Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-08-26
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FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE WEST TEN
YEARS HENCE.
FoRTy-FrvE YEARS AGo.---ssIn the year 1892
or Whereabouts, mortgage was taken On the
county of Ontario, which then comprised the
whole state Of New York west of Utica, and
plonged to Oliver Phelps. The mortgage is
on record in the Office of the Secretary ofState
at Albany. 1t was for SIG, 900, and the secu.
/ ty was supposed to be hardly adequate to so
large sum. Lest the settlers in that tact
should be alarmed. however, it is proper to
state that the mortgage was long ago cancel ed.
! "About the same time, gentleman having
occasion to travel among the Indians. procured
a horse from Mr.. White, the first settler at
WhtestoWQ. During the. tour thea horses
shoes were found to be loose. hut through the
whole journey Of month, no person was found
who could make new ones. On returning to
Whitestown, the gentleman took the horse
first to the blacksmith and then to Mr.. White,
who on being inquired Of for his charge, said
that the new shoes were satisfactory compen-
sation for the services of the horses
| The above facts show at glance what has
been accomplished Gin a country which forty
five years ago was an unsubdued wilderness,
then inhabited by various tribes of lndians)
| by people who had only just began to rise
from their impoverished condition, caused by
the troubles of a colonial war, with limited
populations, and a still more limited knowledge
OF the vast resources of this vast country.
| The rise Of this State, and particularly the
interior, was slow comparatively, until the in
PRODUCTION of steam upon our waters, and the
completion Of our great canal-and before the
great lakes were alive with the sail-craft and
steamboats, which now fill the harbors upon
their shoes. 1t is needless TO Draw picture
Iof what this state now is, it is too familiar to
Iall tclasses. CIR at and populous cities and
towns have risen up, forming the centres Of
vast trade and commerce. We read of four
thousand emigrants leaving one port on lake
Erie this season, in single day, for great
city thousand miles beyond this territory
which was morlgaged for the paitry sum of
sixteen thousand dollars; and we see that iden-
teal city .(Chicago) increasing her tonnage
from seven hundred to sixty thousand, in thlr-
Ity-siX months.
accomplished tho creator part of this change.
The question must arise in the mind OF eve
Try rejecting man--what change will be effect
ed in the great west during the next ten years?
Every element ofprosperity has quadrupled,
even during the past fifteen years-.-we have
thousand auxiiaries now which were unknown
or inactive then. We have canals and roads
penetrating tho heart Of our country We have
steam ships upon our great lakes, doubling in
number every year.
We have the vast fertile prairles Of the west
all ready for the plough, which, fifteen years
ago, were the Indians hunting grounds.
We have numerous lines Vi yterry-boats, to
which will soon be added steam ships, con-
stantly playing across the Atlantic to populous
Europe. Through them we have tremendous
stream of emigration, coming like a food up
on our shores, and entering the very heart OF
the wild, fertile west.---Desides, we have an
energetic, enterprising population Of our own,
of fifteen millions, pushing their fortunes, IN
commerce, manufactures, agriculture, and all
the arts and embellishments of civilized life.
Whatever depression there may be at this
time, or whatever may be their causes, they
must be temporary; the country must and will
rise; and her growth for the next ten years
will be looked upon by future generations as
astonishing miracle of the age. The growth
of the far west, will, doubtless, advance in a
greater ratio; for the simple reason alone, tha
there the country is diversified with prairie anc
timber, so happily proportioned to the want:
Of agriculture that no wilderness stands to i'm
pede the farmer for half a generation as was
the case in New York forty-five years since.
| The general cvenness Of the almost limtles'
west, forms almost a natural railroad anc
will facilitate every work of international i'm
provement.
Their mines of metals and Goals are mex
haustible, and their rivers of thousands o
miles are teeming with the beauties and luxu
rance of nature. These must and will soon
be peopled, and peoplcd too, during the mex
ten years, beyond the widest predictions Of
the present day. We live in an age Of labor
saving machines, which are now doing more
than the public are generally aware of in the
advance Of America. This leuer, ITSELF will
raise our country fifty years In ten. Already
are they adapting machines TO the culture OF the
western prairies. Wilson's moving and grain
cutting machine, by horse power, IS this year
introduction into Illinois, and it will DO to the
prairie countries OF the west what the COTTON
gin is 70 the south. The steam piough 70
break the prairies, will be one OF the mex. I'M,
por:ant implements in the train OF agricultural
miracles Of the future.
To those who have seen ana taRoI ooIsec'
view of the far west, there opens a ne'u Q, re-
Election upon the future "','o,, III. ~ .LyJI
to publish TO the world, 1851 'hey snonia DO
charged with visionary views. Du: : aSnesl.
dawn disclosing the advance Of the ensuing
..n We, ~ IN The Ear western States to the as.
,onisbed world, it will prove incontestibly that
! reaEivis more strange and startling than fiction
N. Y. Express.
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