Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-11-02
From the Wisconsin, Eng uirer.
WISCONSIN.


ton, how rapid its growth, how great even
in lis infancy, how mighty in its destiny
We mean Wisconsin.
H01C rdSt its resources! Within It's sur
veyed limits, extending from Green Bay
at the northeast to the mouth Of the Wis
consin at the northwest, distance of two
, hundred miles--from thence down the Mis-
sissippito the northern boundary Of Illinois,
a distance Of fifty or sixty miles-thence
east to the southeastern limit Of Racine
county, nearly one hundred and fifty miles,
and thence north the same distance-there
is greater quantity Of land susceptible Of
ready and profitable cultivation, than IN the
same extent of territory in any other part
into prairies and woodland, generally about
a fair proportion Of each, so as almost
wholly to dispense with labor Of clearing,
which is q serious drawback to most Of the
western states. Yet sufficient quantity
Of timber is afforded for every necessary
purpose. But it is not in agricultural resour-
| ces alone that Wisconsin stands pre-emi
nent Her immense pineres at the north,
Of the Wisconsin and Fox, and their trib-
utaries, where even now millions OF feet
of lumber are annually manufactured for
southern and eastern markets-her ishe-
ries, on her Lakes and Bays, which afford
annually thousands Of barrels Of the finest
fish for xporta,ion-and the constantly
increasing productions Of her lead and cop
per mines, are sources Of wealth, great and
nexhaustible Every facility is at hand for
converting her mineral and agricultural
productions into the most profitable and
convenient marketable form. An album
dance Of water-power is found within her
borders. Numerous streams, some Of them
now navigable, and most Of them suscop-
tible Of being made SO, irrigate her interior
at almost every point, affording channels
Of communication with the east or west,
the lakes or the Mississippi; and her good
natural roads over her prairles and through
her openings to the western border, and to
many points upon her eastern, give her
facilities for inter and ou:-communicaton,
for trade and travel, far superior to those
possessed by new countries generally. In
addition to all these, Wisconsin possesses q
climate as propitious to health as that of
any country in the world. In the language
of cotemporary, her remoteness from
the ocean secures her from those insala-
brious winds which bring with them such
a host Of pulmonary disorders on the nor
thern scaboard, while her high dry soil
and pure atmosphere, preserves her from
the fatal fevers to which the fatter surface
and more fervid sun of the lower Missis-
sippi often subject the denizens Of the
south"
Hoac important its pOsition! Geogra-
phically, as glance at the map will show,
the position of Wisconsin is second TO that
of no northern State in the Union. Stu
ated between Lake Michigan and the Mis-
sissippl, the first forming her entire eastern
border, and the last her western, and pos
sessing natural channels Of communica-
ton that with but slight Improvement will
intercourse between the finland seas and
the father Of waters the principle part
Of the commerce between them must al
ways be confined within her limits" With
the expenditure Of one quarter the sum of
money laid out in Michigan for internal
improvement projects, Wisconsin could be
provided by means Of the Fox and Wiscon-
sin rivers, the Rock river and contemplated
canal to connect it with the lake at Miiwau-
kee, and railroad from Southport to Be-
lott, or to the Mississippi, with three i'm
portant commercial channels, connecting
by steamboat communication at the north,
and by canal and rail road at her centre
and south, the great Lakes with the Mis-
sissippi, and opening through her interior
routes which, while they would afford her
every facility for transporting her own i'm
mense productions to any market, east,
west, north, or south, as might best suit
her, could not fail to attract and confnc
within her borders, as before stated, the
greatest proportion Of trade as we'll as ira
vel between the northern Atlantic States
and the Mississippi valley.
Hop rapid its groaOth! But five years
have elapsed since the separate territorial
organization of Wisconsin, with popula-
ton Of three or four thousand and now she
numbers at least forty thousand But five
years have elapsed since the country COM
prised within her organized limits was COM
paratively Wilderness, the settlements
! few and far between, confined principally
| 10 the northeastern and northwestern po.-
tons of the territory, the traveller in
| journey OF one, two, or three hundred miles,
meeting with scarcely sign Of civilization,
in the shape Of even rude log cabin or its
hardy inmate, to cheer him on his lonely
way, or TO afford him a nights shelter. and
now thriving communities within short dis
tances Of each other are to be found in eve
ry direction, the desert that was is BIOS
soming as the rose, and the way-farer finds |
his solitary camping place Of '36, the site
Of perhaps fourishlng village, city, or
cultivated fields and farms-he finds that |
the Z" red man," whose wigwam upon the |
bank Of some water course, or whose light |