Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-06-03
TO NEW YORK MECHANICS.

Mn. EDlTo RI am only stranger Oh the Rial
to, but since have been in this city the past few
weeks, / have usually provided myself with the
New Eta, as kind of relish for my breakfast, and
of course bcen locker Oh in Venice.
Being thorough going western man from the
sucker state, have been led to compare the rela-
tive condition and prospects ofIhe same class of
peop. in Gotham, with ,hc daily results Of my ex-
per ence in my adopted state--lliinos.
As to tho merchants, know. little about the
principles or actions here, in the west, being q
y. actical mechanic myself. But have remarked
that they all grow steadily rich there; but here the
mercantile world is out oil jont-it has o.erravel-
lsd-got OYER heated-t must have rest here.
But to the mechanics, who are full OF dscontents
and on whom the curse OF higi, tents, provisions
and the want of employment, presses most severe
Nv, would address myself
a carpenter mason (lof they are the leading
architects of new ccuntry,) arrives at Chicago
TO which place he can 60 when the canal is open
for X!4, or any one of the principal towns in the
fast gro wing west, he Immediately commences
work .rs for So day, Or if he is first rate work
man he can command more. Ii the course ri a
shot period, his industry gains him the confidence
OF r. ends, and in three or four months, he has
earned 'wo hundred dollars, besides enough to pay
h s expenses, If he is frugal. Withthis nc is ena
bad 10 retire TO the county, and purchase 10y a.
cfss of the best land i'll the world, at ten shilngs
an acre. There he can accommodate his neiga'
bors, BY working part Df his time at histrade, oy
which he will be able TO procure all the reg slies
10 live, and ulltvaie his prairie, which needs no
clearing, and which yields bountifui cxoI, win
little labor, and for which he can fir - READY
market, al Ills own door, among the multitudes VINO
are cfowding into that section Of the west. -,
suppose, as was the case with myself for .he nls'
two years, during which time accumulated y, az ~.
dependence from nothing, he adopts INC o'a ~.
verb aud .sicks to his last'' In that ne
his two hundred dollars and purchases
build; and with the credit his ihaosuy ~. ,,s;sh
him, he buys lot of ground il .ao .oIn'
are usually large enough there oi oncs cant,scts
A ~ buildings, turns boss bulloo, q, .a.
- b.;ia fDr others. aud while all things are gone
IN hs wake I'm cheap aaildins, TO COST rom 'otl
~ 6v. hundred dollars, on part OF MS lot whicr
-. ~ sss ou Of ten, he will be enabled 70 sci
he6ora q Il half completed for cash 20 some MsI
Giant lust landing, anxious 70 sne1e. ms sooNs
family that he may h eop w' ee, fair prof, i
o.se .,;on. and as much for the moiety of his 10
Ms .,hole cost him. This is statement Of ~
1.v transactions, and but plain recital Of n
80 ,nce of the writer, who commenced with
ssss, ~ FOOLS only, and the result has been an an
.. nie Independence in three years. *
Tihe error seems to be that wheN people do.Am
crate. they do not 90 far enough tUbcosfit then
Selves; il they would, they must 50 where they a
waut,d at high prices, and who're tho country
rising fast. In that case they CANNOT out aosah'
witt the country. :,
They are wanted in huadreds throughout -.
; nois, from Chicago to Rock Island, and from =
mouth Of the Illinois 10 the lire At Wsscol .' >;
every town and village, more or lcsss snn
they stay here under al the discoaas Z, i.
the times, when such wide e 9n SpsN Nav Era.
] cnserprize in tho vsss. - ~