The true northerner., 1882-05-05

rrrom the Detroit Post and rribune

tFrom the Detroit Post and Tribune
The work of the Michigan Immigra-
tion Commission has had hardly half a
years trial, yet it has shown very salts
factory and gratifying results. 1t has
been inexpensive, efficient and well
directed. 1t has sustained % costly
agencies abroad, yet has brought to the
State large number of the best class of
immigrants, and has circulated informa.
tion which will be the means of bring
ing many more The first work nnder-
taken by Commissioner Morley and his
assistant, MIR. Backus, was the compia
tion of handbook of information
about Michigan aud its resources The
work was well done and the pamphlet
was recognized at once as far the most
complete resume of the kind ever pro-
duced IN this State OF this pamphlet
12,0 600 copies have already been distrib-
uted, going into every State in the
Union, every county in the Dominion
and every country in Europe. A
large edition of German trans
lation and condensation of it has
also been distributed and widely scat
tered through the various German-speak-
ing states and provinces on the conti.
nent. The result has been to turn
hither the class of immigrants who read
carefully and study thoroughly the adj
vantages of different localities before
they settle. 1t has brought here Cana
dian farmers who are accustomed to q
much more rigorous climate than that
of Michigan, and who thoroughly un-
derstand the tillage of the soil, German
farmers with means. German laborers
with muscle, Intelligence, industry and
thrift, and not few Americans who had
listened to the seductive stories of fort
unes TO be made III the far West. and
who, disappointed, have turned back
toward the East. 1t has been remarked,
and with truth, that few years hence
Michigan will be proud OF the i'm
migrants who are now making their first
venture on her soil.
The hrst edition of the Commissioners
pamphlet having been exhausted, u
second edition of20 600 copies, including
much new matter, has just been issued.
1t contains twenty-five more pages than
the first edition, and several new cuts,
beside a thorough revision of the sub
lect matter in general.
From the statistics gathered it appears
that in the order of production Michi-
gan stands first among the States in the
growth and manufacture OF lumber, first
in salt, first IN copper, first in charcoal
pig iron, certainly second If not first in
iron ore, first in fresh-water fisheries,
fourth in wheat and fourth In wool. 1t
has the largest iron mine and largest
copper mine III the world. Seven-tenths
of all the wheat raised in the country is
grown in nine States, and only three ex-
eel Michigan in the volume of this crop.
In the last census year 1t produced more
wheat to the acre than any State in the
Union except Colorado, whose total
yield was less than / 800, 600 bushels.
The number of farms in 1881 was
119, 769, containing 11,077, 165 acres, of
which 6,374, 1886 were improved. The
lumber cut last year was 1913, 500, 900
feet, the salt product $3.50, 299 barrels,
the copper product 2S,000 tons, valued
at $1,O00,000, and the iron product
1921 ,3l5 tons, valued at $1S, 1885, 900.
From the United States forestry bull
letin is taken the following estimate of
the amount Of standing timber in the
State
WHITE PINE
Feet,
Location Board Meas.
On streams flowing into Saginaw bay. 1000, 900 900
On streams flowing into Lake Huron. $500, 900 900
On streams flowing into Lake Michigan
Nower Peninsula) IA, coo, 900 900
Menominee river Valley. ..... 800, 900 900
Schoocraft, Chippewa, Mackinac and
Delta counties. Observation-Disclosures. ACC, 900 900
Remainder Of the Upper Peninsula 1900, 600 900
Total .35, 900, 900 900
HARDWOOD.
Location. Cords.
Lower peninsula 'o.o'oO'VOO
upper fcnlnsuid. <f,OOuUJO
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IOUh. 'OV,VOV,uuu
Between the opening VI the first mine
and the close of 1881 the Lake Superior
copper districts produced 10000 tons
of refined conner rpureseDtinO n yalue