Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-11-02

! 81 wanted to see you," will then an.
swer Mr.. Claim, 'about thatvery thing
I've paid young man, up our way
to make me map of the land, and I've
taken the liberty of making out your
section along with NINE"
ssAh, indeed! singular we should
think alike. l have map'-and here
both produce most magnificent speci.
men of TYPOGRAPHY, beside which the
new Typographical map of New York
is mere vignette.)
"And here you see,' = says Mr.. Claim,
81 have laid out your part, and there
have placed square, which l call
Float square; and here have laid out
another, which I have called Claim
place. There, you see, l have extern
ded the creek, alittle longer and wi
der than it now is but not more so than
it will be in all probability next year,
provided we have a wet season. In
that case, these water lots will be very
| va 81 llsssafibii able.
E'To be sure they will"
"And now, Mr.. Float, what will you
sell one of the lots on your square for
II should like to purchase one.''
81 value mine on Claim place at a
thousand dollars each.''
So MIR. Float sells lot on Float
square, and takes in pay lots on Claim
place, and thus price is established.
Then the lithograp phi is enlarged, and
the city, new born, under such happy
auspices, is christened ssChrononhoton-
thologos," or for more taking appel
lation, they call it "The City of the
ten cataracts;" and Mr.. Claim and Mr..
Float buy and sell of each ether until
all Claim place is paid away for Float
square lots. By and by comes spe-
culator in search of Eldorado, fully be-
lieving that Benton yellow boy plan
ted in the afternoon on the door prai-
RE, will be found next day golden
tree, more gorgeous than that of the
Comnerri-a Palealolgi-and droop-
ing doubloons. And him does Mr..
Floatastonish with a recital ofwhat this
fortunate location ensures to it's possess
sor. He, Mr.. f., has sold the whole
of Float square at one thousand dollars
the lot; he regrets that his new friend
missed such an opportunity, but he OBJ
liges him with lots in the immediate
vicinity at five hundred dollars each.
So the new town has actually found
one cash purchaser, and him they make
a stool pigeon to entice others into this
valuable speculation. After while
appears in the s'Olympus Daily Univer-
sal Gazette and Loco Foco Enquirer"
a paragraph somewhat as follows:
Z CArononhotonthol0gos W,uler Lots.
Mr.. Editor: What is the reason that
these valuable water lots are not in the
market? The public have long ex-
pected, from the known capital and en-
terprise of the gentlemen who are the
proprietors, and so forth, and SO forth.
(SignedD CRGsUs.
Some days after, one may read ano-
tier paragraphin the same paper to this
effect:
Mr.. Editor,-In reply to the some
what fastidious remarks of Cresus, it is
to be observed, that the town of Chro-
nonhotonthologos exhibits specimen
of prosperous magnifcence unparallcl-
ed in the history of terrestrial men.
Only three years ago, sir, the wild In
dian and the dreadful panther, and so
on, concluding with informing the in
quisitive Cresus that as soon as the
engineea, who has been engaged at a
stupendous expense, shallhave compile
ted his report, these water lots will be
offered to the expectant public.
Then issues forth anotherlithographic
map of double size, and an advertise
ment assuring us that town sites in pa
radise don't begin to compare with
those in the getty ofthe ten Cataracts.' -
Then comes the agent of the Win
nepogiesse Land Company, and Green
horn, Flat & Co. from New York and
Boston, to speculate-and to shorten
a long story with very homely say
ing, "the way they get sucked in is a
caution"