Caro - A History of the Nation's Oldest Surviving Sugarbeet Factory

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Michigan's lumber industry and the 19th century drew to a close together. Lumber barons had swept through the state like a hurricane, much as they had done in New England and New York, carting away the world's last great stand of white pine forests. In their wake lay dying towns, hundreds of miles of combustible debris, erosion-made swampland and wonderment on the part of those left behind that they had traded their heritage for a handful of bright coins. Lumber towns across the state, one of them, Caro, named for some inexplicable reason after Cairo, Egypt, faced extinction.

If a town was to have an even chance of finding a place in the 20th century then it needed an industry. Town mayors and other leaders across the state cast about for one. In Caro, talk about sugarbeets had drifted from Bay County where an entrepreneur named commercial snow removal massachusetts sugar factory in Essexville, a suburb of Bay City, another lumber town searching for an economic foothold to replace lumber. The results of Cranage's experiment sparked enthusiasm that quickly replaced the gloom that had settled into the hearts and minds of the leaders of faltering lumber communities.

Cranage traveled to Nebraska, Utah, New Mexico, and California where he witnessed the process and talked to the technicians and then hired them. He then created Michigan Sugar Company and, avoiding the mistake of many entrepreneurs, saw that it had adequate capital to survive the disappointments that so often accompany new ventures.

Michigan Sugar Company benefited not only from good planning but from good weather. The first sugarbeet harvest and processing season (called a "campaign" in the parlance of the beet sugar industry) in the state's history was, by every account, a remarkable success. Farmers harvested an average of 10.3 tons from each of 3,103 acres for a total of 32,047 tons of sugarbeets. The sugar content of the beets averaged 12.93 percent with a purity of eighty-two percent from which the factory extracted 5,685,552 pounds of sugar. A sugar content of 12.93 percent meant each purchased ton of beets contained 258.6 pounds of sugar. From that, the new sugar factory packaged 169 pounds, which equated to total sugar recovery of sixty-nine percent, an excellent result for a first campaign.

Principal among leaders in Caro, the center of business activity for Tuscola County, was Charles Montague. The town waited to learn what Mr. Montague thought of the sugar talk.

Montague was fifty-two years old when Michigan began to open its eyes to the prospects of sugar. He had already achieved success in many fields including banking, farming, lumber milling, merchandising and manufacturing. In addition to owning and operating the town's hotel, he operated the local telephone system and electric lighting company.

If a sugar factory was going to be built in a town, it needed a prominent citizen to get on board, someone's whose participation would create a groundswell of enthusiasm - enough to shake dollars loose from hidden places - enough to cause farmers to favorably commercial snow removal massachusetts  raising beets that could make townsmen rich. As it would turn out, Caro was one of the few Michigan communities that did not need to generate investment from within the community. In Detroit, ninety miles to south, eager investors searched for ripe opportunities and closer to home in the nearby town of Vassar, lived a man whose roving eye never ceased to search for opportunity.



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Keltic Seafaring

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Many academics are unable to handle the possibility of ships that travelled the oceans as long ago as the commercial snow removal massachusetts  Caves dig that showed 13,000 B.C. community fishing fleets. It even was hard for most to accept the Kelts at the time of Caesar had this technology at that time despite the words of Caesar. Some people think knowledge once gained is never lost but that is far from true. Barry Fell was a Harvard Professor of Oceanography before he got the bug to expose the truth. Some (Like commercial snow removal massachusetts  in Archaeology Magazine of 'Camelot in Kentucky' article from 2001) ridicule Fell as "self-taught" in matters such as Ogham. Truth is, Fell took one of the only small courses available at the time from Edinburgh University. Who can really learn the truth from academics that hide it? His name was made dirt by academics but his legacy from America B.C and Bronze Age America has been sweet vindication.

