Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-03-04


ruinous one. Mineral has, in great meas
ure, given out; mincrs are leaving, or turn
ing their attention to other and more profit.
able pursuits, and property, very naturally
seeks its common value.
In the counties of Stephenson and Car
rol mining operations have been for some
time suspended. Settlers of the best enar-
ac.cr, from Pennsylvania and other East
ern States, have bought the land and open
ed farms upon it. Property bears 4 healthy
and rapidly increasing value. Farms are
worth from SO to $50 per acre. The
comparative increase Of wealth in the agri-
cultural country over the IMMORAL country,
since, has been in the proportion Of ten to
one. In other words, property in the ag-
ricultural counties has increased in value
at least 200 per cent, while in the miu-
eral region it has decreased.
As an agricultural county, no one in
the State equals "Old Fulton" There
are more acres Of land in this county sus-
ceptible of successful cultivation, than in
any other county in the State, and there
are more acres under cultivation, and still
room for thousands of people. In point
of population and wealth, Fulton stands
the third county in the State, and, but
for the city of Chicago, in Cook county,
and Qaincy, in Adams, it would now be
the most populous and wealthy county in
the State Its population is made up al
most entirely Of farmers There being
but one town containing population Of
over 1900.
The Illinois river forms the eastern
boundary of Fulton county for about forty
miles, atferding good market for all the
surplus produce raised, giving the means
of direct transportation to an Eastern or
Southern market. St. Louis, on the south
is within two days travel, as is Chicago,
on the north. We can ship our produce
here, and in five days land it in New York
or New Orleans. In point Of market
We are greatly favored. Togive you some
idea how farmers get along "out here"
1 will give you the present prices of few
staple articles: Wheat is worth from 20
to 50 cents, corn 80 to 50 ceats, oats 80
cents, potatoes 90 cents, white beans. 81, so
to 81, flour S4as4 80 per bbl.; buckwheat
-four s2o2.5 per cwt.; pork, (fresb)s5.50
a6.25,; beef S5a5.50.; Stock hogs, gross
So cwt., butter Is to % cents, eggs II to
Is cents; good horses from Ss0a125;
work oxen from SIS to 100 per yoke:
cows from SIS to %, So you see We are
on good way to Flourish finely here.
As for health, no part of the world is
II nore healthy than we are in this part of
Illinois. A residence in the State of six
teen years enables NE to speak knocing,y-
indeed the whole State, with the exception
of a few naturally unhealthy loeslities) is
quite as healthy as any part of Pennsyl-
vania, In the early settlement of Illinois,
as well as all the western States certain
locations were considered unhealthy, from
their proximity to water-courses, which
were bordered, in many Cases, by low
grounds and small lakes. However as
the country becomes settled and cultivated
and the low grounds drained, the river
bottoms become quite as healthy as the
prairies or barrens Gas the hills and tim
Der land bordering on the bottoms is
cailed.)
The diseases of the country are princi-
pally of bilious character: easily mana
ged, and seldom terminating fatally except
where the proper remedies are neglected,
Or form want of care and attention. We
have nothing like consumption originating
here; and in almost every instance that
has come under my observation, consump-
tive persons are greatly benefited by the
change Of climate, though coming from
parallel ATTITUDES in the East.
In addition to the fertility of the soil
he natural advantages possessed by Fulton
county, for water-power, railroads, slack
water navigation, and improvements of
like character, are, at least, equal to any
,ther in the State. Spoon river, stream
emptying into the Illinois river about
fifteen miles above the south line of the
county, and meandering Is miles to the
north line, is now under contract for slack
water steamboat navigation; and, when
completed will enhance the value of real
estate in the vicinity Of the river at least,
100 per cent.
There is still very little land here that
AN be entered at government price (Sl,25
Der acre.) Of course, this land is the re-
;use, and not of the best quality ;still it
S all well worth the purchase money.
There is in some parts of the county
in what portion known as 30
lorth east" and "S north l east"
great deal of "patent land" that is, land