Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-03

tier. Five yokes would cost you $3.50.
A wagon well rugged S75, good Amer
lean mare SIS, and two cows, S25 for
both, making the sum total 1925. Your
provisions would be 200 pounds of -four
and 100 pounds of bacon TO every per-
son. Then there would be coffee, tea,
sugar, spices, dried fralt, lard, honey, a
small quantity of Indian meal. some
hard bread, rice, beans, salt, and a small
stock of medicines, enough of each kind
to last you through. Your cows would
! furnish you with milk and butter by the
i way. We will estimate your provisions
and via-ictas TO cost 500. which, added
10 the former Sum, would make S525.
After you start you will rare have an
occasion, and still more rarely chance
to spend dollar. With prudence you
will be very likely to get through with
all the stock you start with. But let us
make all due allowances for losses by
the way, which we will suppose to be
one yoke of oxen, and then let us reck-
on up after you are through, withou;
saying anything of the magnificent farm
you are forthwith possessed Of Your
four woke of oxen will be worth at least
S40O, your wagon 500, your American
mare $ so, and your COW 500. These
prices are low estimates upon the whole.
The amount is $3.50. But you have
paid out but $525, so that you have
made 1925 by the journey. This may
be taken as a fair illustration for all.
| have thus fellow-citizens, presented
you the case fairly and without exagger-
alton. What do you think OF it! |
took my own family to the country in
ls47, and by the overland route. |
have never regretted it, and were back
here with my family, and know what |
now know, | would neither slumber nor
sleep till had determined TO go, nor
would | slacken my excrtions till | had
reached there. The inducements are
unprecedented and the advantages GER
tain. The country is an inviting one in
point of health, fertility, richness, and
location. Her rich pralries and public
domain, free of charge to the settler, i'll
vite you; her OVERLOOKING Golfers are run
ming over for your reception, and her
wide fields urge you to enterprise. You
can come among us and enjoy life and
health to an unprecedented degree; you
can make fortunes for yourselves and
your posterity after you; and when you
have finished your course, you will
leave your children in land that flows
with milk and honey, in land of edu-
cation and morals, of industry and en-
terprise, and in the garden Of the Pa
cfic, where, looking out on her placid
waters, they may inhale her breezes,
and learn TO measure the extent of their
Improvements and enterprises by the
vastness of that mighty ocean.
! here have TO request, as | most ear
nesdy do, all papers throughout the u
nited States to do Oregon and her peo-
pie the especial favor to publish this cir
cular, and also solicit all persons who
feel an interest in that country to request
their favorite paper to do so. And for
this act of generosity on the part of the
conductors of the press, and on the part
of those who request it to be done, |
herewith return, for myself and for that
hardy and noble people | represent, our
sincere thanks. Very truly, your fell
low cilizer, ......
SAMUEL r. THURSTON,
Delegate from Oregon.