Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-09-01

PRosPEcTs o. FARME Rs.-It will be perceived by
an advertisement in another column Of our paper
that cash market has been opened in this place for
the surplus wheat in this section of Wisconsin, Since
The first settlement ofhs part of the territory up to
the present tme but little no facilities have been
offered to the farmers for the expectation Of their pro-
duce, and especially has Southport never before fur
nished cash market to any extent to the grain grow
ers of the interior country. Hitherto the business
| OF the farmers has been discouraging in many re-
| spects, for while they have been extending their
farms, and increasing their agricultural prod uctons
their means for dsposing of the fruits of the soil
have been limited, almost entirely, the wants Of
our home population. Thus far our exchanges in
trade with the east, have been kept up by the avail
able cash means of the people, 10 the manifest nu.
ry of the pecuniary interests of the territory.
large amount of money has been yearly extracted
from this country for the purchase Of merchandise
aud articles OF necessity, brought from abroad and
The balance of trade has been alarmngly against us
IL needed no very shrewd political economis. to dis
cover that HAD this state of thRgs continued we must
have been moneyless people, however abundant
might have been our harvc4t..
lhe only resources OF wc-lth which the eastern
portion OF Wisconsin possesses at present. are those
OF agriculture and it is of the first importance that
these resources should be made available, so as to
meet the ordinary expenditures of the people. In
human probability, no country in the world of the
same extent of territory, is capable of being made to
produce greater amount of gran than Wisconsin.
The aaptedness of our soil to the growing of wheat,
is not surpassed by any portion of the earth We
nave sonversed with some of our most practical far
mers, VINO give 1t as their deliberate opinion. that
TWO bushels Of wheat be raised with as little la
Dor and expense in this territory, bushel can
on the average quality of wheat lands in New York
and New England Here then we have a difference
OF one hundred per cent with respect to labor and
expense in favor Of this territory We will suppose
wheat of the first quality to be now worth Sc cents
per bushel cash, i'll this MARKET and 80 cents per
bushel on the line of the Erie canal in the state of
New York; which is a fair estimate of the present
market value of thatcommodity. From this view of
the subject who does see that ery farmer with
IN twenty-five miles of this market, is actually NJ
well, if indeed not more fortunately circumstanced
than farmer the same distance from the Erie canal
or some other market place in the State of ~ York
but this is not alif the difference in the amount of
capital, which is required to purchase farm under
cultivation in Wisconsin,, and farm in New York.
w tio Aoic SoiiiS cStfiudteS, Inc Oalalc6 VIII
be found TO be decidedly in favor of the actual pres
ent condition, of the farmers in this Territory Better
farms for the raising of wheat, now under state of
CULTIVATION can be purchased in Wisconsin, for ten
dollars per acre, than can be had in New York for
seventy-hve dollars per acre.
Our farmers therefore, have no just cause of CON-
plant, because of the low prices which produce
bears in this ferritory-taking every thing pertain
ing TO the business of agriculture into the estimate
they are actually more advaHageously circumsran-
ced, than the commonality of farmers at the East
the difference in the prices Of produce between this
and at the east furnishes just cause of complaint
TO Wisconsin farmer. The charges to which we
are subject, In transporting goods to an eastern
market, over those of our eastern friends. we are
more than compensated for, by the superior produc-
tiveness of our soil, the with which our crops
can be produced, and the cheapness of land. ~
For the information of farmers and others in SON.
thern Wisconsin, and northern Illinois, we would
mention that the inducements which Southport now
holds oct to all those DESTROYS of making purchases
of merchandise probably not surpassed by any
other town on the western shore of lake Michigan.
There are now nine stores in operation in this place
the most of which we'll stocked with all the vari-
cites OF goods usually required in western markets
Additional arrivals of merchandise will be replensh.
ing the present stock, during the season of nayiga-
ton. Those who have hitherto been in the habit of
trading at Chicago and reside nearer Southport than
the former place. will find it to their interest to give
the merchants of this village call, who are disposed
to accommodate customers with goods at Chicago
prices. We are that many farmers have trans.
acted their business at Chicago who would other.
wise ave done ii here, owing 10 the circumstance
that this place furnished no cash market for produce
These difficulties are now obviated. and the farmer
who now brings load of wheat to this market NAV
carry home the avals in cash, or in merchandise &c
best suits his interest. ~