Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-07-08
A short time since. our business called

A short time since, our business called
us through the Southern portion Of the Ter
ritory, and we were surprised at the evil
dences o. improvement compared with a
period OF a couple o { years since, which We
witnessed-Snce then, we have been cal
led through the Northern portions, aud ii
we We're surprised al what we witnessed in
the south, we were much more SO, by the
appearance of Thing IN the north. We have
been resident in the Territory some eigh;
years, and during that time have repea.ed
v been called 10 traverse neatly every por-
ton of il. and have consequently had oppor-
TURTLES of noticing the changes wrought b,
settlement. Ii is within the two Inst years
that the most RAPID settlement and extensive
improvement has beea made-lt is well
known that Tho counties of Dodge, Fon d.
Llc, Marquette, Calumet, w inae5ago, Dane
part OF Portage, and some Others in thaLre-
gion offer very superior inducements fol
settlements, but whilst the southern part of
inc Territory has been better known and
more sought after, until within couple of
years past the counties we have alluded to
have been hut little sought afer, and
but very splrsely setiled-Tke state OF
things is now altered in this respect-thc
rush is 10 this region OF country, and the
Wilderness is being brought under cultiva-:
ton with astonishing rapidly. Sections OF
country that We heretofore knew as unbro-
ken wilderness, now present the signs Of
active life. The settler has reared his
temporary, but comfortable cabin and sthe
soil is either r,ch with the coming harvest.
or the sod turned over in preparation for
coming scason--indeed, if matters in this
respect go on for a few years as they have
been for year past. il would seem that all
The desirable land in the Territory must be
taken up and brought under cultivation.
There are many po.nts 100 where hourish;Dg
little villages are sprlngng up. Those thai
we more particularly noticed as onour route,
were Columbus, in Portage county; Beaver
Dam in Dodge county, and Fon du Lac
in Fon du Lac county. The frs, of these
places two years ago possessed two log
cabins, and apology for a saw mill; nowa
thoro is a Furnishing little villlge, composed
Of quite number o!neaily painted white
houses. There are two comfortable tayerns,
other appliances of a village, and a good
Touring and saw mill. Five years ago we
passed over the present site Of Beaver Dam
and saw nothing except a miserable log
sh1niy beside very beautiful! spring. Some
two years thereafter we passed over il again,
and having occasion to stop for the night,
slept on the floor of Il shed roof shanty, it
being the second building there erected.
Now there is an excellent Touring and saw
mill in operation; there are quite number
OF very neat substantial houses; stores, tav-
ems &C., and Preparations making for the
erection of another extensive saw mill. Fon
du Lac, which is the county seat Of that
county, improves in the same way. They
have a water power which is beng made
available, number Of buildings are al
ready erected. and the principal proprietor
Informed US that preparations were making
for the erection of twenty five more this
season. Efforts are also making for the
establishment of press there, which will
probably be effected the present season.
We speak these places, because they
presented 10 US the most marked indications
Of improvement. Ii is the same all over.
The wilderness is being broken up, farms
arc oVlbs5 UlonSut uHutf CuitlfdliOil, every
available water power is being improved. ass4
towns spFingIng up about them. The Te;-
rltory is rapidly assuming lie appearance Of
an old cultivated country.
Than Wisconsin in no place is land more
readily brought under cull.vaton--in no
place does it yield more bounifnly in no
p ace is there more he lllh'ul clmlte-
purer and more sparkling springs & streams;
and indeed in no place, without exaggera-
ton, has nature done more for the co nfo;t
and happiness of man. Our people are of
the right sort, and it would seem as though
this were a chosen land, where in view Of
the lavish bounties oinature wlreby lhephys;
cal wants of man are so easily minislored TO,
to commence the redemption of the mind
from error, and slavery, and The elevation
of man TO his tr ne social and moral cond;-
ton.