Michigan City
a city in Laporte co., Ind., on Lake Michigan, and on the Père Marquette, the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville, the Lake Erie and Western, and the Michigan Central rail roads; 56 miles E. of Chicago. Here are the Northern Indiana State Prison, a United States life-saving station, public Prison, electric light plants, public and parochial library, waterworks, street railroad and schools, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES 220 has large interests in lumber, iron ore, and salt, and manufactures cars, chairs, etc. It has an outer or refuge harbor created by the Federal Government. Pop. (1910) 19,027; (1920) 19,457.
MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES, a mining school at Houghton, Mich., part of the University of Michigan, founded in 1885. In the college college there are 157 students with a faculty numbering 26.
Nine college buildings make the physical basis of the institution, one of which is a library containing 30,000 volumes. Its entire support is the appropriation granted by the State of Michigan.
MICHIGAN, LAKE, one of the great fresh-water lakes between the United States and Canada, being the second largest lake in the world, Lake Superior being the largest. Unlike the other four big lakes, it lies wholly within United States territory. It is 320 miles long and averages 75 miles in width. Its surface is 581 feet above sea-level.
MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational non-sectarian institution in Ann Arbor, Mich.; founded in 1837; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 500; students, students, 7,000; volumes in the library, 413,666; endowment funds, $1,393,304; grounds and valued at $8,075,660; income, $1,393,304; number of graduates, 36,789; president, Harry B. Hutchins.
MICHOACAN (mē-chō-ä-kän'), one of the States of Mexico, on the Pacific Coast; area 22,874 square miles; pop. about 1,000,000. It is to a large extent elevated and mountainous, among the mountains being the volcano of Jorullo; has rich mines of gold, silver, and other ninerals. Capital Morelia; pop. about 40,000.