Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-06-18

abroad should also possess no foreign pre-
iudice TO bisstheir official action.
Here follow the signatures Of nearly aii
the nor,hern delegates, EXCEPT those OF
New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
although the two latter delegations are
understood to coincide in the above views.
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The Rsauiy and Riches Of the fraaies.
A correspondent Of the Cleveland Plain.
dealer, who has lately travelled through the
interior OF lows, happily sketches the beau.
~ and riches of the prairies in the follow.
ing paragraphs:
The number of people penetrating Iowa,
prospecting. is astonishing. Stages are
| Inadequate 10 the travel; private convey
ances are brought into use throughout the
whole length of the State, and some are
seen footing it, with their packs across their
shoulders, They are moneyed men, after
land, to speculate on thu sharks OF the coun-
try. There are some honorable exceptions,
dowever.
The crops Of lows were never better
All the inhabitants with whom have con-
yersed tell the same story, and IL you can
Judge from appearances, there will be an
Astonishing yield Wheat and corn is
picture worthy the pencil Of she Great Ar
list.
The price of land is high. Out of curl
osity asked farmer few miles out oil
| Burlington, whose farm joins that of the
Hon. Chas Mason, of the United States
Patent Office, wha; he would take for his
farm. He replied two hundred and Fifty
dollars per acre. As high as the price
seems, believe that money could be made
st it, and cannot be done anywhere in Ohio.
The price, of course, 10 high, but am told
that good improved farms can be bought be-
tween Burlington and Mt. Pleasant, not 10
miles distant from Burlington, at from ten
to twenty dollars per acre.
So beautiful do these rich, rolling prai-
ries appear TO stranger, cannot refrain
from giving you the apt expr ession made
by lady from the East, who was going 10
Dixon with my friend Mckinney of this
county. TIE lady had repeatedly seemed
| exchsnt ed With the beautiful scenery around
and at enc descending slope Of the broad
prairie, she begged Of Nc to stop and let
her "rolI down the hill" 80 enchanting did
it appear.
A gentleman just returned from cir
cuitous trip through Iowa, gave me an ink
ling of,he Shaking in public lands OF Iowa.
Spectators crowd the land Office, and If
they see some person come in who appears
to have been out looking one of the comps
nv hangs to his side, and finds out TIE facts,
perhaps tells him that he himself has just
been out looking, and found fine lands up
here, OF cut there; he then finds out where
the other person had looked, and what his
opinion OF the land is; they sometimes letout
their intentions what sections or quarter
sections they have made up their minds TO
take. In the meantime, the shark in CON-
pany steps up and enters the very piece,
and by management they fitch the man
out of hundred or two dollars TO REIN
quish his claim, and hund.ed other meth
DDS are adopted to cheat. Perhaps they
are taking from shark as well, for tits in
some cases dog ca, dog glme.
These great iron ways are making the
rich lands in Iowa aud Illinois more vaiua-
Bile than the less fruitful Of Ohio, Pennsyl-
vana and New York. Their great produc-
tons, and now the ready facility for trans
porting their produce to market, raises their
value clear above the lands Of the East
| Why is not the land Of Illinois more valua.
BILE than that of New York; II viii pro-
! duce as much again, will never in one life
time wear out,ss there are farms here that
have produced corn twenty years consecu-
lively, and the present crop Is as good as
any OF it's predecessors. Your guano finds
no market cut here, and mandres are mat
tiers OF no interest TO the farmer OF the prai-
ries. You may as well leave your long dis
sert iiions on compost out Of your agricultu-
rsl works. They don't read them.
A fGrrow mile long and as s.raightas
string 10 common. "Sod corn" is being put
in the ground now in great quantities.
This 10 simple process, and an economical
process Of breaking the virgin soil. One
man COWS slight cast OF corn over the
black prairie, and another pows it under
the green sod. Enough viii spring up and
come to maturity to pay the labor Of fenc-
ing. This 10 the common process Of first
tresking up the new soil. To plow-boy
from the New England hills, these straight
long furrows would make him cry out for
very Joy, and If he had the soul and senti-
ment Of the Eastern lady Of whom spoke
Of he would want to lay down and roll across
one.
One prophetic remark and have done
for the present. The States of Illinois
and Iowa will, within the coming FIVE years,
increase more rapidly than any other in th,
Union Mark that.
A scheme is now in process Of in cubation