Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-03-21
From lhe Lebanon Journal.
"a ILLINOIS,


This great state is destined to be all that
the shrewdest calculations. or the most
ardent and sanguine imaginations have
ever predicted. '1t p
+ I o-thirds of the age Of single gem
Grafton have not yet transpired since ID
emerged from territorial existence. Since
that period how rapid has been its pro
gression! In 1920, it numbered scarce.
ly a soul to square mile; in 1880, over
one hundred and fifty thousand were nour
ished upon its soil, the next ten years
more than trebled this number, and the
enumeration of 1850, will, without any
doubt swell it to million. And who, we
ask. can estimate the productive facilities
of thirty-two millions of acres of garden
soil, unbroken by single range of noun.
taihs, and of inexhaustibe fertility.
Our farms and villages instead of being
pentup in narrow, eortuous valleys, hem.
med in by bills and elevations-ar scat!
tered, broad cast, over the spreading ia.
BILE lands, with abundance of room for
expansion toward any and every point of
the compass. The (airest portions of the
great State of New York, the valleys of
the Hudson, Mohawk, and st. Lawrence,
and the basins of its numerous lakes are
under culture, ten millions of acres, out of
forty six millions Of square miles! How
many millions of acres will Illinois have
under cultivation, when she shall have
arrived at the age of New York! What
state in the Union has such an amount of
tilla6le land as ours? Agriculture must
flourish UncOuntedthousands of bushels
of Indian corn were raised by our farmers
during the past year. As we iourneyed
through the cultivated districts, the past
! summer, the roads. in some parts, were
lined with intermina5le corn! fields. In
Nashville, we saw one piece mile and
three quarters long, and ninety rods wide!
The valley of the Illinois river supported
thousands of acres of this useful grain
waving, in golden luxuriance, as far as the
eye could reach, in rich luxuriance. at
certain points of observations. Il would
make New England farmers heart leap.
to see in single enclosure, as many acres
as there are in the whole of his rocky
farm, and every part as smooth as his best
meadow, and as rich as the soil of his
vegetable patchl Men need not leave
Illinois for Oregon and California. in
search of good land. The gigantic size
of the sycamores and coitonwoods of the
''bottoms," demonstrates the fertility OF
these extensive alluvials, Exhaustless
mines of lead the richest on the globe.
endless strata OF coal, salt springs, album.
dance of clays and hydraulic lime stones,
add their wealth to the cultivated produc
tons of soil which can be made TO bear
almost every variety Of the articles tha,
minister to sustenahce or luxury in any
part of the United States; wheat and
vines, corn and cotton, hemp and castor
beans, Irish and sweet potatoe, apple and
peach. the hardy pumpkin. and every spe.
eies of melon, in luscious abundance in
crease our OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES! {, And there
is . ready market for what we do not
consume.g A gentlemansof our acquain,
lance in the Looking glass prairie, who
has made farm within the last seven years
tells Us that eix years ago,a load of mar.
Eketables which would scarcely bring five
! dollars IN 81 Louis. new commands TWEEN
lty dollars. Manufacturers are contrih,r
ting their share toward the Increasing