Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-07-06
DOMESTIC

NATION rei3tiNe 10 our Nes'eFh Codh'F1'-
Your grand canal points TO the west,
4 and from the observations have made
IN my last Journey, dare to predict that,
before long, from the city of New-fork
to the bay of Columbia, otherwise call
ed Oregon, it will be like water-street,
or, at least partly rail street. Look
at the Ouisconsing already goods from
/ New ork are arriving at Prairie des
H Cheins at its mouth on the Mississippi
in 81 DAYS: look at the beauty OF the
! navigation of that noble river from
/ thence to the mouth OF the st. Peters;
look al the easy communications by the
Chippeway and the 81. Cioix from the
Lake Superior to said Mississippi; look
at the ST. Peters; look at the easy ira
| verse from its mouth to that OF the ebay
enne of the Missouri; look at the iacili
! ty of communicating by the Cheyenne
and the Big Horn with the southern
gap of the rocky mountains in latitude
43; see the nayigabe watersimmediate-
y past that gap; see The beauty OF the
land from Green bay to the mouth of
the Ousconsing; from thence all along
any where and let any one say that po'
pulation will not cover it they will tell
an untruth, and reality will prove it
From The mouth of the Missouri TO the
falls of st. Anthony, it is all along a
most beautiful country. Any where on
it you may establish productive farms
from the edge of the water to the top of
the hills, almost all extending IN gently
rolling table lands, and there is every
where this peculiarly that you could not,
en- the Mississippi, establish one of a
ny proper extent without having nhine
in it's not this peculiarly presenting
to farmers great advantages very sell
dom, never almost, to be met with else
where? Where else is it that a farmer,
whenever the weather or the season have
suspened his agricultural industry. may
Immediately enjoy middling occupa-
ton on his own soil? Add to that, be-
cause of the beauty of the navigation Of
he Upper Mississippi, farmer settled
on it till as high up as the Falls OF 1t.
Anthony, is nearer 10 the Orleans mar
ket than those above its falls. Add also
| that all farmers settled north of the river
| Ouisconsing, even Of Rock River and
of the river Illinois, will, according TO
circumstances, have great choice of
market either New York or New Or
leans--is it then to be expected that
those lands will be settled on? They
will as soon as known, and Congress
! will permit, and it is by their settlement
and by the wisdom of Congress in di-
recting them that the civilization of the
Aborigines win readily begin.
The beauty of the Upper Mississippi
and that of its lands, are not Known yet,
or the Ohio nor in your country. Hardly
a few steam boats have navigated that
river to carry supplies to forts Aim
strong, Crawford, Smelling, and to the
mines of Fever River, and their COM
manders have been astonished of those
beauties; but the sparks of light are
beginning to spread out, and soon they
will enlighten all the American horizon.
Already Nissourians are moving from
the mines of ST. Genevipe to those OF
Fever River and agriculturists and spe-
culators, or carriers of provisions and
merchandise are following them. All
are doing well; but those doing best
will be the farmers. When landed
there first, the beginning of April, po-
tatoes were selling at rs cents bushel i;
corn at one dollar; and SIC month be-
sides boarding, were offered to common
labourers. On my return in the middle
of May, the population was increased
to more than 900; the wages was the
same, and the prices of those provisions
; had risen Io4 cents.
The first west of Upper Mississippi
: population, above the states of Nilsson
| ri and Illinois will be there; the second
at Prairie des Chiens; the third round
Fort Smelling, from whence it will pro-
/ coed westward by the St Peters; but
before it goes up in masses BY that river,
many families will have been attached
TO the banks of the Mississippi by their
mineral and agricultural attractions.
, 1t is not lead only that is to be had in
that country; there is also plenty OF
) iron, copper, and many other minerals.
AT sev eral places specimens of mallea-
bic copper have been presented TO me,
and plenty of iron on the hills and on
low ground,sI have seen myself. What
is called Painted Rock was never pain
ted by the Indians; it is perpendicular
faced Rock, strongly impreg grated by the
oxide of iron by stratas, OF which they