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Show Marked Era in West T'ie first United States land office was opened In Detroit, under an act of congress passed March 2C, 1314, E!5'S the Chicago Journal. Detroit ws then a frontier village with only frw hundred people, and all around the town and westward to the Pacific th land was still In possession of Pain. Here were millions and mll-"ons mll-"ons of acres of fertile land awaiting settlers. The opening of the Detroit office I J momentous event in the us.ory the republic, for It mnrko d he h-"innin- of the regulated sett.. moot of the" nifcrt'tv West. Uncle Sinn's fi st and office, housed in a hut was Proved by the fire which w.ped out Detroit In 1S15. |