New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-19
Prnirie Land-Indinna- IIiinois-Inducemeut
TO Settlers, &c. &c.


Peoria, H. June Q, 1850.
. DEAR FRIEND HORACE: / see by the papers
that thousa nds OF the poor the houseess and home
less are coming to our shores, and, thank God our
shores are wide enough to receive them. want
TO say TO thee that have seen vacant land enough
within the last few days to feed half Europe-or
nearly so; at any rate have seen a" heap"
Istarted from Lafayette Ind (about week agol
with the view of finding vacant land, and such Ast.
ursl advantages as were yet left by settlers and
spectators.
There is much good prairie land in Warren Co.
Ind four or five miles from timber and ten or twelve
from The Canal berrsnges from % to sls and
sl4 per acre.
A large quantity of land say section, can be
fenced for 81 so per acre. ak or eight miles ou. in
the Prairie and when the land is well fenced aud
broken-i. e. plowed-the occupant is ready to be.
Gin to live. Live fence is to be substituted when
the first decays. Peach and locust trees can soon
be reared.
The farmers here say they can make farm ten
miles out in the Prairie easier than they can one in
the timber.
From Warren Co. we entered Illinois, and for Is
or 20 miles Travelled over the most beautiful country
that well can exist. High aud un1ulating, with
only here and there an occasional "Si0ugh," bat
which can easily be drained by common furrow;
come Of this, particularly the Jordan, lies within
few miles of timber, which can be had for from So
to $40 per acre.
This body Of Grand Prairie is from 10 TO 90 miles
by II, and on some of the elevated portions of il
can be seen more than 400 900 acres and vet these
elevations not 50 high to be in the least IN
favorable to farming, but rather desirable.
Wind. mill power can be used, for want Of other
for mills, DC. On the borders of the Vermillion.
both f asst and West is some Of the most excellent
land From the North Fork of the VermlIion to
Blue.Grass Grove, southwest miles, the Prairie
continues high dry and roling-land vacant and
timber within few miles. The land around this
Grove is good, as you may see. Sod Corn
Corn planted after the plow in bre aking and GOV.
cred by the next furroW-yieds from so 20 50 bush
els per acre old land from 80 10 90 and 100 -
Wheat yields from 80 20 40 From this Grove |
across TO the South Fork, the Prairie continues |
the same-high and fertile bat of the banks of |
flowers through which we passed dare not tell
The broad beds OF thick masses through which the
wheels walowed-the wild deer that would toss |
his gray antlers from amid the green pastures the
old modest crow that steps off so airy and Free and
all the wild beauties OF this mighty land ocean |
are not to be matters Of writing They viii charm |
the poor emigrant should he ever be so rich as to 1
enjoy them. From the Canal at Toledo the Wa |
the country is yet open; from Danvie to Urbana
in Champaign Co the country is high and lncOm
paraby fertile and beautiful. From Urbana to lie |
Roy and from lie Roy TO Bloomington, there is bat
little variation IN quality and location From
BoomiDeton TO this place the land is not so good
more timber, but not.very good From the Illinois
River the country be reached. On this side,
about 90 % AMI % miles Eas. OF the River, vacant
prairie can be found in any quantity.
Want of timber, find is daily becoming less
objection. Many crops are raised in the open
prairie without fence at all but rails can be had
On the ground for from so cts. to 5 per hundred.
Water in wells is mostly good don't know that
have seen any bad water from wells.
think if a colony or settlement, orneghborhood, |
cot TO say association community, could be form
%, and large tract Of land procured, and then
each family secured portion OF it, they could, in
yery few years, be as well off as the farmers OF
lny country, and probably as well as civiz alton
md the grab ocratic order OF things will allow.
by opinion is, that if they the emigrants could
be got into this prairie land or disposed Of that
the land could be secured to them in one year. that
il might be ali cultivated, and they made comfort
able and happy
Land warrants are taking up the land very fast.
In few years there will be but little this side the
Mississippi.
Improved farms can be had all along this route
It 81 to $50 per acre according to locality.
Steam saw mills and grist-mills are at work
III along.
| expect to continue westward-perhaps beyond
Missouri and up into Iowa. II can do anything in
nv estimation, in this way, please let me know
Direct line to me, at West Point, Ind
AZ ever, for God ard Humanity.
JOHN o. waffle