Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-05-24

gratioa.-The present season of emigration
is fairly commenced. 1t has been believed by
m ny that emf grafton this territory would be COM
paratvely limited this season, owing to the great
money pressure throughout the country, and the dill
fcultcs which woul attend the disposal OF real es
ia in the stern states by those who were DESTROYS
of ENGRAVING westward But Notwithstanding
these supposed mpediments to emf grafton, 1t is now
rendered almost certain that the accession to
population will be as great this year any
former one. A good beginning has already been
made. The milwaukee Courier says that the last
three steamboat arrivals from Buffalo at that place
landed four hundred -migrants destined for
the interior of the Territory. Atthis place and RAJ
cine, the number has fully equaed the expectations
Of the most sanguine In addition to this, large
numbers are constantly coming on by land from
Ohio and Indiana, many of them bringing along
their stock of cattle and implements of husbandry.
From the emigrants which have already arrived
among US from the east, we have the most crafty
ing accounts that many preparing to follow,
from different portions of New York and New En-
gland.
At no period since the commencement of the set
element of this Territory, has Wisconsin offered so
great inducement to emgrans as now. In the ear
ier times of Our settlements, provision and many Of
the neccssarics of life bore a high price, and were
in many instances obtained with extreme difficulty.
Now provisions and almost every other CO venience
of life, be obtained as cheap in Wisconsin in
any other country. There are yet remaining more
than millions of acres of government land, pos
sessing all the qualities for agricultural purposes,
equal to any in the United States, and which may
be obtained for ten shllings per acre. Here then.
persons of limited capital may obtain good farms,
which in few years with industry and economy,
will insure them competency and independence
But that class of emgrants who desire to purchase
farms already under a state of Improvement, have
peculiarly strong inducements to make purchases
now. Owing to the extreme scarcity of money in
the west, farms under state of cultivation can be
purchased at price scarcely amounting to the cost
of the improvements, added to the original price
paid to the government. These farms easier of
cultivation, and are as well if not better adapted to
the production of wheat than lands in western New
York. There are many farmers in this county
formerly residents of Genesee and Livingston coun-
that the wheat crop is more certain, and is pro-
duced with less labor here than in those celebrated
wheat districts of New York.--Another cause
which operates to render improved farms low in this
Territory, is the great abundance of unmproved
and unsold lands which remain yet to be obtained.
4 beginning in the business of farming is attended
with not third of the inconvenience and expense
here, which it is in many other new countries
Nature has already done, what required many
years of hard labor in the first settlements of the
east. The farmer here finds the prairies in read-
for the plough-he has only to fence his
ground-turn over the sod, and SOW his seed.-
Hence those who have already made considerable
improvements on their farms, and are embarrassed
by the present hard times, are willing to sell out
at low prices and commence anew We repeat it
then, nowis the time for emigrants to make advan-
tageous purchases.