The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24
MICHIGAN STATE LAND OFFICE
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to their own affidavit must furnish the Commits
sioner, 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 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 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 "vaua-
BILE for timber, mines, sanes, &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 mis-
bid, according tolaw, 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 or 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 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 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 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 acres not only of the best grain
and CESS 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 Investments 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
already projected, and by the aid of the liberal
Government Land Grants must be built at no dis
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advantages, by internal improvements and by lake
and river navigation, well 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 a large and rapidly
increasing business. = a
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
salubrous climate, must eventually make it one OF
the richest most healthftfand desirable localities
in our 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 fourishing young cities OF
Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint and Saginaw, and
other important places, thus again connecting the
southern as well as the eastern market with the
rich and extensive lumber regions in the northern
parts of the State One such road is already COM
peted 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 loo, 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 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 agrcultu-
raj west, and being nearly surrounded by navigable
waters capable of floating the largest craft lregard
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 SUI
perior MARBLE are already found in abundance.
Its climate soil, timber and water are ali that
could well be. desired Its University, at Ann
Arbor, Normal School, at Ypsilant and Colleges
at Kalamazoo, Hillsdale, 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 sons and its
daughters as well as its Institutions of humanity
for the unfortunate Gts 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 sangune that If conducted
upon principles of the strictest practical economy,
it will soon become an institution highly useful and
honorable to the agricultural interests of the State,
for the educatenof 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 ys-
tenn the constitutional provisions of the State
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.
Its wealth has very largely increased in the
last five years-the number of bushels of wheat
raised in this time approximating to so, 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 farorite State is destined soon to rankzhigh
among her sister States in wealth and-position.
| When but part payment for these lands is made
down for settlement assgnable 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 upon the GER
tifcate by the State Treasurer patents or deeds
from the State are issued to the proper holders of
all, such certificates their presentation at the
Office OF the Secretary of State. The greatestcare
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 or portions of Others with their proper Sec
TONS towns, ranges, &c. Serious disappointment
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