The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-06-14
NEW YORK FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE H. 1874
Iowa..
Iowa.
Correspondence Of the Herald.l
BI.ooMINGroN. Iowa. Nav 20. Ii


Correspondence Of the Heraldl
BLOOMINGTON, Iowa, May 20, 1874
Stand aside, Ieras, Iowa's coming Movements in
Irade-7sa and Ialsing-Wool, Wheat and
Weather.
]. G. BENNETT, ESQ
DEAR SIR Iowa is going ahead again. Emf
gratien is pouring in here by boat loads, wagon
loads, and squads and hosts! The old counties
are filling up, and new being formed Here
are Wappels, Davis, Keokuck, and Mahaska al
in the "New Purchase quite new bounda-
ries established, seats of justice located, and law
and order reisns These counties are in the south
| ern part Of the New Purchase. The rest, large
tract of country is rapidly settling, but not yet
ganized into counties.
On the first Monday in April, me citing was held
and vote taken on the proprlety OF calling CON
vention to draft constitution for State Govern
| ment, which was decided for, and in October the
convention is TO meet at Iowa City and go to work
and when the thing is done, I'll tell you what IL
looks like. Then 1t will have to go before Con-
gress and the people of Iowa for LITIGATION, and if
approved OF by the great and small, we are TO elect
our officers, which will probably take place one
year from next August.
| am serious when say that emigration is rapidly
setting towards Iowa. From 1888 to 40, the In
crease of population in this State % 600. The
census will probably be taken again in 1915, when
we shall be found to number near upon, II not
quite, 100000. This unparalleled increase OF pop
ulation may lead some of your readers to inquire
what there is in Iowa to induce many to go
there will tell such, here is spread out before us
4 meadow OF fine grass, on which each horse, OK
COW sheep, can feed and grow. tat. Here is a
soil, which, when cultivated, produces every KIND
of vegetation, which the climate promotes IN
greater abundance, and with less labor, than
steam, power) The country Is rolling. undula!ing
and dry, and well adapted to wheat, which VIII al
ways be a staple product. We have sent forward
thousands of barrels of flour, and tens OF thousands
of bushels OF wheat Of last years growth and there
will be double the quantity tor export next year !;
Tor the crop never made better show than IT now
does. In wool there IS strong competition Tor
the ascendancy over wheat, and IN hve years 1t
will surely maintain the asce ndancy
Although much has been said and published on
the beauties of the "Prares," writing 10 you, SIR,
at this Time, this beauteous, glorious, blooming
month OF May,-l cannot avoid an expression oi
delight and admiration, which fills my soul to over
flowing, as it does every human being, and even
the beasts OF the field, when, at this season Of the
year. they travel this country, and behold the
lavish bounties of real goodness and beauty which
the Maker of the universe has bestowed upon this
spot,-with wisdom and taste, with utility and ele
ganse, far beyond human power or Imagination to
conceive. The great navigable rlvers--'he brisk
running streams of water--dry, rolling, undutallng
prairie--the richness OF the soi-lhe skirts of tim
Der along the stream, with here and there round
grove In the prairie. Ms 1t planted there Tor the eX-
purpose to supply with that Indispensable
article to assist and facilitate him in making his
farm,-no, will not say making farm, tor 1t does
appear to me that the farms are already made and
planted with timber part, and sown with
grass the other, and all they need 10 an occupant
Here are Co. 600 people engaged in agriculture, who
have settled in Iowa within ten years, who occupy
Just such places as have described, and there Is
room tor as many as there are now in ONO. Five
hundred thousand might come and yet md space
enough the next ten years. Yes, there Is room tor
a milOn.
Besides the farming interest, there are towns
growing up In almost every county. There are sis
towns of considerable Importance on the west
bank of the Mississippi, commencing at the south
point of the Territory at the town ot ke0chuck,
ard extending $50 milee, up to the town OF i'u-
buque, the port of the Iowa Lead Mines. First IN
size Is Burlington, with population OF about 2UG0
Dubuque 1900 /; Bloomington 1900; Davenport 1000 I;
Fort Madison and Kcochuck 500. There are many
fine towns in the INTERIOR too numerous TO mention.
Iowa City, the capital, is the principal one, situa-
ted in the central part of the Territory, about 80
miles back from Bloomington, having large stone
cation for the capital Of the nep State of ioira
was quite mild and open, navigation having opened
about the latter end OF February since which time
the boats have run thick and fast The STEAMBOATS,
are almost as numerous here as in the harbor OF
New York. There are more than 30 eng ged In
the Upper Mississippi trade, and their freight has
been double what IT was any previous sprl.S. The
river, two weeks ago, was higher than 1t had been
for l6 years before. The season, although quite
forward has been extremely wet and cold since
the first OF May Respectfully yours,