The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-08
GREAT SALE5k.Q
OF
STATE LANDS IN MICHIGAN.
MICHIGAN STATE LAND OFFICE,
I.ans;uO June I'd. 1858.

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ed to the State by act of Congress, in 1850, and
described by their legal subdivisions in the sup
Elements 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 all
have been offered, in the order by counties as
published in the supplements of this paper, begin
ming in Monroe County, in the southeast corner of
the State proceeding from east to west alternately
offering all that are advertised in each and every
county in course through the State. By reference
to 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
that 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-
qured by section Sth of the act passed February
4th 1858, will be 25 per cent of the purchase price
Tor bid down, and the balance in ten years 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
of making but the quarter payment down, must
make their selection in one body, and in addition
to their own affidavit, must furnish the Commits
sioner, at the time of sale, with the affidavit of the
supervisor the TOWN. III WHICH the ianu Is
the supervisors affidavit may be taken in his own
county or before any one 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 &C. The same person will be entitled
under the law to but one such privilege of settle
ment From all who do not make satisfactory
affidavit thus to settle, full payment will in all
cases be required down on the day of sale; bat no
oath is required by the law of those who pay In
f,,Il Of hn land iS
BILE for timber, mines, salines. &c" The lowest
bid that can be received is the minimum price of
81 25 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 as 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
advertised for sale, will be found for public at
each of the County Treasurers' offices of counties
in which any of the lands advertised, and also
at the State Land Office.
While this land has been called swamp land ~
much OF 1t Is among the most valuable farming
land, both for grain and grasses, in any country,
and the terms of payment being made so 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 $4,000 acres of these lands, in
quality below the average, were taken in sixty
days, by adjacent owners, Immediately after the
passage of the 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
fisad. and It has also been amply tested that
the deep vegetable mould tnrTs accumulated for
ages makes the richest kind of manure, with due
admixture of other kinds, whenever needed, fol
adjoining uplands
There are also, in this largest body of land ever
offered perhaps at any one sale in any country
many thousands of not only of the best grain
and g ass land, but of the most valuable pine
cedar, hemlock. cherry, black walnut, whitewooI
white ASH black ash and white oak timber, as well
as many very valuable water powers, in the pur.
chase of which great bargains will by many un
doubtcdly be made-by those having means foI
safe and profitable iuvestment-as all the sales
must be absolute and without reserve, and by the
conditions of the law, those who buy credit for
actual settlement are prohibited from purchasing
those lands which more especially valuable
for timber, mines, salines, &c. Many hundreds Of
miles of railroads III the vicinity of these lands
both in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, are
| already projected, and by the aid of the liberal
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 it 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, lin its minerals, its splendid
marble, its fisheries, its soil and TIMBER with its
salubrous climate, must eventually make it of
the richest most beautiful and desirable localities
In our country. In anticipation of this, we already
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 Furnishing young cities OF
Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint and Saginaw, and
other important places, thus again connecting the
southern as well the eastern market with the
rich and extensive lumber regions in the northern
parts OF the State. One such road is already GEM
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
Detroit, which will very soon number its 100000
population, fbeing more than doubled in five years J
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, viii 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 agricutl-
raj west and being nearly surrounded by navigable
waters capable of floating the largest craft regard
the Peninsula State unequalled in natural CONNER
cial as well as agricultural advantages among all
| our prosperous inland States. Its coal, plaster,
and stone quarries, with its unexcelled Lake Su-
| perior marble,) 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, Hillsdae, Leoni Albion, Monroe
and lansing are all delightfully."- located in those
beautiful towns. These with its other institutions
OF learning sprnging up in various parts OF the
State for the liberal education of its and its
daughters, well as its institutions of humanity
for the unfortunate, (its 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 zoo or 800
acres of the choicest land and is already flourish
ing; and its friends are sanguine that if conducted
upon principles of the strctest 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.
Its Primary School Fund is already large and
permanent and aside from the fourishing Union
Schools everywhere springing up under this sys-
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