Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-10-30


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INDUCE EMIGRATION.
The American people as class are
restless, full of energy, and are always
ready to take advantage of everything
which looks towards lettering their con-
dition i'm life. Prominent among this
class are the farming community, who,
in reality, are the basis of all our national
prosperity. There are always those in
every part of the country who arc ready
and anxious to go where fortune seems
most to favor. Sometimes there seems
to be mania to 60 to one part of the
country and sometimes to another. One
of the earliest recollections of the writer
was the minnesota fever" when it
seemed that nearly everybody took up
their line of march for that favored sec
ton. That resulted in the settlement
and improvement of that state more rap
idly than almost any other. Since that
time it has been Iowa, Kansas, and Cali
fornia and several other states. For the
past year there has been quite an excite
ment regarding the northern part Of this
state, and the settlers have been coming
in quite rapidly. The homestead laws
have had very favorable effect upon
this immigration. If some way could be
devised by which information could be
scattered throughout the country re-
garding the soil, climate, timber and flu
ture prospects of this country, giving
the facts as they are, there is no need of
distorting them, there would be a mania
for coming to this country such as has
not been conceived. For the man with
limited means there is no place east or
west presenting superior inducements
for settlement and future independence
than this.
The impression generally prevails that
this is so far north that farming cannot
be made profitable. That this impress
sion is ERRONEOUS there is not the least
doubt. The prosperity of all farmers in
this vicinity, who have been here a suf-
ficient length of time to have improved
faIm ms, is the best proof possible of the
erroniousness of this idea 1t can be
plainly shown that there is no part of the
state Of Michigan where farms pay
larger percentage per acre than in this
part of the state. There are people NOV
ing into other and inferior portions of
the state continually, who would gladly
avail themselves of our superior advan-
tages, did they only know Of them. 1t
is only few days since that man was
induced to come to this section who had
intended settling in another county. He
was only induced to come by the party
inviting promising that if he did not'like
the country and location better the trip
this way should cost him nothing. He
came, saw, was pleased and purchased a
farm, and to-day would not be back
where he intended locating if farm
there should be given him. This would
be the experience of hundreds, could
they be induced to come and see fer
themselves. To induce the rapid settle
ment and improvement of the better
portions of this county, it is only neces-
sary to spread abroad facts concerning
it. How this is to be done is the only
question that is left for the people here
to answer. 1t is only by rapid settlement
that we can expect rapid improvement,
and it is only by rapid improvement that
the county will gain rapidly in wealth.
Money expended in securing settlement
Is money well expended, for labor is
wealth. Did the people interested in the
growth of the county more fully realize
this fact, its inhabitants and wealth could |
be increased much more rapidly. The
coming season will no doubt be one of
travel. There is no rea--
son why this part of the country should
not come in for its proper share. There
mover was better opportunity present
ed for showing the people abroad this
country than this time. Advantage should
be taken of it, and it will rebound to our
benefit hundred told.