Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-06-25
COMMUNICATED.

COM MUNlCAIED.
The people interested in the Bcloit and
Southport State line road, have given no.
tice for meeting 10 be held at Bigfoot
Prairie, on the 10Th Of June, inst, for the
purpose of consulting measures for the COM
pleting Of said road on or near the line,
from Belot to Fox river, and thence 10
Southport to divide the route into three or
more sections; and to appoint committee
OF three or more persons TO raise subscrip
ton, and with the tax apply j, to compile
ting The road in the Walworth and Mcflen-
ry section. In this matter Of vast intere
TO tn northern towns Of Illinois we most
sincerely hope that Southport will not give
back, but take time (as the old saving isl
| by the fore top and secure our trade. The
people here have long been patient, sul-
fered long the pull back system of drawing
their wheat over sloughs not bridged and
roads injudiciously laid out to market-havs
even hauled their produce from fifty TO
seventy miles 10 Chicago, and in the end
found their accounts balanced in the wrong
scale. What farmer can expect, with a
single pair Of horses. to plough his ground,
raise his wheat, thresh it out and then take
it TO market at this rate with the same
team, and come off with money in his peck
ct; when Notwithstanding if we had good
roads, LAID out with view of benefiting the
public, mot tavern keepers and sight-see-
ing people,) that then IN this section Of
country the farmers could dive prof,a-
BILE team. And we would say TO our friends
at our favorile port, (whose steady enter
pricing spirit we must acknowledge that
every dollars worth Of work they lay out
on roads leading into their farming country
they receive back in trade. Ii is needless
in this enlightened community TO recount
the advantages resulting from good road;
mer, how cheerful when he can load up
his wagon with forty bushels Of wheat: with
molasses kegs and baskets for crockery,
| point his team 10 market, and know his
road there 10 be pIa II ind easy. Mer-
chants Of Southport have We ever been far
mers? Are you acquainted with the elias
tic nature Of the minds OF that class of CT
tlzens; even when going to market, only
picture him in your own mind. first on a
good road with one load from his well filled
granary, no doubt accompanied by some
eight or ten Of his neighbors all going 10
one port His mind swells with gadness
as he approaches the town, and rePen-
ished list for dry goods and groceries is
added TO his memorandum al every well
bridged slough he passes almost every
| clean bright article in your store is pc
| iured IN his mind As he drives along
the sweets OF every kind !; the odorous tea /;
the bright new cloths oil chintz and muslin,
are mentally bought. He barriers off his
load at the first fair offer and is satisfied 10
receive small balance in cash. Blu, how
changed in mind is lie in the other extreme
of bad roads. He drives from home with
heavy ht art, expecting every Ten miles ID
OF wagon loaded up will, forty bushels Of
Wheat, with an ordinary team. in the midst
OF twenty rod of r1iry grounds We wont
be tedious, and To make the story short. he
leaves Of the BASKET and fhe kegs, and the
memorandum, is left al home. We now
have but little profit 10 induce us to 60 TO
market al the Lake, and exchange with
merchants here at an extravagant rate
But when our road is completed we can
HE of TO Southpor, every week with ease;
ill our produce is all marketed, and ex-
changes made. This proposed thorough
fare, ending as il will at the Mississippi,
passing directly through Beloit, (mos, likely
destined 10 be the Rochester of the west
and worked as we can cause il 10 be worked.
will in short time be the creates, market
road leading 10 the Lake, and it is unne-
cessary here 10 state that it passes through
section OF country scarcely rivaled rs 10
good land, beauty Of scenery and the pro-
ductlon OF wheat. 1t is now fast settling,
and soon its resources and trade must be
greater FARMERS OF UrPER ILLINOIS.