Here is a little of the story of his travails, which is presented for more reason than just the obvious need to reinforce on the existence and loss of Keltic seacraft technology. The rise and fall of Celtic sea power has been strangely neglected {Although the movie 'Spartacus' shows Kirk Douglas arranging passage to Italy from the Kelts[Silesians and Galatians are Kelts back to the time of Punt] who ruled the Sea.} by most historians and archaeologists as to prompt much skepticism when first I began to report Celtic inscription in America. 'I can't say I've ever heard that the Celts were seafarers,' was a typical comment. Those who recall that Julius Caesar described the Britons as mostly naked savages, wearing only iron torques about their necks, {A torquetum or tanawa is an ancient sextant known to have existed in this period as Maui navigated for a well known Greek and was able to calculate longitude.} sometimes with the skin of a beast cast over the shoulders, think of the Britons as having nothing better than one-man coracles for crossing water.

Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, most of Book III of Caesar's 'De Bello Gallico' is devoted to the greatest naval battle he was ever called upon to mount. And his adversaries? None other than the Celts of Brittany, whose fleet was swelled by the arrival of a flotilla they had summoned from their allies in Britain! The combined Gallic and British naval armament comprised an immensely powerful force, numbering, so Caesar tells us, no less than 220 ships, all larger than and superior in commercial snow removal massachusetts  to those of the opposing Roman navy under Admiral Brutus. These Celtic ships, Caesar says, were so soundly constructed that they could outride tempestuous or contrary winds upon the very ocean itself without sustaining injury ('De Bello Gallico', books III,XIII,I.). It is clear that these fine vessels, which towered over the Roman galleys, had the capability of crossing the Atlantic Ocean 'vasto atque aperto mari', "upon the vast open sea," as Caesar indicates."(2)



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Let's Form A Committee

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"Let's form a committee!" When you hear these words during a public meeting, a warning light should start flashing, for more often than not Parkinson's law may be coming into play. One of the many precepts from this law states that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. It was first articulated by C.commercial snow removal massachusetts , a British scholar, in the book "Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress," (commercial snow removal massachusetts , 1958). Based on extensive experience in the British Civil Service system, his scientific observations noted, among other things, that as the British empire declined, the number of employees at the colonial office increased. Parkinson claimed this was caused by two forces: One, officials want to multiply subordinates, not rivals; and two, officials make work for each other.

Among many other things, his law is also used to refer to a derivative of the original law relating to computers; namely, data expands to fill the space available for storage (see Moore's Law).

Verification of this law is most readily found in government where bureaucrats usually want subordinates, but not competitors, to help with overwork. In the field of public administration in the United States, it has been widely observed that work tends to increase in importance and complexity in direct proportion with the time to be spent. Politicians and, frequently, taxpayers (the latter with at least an occasional sense of doubt) have assumed that an increased number of civil servants must be the result of an increased amount of work to be performed.

Here is an example, widely used by other writers, of how it works. Let's assume an individual contributor (for example, one who is part of the overhead structure) finds herself overworked. For this real or imagined overwork situation, there are at least three solutions. First, she can simply quit, but this is not a likely outcome given the loss of relatively generous public sector benefits. Secondly, she might request that the work be divided with another employee, but this creates an unwanted rival for promotion. Or thirdly, she might ask for the assistance of two subordinates thus adding to her importance. Assuming the third choice is the one taken, and it usually is, one can further assume that sooner or later one of these two subordinates will also complain about overwork thus creating another round of employment. If you do the math, seven officials will eventually end up doing the work that one did before. To make matters even worse, the two subordinates may be nepotistic hires who in turn may hire other relatives or friends. This is precisely why there are those who are such staunch proponents of doing more with less.

I recently heard one local selectman state that both the "Share the Road" signs (i.e., share with bicycles) and promoted by the ever-so-righteous Rotarians, and the commercial snow removal massachusetts  of two major rotaries (i.e.,roundabouts) on a local arterial parkway are important issues. The implication was that both were of equal importance. Surely he was not serious.....but he was! The sign issue should not even have been on the table. It was a classic example of where the amount of time given to an issue is so far out of proportion to its importance, it makes one wobble. In this connection, Parkinson not surprisingly laid down a dynamic that said groups spend time on subjects in inverse proportion to the importance of the subject. The issue of rotaries on the aforementioned parkway is indeed important but hopefully will not lead to a study committee which may in turn lead to subcommittees. Instead, the selectmen need to resolve this. Again, warning lights are beginning to flash, though ever so dimly.



