Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-02-21

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| That there will be ample supplies Of wool
for this and more factories, there can be
no doubt; as the prairies and oak openings
on every side are peculiarly adapted to
wool growing, and rapidly increasing in
| focks of sheep. Southeastern Wisconsin,,
especially Racine and Waworth counties,
have population in many parts considera-
| bly, dense; with spirit of enterprise rare
| to be found. Wisconsin is determined in
her youthful career to profit by the sad
mal-administration and Misrepresentation,
and ruinous policy by which other states
have suffered SO severely. Her political
economy will never allow her to send her
wool to al eastern manufacturer, aud with
it bread stuffs and meat, paying freight and
incidental charges from one shipment to
another, until manufactured passed through
the auction or commission house IN the
city, and from thence brought back by our
country merchants, with the whole ex-
pense to. BE paid by the consumer. No T!
She must sell more and buy less. The bal
ance of trade must be turned in her favor
against the city and the east, in exchange
for her resources in agriculture and min
erals
Burlington is twenty-four miles from
Southport, and nearly the same distance
from Racine; both towns of considerable
commercial and mercantile business. The
road TO Southport is not inferior to the best
roads in the country; opening one of the
most important avenues into the back coun-
try. 1t was surveyed out through an I'M
inhabit ed district of twenty miles, not ha-
wing TWO years ago but three families on
the line, and made in few months
at the expense Of one individual. The
road is now thickly settled on the whole
line. Honorable exceptions being made,
it is due TO state, that the remuneration to
this individual for so important all enter
prise, has been diminutive. Southport has
. pier or wharf, np.to which the largest
boats come to wood, discharge and receive
freight, a, regularly in their downward
passage from Chicago, Tin ordinary wea-
ther) as do stages.
Burlington Village, it i. thought, holds
out to eastern manufacturers and mocha
MICS great inducements-to call and examine
the natural advantages that are here con-
ceDtrat-d, by an extensive hydraulic pow
err, part Of which is improved, much
more Yet to be improved. The place has
facilities for building, by having at hand
stone lime, water lime, and clay OF tn. best
kinds. Pure wells of water in fifteen feet
of gravel under the soil, dry cellars with
out drains, streets without mud, and most
slightly prospect over the town from every
point; and from the emincnces on every
side by which the town is surrounded
Back OF the town one mile, are geological
curiosiies Of sublime and picturesque beau
ty, in towering codical hills; also ridges
supposed by some to be upheavings from
the bowels Of the Earth, covered with mass
es Of stone on their summit, but none at
their base.
Ephram Perkins, the senior partner Of
the firm, under weight of years and mfr
mites. is determined to retire from act
i've life, and will, when evidence of all the
appropriate respcnsibilitie. can be excha:I-
ged to mutual satisfaction, offer to sell his
undivided half Of the milling, manufacture
ing and mercantile establishment, with as
much of farm of $50 acres, in, adjoining
or near the village, as the purchaser may
wish: 20 acres Of which farm lies within
what is considered the prospective and
most eligible ground for village building
lots; and ifthe march Of improvement con-
tinues in the same direction, AID as rapidly
increases as in the last two years, village
buildings will soon be scattered over the
whole seventy acres. On lois sold and
improved thereon, are now three large
stores, q large tavern, several mechanic
shops, dwellings &c.
The subscribers are known in their bust
ness character, (and partally)in their mo-
raj character, to most Of the mercantile
and professional men in Milwaukee, Ra-
cine and Southport; and were well
known in Utica, while living thirty-six
years in Trenton, Oneida county, ". Y;
also to Bushrod Buck, Lanesborough; Hem
ry Marsh, Of Dalton; O. A. Perkins, Of
Beckett; Kingsley Starkweather, Of Nor
Hampton; Justus Forward, Of Belcher-
town; Paoli Lathrop, Of South Hadley;
Noah and Plinny Merrick, Of Wilbraham,
Mass. Oneiof the firm expects to be in the
eastern states at early navigation, to ma
ture necessary arrangements for the facto-
les if it shall be convenient, for any to call
on Mr.. Bushrod Buck and Henry Marsh,
of Dalton, on this matter, we shall rely
much on the advice We may receive from
either of them.
A first rate miller is wanted immediate
ly; and mill-right will be wanted in the
spring. This article, intended for circu-
lation among eastern friends and acquain-
tances, has been the more descriptive and
protracted. EPHRAIM PERKINS,
PLlNNY Nj. PERKINS.
Burlington. Racine Co. ". r.
February Is, 1912.
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