Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-02-27

J denser, and society more compact, Will
new districts are occupied with the Ell
terprising pioneer.
Fourth. No western state possesses c
, Iqual facilities for market. Bounded OF
three sides by navigable rivers havin,
one of the best sites for commercial
depot of all the lake country, with tn,
illinois river running diago ally through
the centre-one of the best streams fol
navigation in the Western Valley, not tc
mention many other large streams, thai
f with slight improvements, would enable
steam boats at a full stage of water, 10
reach almost every county. Illinois
Stands pre- eminent with her sister states
in water facilities.
But those who have been accustom-
led to the rugged and miry roads OF a
numbered country, cannot realize the
superiority of travelling over our. prai
rie regions during great part of the
Iyear.
Besides foreign markets, which most
of our state has facilities to reach al
small expense on navgable waters, tie
following places already offered consit-
cradle market for agricultural produce.
Shawneetown, and the Salines near
Equality, i'll Gallatin County ;-sevcral
small towns on the Ohio;-Brownsvillt
with its salt and other manufactures in
Jackson Couniy;-Chestef on the Mis-
Isissippi, below the mouth of the Ka,kas
kia river, FIR The back country in thai
lquarter;-St. Louis, for the country opI
posite lower Alton, for an extensive
and rapidly settling country to the North
and East;-Naples, Meridosia, Boards
town, Pekia, Peoria, Hennepin, Ottowa,
and other places along the Illinois river;
Quincy on the Mississippp;- Galena,
III the heari of the Mining Country
Chicago, on Lake Michigan;- land
Mount Carmel at the rapids of the Wa
bash. Many inland towns are fast rising
to Importance and will soon be places of
much business. Springfield and Jack
sonville each contain about 1900 inhab-
tauis.
Steam mills for saving and Towering
are now in extensive operation, and ma
ny new ones are projected.
AT the last session of the Legislature.
several manufacturing companies were
incorporated, some Of which | am in
formed, have gone into operation with
respectable capital.
Fifth. Ourprospective advantages are
certainly equal,-nay superior to any
western state.
We have much more land Of superior
quality, capable OF being brought under
cultivation at a smaller expense, than
any state in the Union. None is lost in
mountains very little in swamps;-al-
most every acre Of soil III the state might
be converted into gardens.
No state furnishes such facilities for
internal improvements. Many water
courses not now navigatcd, can be rem
dered navigahlc al comparatively trifling
expense. Turnpikes and railways will
require but little grading;-the stone
material for their construction is ahund-
ant in almost every county canal
or raiIwa, from Chicago to the naviga'
BILE waters Of the Illinois, will probably
be completed within a few years. Elk
tcnsive and very particular surveys have
been made in reference to it. Other
works of equal and even greater magni
tude are now attracting the attention OF
our rejecting citizens.
For purposes of Education we have
funded and drawing interest, more than
100000 together with thirty six sec
tons of land selected from the unsold
districts of the state every section
numbered sixteen, OF one thirty sixth
part Of the whole domain-w'th three
per cent on all future sales of land by
the General Government within the
State.
The aggregate Of all this cannot be
less than two millions of dollars as per
petual fund.
Soon, three or four commercial cite:
must grow up in as many portions of the
: State. III short it is the sober convictio,
of rejecting men, that the prospective
advantages Of Illinois are great, and tina
within half century this state will b'
the kew stone in the western arch Of thi
confederacy.
An answer to your enquiry, sin wha
, part of the state it would be most pre-
/. fcrable to locate two or three young fam
lies to pursue the business Of agricul
lture," is not so easy to give. Their
Nils some difference both in natural an
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