Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-11-21
DOMESTIC.
trRoM THE VIRGINIA HEFALD.7
MISSOURI COUNTRY.

wished and intended. VIII now reply
TO your enquiries in ort1r as they come.
/. Climate and principal products?
The valley of Missouri, below the mouth
! of the great River Kansas, lies between
the attitudes of3S deg. and 80 deg s min
as near as has been ascertaincd. 1t is
the latitude of Staunton and Charloites-
vile, and is, therefore, that precise lati
tude in which, according 70 the elevation
and face oftie country, and the warmth,
of the soil, wheat, oats, rye, barley, Indian
corn, buckwfeat, grasses and tobacco
are equally at home. All these, as far as
experiments have been made, are produc-
| ed in The highest perfection. Wheat, for
example, weighs from 81 to ~ lbs. To-
bacco isvery thick, not apt To fire, and /
| have measured many leaves of is inches
in length, and thercabouts. Stock OF all
kinds are healthy, and easily raised Or
! the highlands. Tlcyare subject to seine
peculiar diseases in the low grounds
Our horses, unlike those of Kentucky,
\ have clean limbs, small round feet, and
are tough and hardy.
! >. Production ofland, and comparative
| qualities near The rivers and at distance
from theml
Our best lands are high lands. The
best of them are as fertile and more east
iy cultivated than the low grounds. On
| these lands, with ordiRary cultivation,
(what you would hardly call cultivation
at alb the crop ofindian corn varies from
| II to 10 bbls. This see every where.
| have heard Of much more, and have lit
tie doubt that more than % could he rails
ed by a judiclous and Industrious farmer.
Land of tits quality may be had accord
ing 10 It's situation, for from two 10 ten
dollars. OF such land as | have Just men,
! toned, there are, besides the river bottom,
whose average width is two miles, many
patches of from 10000 to 20O, 900 acres,
scattered through the country. ThequaR-
| tity of land unfit for cultivation is very
small! There is an intermediate quality
more easily cultivated than that first men
toned, bat not so productive; but, i'm this
country, where land is drug, and labor
a jewel. tits hardly less desirable at pres
emf. These lands will produce, with our
| common cultivation, from 10 to Is bbls.
of corn TO the acre. Their appearance is
unsghily, being chiefly covered with
dwarfish trees, stinted by fire, and their
value isknownt to very few. They lie va
can't every where, and, until lately, have
been unOccupied, except by squatters.-
.Fiey may be had, OF course, from twodol-
lars TO five dollars per acre. The bottom
is unfriendly TO wheat /; and of the
highlands, perhaps the second quality
produces the most and best. The aver
age crop is from thirty TO forty bushels
per acre. The low-grounds of the Mis-
| sour are never overlooked. Those of the
| Mississippi sometimes but never ex-
cept i'll May. Occasional rains i'll the
summerproduce novisible effects on these
rivers.
3. Timber--iis quality and quantity +?
We have all varieties of quantity, from
he impenetrabe forest to the clear prai-
rie. The wooded bottoms are covered
with walnut, elm, oak, ash, pecan, hack
berry, sycamore and cotton wood The
growth of primitive upland forestsis the
same, except the cotton wood and syca-
more. The cotton wood is huge tree.
Its leaf resembles that of the Lombardy
poplar-itS timber IL precisely that of the
Virginia poplar, having the same varieties
The growth OH praires Just recover
| ing from the effects Of fire, is stinted
hickory and black jack. You will see
! tins growth on "A loan three feet deep
Where the fire has been long excluded.
you find tall, clean red and white oaks and
hickory.
4. Conveyance TO market
by The river to Orleans al one dollar
per c"t. The return load is ST so per
cWt. We are never stopped by want of
water, and therefore can always antici-
pate Kentucky in the wheat market
Our home prices are from 20 TO 100 cents
for wheat, and from 81 Is to So so for
! corn.
3. Health?
We are little sickly on the bottoms.
On the uplands, remarkably healthy =.
strangers arriving between May and No
vember may expect seasoning-Those
who come between November and Nav
escape it.
9. Produce of labor2
"A negro fellow will hire for Is dollars
per month. My own hands this wear
make 1909 bushels of corn and 1000 lbs.
tobacco each.
z. Price of foreign goods.
| Dry Goods about 10 per cent above the
Atlantic prices. Iron and smiths work
very high. Groceries may be laid in at
moderate prlces-say, brown sugar, 10 cts.
coffee, SO cts. &c.
Having answered your questions, have
left myselflittle more to say. Oar couu-
try abounds with coal, salt, iron, lead and
copper. We want nothing but capital
and population to make it tue garden Of
the west"
WASHINGTON, November l7.-Jobn c.
Calhoun, OF Soath Carolina, (for MANY
wears distinguished Representative in
Congress) has received from the President
the appointment OF Secretary for the De-
apartment of war.
James Fish is elected Senator in Con
gress from the State of Vermont. to SUP
ply the vacancy accustomed by the resig-
nation OF MIR. Grace. Mr. +. is we'll
known as having been firm and undc-
waiting Republican in the House Of Re-
presentatiyes In flIe DARKEST fines