. Direct communications are established with the Can a the fian Pacific Railroad by the inter nation1864, bridge acro Ste. Mary’s River. has important industries which are by two hydro-electric plants develop approximately 5,000 horsepower from the falls of the Saulte The principal manufacturing establishments are woolen, shingle and mills, machine shops, ship yards, yards, foundries and factories making calcium carbide and leather. immense volume of traffic that through the canai adds materially the prosperity and importance of the The locality is rich in a ociations connected with Jesuit explorations and settlement of the northern United and Canada. ‘There are 12 churches, an excellent public school three newspapers and three Population, 1920, 12,095.