Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-09-04
WHAT OTHERS SLY OF WISCONSIN.
The past two or three wears have a

The past two or three years have don
wonders in the way of bringing to th
knowledge of people in the central an,
eastern states the substantial advantag
which Wisconsin offers them
y travelling correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette of Aug. 9th, writes t.
that paper as follows
One popularity, wherever I travelled
IN sconsin, struck me forcibly, viz til.
apparent high degree of culture, cleanli
ness and thriftiness of the farms. There
IS not half so much to remind one of a
11eao country as there is in Ohio and In
diana, and this is attributable cb5efy te
the fact that almost every quarter section
IN Its natural state, is ready for ploughina
and fencing without the labor of telling
trees enough to burthern the narIes of the
world and partly to the fact that the
class Of settlers are off shoots from the
hardy and industrious sons of New Eng
land, are the farmers of Western New
Ior K or n orthern Ohio. Fifty gears Ia
Dor "a Nelc England, or taceaty Years t0Jt
IN OHIO, are not e9uaI IN their result 10
ftc Industrious gears IN H1SconSin"
a kentuckian, who has been travelling
the Cincinnati Cola1ntbian, from Ooying-
ton, Ky:
Wisconsin from her location, and other
things, combined, must be the great North
Western State Bounded west by the
Mississippi river, east by Lake Michigan.
with prospect very soon of through
water navigation, from the Atlantic Ocean
to the Gulf of Mexico, through the very
heart of the State, by the way of the riv-
er improvement route as heretofore de-
scribed. The day is not far distant when
the whole State will be checkered over
with railroads, from Lake Michigan to the
Mississippi river, and from her Southern
boundary to Lake Superior, giving her
citizens the advantage and choice of the
Eastern and Southern markets AS an
agriculture State. she has no superior
The lands, generally fertile and undula
ting with a fair proportion of prairie land,
timber land and oak openings, lakes and
little streams in almost every direction
the climate is cold but healthy.
[ heard it stated that Wisconsin pro-
duced moro wheat than any other State
In the Union and [ heard it stated and
repeated again aud again. that from three
to five hundred bushels of potatoes per
acre could be relied on Again her min
eral resources, lead, iron, and copper, not
fully developed, were understood to be
very rich indeed Her pineries are bring
ing to the State about eight million dol
lars annually. Her water-power must
ultimately make her g great manufactu-
ring State The combination of her re
sources must make her very attractive to
emigrants seeking homes in the West
1t seems strange to an observer, when
he reflects upon the fact, that there are so
many farmers in the Eastern, Middle, and
South western States. owning small tracts
of land, with large families to support
that they do not go West, where they can
obtain land enough to give their children
homes Again. there is the land renter.
who might with small sum of money
procure home of his own, and have no
tyrannical landlord to modest or make him
afraid MENoMINEE.
Covington, KY, July %, 80
Hon. CHARLES UUDsoN, of Massachu
setts. writes letter to Col Brigham of
Blue Mounds, Dane Co, which appers in
the Madison J0UrndL He urges the far
fuence in building up manufactures and
a home market. In the course of the let
ter, he gives his impression of our State
as follows
" Wisconsin, enriched as she is by her
mineral treasures, must. like the rest Of
the Western States depend mainly upon
the products of the soil [ shall speak Of
it. therefore, principally in connexion with
its agriculture Its soil | suppose is not
as a whole, quite as productive as that Of
Illinois but its pure water, and more
bracing atmosphere will more than com
pensate for the difference in the soil
Not only the health of the inhabitants for
the time being, but the energy and vigor
of character which the climate induces
give your State an ultimate advantage
over the prairie State 1t has been said
with good degree of truth, that the char
acter of people will correspond with the
topography of the country they inha5it.
A fat level country with its stagnant
streams and lazy air, will naturally i'm
part its sluggish characteristics to it's in
habitants while a rough or rolling coun-
try with its bleak hills and rapid streams
will impart vigor and give to the people
the briskness of its waterfalls. The roll
ing character of the country, the purer
water, and the more invigorating climate
must give to Wisconsin many advantages
over the more Southern of the Western
States. At any rate, Wisconsin is, in
these important characteristics, better
adapted to the emigrants from the New
England States As the worth of state
must in the end turn upon the character
of it's inhabitants, that country is the most
valuable which produces the best men. and
that State will be the most prosperous
and happy whose climate gives the most
vigor and enterprise to its inhabitants =
On these principles, [ think can predict
with safety that Wisconsin is destined
to take high rank among the Western
States
WAR-A philosopher thus expresses
himself in regard to war =" A hundred
thousand mad animals whose heads ar'
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