New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-07
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Co.resr ondence o. The ~ Y. Tribune
Council BLUFF CITY, Iowa, July % 1854.
I observe in THE WEEKLY TrIBUSE OF July an
article On Nebraska it, geography and natural capa-
bities in which there are some great errors (inad-
yerten perhaps but none the less calculated to mis-.
lead the emgrant) The writer OF this has Travelled
considerably in Nebraska in the past two months ana
DOW resides upon lis border, ana therefore speaks
from is own knowledge
Your correspondent says: Above Council Buhs,
,,pposte Karesyille Iowa the bluffs on both sides
recede and there is little or no timber save only
' punches Of cottonwood" Now the Facts are that
Council Bluffs il about twenty-five miles above
KaDesyile and is the site of Old Fort Calhoun, in Ne
braskh Ierrory-that there are dense forests OF cot
tOn-wOoC on the Missouri bottoms from the mouth OF
Big Platte TO MiBnesots-that on the bluls and hIgh-
lanes bordering the Missouri RIVER on tAe Ne <asAa
side there are large tracts OF timber, besides the
countless groves of OAK black walnut llnn slippery
elm ash and other kinds found in the valleys OF the
numerous streams running into the Missouri.
Again. he says THE valley of the Platte IS entire
~ destitute of TIMBER Now the fact is, that the
Platte valley has sufficient quantity OF timber 70 sup
port dense settlement for many miles on each sac ior
more than one hundred miles from Its mouth.
Again. be says: The large space between the MIS-,
souri, and Great Platte is destitute OF streams ana
nearly so OF springs" Now glance AZ any map OF
the country shows the Pappillow, Elk Horn, Loup
Fork. Wood Ni.obrarah, Keha Paha and White Earth,
with their numerous tributaries (most Of them being
large streams Iayersng every portion oil THIS tract
originating from springs and having sufficient timber
in their valleys for dense rettements
In tieIence TO navigation steamboat men say that
tie Upper Missouri to tie mouth OF the Yellow Stone,
i as cCcG for steamboat navigation as 1t is near It's
mouth and that the Big Platte Cor NebFaska) is nov
az GOOD or navigation a. the Missouri was twenty I'VE
years a-0.
IL the ssme issue Of your paper ls article on Kan
sas IL Forts. &c which purports to give information
to the emigrant about the plains To correct
tie lisapprehension which that article 2h' produce
i rr,pose to give few geographical acts
For LARAMIE on the Platte is point through
which all the migrants pass, whatever may be their
starting uOnt: il is situated in north latitude about
~. 10 Davenport at Rock Island, on the Missis-
sppi River. is IN about latitude ~ 80. Fort Des
ues near the center Of Iowa, is in latitude Al 80
I.rt Cahouu On the west bank Of the Missouri River,
# the Platte about II? 81. There are good roads
from Keokuk Burlington. Muscatine, Davenport,
Lyors Dubuque. and other points On the Mississippi,
70 FoEt De.m0.nes. and also from there 70 C0ulca
Bluffs CITY. - miles below Fort Calhoun; aud t1ere
will shortly be- a direct road made from Fort Des
mones 70 Fort Calhoun; from Fort Calhoun It Ia i've
miles 10 ntersect the present emgrant road ON
the north side Of the Platte have converted with
many persons who have travelled both routes and all
agree n sy ing the route the north side is much the
better in every respect Distance from St. LOUIS 20
Fort Leavenworth, 25 miles; from Fort Leavenworth
to For. Laramie, 5se. Total, S.3. From DasehR P.om
via Fort Desmoines 70 Fort Calhoun, 2S2 miles iio n
Fort Calhoun to Fort Laramie $40 miles. Io'a
miles. glance Of the map will show the nssS not
Of the foregoing statements, so that smsf ~
be deceived. ola Fort
ss,tlements are now making in Sebrasks ~ ora Ioa'
Kesrney and some other points sout r ~ C"ha,n on
and at Belleyiew, Omaha ong, Of III Horn Loan
,ne ho,'I 80 Pirer, on the California Road north
FORK, ana Noo' WILLIAM Moons.
If fhe Platte