New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-03-02
Michigan The Grand River Country
It's Prospects.

knowing your willingness to hear from ali
parts of the Union, and disposition to give all the
information You can to immigrants who seek a
home and an independence in the West, solicit
portion Of YOUR columns for few facts relative
to the Grand River Country, now settling rapid.
ly, and offering as great inducements to agricul-
turists and manufacturers as any portion of the
Union.
Grand River flows from East to West is near
" two hundred miles in length navigablc over
one hundred miles, and for steamboats,, to Grand
RAPIDS one of the most fourishing villages in
Michigan, situated about forty miles from Grand
Haven, one Of the few good harbors on the Lake.
Grand River has a fall Of twenty. five feet in a
mile at the village of Grand Rapids, which,
though town of recent settlement, has several
hundred inhabitants, three or four churches, ten
or twelve stores, good hotels, salt works, wooden
mandatory, plaster mill, -four mill, saw mills,
with as good water power as can be found in the
Western Country; and in fact all the requisites
necessary for a large town, which it is destined
to become.
The great Pine District, or Pinery, as it is
called there, lies between this village and Lake
Michigan, extending from the Kalamazoo River
to the Muskegom River in the North, averaging
ten or twelve miles in width, with good market
in Wisconsin and Illinois, where no pine is found,
and all kinds of lumber scarce.
Vessels are in constant communication with
Chicago and Milwaukee during the navigable
season, afording an outlet to produce as well as
lumber.
Kent County, Of which Grand Rapids is the
County seat, like the surrounding country, has a
soil equal to any in the West, with every variety
of timber, and water power for every purpose.
Michigan has great facilities for markets, sur
rounded by navigablc waters. She also has a
Railroad in successful operation half way from
Detroit to Lake Michigan, which will be compile
ted in two years, making Chicago attainabe in
four days from New York, by route that a
glance at the map of the West shows to be the
great natural thoroughfare ofthe East and West
Land of any quality and in any quantity can
now be purchased on the most favorable terms
Spectators have found out that land is not worth
much without cultivation, and actual settlers can
now obtain land at less than the Government
price, easily attained, easily cultivated, healthy
and as near market as any part OF the Western
country. One reason for lands being so low IS
this: Government appropriated 100000 acres Of
land to the State of Michigan for internal I'M
provements, on which the State has issued her
bonds for the completion of her Railroads. which
can now be purchased for fifty cents on the dollar
and are redeemable for land at the full price of
the bonds-or, in other words land can be pur
chased at sixty or seventy cents the acre.
You are aware of the interest the people Of
Michigan take in the measures now before the
country and as they sustained the lamcntcd
Harrison in 1910, so will they stand by the gal
liant Harry of the West in 1874. O. N. B.