The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-01-02

preparation with ability and unring industry
The full of the fund has from the eas,
and placed at the disposal of Prof Winche and you
spectuy referred his report for the and
his abors have filed in the Office of the Secretary State
for your inspection vouchers showing disposition that
has been made of the appropriation.
is of Importance to the State that this geological survey
should be prosecuted completion possible The
survey already made incomplete is proves us that
Michigan fully equal and exceeds States
in natural Her coal beds of nearly
thousand square miles, lying in the Of the State
and crossed by of the principal railways Her saline basin
hundred miles in diameter showing quality of water
that for purity and strength unequaled the United States
Gypsum found in different parts of the State of the purest
quality and in inexhaustabc quantities The iron and copper
beds Of Lake Superior unsurpassed and have already
tanned celebrity throughout the United States and Europe
Lead mari recay, and marble all of superior qualities have
been discovered in great abundance These Of the
fruits of geological You should egsae for thu
development of these great natural The God OF
filled the bowels of the earth with these his richest
gifts science has brought knowledge of them home
you. The people have right expect such Legislation
will tend make these great Natural most availa
BILE
that you appropriate eg, thousand dollars per
for the years for the prosecution of the geo
ogca survey The compensation present paid the eologs
pittance comparison the value OF his services
believe that the principle the aboer worthy of his hire
applicable public officer, private citizen His
compensation should be doubled and if the placed at my
disposal by the Act of 1859 had been sufficient would have
doubled his salary and believe the people would have
tanned me in it
From the early settlement of the has been known
that saline water existed in the valleys of the Grand and Sag
nav Rivers whether salt could be manufactured from ii
quantity and such quality the
men remained entirely speculative in the minds of people
The State had tried the experiment without sasa
tory result individuals unwilling to iii the
prise lest might prove failure The Legislature of ls5S
for purpose inducing individuals embark the
facure of salt from our saline springs passed law De
clang there shall be paid from the Treasury Of the Sat
bounty any individual company, corporation the
for each and huhe of salt manufactured
by such individual company corporation from water al
tanned by boring this state Proridd That such bol
shall be paid until such ndiy iual company corpora
shall least five thousand bushels of salt manufactured
Stimulated by this law and relying upon the good faith nj
honor of the for the payment Of the bounty individual
companies embarked in the enterprise and hun
ded thousand dollars been already invested Saginaw
and Grand Rapids IN this business Eight wells have been
sunk upon Saginaw River and five Grand Rapids and
quality has been found which, for strength and purity
unsurpassed in the United States Whether the quantity
will hold sufficient ultimate time alone
determine but from present indications it nexhaustb
Four thousand five hundred barrels of salt of the quality
have already been manufactured by at East Sa
naw hundred and thirty barrels Grand Rapids and
is confidently believed that at no distant day the salt
featured from the saline waters of Michigan will be sufficient
supply only State but also the States of poi
Wisconsin and Iowa.
Salt article that into the general consumption oi
all classes and be dispensed with is estimated that
twenys millions of bushels consumed in the United
States in 1859 twelve millions of which imported from
foreign One bushe of salt per person
fair estimate of the quantity consumed by people ana
this quantity thirty per bushe (which is below the
average price, amounted during the past hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars, every Of which
draft upon the material wealth Of Michigan, and went enrich
other States In Judgment it is far better for people
encourage the home manufacture Of salt than annually
other quarter Of million of dollars for this article
alone and allow saline springs remain undeveoped The
Legislature of 1859 took broad and comprehensive OF
the subject and the result has shown the wisdom OF Their policy
In opinion this law ought be repealed at least for
OF years and then without first making ample pro
vision for those who may have made investments good faith
under law invested their capital in
uncertain enterprise relying upon the good faith and honor ii
the State for the payment Of the bounty and to repeal the
law about their efforts would he both
mpoc and unjust If these citizens had failed in their ante
patons they would have had just claims upon the treasury
and their ought To- lessen the obligation The
State to make good the law
The Legislature 1859, by joint Resolution, authorized
appoint Commissioner for the purpose Of encouraging emga
State and placed my disposal of money
exceeding twenty hundred dollars any year towards
derayng the expenses of such commission This
sufficient the sending of agent Europe
For the purpose of making the fund available for the
compishmen of the object Of the resolution concluded
better appoint Commissioners reside the
of New York and the other in Detroit for if object
to induce the grant into State, ii equally "b
ec that he remained which could best be accomplished
by having of the Commissioners located Detroit there
fore appointed Rudolph Depenbeck, Esq Commissioner t.
reside the city of New York. salary of fifteen hundred
dollars per annum and George Veen Fet Esq Cmmis
reside the city of Detroit salary OF hu
dred dollars per annum, both of whom gentlemen OF the
highest character equally familiar with the Gerina
French and English languages and take pleasure i'll bearing
testimony the fidelity with which they have discharged the
duties of their office Mr. Deipenbeck directed forward
the emigan Mr. Veen Flet Detroit but send
who apparently Industrious and of temperate hab
and TO a