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| DETROIT, Sept. Ii, 1859.
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exit would be of sufficient Consequence tn r,a,;, !.
moments thought, but not so with yours. and :. /.
| choice bit of news or knowledge from c.ha,,
pleases our appetite, perhaps others may be sui.ed
with something we may furnish If equally well
served up.
| The past season has been one of unexampled
prosperity to the people of this entire section. Ii
has been very healthy, the crops bountiful prices
high, and money of course quite plenty. The
| wheat crop was probably the finest ever raised
and the price at which it sets off, Sl00 to s115 PEI
bushel, is making the farmer rich very rapidly
The daily receipts by one railroad alone, are Is tc
10000 bushels. Wool, however, is rapidly taking
rank as our first staple and probably the safest
reliance of the agricultural population as the eli
mate il very favorable to its production both for
quantity and quality. As proof of the rapid in
crease of wealth, l will mention that the total oil
property of the State in 1851, equalized by the
state Board, was about thirty one millions; the
amount the present year is over on hundred and
changes In new country, and this State il just
now passing through its mutation. 1t has but a
debt of perhaps million, and can engage in no
public work as to create one
The ship canal at the Sault Ste Marie is progress.
ing well, though it is becoming difficult to procure
laborers. The company have multitude of agents
in all the forests, selecting the best pine and mine
raj lands to make up their 100000 thousand acres
Though free, the canal will be of great value TO the
State when completed. The Mackinaw and Lake
Superior route has been among the most fashiona-
BILE this season, both for purposes of health and
pleasure, three steamboats, going up crowded
every week. The scenery is grand, air unequalled,
and opportunities for speculation in stocks and
mines constant. Large parties from Boston and
other Yankee regions have availed themselves of
the facilities for seeing the Northwestern Lakes
and country.
This week the work upon the Oakland and Otta.
wa Railroad, which is to connect this city with
Lake Michigan to the Northwest was commenced
1t will be about 300 miles long. Its bonds are ne.
gotiated in England for iron aud SC. Another
road from the foot of Lake Huron to strike the
same point westward is about starting 1t will CON
meet with the Grand Trunk Railway to Quebec
Our Great Western to the Faiis will open next Jan
uary. 1t is fine road and must do great bust
ness 1t will hasten the union of Canada to the U.
States, as every such tie of iron and interest has
and must. Both parties are helping to break down
the barriers and make the passage smooth
speaking OF Railroads, however, must not forget
that we have now here one Of the ''Under Ground
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pretty lively one train taking across %, another
10, ana others, various numbers of passengera-
they look pretty hard, and we hope they may find
no worse fare than that they LETT though we have
doubts. Our neighbors begin to cry out Justify
against the rush of them and speak sadly of their
condition.
Our city Is growing very rapidly this season, and
making tar more valuable improvements than ever
before, in the way OF pavements, sewers, gas and
water
New watar works arc oho,,t m bo axac,o1 ~, 8,
plan like those at Richmond, the present touer re-
servolr being very inadequate to the supply requr
ell. New and costly blocks of stores aud dwellings
are soug up In every part OF the town; four large
churches, docks, mills and iron works for working
Lake Superior iron and many new vessels, both
steam and sail. Ofnew steamers we have fair sup
ply. In one week lately, there appeared each 533
feet long, aud fitted up in the gorgeous style
Next Spring the Railread Company bring out two
OF $50 feet long, and in splendor all that money can
make them.
Great efforts are making to raise the steamer At;
lantlc, sunk year ago with $50 on board,
but thus far without success. She lies in l69 feet
wafer, a much greater depth than any heretofore
ralsed the contractor is however sanguine of sue
cess. She had an immense quantity OF specie and
valuable goods on board.
There is very active speculation going on in
copper and iron stocks now the prospect of the
mineral region being opened by the ship canal
brightens The masses OF pure copper daily
brought down to the smelling works seem perfect
ly incredible. bleck of 630O lbs cut from mass
of us tons, is now here its way to the Crystal
Palace show. 1t is about feet long, by nearly two
feet wide and deep, and as pure cent. Perhaps
fifty pounds of rock adhere to the outside. 1t was
cut out with the cold chise and took three months
Very many of the masses at the works weigh 5000
and 5000 lbs. The iron brought down is like cast
iron broken up, and yields about eighty per cent.
pure. r(
Having taken trip lately to Lake Huron and
the wllds about Saginaw, we would like to give you
some sketches, but have not room this time suffice
to say 1t is one of the principal pine numbering
places The shipments from that river alone this
season, will reach 7o.00O,000 feet. large par,
goes East, and thence South to Richmond, &c
The fisheries near by are also very extensive Blu,
by this time, you Twill say enough, aud so we re
main, Yours truly. e.,