Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-05-18

home ought to come prepared with some
thing more than his hands. lie can look
forward to his first crop as sure to repay
him for his outlay within twelve II OnthS.
bui he must have what will keep him for
those first twelve months. A farmer who
has 4 small capital, can go up there This
year and take up his teams, his impie-
ments, his seed, and put in II hunirea
acres OF fall grain and lelve il. without
fence or further preparation till he NOV
ed up in the next spring permanently. In
tact We do pot know where there is such
a chance TO M Ike valuable farms with so
little labor and so small an outlay rs there
is i'm this district. In writing of it we are
only afraid of saying too much tnat may
Seem exaggerated. ami hence We restrain
our pen and conIine il entirely to positive
and brief description. knowing that all
who look at these lands aus adapted for
farms of high order will admit tlrit not
much more tlIan halt has been said thar
might be said. Here, in fact. lay before
us. a disiric: of Michigan that was as
promising in its soil and climate for ag
riculturai purposes as any part of the
State, and which is getting ready TO M Ike
Il call upon tue stock breeders tor live
stock. for IL has not any; til At can be i'm
proved by farmers Tith capital mt with
out), so that thc.r investments will pay
them In few years. and without waiting
tor the stumps to rot, or for dltches To be
made. All that kind of work is already
done. and only the house. the barn anu
the fences have TO be provided for; anu
within seventeen miles OF the SIult and
about eight TO ten miles from the steam
boat landlng OH the Pine River. or from
eight TO ten milrs from the mouth OF the
MunuscoDg on Mad Lake on the ST. Ma
rvs River, these lands are TO be found.
We took The Fountain City ut midnight
and crossed over TO ChebOyga arriving
jnst in lime 10 take the iuiaud route for
PetQsky. On this route we started ut 6
O'Clock in the morning. and went up The
ChebOygIn River to the forks of The
Black River. On each side there are fine
farms and lands, That slope down to the
river banks, which show good soil ana
qui productive pacity. About three
miles from the forks we enter Mullett
Lake. large sheet OF water about ten
miles across; around it are attractive lots
tor farms, aud 20 far as we had IN oppOr-
tunity of judging from the appra' ance OF
tile timber, the soil was Well adapte Ell tU
grass or grain. We have some doubts
about the production OF corn, unless OF Il
variety sui:ed for the season, incident tU
the latitude. During the journey from
the Indian River To Peto>ky. We passed Il
number OF ciearin.s Oh which the fall
wheat was making a most respectable
show. The houses AID buildings were
nearly altogether of logs, some of then
squared, ami some not; some of them two
story, and some ole. Even the schoO
house, where the heat and pretty school
mistress came out TO drop her letter int
the hand OF Uncle Sam. was of logs. Tn,
timber in this section was largely hard
wood, beach. n.aplr, aud oak, with som,
] spots that had been burned off. and thcrI
the poplar, The birch. and ash timbrl
came in as The second growth. The land:
in Cheboygan around the lakes, and gen
orally thrLuyhout that large county, arr
just such quality and character. Herr
also the lands are far from level. the lhll:
are .arge enough TO gi"e the coul try ;
character that should lie pronounced
more than rolling, and may be called hill
| !y. The wheat fields were just what the
SoutherD Michigan iaimer would tern
about right tor the season; but not SO fal
advanced aS most of the wheat is thil
year. The timber is tall in this region
and each clearing was so surrounded 10y
the straight solemn columns, SD still. ant
immOvable. SO old and venerable, that The
green wheat fields, and little houses. ALT
the spot of blue sky above seemed like al
Intrusion OF some strange affair that haC
disturbed the equani,nity of the ioresI
and all the trees were watching for villa
would come i.eXt. and looking asNance Il
| the wheat as an enemy that prophesiet
their downfall, and their disappearance.