The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1853-10-08

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ABOUT ole dollar aud ,eyebty cents per barrel
by comparing these charges with the prices now
rolling IN tbs New York market. il will be- seen
hat there is n hand. ONE margin left for our
produce dealers, and indicates that prices will
no. iecede here, as lOGg as they are supported
there. In many Of the eastern states the pro.
hHcton OF wheat, wool, snd probably corn aud
some other articles, Is rapidly diminishing this
ana the rapid increase in the use of most Of our
leading staples, especially corn sufficiently indi.
cafes thal There Is no reasonable daryer Of our
rf'uu'tiun OF permanent depression IN the
pnce OF thu-" staples. am pretty cer.aln that
'hrl" IL no place nurth Of La Sale county whcr.
wheat, corn oats, gra>s, pork, cattle and horses,
taking all OF them together, or ma ,rty in valge
ol those articles sen, TO market can be p o iuced
50 cheaply as IN La Sale county | am sill
more certain there Is nn region east .i US that
can mnlnta'n competition with ~ at the same
proiii, xii and capital being equal and but a
very limited region south and west A little
mote than year ago, lbere was not \ single
niie ol iall road within our limits now there are
more than sixty miles canpAtc,l, connecting or
being past oi other road. within our state. lead
InF 10 and rom Ia Sale c0,i4,y more than three
hundred miles Ia length completed within the
same time, and perfrcting connection with 9th.
'r roads throughout the Unon. The immense
wn'er power, aud abuudsGt t.ed- Of coal. within
oar limits, will NOT long ,maln unknn.n or un
u'ed; and We shall soon s,e | thins mauufac.
inres from abroad, - eager 10 avail themselves
OF Ms'r advantages aud profits, a. eastern farm.
eTs aud capitalists. have BEEN and are Of our
unsurpassed sod, and our want and ability to
pay l'brrtlly fr the use oi their money. Our
whole state has been scarcely less Prosperous
it4u n,l,
u member at the Cn,on ati h a population
"i "oIN onr hundred and tiny thousand she nav
c"nt"'t,a population of mrre than one million
Ia 1850 >he vas he IhTd state in The Union IN
ne lt"ducii"n "i corn, and i now the first OF
u" Ire" states We are already the third in the
rfniur'l"n 0f cattle aud hogs, the fifth IN wheat.
hud the seventh m horses Our climate is proved
10 be superior tu that oi New Engliud, or any
"' lhr eastern statr~ "f the sane latitude il -a-
iubrl'y lam satisfied, that the cost ani labor
"i producing wheat, corn, oats, beef cattle and
pmk, taking the whole together, or a majority
~ value Ut the same that i. sent to market, will
Average at least one hundrcs and fifty Der zen. .
more IN The atlantic states, than IN Illinois
The facts have already stated show. that the
capital and labor now emplo, ed in agriculture
IN La Sale county, is repaid upon an average
OF more than Fifty per cent per annum II is
also certain that the capital aud labor emplnved
IN agriculture IN the atlantic st..es. is iepaii at
The average rate Of less than SIX per cent Der
annum. Yet while tins low return i, the aver
q e money eastern farmers aru aniassiny wealth.
l"d0 this however, they uos-ess three adyanta
c"S not yet enjoyed by Us, two of which are al
ready IN our power, and the other We are fapdly
attaining %. These are A;srcjdtibn. Sci,nc.
ana tdp'tU. without these. thr eastern farm
er would sink IN hopeless poverty hefur. the
con,peition Of the west. The farming Of forty
years Ggn perhaps even Illinois farm ~ # rbi,
day. would III ke beggers 4 them all Of these.
it Is not 10 be- dem, I'd that a.soci,inu j. the most
important, for it gor, fir towards supply ing the
other tive. By association, by M, ans ui i,:-i
ench ass "l,run n. his e,>,ein farmers have
brcn rnlbl' d u find ut The bet varieties of
u heat and corn adopted 10 dhrir soil the best
mode of ru''iv ,trg rhrn. anl iu-t how much
labor AMI capital pIt "n tu ,ha GRIP would pa,
'h" best Yer cent They u. Fe. associated their
'Hpl'ul f'r IA. pr. elm nr,inl from Eu-..,,.
and vhrFeter rl,r they could BE- found, the best
-tnCk "f horses cattle. SWINE and .h,-u that the
world couhi produce. By best mean that
kind of those articles that would pay them the
most money in the markc, in prnpirtim t. the
s'"r and money rrlrrricd urd4 them at home
ih"' al" LEARNED, by means f these l-Sora,rnr..
he bet mode rXpeuuing Their labor and capr'al
o Vr"duc" that result II WIS rot enough that
I m"rm"n'h ~ should be- produced, it wi- IL -
tu snrw how he ht been fed that it
might b" known hrw chrapl> his 'sf ini been
nr"du ed. and how much W. H., Il ~ "a hi. III
p"rnr blnpd anl h'w much to liz approved
.eiIag Il vsunt enough that It w q, rrruf;- Il
h,' one h nirri and twenty seven bushels oi
orn had been raised on mn acre # ground, II