Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (City of Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1853-1857, 1855-11-27

called .KausSxilla. and tKo.nr thtee 1oFt1
erected. After this II, the town and pep
alasson Of the county began rapidly &C. n,s
crcate, and now Potfawastamie Is o.
popalous oountyin Western Iowa,
Far several reasons, this county bseaa
hastily settled, and the best locatieps secured
at ap early day--one of which b the EXCEL
lent market here for every thing, md anoth-
|er, the fact that.it il directly On SIC ~
|thorpughfare from theAslaaiic to t u
aud the certainty q thisf beiag TIM aitiAf
point for the great Pacific railroad, and .
great Quitting point for The thousands cross
ing the Plains.
improvements, Towns, SC.
There are now numerous mills scattered
over the whole Missouri slope. In our own
county, there are some eight or ten saw and
grist mills, but not half enough to supply the
wants of the community. Lumber is worth
from s25, to $40, per thousand. Many fine
farms are opened and cultivated and the
farmers are commencing to improve their
tRnAs~ish 0good class u buildings. Farms
may be opened at small expense good
single ditch can be made for 40 cents per rod,
and the prairie broke for about 50, per acre.
4 number OF towns and cities have sprung
up, whose size and population are rapidly
increasing. Among which, in Fremont Co,
the County Seat is Sidney, handsome and
thriving town of 1000 or /, 200 inhabitants.
Coming Northward, the next Is Tabor, the
commencement of neat county town. Glen
wood, the County Seat of Mills county, is a
most thriving and beautiful place, contain
Ing thousand or more inhabitants, with or
5 stores, 2 or 3 public houses, two mills,
with other necessary business houses and me-
ch,,nics, is twenty miles south Of this city ON
keg Greek, and is destined to become an i'm
portant and thriving place. st. Mary, on
the Missouri, and in the same county, small
place that is very prettily situated, ana has
much improved in the past season This
place is opposite Bellevue in Nebraska
lranistan, IN Cass county, forty miles east of
this city, on the main stage and railroad route
from the east. is very beautifully located
place on tho Nitchnabotna river, has good
mills and fine public houses, and must become
a niceinlald town, Most excellent farms are
oTenea around, and a great spiritof improve
maEt prevails there. As we 90 north from
this city Il miles, we first come to Americas,
a town recently surveyed at REEFS mills
The proprietor has erected large and splen-
did house, which is nearly completed. An
excellent aud fertile farming country sur
rounds this place. About % miles north Of
this city, on the road TO Sioux City, in Har-
rison county, a well timbered and beautifully
watered region, Calhoun. thriving aud fast
growing town, is being built, having already
some twenty or more houses, most of which
have been built this soason-two stores are
doing . good business there--good farms in
the region ana mach stock is raised in the
vicinity. Magnolia, the County Seat. is also
quite smart place and promises to become a
town Of considerable note. Ashton, %
miles above, IS a site its, surveyed on beau
tiful cniincucc and surrounded by an excel
lent agricultural region. s.sgent Bluff, still
north, and an hundred miles isom this city,
is ayoung place Of fifteen or twenty houses,
and situated On the Missouri river, some if
teen miles below Sioux City. Some stirring
fellows have gone there to settle who will
make place out of it if good location and
energy will do anything. Sioux City, one
hundFcd and fifteen miles north, on the Mis-
souri, river contains the Land Office for the
Sioux River District, is a newly located place
and one that bids fair to be second in iInpor
lance to none Of the cities of the West, ex-
cePt this city. 1t is on Il line directly west
Of Dubuque, from which place road is now
opened via. It. Dodge. 1t is said that that
is an excellent agricultural and grazing dis
trct, well timbered and abundantly watcred
with good rock and stone coal. Tn the Lit
Ito Sioux, in the same county, (Woodaurv)
some soyenty-fVc miles, a nice, nourishng
and we'll located town, called SmithlanJ i
laid out and finely progressing with improve
mcnts. A number Of towns of less macni-
tude are laid out and progressing in various
parts Of Western Iowa, but our limits forbid
more special notices at present. This whole
region israpidly becoming populated by the
thousands that are coming eyery month to
seize upon the rich and valuable lands that
are waiting to make happy homes for the
poor and homeless.
Productions.
Amos every kind of grain and vegstab les
that are grown in the northern and western
states arc abundantly produced here psrtic-
ularly including wheat, corn, oats, barley,
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