The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-01

white ash, black ash and white oak timber as well
as ma " very valuable water powers in the pur-
chase of which great bargains will by many I'M
doubte lily 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 lumber, mines, salines, DC. Many hundreds of
miles OF railroads in 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
incl eisng business.
The Saul ST Mary's Ship Canal, connecting, as
1t 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
salubrlous climate, must eventually make it one of
the richest, most heathful and desirable localities
In our country. In anticipation of this we already
see 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 imp ortant places thus again connecting the
southern as we'll as the eastern market with the
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 more 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 1t 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 agricultu
raj west and being nearly surrounded by navigable
waters capable of floating the largest craft regard
the Peninsula State unequalled in natural CONNER
cal as well as agricultural advantages among all
our prosperous inland States. Its coal, plaster,
and stone quarries, with its unexceled 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
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, (ts 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
acres of the choicest land and is already flourish
ing; and its friends sanguine that if conducted
upon principles of the strctest practical economy,
1T will soon become an 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
tenn the constitutional provisions of the State are
so ample that the Common School shall very soon
be much elevated in character and entirely free Of
expense to all who choose to avail themselves of
its benefits. ~f- s-.zs 1r -u
It's wealth has very largely increased in the
last five years-the number of bushels of wheat
raised in this time approximating to $4,000, 900,
and of wool nearly half this number of pounds.
Its population, which has more than doubled with
In the last eight years, are moral intelligent and
industrious, and inspired with spirit of enterprise
being encouraged with the assurance that their
| own iavorite State is destined soon to rank high
among her sister States in wealth and position.
When but part payment for these lands is made
down for settlement assignable certificates of sale
are given to purchasers. But whenever full pay
ment is made, either at the time of purchase or
subsequently, and officially endorsed uron tho
tifcate by ine State Treasurer patents or deeds
from the State issued to the proper holders of
all such certificates their presentation at the
office of the Secretary of State. The greatest
should be taken by those who intend to purchase
certain lots of land that their descriptions accu
rately embrace just the lots they intend, and not
others OF portions of others, with their proper sec
tons, towns, ranges, &c. Serious disappointments
and injury occasionally occur to some by their
having enormously procured descriptions of lots,
with view to purchase, that they did not intend
| or desire to buy. t
SEYMOUR B. TREADWELL,
| Svv Canu,is