New-York daily tribune., 1846-01-29
THE TRIBUNE.
1owa-The whis Banncr County.

Correspondence Of The Tribune.
Mr. Pleasant Henry Co. Iowa, JAN :, 1876
with The subscription lis, send you q A. II may
~, he aiss or unin,erestng 10 your readers 10 give
ror o view of our situation and progress in this
.or,;oa OF the Far West. Henry County, Iowa,
,,.urpassed by any section Of the West in fertility
,na natural resources is already comparatively popu-
Inns and is certainly destiaed TO become densely
,onpla,ed county 1t lies in the middle Of the neck
or ,rorontory of rich land between the Des Moines
snd Mississippi rivers and is nterseced diagonaily
bv the Skunk, or 10 give its more cuphonious Indian
name the Chacauque River, one OF the finest streams
for manufacturing purposes oi which the great
West can boast. and upon which III this county
there are already four large Touring mills
Thus favored by Nature, ii is by no means sur
nrising that our fine timber and prairie lands have
raoybt the eve of the emigrant, and invited the en-
,erprse alike OF the capitalist aud !aoorer
Our county was organized In 1886, and though
containing but about 400 square miles, already con-
,ans a population of 1000, aud It's usual c0ie is
about 90 There four very respectable villages
in the county besides the county seat, ol which
will make mention hereaitef) viz Salem New
London, Lowell and Trenton. Salem both the
town and township was settled by the Friends or
Quakers and you might at once infer from that tact
that il is an orderly and pleasant village and IN the
heart of thriving settlement. From this disrlbu-
ton of the population aud It's concentration at GER
tain points, you easily perceive that there Is an
abundant space for more. There is every thing to
induce men ot enterprise TO come and h up that
space | must also add in this connection that this
county is. par exceiiencc, the Whig County OF the
Territory and intend to maintain our ground
until il is tie Wing County OF Wing State
Mt. Pleasant is the County Seat. The first white
settler. Presley Sanders, Esq now one OF our
snierprsing merchants) came 10 this place in 1895.
and the town laid off by him in the Fall of that
year. containing then but families. Al this time
there was no Justice Of the Peace Post Office
nearer than thirty miles. A Post Office was soon
after established Col. Alvin Sanders. p. NJ. lately
Polked from Office and weekly mail often con
yeyed in the hat pocket Of the carrier. Now
about 200 newspapers and magazines are taken at
ibe same Office and the mail route extends TO the
aRaccoon Forks" $50 miles back OF this place
The population of our town is DOW 700. We
have a good brick Conrt House. log jail (empty)
three places Of worship II College - Collegiate
Institute just commenced, three schools four
Stores three taverns. Temperance four ministers
Of the Gospel six lawyers and four physicians
Our harvest has this year been abundant. The
first produce ever sent abroad from this county was
in the Fall of 1870 Till that year we were In some
measure dependent on Illinois ior supply hoth oi
meat and bread -stus. Since that time our surplus
has been steadily increasing. md produce mer
chants a. the county seat alone have taken III the
past Fall land this Winter far of pork 10000
lbs and of wheat % 900 bushels. | have no means
Of ascerlaning the amount purchased In the other !
parts OF the county, what has been taken by the
producers directly TO the Mississippi river The
labor of our farmers the past year has been well re-
wnrded and we are sangune 10 future prosperity.
Produce commands cash here and al fair prices. On
the whole every inducement is held out 10 emgrants
10 locate here and by their industry and enterprise
TO secure their prosperity and advance that oil
the county. NJ