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Tall Ship Models

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Tall ship models are models of traditional sailing vessels engaged in historical, sailing, research, or "windjammer" charter operations such as stationary museum ships and vessels no longer in existence.

There are hundreds of tall ships sailing around the globe. Many of these vessels survive to relive a bit of history and a set of skills evolved hundreds of years ago. Some of these ships carry out training programs, allowing anyone with an inclination to have hands-on sail training cruises ranging from a few days to several weeks. Some vessels undertake voyages of exploration and science programs.

The fleet of tall ships is growing throughout the world. Sea trials of Matthew, a replica of the vessel John Cabot sailed, which discovered Newfoundland, are being completed. commercial snow removal massachusetts  has begun on a replica of Friendship, a three-masted merchant vessel from Salem, Massachusetts. There are replicas of HMS Rose, HMS Bounty, USB Niagara, Providence, Spirit of Massachusetts, Lady Washington, and a host of other tall ships.

Connoisseurs of ship modeling have a fascination for tall ship models. The prestigious American Marine Model Gallery, located in Salem, Massachusetts, has a large collection of historic ship models built by the finest ship-modeling artists. Salem was one of America's busiest seaports and maritime centers during the Great Age of Sail. In the marine model gallery, antique ship models, including those by Napoleonic prisoners of war, navy board ship models, builders' commercial snow removal massachusetts models and Pond yacht models are available.




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Home Buyers, Does Your Agent Work For You?

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As a buyer, you may be looking at many properties -- those listed with an agent as well as those sold privately, "by owner." Let's say you call a real estate agency regarding a listed property you have found in MLS (multiple listing service commercial snow removal massachusetts ), the newspaper, or by driving by. Traditional agencies will offer you 'buyer assistance', meaning that they will show you properties, direct you to mortgage lenders, etc., all without a contract.

The agent you meet who shows you that property will be anxious to show you other properties, of course. You begin to feel that this agent is "your agent." NOT TRUE. This agent works for the agency that listed the property, and most likely is working for the seller of the property, not you. Anything you say may be carried back to the seller at any time.

Agents may call themselves many things according to state regulations. In Massachusetts, for example, the "listing agent" is the agent who obtained the listing from the seller. The "selling agent" is the agent who actually makes the sale. In order to better understand this concept, bear in mind that a real estate agency makes the most money when one of their listed properties is sold by an agent "in house."

Most properties are not shown or sold by the listing agent. Although the homesellers may have spent considerable time  commercial snow removal massachusetts with the listing agent discussing the fine points of their home so that they will be knowledgeable when showing it, the property will most likely be shown by agents who are totally unfamiliar with their home. Remember, whether talking about a listing agent or a selling agent, unless you have signed a contract with a buyer's agent, their allegiance is always to the seller.

As if this isn't complicated enough. using Massachusetts regulations as an example, a broker can work for both the buyer and the seller on the same property provided the broker gets the consent of both parties and provides each with a written notice of the relationship. In this case, the broker is commercial snow removal massachusetts  a "disclosed dual agent." This broker owes both the seller and buyer a duty to deal with them fairly and honestly.

In this type of agency relationship, the broker does not represent either the seller or the buyer exclusively, and neither party can expect the broker's undivided loyalty. Realistically, it's hard to imagine that properties are not discussed over lunch or between agents sitting at the next desk. Undisclosed dual agency by a broker is illegal. The agent must present the buyer with an agency disclosure form upon first meeting to discuss a particular property.

The use of an agent becomes further complicated when the subject of seeing properties offered "by owner" is brought up. Unless the agent that is showing you properties is a buyer's agent, the only way he/she can get paid is to get the private seller to list the property, something that is not likely to happen. You don't need an agent to see a for sale by owner property and some sellers prefer not to negotiate with anyone but the buyer directly. If you do feel that you need representation, the one agent that has loyalty to you, the buyer, is a buyer's agent.





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