New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-05-25
Ohio-Cincinnati- The West.
Editorial Correspondence


Llsr BsiE (neRr sSndusky,l May p lSi9
have now spent week in Ohio, and intend
to devote three days more to Cleveland, Warren
nc, passing thence into North-W estern Pennsyl-
vania, and 30 homeward. have hitherto tray
eued the Reserve. only North and South cross
Ing il from West to East will enable me to oh
serve some counties which have not yet seen.
Ohio needs 10 be visited and revisited. crossed
and recrossed. TO give a nonresident toeraole
idea Of her physical capacities. 1t is barely pos
sible that 90 many advantages are combined by
any other State. Bounded on one side (which Is
almost two sIdesl by navigable nver on an
other by acapscious lake, and already cheokered by
canals and railroads which every year sees extend
ing and multiplying, it is scarcely possible to ar
rest or limit her progress. Illinois may have as
fertile soil and as abundant mineral resources
but che s deficient in timber, aud lies considerably
farther from the markets in which the great body
of her surplus products must be exchanged. Sup
pose the fair average value per acre of subdued
and fenced land in Illinois TO be ego, similar acre
In Ohio must be worth at least $50 until Illinois
shall have al adequate Home Market for her sur.
plus Grain and Meat or shall see them consumed
by miners or manufacturers west Of Detroit and
Cincinnati. Improved means of transportation
may diminish the difference in average value be
tween Wheat or Beet IN Ohio and IN Illinois 70
spec,ively, but can never overcome II 50 long as
both shall seek a common market East OF Buffalo.
Ohio 10 to-day the best State for Grain growing
aud Batter making in the Union.
| koow that the praires seem more inviting and
T.. a.. ~. =. slar n
rope, poor hand at clearing of heavy timber or
iffrom the Eastern States, adverse to grappling
afresh with the laborious task of hewing farm
out OF the forest Butno man can re aze til be has
tried both the thousand ants unconsciously sup
Piled from that forest--wAnts of Fuel, Fencing
Timber, Implements. SC. &c. which can only be
supplied with great difficulty and expense by q
large msjori,y Of settlers on the prsiries And
then the scarcity Of water on the Prairies is dis
advantage which viii not be overcome thoug nth,
Parties themselves may in time be time be sutK
ciently cheekered by groves and even forests
Cattle and Sheep may probably be reared eheaV
en-, in Illinois or its vicinity but for the create
number Of Agricultural staples should think Oh'
preferable.
1.-The that portion Of tho State lying near tn
Ohio River best Of any. II is not SO fertile as IN
West, and the contrast between its oiten stee
activities and the unitOrm aatness Of the eentT'
and western sections is very great Probably on
hundred bushels Of Wheat may be grown on tn
level land Westward with the labor that woui
be required to produce sixty on the side hills {
The Eat But here there is an abundance
brisAly running water. better assurance OF heath
and many advantages which q born New-Eng
lander esnno, fail to prize. Animals as well 8
nan mast be harder and thrive better in n
East than in the West.
Yeti do no, undervslue the wealth ossoi an
Of timber exhibited BY the region have Jul
travened by the Railroad from Cineinnsn
sandSsky. 81 far up as Springfield the valley
toe tile Miami has loag been settled and
telcrsbly diversified in surface. Above 'hat