New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-06

grta, haul only two three lesser and she Ia
glorious country behind her 10 furnish her sgsenanoe and
stimulate her growth Wisconsin harvested generous
Wheatucpn 1883 and has sold good price, that
sic was thrifty and prosperous II her people
would stop Specializing in lands pass the Maine Law aud
enforce op using Tobacco and other huful superAues
and al work steadily the great majority appear 70 do
they might build FIVE hundr miles Of Railroad each year
from their own and again think Of borrow
ing in YorkOr begging Of Congress But am hitting
sort Of good advice which is very often given and very
rarely profted by.
was glad 10 zee 30 many smokes arising from manufac
turing estbhbmerts into the clear sky Of the cold morning
Thursday on which eft Milwaukee Traffic well in il
Place but Production alone be relied Oh to insure
prosperity and siesdy growth TO city unwashed by tide
water Flou,ing rls Iron foundries and manufactures
using Wood Iron Grain their material appear 10
be and Aourshing in the chief city Of Wisconsin
trust Machine shops Ard Car factories viii soOn be equally
70 Here too should be great Linen factories drawing heir
staple from the adjacent pTares and Shoe manufactures
drawn workm from Massachusetts, and FEEDING them at
hafthe present cost Of their living Mechanics and Art
cans Of the East do not desert certainty for uneer
tsnty but save money while you and whenever work
falls off, secure homes in the broad inviting fertile hopeful
West
Iretraoed my steps from Milwaukee TO Janesvile whence
the Railroad IL be continued to Madison next season
or rather from Milton, ten miles nearer hlFaukee and
from GAINESVILLE took private conveyance through Belt
and RockioD to Rockford where the Railroad to Galena
crosses Rock River The day wintry cold the wind
driving the falling directly and sharply into faces
ard that FIVE hours ride down Rock River is about the
most dsagreeable whereof have any remembrance Bat
ended at a warm and bosptabe Preside with no limbs
frozen; matter.
All! you've never been Rock Riysr such is
the sencng response 10 many Of ny past criticisms on the
Prares Of the West / could not deny the averment
had crossed the Prees and Oak Openings Of Eastern
Mcbigen many years ago but no devotee of the West
allows that hcy anything At later period, wan
dered the Praries of Northeastern Illinois crossed
Fox River at three different points passed up the Black
berry and az far west ne Sycamore (which is doubtless fine
village now but then looked though had very nearly
reached the end but hat nothing didn't see the
Rock River country Since then have traversed the RI
man Campagna (which is only great wet prairie sur
charged with malaria and ruins glanced Of the great pas
of Belgium and ridden across the prares of Central
and Northern Indisna by daylight lampght and moon
lie ht but still nowhere in discussion of the value
and aitra cventss of Praresfor had never been on
Rock River But now gentlemen give you fair warn
ing that take back seat longer when the fectes of
Wesen life and the genial fertility and Edenke charac
ter of the Prares are under scusson-for hare been
Rock River FL Dorado must move further West or |
shall be able to speak oft knowingly, like others
grant you that mid winter is not the most proptous sea
for Prairie scrutiny and that peepng from behind
blanket in driving snow storm does not afford the am
pest facilities for observing and Judging the richness of
soils bouneousness of harves easness of cultivation &e
&c In fact my Rock River experience had relation rather
10 climate than SOIL and cannot fatter the December
blasts that sweep over those Prares suspect that they
are much the same on Rock other rivers unbeted by
forests unshieded by hills Still saw something of the
Rock River country, and like 1t. The tmbered lands
here differ little from those of other Prairie regions being
mainly covered by low scrubby growth of middle sized
White and Burr Oak very good for fuel and rather inac
table for most other But the Rock River Prares are
generally good being seldom DOGGY or marshy their black
mold resting on Q strong but not compact loaln and
tbis on several feet Of coare gravel which rests the
universal bed of smooth limestone, some five to forty
feet below the surface which Rock River takes
its free rapd course s. w TO join the ssissppi Yes,
this IS 90 land, and produces fine crops wherever
decently cultivated should Ike it better if it were
crossed every ten twenty miles by bell OF heavily
wooded hills Ike Highlands with here and there pine
or black ash swamp to furnish saw logs and rail timber
should like springs, More running streams ana less
lime in the water but then Paradise ia beyond the Jordan
or some other stream and is not wisely sought even on
Rock River So let be thankful that here such excel
lent Lar possessed and cultivated by an intelligent moral
industrious people who generally aim to walk uprghiy love
their neiehbors pay their debts and read The Tribune 1t
something to stand among people who don't need to go
West TO find land that will them and am very
clad 10 perceive that these generally regard mental cuya
ton AID improvement as among the chief ends of life
am far more grateful the thousand persons who gathered
from these bleak praes that bitter Thursday evening
to hear than to the larger audiences easily collected
from radius of mile OF two in Chicago and Milwaukee
And il did me good to hear that HORACE MANN GEoRGEW
Curtis and think T. L WHIPPLE also, had been heard
this winter in Rockford well Us in the Lake ctes-and
quite os heartily appreciated here as there.
ROCKFORD was first squatted upon in 1887 it may now
have two thousand inhabitants. With its excellent water
power at the crossing the Chicago and Galena Railroad
strongly invites Eastern mechanics and artisans to MAKE
!. henceforth their home very large building for me
chancal and manufacturing purposes has recently been
erected wherein shop with waterpower can DO rented at
moderate price and understand that is filled as fast as
apartments are completed trust its success viii invite
enerprsine capitalists in other to erect similar build
ings wherein mechanic may find room and power pro
vided to his hand without being obliged to exhaust all his
means and his credit in getting ready work This place
is bound to grow.
I wish this letter were not arcady TOO long for want
10 write chapter on Land Speculson-that soOurge OF
the West Here are thousands rushing looking to our
great Cities for the means Of building Railroads and making
other who could make them on their own re
sources il they had not both hands ard full of I'M
fenced unused lands which heyare holding up for hye
ten times the price they paid for them and so preventing
the settlement Of the country II every man IN Illinois
wire compelled by law to eel within year all the land
he owns beyond half section 1870 acres they would all
be richer at the years end than they now are while tens Of
thousands Of valuable immigrants and millions Of money
would be drawn in to help 10 whatever is needal Every
acre Of Wild lands held speculation s dscouragemen