Q I f~~~~~~~~~~~~It ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 II I 0 - ----- ---. — - I . 0 r 7 uQ m 11 e. w 4 0 :VI 0 c — 7 E I 0 E. I I 4 00 F. .4 cc 4 / I I I -, ~ I@ I ( >i GREAT LAND SALE. About 5,000,000 acres of State Land will be offered at Public Sale, at Lansing, Michigan, commencing on the 28th day of July, 1858, and the sale continued from day to day, until all are offered. MICHIGAN STATE LAND OFFICE, Lansing, June 3, 1858. The public offering, at Lansing Mich., of about 5,000,000 acres of the lands which were granted to the State by act of Congress, in 1850, will commence at the Capitol of the State on Wednesday, the 28th day of July next, and be continued from day to day, until they shall all have been offered, in the order by counties as published in the table herewith appended. The progress of the sales from day to day will be reported to the daily papers in the State, so that all designing to purchase land in certain counties only, may thus be posted, to save them unnecessary time and expense of attending through all the sales. The terms of sale to those who make affidavit, personally, before the Commissioner, at the time of sale, according to law, of their intention to become "actual and bona fide settlers" on the land within one year from the time of purchase, as required by section 8th of the act passed February 4th, 1858, will be 25 per cent. of the purchase price (or bid) down, and the balance in ten years, at the option of the purchaser, with annual interest at seven per cent. Persons looking for land to settle upon, who expect to avail themselves of the benefit of making but y? 4 /", 2 the quarter payment down, must make their selection in one body, and in addition to their own affidavit, must furnish the Commissioner, at the time of sale, with the affidavit of the supervisor of the town in which the land is located, (the supervisor's affidavit may be taken in his own county, or before any one qualified to administer oaths,) or of some other one satisfactory to the Commissioner, that it is valuable mainly for agricultural purposes, and not for -timber, mines, salines, &c. The same person will be entitled, under the law, to but one such privilege of settlement. From all who do not make a satisfactory affidavit thus to settle, full payment will in all cases be required down on the day of sale; but no oath is required by the law of those who pay in full on the day of sale, that the land is not "valuable for timber, mines, salines," &c. The lowest bid that can be received is the minimum price of $1 25 per acre, and the one to whom any description or descriptions of lands shall be struck off, will be required to make prompt payment of his bid, according to law, at the time of sale, in such current funds as the State Treasurer will receive-subject to all the provisions and penalties for failure and for false or fraudulent bids, according to section 4th of the act. It is expected from all bidders that all the requirements of this section will be strictly observed. A number of hundreds of copies of descriptions of the lands in the State now advertised for sale, will be found for public use at each of the County Treasurers' offices of counties in which any of the lands are advertised, and also at the State Land Office. While this land has been called" swamp land," much of it is among the most valuable farming land, both for grain and grasses, in any country, and the terms of payment being made so easy, great numbers, within and without the State, who are now without land and permanent homes, will doubtless eagerly embrace this most favorable opportunity 3 to provide themselves good lands, at cheap rates, to make themselves homes of their own. More than 50,000 acres of these lands, in quality below the average, were taken in sixty days, by adjacent owners, immediately after thepassage of the act of February 4th, in the present yearEven the lowest of these lands by proper drainage. for which a portion of the proceeds of their sales is to be devoted, will make the very richest and most durable meadow land that can be found, and it has also been amply tested that the deep vegetable mould thus accumulated for ages, makes the richest kind of manure, with a due admixture of other kinds, whenever needed, for adjoining uplands. There are also, in this largest body of land ever offered perhaps at any one sale in any country, many thousands of acres not only of the best grain and grass land, but of the most valuable pine, cedar, hemlock, cherry, black wallnut and white oak timber, as well as many very valuable water powers, in the purchase of which great bargains will by many undoubtedly be made-by those having means for safe and profitable investment-as all the sales; must be absolute and without reserve, and by the conditions of the law, those who buy on credit for actual settlement are prohibited from purchasing those lands which are more especially valuable for timber, mines, salines, &c. Many hundreds of miles of railroads in the vicinity of these lands, both in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, are already projected, and by the aid of the liberal Government Land Grants, must be built at no distant day, thus eventually making them, as to local advantages, by internal improvements and by lake and river navigation, as well as for soil, timber, mines, salines, &c., among the most valuable and productive that can be found. Upon most of this vast tract of land, the higher portions of it will grow the largest kind of wheat, corn, potatoes, &c., and 4 the lower portions, with proper drainage and culture, the heaviest grass, oats, corn, potatoes, hemp, &c. The Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad, now nearly completed, passes through many of these lands, making the third railroad now running entirely through the State from east to west, within a few years, each doing a large and rapidly increasing business. The Saut St. Mary's Ship Canal, connecting, as it does, by water and by railroads, the eastern and southern markets with the untold wealth of the Upper Peninsula, in its minerals, its splendid marble, its fisheries, its soil and timber, with its salubrious