Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-04-08
The territory of Wisconsin is larger than Ell

The territory OF Wisconsin IS larger than ell
TIER New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio or Indiana
The latter by tie last census bad population
Of eco 0f0 the next before GOO, coo, the second
3oG0, GOO, and the first, in round numbers, 4'ooo'-
GOO Wisconsin has richer soil than n / ork'
and more acres susceptible of cultivation than
New York or Pennsylvania The ). T. counties
If Wisconsin are the only settled portions OF Inc
State. whilst the north and northwest are CON-
paratiyeIv a v iIderness. Taking the population
of New York as 1890 600 for our data OF calcu-
lafjon. and taking into account that she has a
Iarrer proportion OF sterile land than IseonslD,
and that the city and environs may be regarded
IS national and dependent upon position, we
may safely give the rural districts 100000, and
moreover we're size as densely populated as
slszsaeh usetts, she would have 6,000,oUU these
hei7.- the data, and Wisconsin one-fourth larger,
could coa,ain 100000 with the same number
( to the square nile. Taking the growth OF Ohio
and Indiana IS q data Tor Wisconsin increase,
/ we can safely predict IN FIVE years eGO00O IN
habitants in ten years 100000, in fifteen years,
500 csc, in twenty-five years 3,00000o IN iittIy'
/ 5G00.o09 These are subjects challenging Tie
attention and interest Of al DESTROYS OF seeking
q home, and a State with special advantages
The advantages presented in the preceding
impress every visitor to the State, and have in
duced greatly tie Improvements we have sim
Fly glanced a.. Tie Chairman Of the Board OF
/. Trade of the Chamber Of Commerce OF Clncln-
/ natl, visited tins State last summer. We know
( the writer, and 40 man Is better qualified By
travel. reading and obsery alton to give correct
opinion tlan lie. Tie following extract from .
letter written during summers tour viii ex-
IibiJit lis opinion Ct the present, and from II
We may dedgce future greatness of the State.
4 Correspondents Of the Cincinnati G1-rtte, o.
Of the 9Th Ct August, 1855, says;
zone regularity, wherever Travelled II " IS
eonsin, struck ire forcibly, viz f: the apparent
high degree Of culture, cleanliness and thrift
ness Of the farms There is not half so much
10 remind one Of a aca country as there is in
OHIO and Indiana, and tlisis attributable chisFs
to the fact that almost every quarter section IL
is natural state, Is ready for blowing AID fen
chg, without the labor of telling trees enoUgh
to burden the navy Of tie world and party to
the fact that the class Of settlers are otf-shoo's
from tie hardy aud industrious sons Of New
ENGLAND. OF the farmers Of Western New York
and Northern Ohio. FIFTY YEARS LABOR IN y
ExGIASp, or TWENTY YEARS TOLL II Ono, ARE NOT
EQUAI. ~ THEIR RESULTS 70 FIVE INDUSTRIOUS EARS
- U,zroxz,y T"
Here is told in plain, simple and concise Ian
euace. facts that could not be more foreIbly OF
trutLfuIlv deliueated in q column, and are the
observations Of a man whose opportunities and
capabilities for Judging, are equal to any man
in tie Union.
Tie Legislature of our State have fixed the
rate Ct interest by contract 1t u per cent, and
have repealed all lirws FORGETTING the principal if
interest beyond this sum be agreed on. Our
laws now, whilst fixing the rate At II per cent,
require tender Of the principal. before a ruit
can be brought TO recover any excess, giving a
freedom to the value o. money, unknown il any
other State IN tie Union. We doubt not this
viii bring the surplus capital Of other States TO
I ours, and win aid in developing our valuable
+ resources.