Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-06-03
The Great Miami Reservation.

II will be perceived by the notice of the Register
and Receiver this place. that the valuable lands
Indiana. known as the Great Miami Reservation,
which attached to the indianapolis Land District
containing bsiUsen four and fee hundred thousand
acres of The choicest land in the State, ready
to be sold to settlers, und'r the presumption law Of
the Sd Of August, 1915. Tnis law entities all per-
resident the land, actual settlers, at the
date Of the law, and all who may subsequently, become
actual settlers, up To- the public sale of lands,
(Which will take place carly in October next) tn a
pre-empton right to one hundred and sixty acres of
land, at two dollars per greater iuducement
has been held out the whule west, to actual
settlers Here is a body Of land, including the por-
tons of the Reserve attached the Fort Wayne and
Winnamac districts, thirty miles square, bounded on
the North by the Wabash and Erie canal, and on the
south approaching within thirty-fve miles of the
city Of indianapolis, surrounded on all sides by an
improved country, and which held ON 20 with n
dying grasp by the Miami Indians until the force Of
circumstances compelled them to sell, and for which
they received about dollar and twenty-five cents
per acre, offered, TO actual settlers, at the low
price Of two dollars peracre The p,a now seek
ing nyestucnt in real estate for actual settlement,
clniot be better employed, in any portion Of the Uni
ted States than in these lands charter for rail-
road from Perm to indianapolis passing through the
centre of these lands, granted at the session OF
the Legislature before the last and books have recent
~ been opened at Peru, Kokomo, and in Upton and
Hamilton counties with prospects of success.
Should this road be completed, which is only seventy
miles in length the Reserve would possess advantages
equal to any portion Of the west. The Register and
Receiver at indianapolis have received the plats for
their portion of the Reserve from the Surveyor Gen.
eral and the following letter from the Commissioner
If the General Land Office will show, that they are
now ready to commence selling to actual settlers
GENERAL LAND OFFIcE,(
-...'sfe tf' slsl + April 22d, 1547.
Gentlemen In answer to your letter of the 18th
INST, have to sfaie that the Surveyor General al
Detroit has been several times urged TO expedite the
urvey of the Miami lands in Indiana, and TO forward
the plats that those lands might be brought into mar
ket at the earliest practicable period. In letter re-
Gently received he states, that the surveys will be
completed, and the plats forwarded, in time to Offer
these lands eariy in October. No delay will occur
on the part OF this Office in bringing these lands into
market, when the pats are received; and that the
pre-emptors may present their claims early a:
practicable the Surveyor General this day in
structed to forward the pats the Land Offices soor
as they are prepared On The receipt Of those plat
you tcH the usual notice 10 the settlers, that theI
nay come torEard and prore up heir claims.
Very respectfully, your obt serv't,
| RICHARD NJ YOUNG, Commissioner.
| Editors in Indiana would promote the settlement o
the State by calling public attention othe above lands