East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-03-07
OUR REPRESENTATIVE.

position he attained By virtue Of "two
weeks" residence, and a most sublime
display of pertinacity and impudence,
seems to have a special spite against this
region, and in return for honors con
fered he appears determined to misrepre
sent and disgrace it. From a report made
by him as one Of the committee on pub
tic lands in the House, we cory the fol
lowing extracts:
How are VIC 10 make this country thus
inviting and tolegnbe?
Ii is not by empty pGfs and newspaper
sblarney, about our magnificent forests
and rich soil. Such has been tried, has
had its day, and lost it's force.
The rich soil, the pure air, the fine
views aud ease Of beginning for poor men
and those of moderate means, to be found
west Of us, have too many attractions and
too many advantages for the husbandnan
10 allow of his being drawn of into onr
cold, damp northern ,0jldernsSs, UadleeSsibie
by roads and interspsrced acith SvaGlpS,
marshes and moraSSes. Still more; the
people no,o there are oaly induced to re-
main through the employment given them
by reason of the lumber business, ,ohich
. IS only temporary, and a0iH soon cease By
exhaustion Of the timbsr
If we will ever have that region set
tied, we must do more than merely to
grant the right TO ,6nild their roads. 1t
is vain to offer the settler lands even free
of charge, as an inducement to try to live
on it; for if he has sufficient means to
open road to his lands, those means will
carry him farther west, where he will
find cheap lands, accessible without arti-
fetal roads, with climate and soil far
superior to ours.
The subject of the report is the ne.
eessity Of aid being granted by the State
for building roads in Northern Michigan,
Of which highly important part is en-
braced in tho Valley Of the Saginaw
proper object-but for the accomplish
ment of which Mr.. HILL does net hest
tate to perpetrate SANDER upon this
section more damaging than the lying
letters of HORACE CREEPY to the Tribune
year or two since, on the same subject,
because they carry the weight of official
sanction, more fallacious ind fragrant
than the fraudulent statements of the
early surveyors, and exhibiting more
recklessness and mendacity than any and
oil other slanderes heretofore promul ga
ted, because they come from source
where ordinary intelligence ought to be
found, even if gratitude and common de-
cency are altogether wanting. If such
- statements were true they would come
with but poor grace from the chosen
Representative OF a section so worthless
and unpromising as the learned Pilgar-
lick assumes this to be, but they have not
even that to recommend them. They
are, on the contrary, nOtoriousLy false, and
known to be so by every man of ordinary
intelligence in Northern Michigan
Neither arc they original with the Dr.
but q rcjuvination by him him of stale
WORKOUT hbels leveled at this section ii
times past by greedy spectators and
land sharks, and from the damaging
effects Of which the Valley of the Saginaw
is only just recovering.
Dr.. PLEssYER, an intelligent German
correspondent of the Detroit Tribune, I
Republican, too, but resident of Sagl
nav County, publishes some statement
which further give the lie to tho rascal
emanations of this Ohio interloper, w
oontensc es follows:
Population Of Saginaw Valley in 1856
3,455; in 1860, 30,23i, showing an in
crease in ten years of $50 per cent
Yearly exports 81, 100000.
Wheat, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat
&C., yield just as well here, as in any 9th
err pa 1T of the West or East, while per
haps corn will do better on the prairie
and bottom.lands of Ohio, Illinois ant
Indiana. From 80 to 80 bushels of oats
end AS to so bushels Of shelcorn hav,
been raised to the acre in the counties o
Saginaw, Bay and Tuscola. Potatoes
.tunips, rutabagas and other rootplant
grow in abundance and are Of excellen
quality. Thc Saginaw valley, being wei
watcred by numerous rivers and mlno
streams, regularly produces great crop
of wild and tame grass and hay, for thu
easy and cheap support Of cattle; and con
sequen,ly will become in the future one
of the most desirable locations in Michi
= gan for grazing and stock raising.
A great drawback to the settlement Q
those lands has been the false impression
that the Saginow valley, and indeed, thu
whole northern half Of the Lower PENN
suls of Michigan, was nothing but ont
vast and unbroken pine forest: entirel.
unfit of agricultural purposes; while, il
reality, the proportion of productive, fer
tile, hard-limbef land to pine and hem
lock land, is on an average like 3 or to !
The Saginaw valley has SO often ant
sxrJ;onslv beon ,,,icranresentpd by spec