Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-11-02
From the Wisconsin Enqu rer.
WISCONSIN.
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Hon great euen in lis intancyt We have
no correct data from which TO form an &C.
curate estimate, but we have little doubt
that were such an estimate made, it would
be found that during the past year the sur
plus products of our soil, of our lead and
copper mines, of our fisheries, and the
sums realized from the millions Of feet Of
pine lumber manufactured in the ST. Croix
region, on the upper Wisconsin, and in the
Green Bay and Manitouwoc country would
equal in value, taking into consideration
the amount Of capital employed, the pro-
ducts of double the population Of this terri
tory, in any other part of The west and
this too, while our citizens devote, upon the
average, no more time to labor than the in
habitants Of neighboring communities, if as
much. This is to be accounted for on va
ions grounds-the extreme fertility Of our
soil, and the comparatively little labor and
expenditure Of capital from the fact that
the necessity Of clearing is TO a great extent
dispensed with, our country being gener-
ally prairics and openings which are re-
CURED to prepare farm for profitable Gull
tvation. The Wisconsin farmer who pays
in the first place but ten shiIings an acre
for his land, who finds it Immediately rea-
dy for the plough, and who realizes yield
TO the acre Of twenty, or thirty, or fifty
per cent. more thar no who in less favored
parts Of the country can expect to realize,
after the expenditure of double the amount
Of money and labor, will make more in sell
ling his wheat at four shillngs a bushei,
and other productions in the same proper
ton, than the last would in selling his wheat
at eight shiIIings per bushe, &c. One dol
lar invested in Wisconsin, at almost any
point in agricultural pursuits, will produce
as much as two in the same pursuits in
most other sections Of the Union. The in
vcstments in mineral raising and smelling,
and in the manufacture Of lumber at the
north, are also very profitable, yielding up
on the amonEt of capital employed, much
larger per centum than can be realized
from any branch Of industry in neighbor-
ing States. In view Of the facts alone,
although others might be given, the remark
with which we started concerning the pro-
ducts Of Wisconsin industry will not be
considered extravagant. During the past
year, besides raising beef, pork, &c,
enough for home consumption, the amount
Of surplus grain, principally whoat and
corn, raised by our farmers, and which
has been or will be shipped from Mlwau
kcc, Racine, ard Southport, may We think
be fairly estimated a; probably three or
for hundred thousand bushels Of the former
product, and one hundred thousand Of the
latter. The value Of these products, de-
livered at the lake shore, may be set down
at over $1,000 The value Of the min
eral products Of our western counties may
safely be set down at$35O, 900. The amount
Of pine lumber manufactured at and trans
ported from the ST. CroiX, upper Wiscon-
sin, and Green Bay country, 10 eastern
and southern markets, cannot have been
less during the past II months, from the
best data we are able TO obtain, than fifty
millions Of feet, averaging in value at the
mills $40 per thousand, making in the
whole 100000. Here, then, is an aggre
gate value Of products IN Wisconsin for
transportation, exclusive Of the item Of fish,
Of over eleven hundred thousand dollars
an amount more than sufficient to supply
our inhabitants with all the necessaries
wanted from abroad, and thus leaving the
balance Of trade handsomely in their fa
vor. We do not pretend TO vouch for the
correctness OF the estimates here made, but
we think they are not far out Of the way
and in consideration Of these things, and
the fact that Wisconsin is but as it were
the creature Of yesterday, the exclamation
--ho'c great eren in its i'yancy--will not
be considered inappll"able to the Territory.
How mighty in lis Destiny! Upon this
branch of our subject it is unnecessary to
say much. The great extent. and i'm
mense and varied resources Of Wisconsin
her advantages of position, in a COM
mercial point of view--thc hcalthfulness Of
her climatc--tho happy auspices under
which she has commenced her territorial
cxistcnce---hcr freedom from debt, while
neighboring states arc laboring under the
heaviest pecuniary cmbarrassments---al
these cannot but secure to her rapidity Of
growth and a degree Of prosperity IN the
future, with which the past although great,
will bear but :riAing comparison; and
bcspcak for her, so far as population, and
wealth, and Importance are concerned,
greatness Of destiny, position among the
sisterhood Of states,' second not even to
the proudcst.
The Philadelphia Inquirer remarks that
the great iron steamer now Being bull, at