Township of Colfax Big Rapids Independent October 6, 1870

We took a trip into Colfax, some six miles east of the city on Thursday, last to try before Aaron Miller, Esg., Justice and as we have never been there before deem our experience worth relating. We might state that E.F.Dewey Esq., rode over with us, and was employed in the suit by the plaintiff. The road runs some two or three miles through pine stump lands, and is very good, although the soil is fair for agricultural purposes, but the other half of the distance the land is more heavy and the roads more "villianous." The timber is hemlock and hardwood mixed, and the land much better than we had supposed, and will in a few years be occupied for farms. Arriving at the "Squires" about eleven o'clock A.M., we found him well situated in a large clearing upon which he has raised a fine crop of grain the present summer, and is engaged in finishing off a nice frame dwelling, which is nearly completed and shows that he he intends to have a first class establishment. As the time had already arrived for the commencement of the trial, it was proceeded with until an announcement was made that "dinner was ready," and we were all invited to go and partake. We did not require a second bidding, but at once proceeded to the old house where we found a table loaded with an abundance of good things, to which all did ample justice. Mrs. Miller is a capable cook, and the prospect of having another such dinner would almost tempt us to go over there again, notwithstanding the roughness of the road. Mr. Miller is a generous and reliable man, follows lumbering and farming as a business, and will before have one of the pleasantest homes in the county.

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