Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-01-23

vate companies or corporations, under the regu-
aIons usually adopted, have endeavored care
fully TO examine and consider; and am clearly
satisfied that the policy Is wrong aud deir.In'h'-
al to the present and future interests ofthe state.
Among the considerations which have LED meto
| this conclusion, are the following: Inc most
prominent and important interest III this STATE, Is
now, and will doubtless continue TO be, AgT1cul-
| raj No State in the Union, In proportion TO lis
area of territory, has so many acres susceptible
of tillage and cultivation, or richer and more pro-
duc;iye soil situated on the northern MARCIA of
the great Mississippi Valley, bounded on three
sides by the navgable waters of Rivers and
Lakes favorably balanced between On Eastern
and Southern market, divided diagonally by the
| Fox and Wisconsin rivers terminating at the
Mississippi river on the Southwest, and at
+ Green Bay on the North East interspersed with
springs lakes and running streams, convenient
10 nearly all localities; affordng to the farmer
the chance Of selecting Prairie, Openings, or
Woodlands possessing school and educational
advantages unequalled i'll the Union and acknowl-
edged TO be the hcathiest of the Western States
/ 1t is every way indicated 10 be the selected
home of the Agriculturaist; il is this interest,
and these facilities that first attracted emigration
to this Territory when yet wilderness, and that
have since, in so few years, poopied it with such
thriving and industrious population, and made
our rapid growth and Improvement the wonuer
Of the age.
The quality and extent of our agricultural pro-
duets have already attracted the attention of the
eastern and southern markets and capitalists en-
gagged in this class of enterprises. are already eX-
tending towards US from The Atlantic sea board,
and in short time il is to be hoped, will bring
TO our very doors, the facilities OF Railroad
rilge and transportation. Then by the c0mpeti-
ton OF Railroad against Railroad and both against
Lake transportation, the price Of freight will be-
come so reduced, as TO give Us at home, mar
ket nearly equal to that of New York and New
England while our lands, considered with res
pee, to their natural proddttiv1ncss, ami their
cheap and easy cultivation, will become worth
more per acre, than the lands there situated,
which are mostly worn out and require artiti-
Cla! means 10 make them productive. AgrIcul-
turc, then, is our great and leading interest, and
any measure or policy, having IA tendency to en-
barras, or restrict the cultivation of the soil al
ready appropriated to the purposes of hu,bandry
or the IMPROVEMENT of the lands vet vacant ard
unsod lying within our boundaries, | regard as
Initiating against our best interests AS a Safe !;
and on The other hand any thing conducive to
! promote and encourage this branch OF pruduc-
j tive industry, and to extend lis limits, is the true
! policy of the State and considering its high
importance il may well commend itself to wise
and ludclous policy and fostering legislation.
These large grants of the public lands to the
State, in trust for the benefit Of specific works of
internal Improvement, under the supervision of
private incorporated companies, will retard the
settlement OF the State, by engros>lug the most
valuable portions OF the vacan, lands, and in ey-
cry Instance, will probably have the effect to
keep Them oui If immediate market, as well as
10 increase the original cost to the settler when
offered for sale. II granted, as is usual in snch
cases in alternate sections, the practice has been
and viii probably continue 10 be, TO increase the
price Of the government lands so alternately
reserved, thus making the land both granted and
reserved, a protiless bargain to the capitalists
Is well as placing them beyond the reach of a
large proportion OF emlgrant settlers, vino would
otherwise become resident producers in the State
The consequence would be, they would avoid
! Wisconsin and seek more favorable localities in
| other States and territories where vacant lands
| could b. procured at the usual government price
| Ii grant be made for the benefit of only one
certain work, or particular company, and no
Other should Dc allowed, it would be objection
able. as cnntertng special and exclusive bone
Ill upon y particular section Of the State out of
Il general and common fund that belongs to all
portions and sections Of the State alike If one
grant should become 4 precedent reason for al
lowing others, aud grants should continue to DO
made us often as any work orimprovemeut could
be demonstrated to be Of utility and importance
/ to any section OF the country, in a very short
lime all the public lands in Tie State would be
absorbed and Cn5ro,sad by num5ercss project.
ed internal Improvements, each under the man
agement of special and private companies, and
! all requiring the supervision of the State Gov
eminent. The companies having charge OF
these various WORKS, would, or might, consider
II for their interest to make such high appraisc-
! meuI OF these grants as would necessarily keen
them a long tina out of market, and prevent
their occupancy and settlement. In the mean
time, IN order to obtain the requisite means TO
commence and carry on these works, they
might see tit TO Issue bonds, scrip, or other evil
dcnces of debt, making these lands the basis of
q! their credit and security, and by their sale
and negotiation in foreign market have the eff
feet To place those lands in a measure under the
control OF nonresident SPECTATORS
The unsoli and unAppropriated public lands
within our limits are, in the main, situated in the
no,thCTn and northwestern portions ofthe State
and nearly ali along the line, or in the vicinity
OF the great Fox and Wisconsin river thorough
fare. a., that section OF the State is locally and
peculiarly interested in their speedy sale. occu-
pancy and Improvement. Grants may he asked
ana Obtained for the purpose of constructing
works iii other aud distant paris of the STATE, in
which they are bat little, ii at ALL interested and
It would certainly b. 4 narrow policy to thu, at
tempt 10 build up and improve one section. at
the expense, and perhaps iamry Of another 1t
Is true, that portion OF the State Immediately ben
r+ttod by ,he wor'- might thereby become settled
cultivated md enriched, but the other section X
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