This bill became a law and Judge Eddy was elected at the spring election. The law was beneficent; under it, resident lawyers were encouraged and others were invited to prac tice; to bring their families and settle down as citizens and interested neighbors.
It was a long time before the law makers of the lower peninsula could rise to the sublime height of viewing the upper peninsula as equally a part of the commonwealth of Michigan, and not an out-of-the-way province too near the north pole to be of any political or social importance. ust twenty years ago bills for a mining school and branch State prison in the upper peninsula were introduced and advocated in vain. To-day, by acts of the present Legislature, the people of Lake Superior are enabled to rejoice in the consummation of hopes long deferred. Twenty years ago the writer of this paper represented the thirty-second, or the then Lake Super ior district, on the floor of the Senate; to-day he is happy in being num bered as one of the board of control of the Mining school of Michigan.