climate, must eventually make it one of the richest, most healthful and desirable localities in our country. In anticipation of this, we already see new towns and cities there, liberally projected, founded upon this reasonable and very general expectation. It is now confidently expected that railroads will also soon be built, running from the southern boundaries of the State, north, through Lansing, the Capital, and the flourishing young cities of Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint and Saginaw, and other important places, thus again connecting the southern as well as the eastern market with the rich and extensive lumber regions in the northern parts of the State. One such road is already completed from the northern boundary of Ohio, passing through the thriving city of Adrian to its rival city, Jackson, on the Central Railroad, and doing an excellent business. Our telegraph lines also keep pace with the progress of our railroads. Detroit, having already a population of nearly 100,000, (being more than doubled in five years,) and commanding as it does, to so large an extent, the various avenues of trade, by railroads and by water, when the immense resources of the State, of which it must remain the commercial metropolis, shall become fully developed, will ever rank among the largest and most wealthy cities of the west. 5 As a State, connecting as it does, midway, the rich commerce of the east with the great agricultural west, and being nearly surrounded by navigable waters capable of floating the largest craft, I regard the Peninsula State unequalled in natural commercial as well as agricultural advantages among all our prosperous inland States. Its coal, plaster, and stone quarries, (with its unexcelled Lake Superior marble,) are already found in abundance. Its climate, soil, timber and water are all that could well be desired. Its University, at Ann Arbor, Normal School, at Ypsilanti, and Colleges at Kalamazoo, Hillsdale, Leoni, Albion, Monroe and Lansing, are all delightfully located in those beautiful towns. These, with its other institutions of learning springing up in various parts of the State, for the liberal education of its sons and its daughters, as well as its institutions of humanity for the unfortunate, (its House of Refuge, its Deaf and Dumb and Insane Asylums,) are permanently organized upon the most liberal plans, and some of them already amply endowed. Its Agricultural College, located near the Capital, and but just established, has connected with it some 700 or 800 acres of the choicest land and is already flourishing; and its friends are sanguine that if conducted upon principles of the strictest practical economy, it will soon become an institution highly useful and honorable to the agricultural interests of the State, for the education of its enterprising sons, to become scientific, practical and Arfly FARs. Its Primary School Fund is already large and permanent, and aside from the flourishing Union Schools everywhere springing up under this system, the constitutional provisions of'the State are so ample that the Common School shall very soon be much elevated in character and entirely free of expense to all who choose to avail themselves of its benefits. Its actual wealth has very largely increased in the last five years-the number of bushels of wheat raised in this time approximating to 50,000,000, and of wool nearly half this number of Fpounds. Its population, which has more than doubled within the last eight years, are moral, intelligent and industrious and inspired with a spirit of enterprise, being encouraged with the assurance that their own favorite State is destined soon to rank high among her sister States in wealth and position. When but part payment for these lands is made down for settlement, assignable certificates of sale are given to purchasers. But whenever full payment is made, either at the time of purchase or subsequently, and officially endorsed upon the certificate by the State Treasurer, patents or deeds from the State are issued to the proper holders of all such certificates on their presentation at the office of the Secretary of State. The greatest care should be taken by those who intend to purchase certain lots of land, that their descriptions accurately embrace just the lots they intend, and not others or portions of others,.with their proper sections, towns, ranges, &c. Serious disappointments and injury occasionally occur to some by their having erroneously procured descriptions of lots, with a view to purchase, that they did not intend or desire to buy. SEYMOUR B. TREADWELL, Commissioner. v A 7 List of the Counties in the order in which the lands will be sold, and the number of acres in each. Counties, Monroe,............ Hillsdale,........... St. Joseph,......... Cass,. *........... Berrien,........... VanBuren,......... Kalamazoo,......... Calhoun,........... Oakland,........... Livingston,......... Ingham,........... Eaton,............ Barry,............. Allegan,............ Ottawa,............ Kent,.............. Ionia,.............. Clinton,......... Shiawassee,......... Genesee,........... Lapeer,............ St. Clair,........... Sanilac,............ Huron,............. Tuscola,............. Saginaw,.... Midland,........... Counties. Acres. Isabella,............ 27,966 AMontcalm,.......... 31,443 AMecosta,...........64,481 Newaygo,.......... 36,452 Lak e,..............12,802 Osceola,............ 45,950 Clare, 59,484 Gladwin,.....76,895 Arenac............ 87,965 Iosco.............. 69,013 Ogemaw,........... 65,121 Roscommon........ 42,657 Crawford,.......... 14,274 Oscoda,............ 22,035 Alcona,............122,756 Aepena,...........201,178 .5 ontmorency......102,212 Otsego............ 31,050 Cheboygan........151,144 Presque Isle.......184,540 Manitou,............. 3,431 Chippewa.........460.456 Mackinac......... 353,251 Delta,............ 508,538 Schoolcraft,....... 528,957 Marquette,.........429,888 Houghton,.......78,232 Ontonagon.........120,552 I Acres,. 4,564 39 40 688 245 2,742 204 868 482 262 5,968 7,670 3,597 26,872 1,322 1,636 5,970 6,792 13,298 3,368 19,836 14,167 97,419 127,803 98,264 81,673 44,606 Gratiot,... 24,49,'