This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... furnish stone for the locks, locating one eventually on Drurnmond's Island. When the legislature convened Harvey attended the sessions and proved a valuable guide and source of information to the members. When the bill was passed Messrs. Fairbanks invited well-known capitalists in New York and New England to join with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... furnish stone for the locks, locating one eventually on Drurnmond's Island. When the legislature convened Harvey attended the sessions and proved a valuable guide and source of information to the members. When the bill was passed Messrs. Fairbanks invited well-known capitalists in New York and New England to join with them in making the necessary bid, which was formally tendered and accepted by the state commissioners on April 15, 1853. The first name in the list of bidders was that of Mr. Joseph P. Fairbanks, his associates being J. W. Brooks, Erastus Corning, August Belmont, IT. Dwight, Jr. and Thomas Dwyer. Their sureties were Franklin Moore, Geo. F. Potter, John Owen, James F. Joy and Henry P. Baldwin. As soon as the bill was signed, Harvey secured from the governor of Michigan an appropriation as special agent for the state to select the lands to be donated within its border by congress in aid of the canal. He engaged a steamer to take him to St. Mary's river, which was then closed by ice, and dispatched a special messenger on snow shoes to the United States land office at the Sault, authorizing a deputy to withdraw lands from sale in certain localities which Harvey designated. He then went to Washington and secured from the United States Land Commissioner confirmation of his power to do so. which was afterwards litigated but sustained by the courts. The knowledge upon which he had acted he had gained in his tour among the mines during the previous summer, and the 140,000 acres, more or less, which he secured in the upper peninsula realized millions and millions of dollars to his principals in later years. It is sufficient to state that among the lands selected by Harvey was the location which was afterwards developed into the Calumet and Hecla mine, ...
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