Cheboygan's Inducements

Cheboyoan, Mich., ) March ötli, 1S81. ƒ Editor Courier: Thinking that you uiijjht desire a few linesof information concerning this part of Michigan, I take the liberty of writiug you this epistle. There has been much publisbed concerning this section, of late, and henee 1 wili be brief. Much that bas been published seems to be the product of a diseased, reckt too sjilrited imagination. Wfcen people talk of this place and compare its next year's growth to that of the "palraiest days of Leadville," I am inclined to think such bombast was meaat for irony, but however that may be, there are excellent opportunities here iór industrious men who hve capital to invest in building and manuiacturing ; but the class most needed he-e is farmers, and to those of that class hoking for homes I can say that I deern thii section much better tban the west- Kamas, Minnesota, or Dakota- as we are not roubled with droughta, grasshoppers, chintz bugs and blizzards which makes life on the plaios a perpetual fever of anxiety, and Hable at any moment to end in famiie or be blown into atoms. N inters lere not sosovereasin northern Illinoip. The climate is bracing and healthy, and thesoilismostly very fertile pruducing from twent; to fif'ty buthels of wheat per acre, and ot'aer cereals in proportion. The apple, peach and other fruits cultivated in th lynhmi, part of the state yield well !i There isagood home majket here for all kinds of wrm producto, aud, owing to th lake navigation, freight ia carried to the eastern markets ui _..-.. _ great advantage over the f'ar west. Tiniber land can be bought at' froaj three to five dollart per aere, and iinpruved, or partly iinproved lan J can be bought at reasonable prices Money is iu great (Iemand here, atid owiog to that Unant housen are very scare and rents high. The whisky or raloon business is carried on extensively and seems to rank second to the lumber business as thare are about twenty-five or thirty in full blast in our village of twenty-two hundred inhabitants. There aie ten lawyers here trying to subsist on a small amount of litigatton for two, supported by iníurance, monoy loaning, buying and selling property and the like, but they subsist chiefly on expectationa. I tUink four or five M. D's, but as it is so healtby here they are not overworked at all. One dentist who now and then ünds a cavious tooth to piek at, or an "aking void " to fill. A few of the legal fraternity might inigrate to St. Ignace, another booming (?) town just across the straks, but there are six hopeful "laws " there with notbing to do but watch the coming cliënt. To those wiahing homes and a healthy climate, I would say this is the place to come to.