Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-22

- 49, - thingv II - west
Ibese III bran spliatsr-Ane new town, ~
about 10y days Old, IN Nebraska Territory.
vith The tes0siful na,as Of Wyoming, situated
1t u eeion Of The Missouri and the Weepinp
Wasss. he cisissa@ u this isian. city have
already asessd bridge over the Weeping Wa.
ter and are building rapidly. They hare . good
landing, IN advansag eous sise e lie mouth Of
fertile and beautifsl valisy. The Wyoming
Telescope ,ths 4sh number II which l. before
Us, thus describes
The weeping Water vallsy.
There i no part Of the territory 20 beautiful.
10 fertile, and 70 veil adapted 70 agriculture .s
| the valley II The Weeping Water. There i NO
part Of the territory that has combination Of
50 many advantages for settlement and cult:va.
ton - this valley. Al the mouth there il
large body Of the finest timber in the territory.
Immediately below the mouth IL Wyoming with
the best landing on the Missouri river, and the
best facilities for building City Along the
bluds Of the Weeping Water, on either side
there is an inexhaustible supply Of limestone.
sandstone, Gc., and along the stream there is
large tracts of the most beautiful and fertile
bostom land that ever lay exposed TO the rays Of
the sun. The bottom ranges from one to two
miles from one bluff TO the other, and SO high
above the bed Of the stream that 1t never over
flows, even in she highest stages Of this rapid
and powerful stream.
d This celebrated stream meandcrs through
this perfectly level-bottom land, or rather grad.
uai inclined plains which has slight slope from
the bluffs to the stream, and also slope to cor
respond with the fall of the water. The banks
Of the stream are skirted with timber nearly
every foot Of its length, and at many points has
large groves of splendid timber, afording an |
ample supply for all purposes. The bluffs rise
rather abruptly from the apparent dead level Of |
the bottom land, and then widen out into the |
most beautiful rolling prairie lands, interspcrs.
ed with fine groves of timber and furrowed out |
with almost innumerabie clear and sparkling
rivnlets, formed from springs ST crystal water,
gushing forth from the virgin soil of the prai-
ries, or from the dense forests of underground
along the banks OF these beautiful streams, and
often from the rocks that form the base of all |
this valley, and which project from the bluffs at
every abrupt elevation.
Our eastern friends would naturally infer from
the circumstance of there being so much in this
region that it would become pest and nu-
sancc, judging our country by their own; but
this is not the case. You may break thousand
acres in body, either on the bottom or upland,
and you will not find q stone large enough to
kill bird with. There is neither stone nor
gravel on the suaface, but the soil is black
loam and vegetable mould, which varies from
two to ten feet deep, and is exceedingly fertile.
When you pass up the Weeping Water, some
six miles, it there parts into two branches, call
ed the north and the south Weeping Waters-
Each of these branches spread out into smaller
streams, at each Of which are groves of timber
ut short intervals.
There is stone coal in abundance along both
Of these branches, and first rate mill sites, the
streams dashing over their rock base with never
ceasing murmurs, and at intervals, leap precip-
lately for several feet over perpendicular cliffs.
There is hardly mile at any place for distance
of forty miles from the Missouri that does not
liford good fall for water power.
There has been much said in commentator of .
he Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, both in :
poetry and prose, but the Weeping Water val
ey far surpases that celebrated and romantic
ALLEY Of the old Key Stone. ..
Poetry can never do justice to such land
cape as this valley presents to view from the
own Of Wyoming. 1t embraces great por-
ion Of Cass and Oteo counties, the line of the ,
wo counties being near the junction with the
Missouri river.
This valley is destined to be the most popu- .
Gus and wealthy part of Nebraska, and Wyo-
ming the greatest commercial city.