Lumbering, fruit packing and canning, tree nurseries, wine making, and machine-shop working are the economic mainstays.
By the turn of the century, South Haven and many of its neighboring lumber-, fruit- and fur-trading towns had become major tourist destinations, filled with summer resorts, lake cottages, pavilions, casinos, theaters and opera houses.
Lumbering, dairying, fruit growing, hunting, fishing, and tourism are the main regional economic activities.
With the completion in 1960 of The Dalles Dam (additional capacity was added in 1973) 3 miles (5 km) east, the city became the eastern terminal for oceangoing craft from the Pacific (200 miles [320 km] west), handling grain, fruit, lumber, meat, wool, and oil.
Saugatuck, which emerged in the 1800s as a lumber region, a fruit producer and eventually the home of a huge dance pavilion where big bands lured hundreds, has an eclectic vibe all its own, best explained, perhaps, by its myriad contradictions, which seem mostly to co-exist cheerfully.
It is now an agricultural processing centre handling dairy, wheat, sugar beets, fruit, and lumber produced mainly in the valley.
Vernon is a service centre for a large lumbering, dairying, and fruit-growing area.
Prospects for a quick conclusion of the trade talks have also been clouded by the Bush administration's decision to invoke antidumping measures against foreign steel producers and by passage of an agriculture bill that grants $180 billion in subsidies to American farmers, who see Chilean fruit, wine and lumber producers as tough rivals.
This zone functions as the economic base supplying coal, lumber, construction materials, vegetables and fruits, dairy products, water, and some grain crops to the urban population in the central zone and the near suburb.
This new migration was associated with the development of sugarcane and fruit plantations, sugarcane and lumber mills, and fish-sauce factories.
