The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-02

6a,m here as YOU have such fns timber for all pur
poses. You plough all winter ana all summer u
YOU choose 10 fact you can plough al The year
They actually SOW wheat here from ION october 10
ll5,h May aud make as much per acre an IN MIS-
souri irish potatoes grow here inner than any where
in the world perhaps saw five acres oil land so"u
! in wheat 10 May last, which produced one hundred
and ten bushels II you SOW late, you put III more
seed Corn can be raised, but not so well as wheat
4 You raise enough lor all purposes an ,"u hoeu
none except for bread.
! AS 10 the climate il is the finest you ever saw.
Winter commences 10 December, and ENDS ID req
ruary This has been about as wet season as
they have had The rains commenced IN very gen-
| lie showers, about the 18th November, and during
| The balance of November IL raDed about one day ~
eight In December, II raiDed about one day 10
FIVE and in January II raned or showed about ever!
other day. In February, about tie Isl, we had
slight snow, which melted as II iell, ana one slgh
ram succeeding il the next day aud the balance OF
the month the most beautiful, clear, and warm
weather imaginable. The both November, we had
a small snow, which was gone III three days. III De
cember We had very little snow, and what fell melt
ed As II fell In January we had good deal Of
snow all of which melted as 1t iel except one snow
about six inches deep, which lay about three days
| he ground has scarcely been frozen an men deep
this winter. The rains here are very hghi, mostly
drilling rain and they are very warm, and not IKE
the colo fail and spring rains IN Missouri would
rather have weeks ram than two days snow.
believe a man ca do twice the work here IN the win
ter than in Missouri, and II he rs mechanic he can
work every day. The rains are now past, and the
gIass is growing finely. Flowers are opening, and
have been formed by WIN. O'Neu and others, the
best of authority that strawberries have been in
bloom all the winter know ! saw them on LIST De
cember last. 1 have lived since 9th January IN
log cabin, floor of loose plank, laid on sleepers high
from the ground, with only boards nailed on the
| cracks and have burned much less wood, and not
suffered half the cold / would have done In MIS-
souri, They never daub the cracks of their houses
here.
| American cows worth here from ffy to seven
| ty-fve dollars American horses from fifty To sew
en,y-fv dollars. Oxen from seventy-fve to one
| hundred and twenty five dollars per yoke. This Is
the finest country for raising cattle you ever saw
They keep fat all the winter Butter sells at twenty
to twenty-five cents. And what did not expect 10
find this is a good country for hogs At all events
you have here plenty of grass, root they call wap
| patio, and also plenty Of white oak mast first
rate market be had here for any and every thing,
and you hava seen business more brisk. Times
are first rate and every body busy. The manoiac
turing power here is unsurpassed in this world
There are more fine silks than you Such
warer power as that at the falls of Platte can be
found any where The timber of this country is fir,
white cedar, ash, maple, cherry, cotton wood, and
some Others you never saw Great plenty oil "ld
fruit here The hazel aud elder grows here ten times
as large as in the States. We make hoop poles and
I scrub brooms o the hazel You will find trees here
even more than three hundred feet high. Tins tall
timber is at the mouth of the Columbia, and IN the
i Cascade mountains. But even here it is two hun
dred to two hundred aud fifty feet high. The Other
day we cut down fir tree and cut ii towards Coop
ers house, not dreaming IT would reach 1t but when
it fell it knocked his roof severely and some Of the
limbs went the house. 1t took Cooper all day
TO repair his house.
will not persuade you, nor will ] any of my
friends to come to this country but we're IN the
4 States again, should certainly come myself For
5000 you could purchase 100 young heliers and in
driving them here you might lose from 1--WE to ten.
+ When you reached here they would be worth ga
900, and in ten years, without lat or or expense,
would make you splendid fortune. You can move
here with less expense than you could to tennessee
or Kentucky. Your provsiona teams, &c you have.
Your and wagons and especially your fine
American horses and mares, would be worth dou-
BILE much as they would cost you there. There
are very few good American horses here. The IT.
dian horses not so gentle the American, nor
so fine blooded. The American cattle greatly
superior TO the Spanish for milk, as they give more
milk and are more gentle but the Spanish cattle
larger. Cows have calves here, from fifteen 10
ty months DID, and sheep have lambs twice a year,
IN paris Of the Territory. The reason is, they
are always fat and get their growth much
1t is my deliberate opinion that no country in the
world affords so fair opportunity to acquire
living as this ] can see no objection to it, except
be by man who loves liquor, for he get
none here.
II PETER II. BURNETT.