The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-16
Nebraska Territory.

may be interesting to our readers at this
time as considerable excitement now pre-
walls in our countryin relation to its set.
Element. A portion of Nebraska is very
: beautiful-well watcred, and can be made
very fine country by placing the Yankee
boys upon it. We extract this description
from the o. S. Democrat, and know much
OF it to be correct, having passed over a
portion of the country:
Nebraska is so named, from one of its
three largcstrivers, the Nebraska or Platte.
According to the returns of the last cen
sus, it contains l36, 700 square miles, or
aterritory as large as New England, New
! \ York and South Carolina. IL should be
stated, however, taking the southern line
at 81 deg, as Mr.. Douglas proposes, the
territory, as thus organized, will be much
larger than the portion that has usually
been d signa:ed as Nebraska; embracing
a large portion of the Indian territory,
and most of tie Indian tribes, except the
Choctaws, the Creeks, the Chickasaws,
the Seminoles, and a portion ofCthe Cher
okees. a.
Nebraska, as proposed to be organized,
will be vast region, having the various
climates that are enjoyed in Missouri, To-
wa and Minnesota, that lie on its eastern
border; only the climate, like the face of
tie country, is more Asiatic. The eastern
portion of tits chiefly prairie and rich al
luyial. The middle is more sandy and
barren, containing the great American
Desert; and the western is mountainous,
being covered with almostperpetual snow.
The inhabitants of Nebraska may be
seventy five thousand, mostly Indians
The whtesare military men, Indian agents
and missionaries Within week, para
graphs have appeared in the papers, an
nouncing that newspaper is about to be
established at old Fort Kearney. called the
Nebraska Democrat, and that post office
is about to be established some forty miles
from it, for the accommodation of emf
grants--two important elements to begin
the work of cviIizing the territory.
Nebraska is and must ever be mainly
an agricultural region, 1t is far from the
ocean, and has no great lakes. The Platte
river, though from one to three miles wide,
is only navigable for steamboats, forty
miles. as s..-I
From what even tie Indians have ac-
complished in agriculture, the country
seems TO hold out great hopes to the far
mer. TIE Indians there are mostly sup
ported by agriculture, and according to re-
turns before me, four tribes of Christian
Indians on the northern and southern
banks of the Kansas cultivated four thou
sand acres. From these, they raised in
a late year $4,000 bushels Of corn, $500
bushels of wheat, 10000 bushels of oats,
1000 hogs, and 800, 900 melons of diff |
crent kinds. They keep 600 work oxen,
and a large number of horses. The an
nual value Of their products is put down
at 331 900. TIE number of these In
dians is placed at 9,!705aa 9.
The territory is not well wooded. Pop
lar, elm, birch, willow, pine, white oak,
maple and other trees, are found there in
moderate numbers. The cottonwood tree
much abounds in the rivers. Wild ami |
mails, such as buffalos, deer, wild horses,
mountain sheep, prairie dogs, wolves, elk
and antelope, abound in this country.