The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-01
GREAT SALEftrr
OF
STATE LANDS IN MICHIGAN.
MICHIGAN STATE LAND OFFICE, /,

| MICHIGAN STATE LAND OFFICE
Lansing, June 3d. 1858.
hop pSo one offering at lansing Mich, of about
ed TO the State by act of Congress, in 1885, and
described by their legal subdivisions in the SIM
PIGMENTS OF this paper, which are herewith circu.
lated Will commence at the Capitol of the State on
wednesday, the 2Sth day of July next, and be
continued from day to day, until they shall ali
have been offered, in the order by counties as
published in the supplements of this paper BEGIN.
nlng In Monroe County, in the southeast corner Of
the State proceeding from east to Vest alternately
offering all that are advertised in each and every
county In course through the State By reference
10 the supplements, containing descriptions at
length OF all the lands advertised for sale. the
quantity in each county will be seen. : =
The progress of the sales from day to day will
be reported to the daily papers in the State so
tlat all designing to purchase land in certain
counties only, may thus be posted to save them
the unnecessary time and expense of attending
through all the sales.
The terms of sale to those who make affidavit
personally, before the Commissioner, at the time
OF sale according to law of their intention to be-
come actual and bona fde settlers" on the land
within one year from the time of purchase, as re-
CURED by section 8th of the act passed February
4th 1883, will be 20 per cent of the purchase price
Tor bid) down, and the balance in ten wears at the
option OF the purchaser with annual interest at
seven per cent Persons looking for land to settle
upon, who expect to avail themselves of the benefit
make their selection in one body, and in addition
to their own affidavit, must furnish the Commits
sioner at the time of salc with the affidavit of the
supervisor of the town in which the land is located
the supervisors affidavit may be taken in his own
county or before any qualified to administer
oaths, or of some other satisfactory to the
Commissioner, that it is valuable mainly for agri-
cultural purposes, and not for timber, Mines
salines, DC. The same person will be entitled
under the law to but one such privilege of settle
ment. From all who do not make a satisfactory
affidavit thus to SETTLE full payment will in all
cases be required down on the day of sale; but no
oath is required by the law of those who pay IN
full the day of sale that the land is not "valua
BILE for timber, mines, salines, &C." The lowest
bid that can be received is the minimum price of
81 % per acre, and the one to whom any deScrip-
ton or descriptions of lands shall be struck of,
will be required to make prompt payment of his
bid, according to law at the time of sale, in such
current funds the State Treasurer will receive
subject to all the provisions and penalties for fail
ure and for false fraudulent bids, according to
section 4th of the act. 1t is expected from all
bidders that all the requirements of this section
will be strictly observed "A number of hundreds of
copies of descriptions of the lands in the State now
advertised for sale, will be found for public at
each of the County Treasurers' offices of counties
in which any of the lands are advertised and also
at the State Land Office.
> While this land has been called "swamp land"
much of it is among the most valuable farming
land, both for grain and grasses, in any country,
and the terms of payment being made easy,
great numbers, within and without the State, who
are now without land and permanent homes will
doubtless eagerly embrace this most favorable
opportunity TO provide themselves good lands, at
cheap rates, to make themselves homes of their
own More than 1900 acres of these lands, in
quality below the average, were taken in sixty
days, by adjacent owners, Immediately after the
passage of the act of February 4th in the present
year. Even the lowest of these lands by proper
drainage, for which portion of the proceeds of
their sales is to be devoted, will make the very
richest and most durable meadow land that can
be found and it has also been amply tested that
the deep vegetable mould thus accumulated for
ages, makes the richest kind of manure with due
admixture of other kinds, whenever needed, for
adjoining uplands.
There are also, in this largest body of land ever
offered perhaps at any one sale in any country,
many thousands of aces not only of the best grain
and g ass land, but of the most valuable pine,
cedar, hemlOck, cherry, black walnut, whitewood,
white ash, black ash and white oak timber, well
as many very valuable water powers, in the pur
chase of which great bargains will by many I'M
doubtedly be made-by those having means for
safe and profitable iuvestment-as all the sales
must be absolute and without reserve, and BY the
conditions of the law, those who buy on credit for
actual settlement are prohibited from purchasing
those lands which are more especially valuable
for timber, mines, salines, &c. Many hundreds of
miles of railroads in the vicinity of these lands
both in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, are
Government Land Grants, must be built at no dis
tant day, thus eventually making them, as to local
advantages, by internal Improvements and by lake
and river navigation, as well as for soil, timber,
mines, salines, &C., among the most valuable and
productive that can be found. Upon most of this
vast tract of land the higher portions of ii will
grow the largest kind of wheat, corn, potatoes,
&C., and the lower portions, with proper drainage
and culture, the heaviest grass, oats, corn, pota-
toes, hemp, &C. The Detroit and Milwaukee Rail-
road, now nearly completed passes through many
of these lands making the third railroad now run
ming entirely through the State from east to west
within few years, each doing large and rapidly
increasing business.
The Saul St Mary's Ship Canal, connecting, as
it does, by water and by railroads, the eastern and
southern markets with the untold wealth of the
Upper Peninsula, in its minerals, its splendid
marble its fisheries, its soil and timber with its
salubrious climate, must eventually make it one of
the richest, most healthful and desirable localities
in country. In anticipation of this, we already
new towns and cities there, literally projected
founded upon this reasonable and very general
expectation.
1t is now confidently expected that railroads will
also soon be built, running from the southern
boundaries of the State, north, through lansing
the Capital and the flourishing young cities of
Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint and Saginaw, and
other important places thus again connecting the
southern as we'll as the eastern market with the
rich and extensive lumber regions in the northern
parts of the State. One such road is already COM
pleted from the northern boundary of Ohio passing
through the thriving city of Adrian to its rival
city, Jackson, on the Central Railroad, and doing
an excellent business. Our telegraph lines also
keep pace with the progress of our railroads.
Detroit, which will very soon number its 100, 900
population, (being than doubled in five years
and commanding as it does to so large an extent,
the various avenues of trades by railroads and by
water, when the immense resources of the State of
which it must remain the commercial metropolis,
shall become fully developed, will ever rank among
the largest and most wealthy cities of the west.
As State, connecting as it does, midway, the
rich commerce of the east with the great agricutu-
raj west, and being nearly surrounded by navgable
waters capable of floating the largest craft regard
the Peninsula State unequalled in natural CONNER
cial as well agricultural advantages among all
our prosperous inland States. Its COAL plaster
and stone quarries, with its unexceIled Lake Su-
perior marbe,) are already found in abundance
Its climate, soil, timber and water are all that
could well be desired Its University, at Ann
Arbor, Normal School, at Ypsilanti, and Colleges
at Kalamazoo, Hilsdale, Leoni, Albion, Monroe
and Lansing, are all delightfully."- located in those
beautiful towns. These with its other institutions
of learning springing up in various parts of the
State for the liberal education of its and its
daughters, as well as its institutions of humanity
for the unfortunate, tits House of Refuge its Deaf
and Dumb and Insane Asylums, are permanently
organized upon the most liberal plans, and some
of them already amply endowed. Its Agricultural
College, located near the Capital, and-but just
established, has connected with it some 700 or 500
of the choicest land and is already flourish
upon principles of the stricest practical economy,
it will soon become institution highly useful and
honorable to the agricultural interests of the State
for the education of its enterprising sons, to be-
come scientific practical and thrifty FARMERS.
It's Primary School Fund is already large and