m STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



I have uot spoken of the production of salt, which admits of expansion only 

 limited by a remunerative demand, nor of the immense water-power abound- 

 ing throughout this Northern Michigan; nor of the educational facilities, 

 which, although the country be new, rival the older States. The time allotted 

 me will not admit of detail, and I therefore content myself with these general 

 remarks. 



CONCLUSIOISr. 



Gentlemen, I have alluded briefly to a portion only of the resources of the 

 country, to a few only of the many features which make this portion of 

 the State desirable to the enterprising and the hardy pioneer. It is true that 

 there are more or less hardships and privations attending a removal from an 

 old and settled society into one in process of formation, but these here now are 

 are as nothing when compared with those endured and submitted to by the 

 people who forty years ago settled the southern part of the State ; and besides, 

 pioneer life has its attractions. We all seek excitement and call it enjoyment. 

 It permits time to pass unnoticed. In older societies this excitement is sought 

 in recreation not always harmless — often the contrary. In pioneer life the 

 excitement is found in the change that is constantly going on about you, which, 

 you are helping to produce. You feel that you are helping to build up a State 

 and that you are a part of it. One never feels his own littleness and insignifi- 

 cance so much as when amid a throng. One never feels so independent, bo 

 imuch a man, as when on a farm all his own, subdued from a state of nature 

 by himself. A more self-reliant people of independent thought cannot be 

 found than in the portions of our own country undergoing the process of de- 

 velopment. With such a country and such a people, considering the past and 

 the present, the destiny of 'N'orthern Michigan is not a matter of uncertainty. 

 Each may read it for himself. If any doubt whereof I have spoken, let him 

 go and see for himself, and he will exclaim as did one on a former occasion, 

 -** The half has not been told me." 



