Excerpt from Oceana County Pioneers and Businessmen of to-Day: History, Biography, Statistics and Humorous IncidentsThe surface is high and rolling, the soil rich sand loam, heavy clay loam, and light sand. The change from one soil to another is quite marked, and often in the same section all the different charac ters of soils are to be found. In some localities gravel and stone is abundant, in others whole sections may be searched in vain for a pebble. There are several extensive lime quarries, from one of which, located at Shelby, lime of a very superior quality but of dark color, is manufactured. There are also several extensive clay beds, from which brick equal in appearance and quality to the celebrated Milwaukee brick, are made, the most notable, perhaps, being locat ed upon the banks oi Pentwater Lake, owned and worked by the Middlesex Brick Tile Co.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.