The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-15
GREAT SALE
STATE LANDS m MICHIGAN.
MICHIGAN STATE LAND OFFICE,
I.apaipu Iupo al 1870

Lansing, June Sd, 1858.
THE public offering, at Lansing, Mich, of about
i 5000, 900 acres of the lands which were grant
ed to the State by act of Congress- in 1850, and
described by their legal subdivisions in the sup
plements of this paper which are herewith circu-
lated will commence at the Capitol of the State
"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 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 fide settlers" on the land
within one year from the time OF purchase, as re-
lquired by section Sth of the act passed February
4th 1885, will be % 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
soner, at the time of sale 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 one qualified to administer
OathS, or OF some other one satisfactory to the
Commissioner, that it is valuable mainly for agr-
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; 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
S1.25 per acre, and the one to whom any descrip-
ton descriptions of lands shall be struck off
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. number of hundreds of
copies of descriptions of the lands in the State now
advertised for sale, will be found for public use 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 $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 act of February 4th in the present
, year. Even the lowest of these lands by proper
drainage, for which a 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
| he thuSo lafa 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 sale in any country,
many thousands of not only of the best grain
and g land, but of the most valuable pine,
cedar, hemlock, cherry, black walnut, whitewood,
white ash, black ash and white oak timber as we'll
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 iuyeStment-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 are more especially valuable
for timber, mines, salines DC Many hundreds of
miles of railroads in the vicinity OF thcse lands,
both in the Upper and Lower Pennsulas, 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, salnes &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
D 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.
|
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 1t one oil
the richest most healthful and desirable localities
in country. In anticipation of this, we already
see 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 hourishing young cities o.
u Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint and Saginaw, and
: other important places thus again connecting the
u southern as well the eastern market with the
u 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 riva
: city, jackson, on the Central Railroad, and doing
7 an excellent business. Our telegraph lines also
keep pace with the progress of our railroads.
population, (beng than doubled in five years,
g and commanding it does, to so large an extent
o the various of trades, by railroads and by
r water when the immense resources of the State,
it which it must remain the commercial metropolis
:, shall become fully developed will ever rank among
the largest and most wealthy cities of the west
i As State, connecting as it Does midway, thu
IL rich commerce of the east with the great agrcultu
raj west and being nearly surrounded by navigabl
waters capable of floating the largest craft regard
L the Peninsula State unequalled in natural CONNER
e cial as well agricultural advantages among al
, 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 all tina
of could well be desired. Its University, at AM
ArboT, Normal School, at Ypsilanti, and Colleges
at Kalamazoo, Hillsdale, Leon Albion, Monro
and Lansing, are all delightfully."- located in thos'
beautiful towns. These, with its other institution
!. OF learning springing up in various parts OF tn
e State for the liberal education of its sons and it
Ill daughters well as its institutions of humanit,
s. for the unfortunate (its House of Refuge its Dea
and Dumb and Insane Asylums, are permanent,
organized upon the most liberal plans, and SOM
I, of them already amply endowed. Its Agriculture
College, located near the Capital, and but jus
established, has connected with it some 700 or so
acres of the choicest land and is already flourish
ing and its friends sanguine that if conducte'
upon principles of the srictest practical economy
it will soon become an institution highly useful AM
honorable to the agricultural interests of the State
for the education of its enterprisng sons, to be
e. come scientific practical and thrifty FARMERS.
e, Its Primary School Fund is already large ant
ST permanent, and aside from the fourishing Unio
Schools everywhere springing up under this sys
tenn, the constitutional provisions of the State ar
ample that the Common School shall very 500
be much elevated in character and entirely free O
r expense to all who choose to avail themselves Q
,, its benefits.
Its wealth has very largely increased in tn