New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-02
ALIST LOOK AT THE WEST

Corresrondenee
GosHrs, Ind, Feb. 10, 1887.
The Nerth. West was never filing up and improving
20 rpio " A at this moment eesmats tina. half the
ipsrease OF populate throughout the Un'n WITHIN
the next ten yems will nure 10 she States and Tern
tories n I'll. west Of Indiana Were the Pubic Laass
akepsbs except TO actual settlers IN limited quaint
sts, this ipcres.s would be ssll grester.
But the number Of inhabitants m one OF these new
Western communities does lot fully exhibit their r'ia-
tive ..r.rg,h aad power. The nAsbtaats OF these
new States and Territories are nearly I'll IN me nush 81
youth or the prime of hfe. You rarely meet hare
women past fly Yeas Of sge; still more rar'iy n old
man; and lags portion Of the pioneers are TOO ysns
TO have had many chidSa In village hotel, cro~dse
with none, cd bssrdep-the merchants, bankers ana
chief mechanics Of the psce-two-thrds OF them Will
of en- be urd between twentytb ard thirty years
OF sse-ther wives, Of course, still younger. hmcs
Wncor sra Iowa and Minnesota must to day nave An
sggree ate population Of ct least Two and H.f Mil
ho.s who are equal in Industrial capacity to an sggre
gate of -Four Millions IN Europe or New-EDgiasd.
| note fe ser traces Of the ravsges Of bilious ds-
es.es than I bad expected. Nov and then meet
caosvsrou. youth with face shsrpeped by ssue into
ME rude resemblance 70 sharp pointed Prsne-piov;
but Fever and Ague is evideoty less formidable than
it was twenty years ago; and shs increasing use OF
steam mills nsiesa Of those propelled by water Is a.
ready .xertDg saatsry influence. Deep wells, DRAM
ing and cultivation will render the Prspie States emil
nebthy healthy. The prairie winds are net always
pleasant but they purity the atmosphere and invSor'
ate the people.
When il il iustly urged that the Prairie States lack
Timber, it should be added thN they are generally
be,t with an abundance Of Coal. Ia many instances
at KswHnee for .Ismpietbis fuel crops oat in the
banks of creeks bot fes feet below the general sur.
lace Of he county and hardy . ME from station
on the BsrliDRton Railroad. The veins nesrest the
surface are rather thin, and the quality . barely
miodhg; but It il confidently believed thu. pursr and
thicker trsta undsrke these, wbhe any iolsrsoie Coal
IA preciou, in q country % sCaihy wooded. At pres
EFT the Railroads Of IGnnis and Iowa psy higher
average for their fuel san do those of York and
they bum much green, poor stun at tnat Trains on
he souihem Michigan often lose IN hour or more In
the frst forty miles out Of Chicago and miss ooa-
pecibn at Toledo, simply because the wood provided
for them st Chicago hardly be pusuadsd to make
steam Yet Noru ern Indiana, hardly fifty miles ficm
Chicago. is very fairi, wooded. How mu,h logger
must We wait for the proper apparatus for running CO.
gre. BY the conbrrs,a Of GOAL all engines are run
in II gland and throughout the grsssr part Of Esrope
know thst eur coal 10 tomewhst different from the
Bifsb but should that render it's use for locomotives
IN possiblc
IheM general complaints Of the Winter-klning Of
young fruit and psmsnt. trees by the severe cold of
list Winter with natural sppr-hensieas tibet the late
Siberian cold viii have proved equally fatal II 10 my
impression that more trees hin,d By water at their
roos than BY frost in the atmosphere, and good uu
derdrsn beneath . row Of young apple-tfees wsuld
insure them sg.nst freezing out. AT al events, too
few sees, whether Fruit or Shade, are ,nted, while
ose planted are often le upcHed for to hive or ole as
may happen. There Il Lack Of nurseries, but they
are not et pstronstd a. they should be.
The fund amt u al evil here encountered is the nOmsd
ic tepotncy and bsbh Of the people. The men who
ore bndng up the villages Of lsst years origin on the
iscipept Railroads Of Iowa, were last year Dong the
lite IliiDois and three years since IN OHIO de
who 10 dong well in the newest settlement Is look
Dg sharply around for . chance to do better IN Ne
brssha along the lines Of she railroads leading
hrher which sUcn 10 be constructed. Only the
few have received - I've and die where they
located AID tbese AIOus feel any hearty interest in
t.e-phnhDg aid knered Improvements. 1t may be
that the village lots which woe yesterday p'senpssd
or bought At Government prse per acre, would sell
better they were well planned; bat that Is 'sdious
uDe erskg, ana the spssulstr deems il easier to ss
them 40 they are and rush ahead 70 seize the next
chance for similar sperstsn. OLy population
solved 10 rive and Ole On mis- soa will snrioh and
be. nifty it by see-pabsug on the scale required.
Yet here sre v,bsgss of decided promise-Auraa,
which Srst fopsd lees Msn ten years ago, hamlet
Of FIVE o, six bsDdr.d people, . now n embryo CITY
offve or sr Asussnd DIXON 10 nearly ~ populous;
G.lesburg thssgA much younger, is quite a. large;
Pnet,oa the aptAl Of Bureau County, must have
sone two Or three thousand Inhabitants, though its
growth bas bees slower man that Of AnOst any vii.
kge n Northern Illinois. hardly kos " aDother so
srrsetive 10 the traveller Who has eye 10 business.
But the Isilrosd villages which have within the ax
two or fhres years sprung up bon nothing n brisk
hade and pspslst,-D Of 10 t~o thousand are
worth study. Host OF thee, Iejoioe to say have
oiieiDa ana peeuh1 DsDes-Keohub, Ks~apee, e.
gin, GOvy, Dement,, Da Page. WyOnet, for example
boz bbhely preferable these 70 the nau -eons repei
ton Of WashiDgSn hsdisss, O,uton, Jaokrcn &c.
Here are t~o Geneva within hat days ride of each
otbr-ons 10 nrnos, the other n wsconsin. Such
confusion Of tongues ought 10 be forbidden by law.
Let township or village 70 without O. desgnals Il
~ iisnunber hike eur uptown streets, until ia absb
rabu can agre upon ,ene stls which gill Distinguish
1t rom all cher places this Continent Better
jaw-bresiisg ssnusica name than one whioh mis-
Iesds ssd h nnesDng
The Bpsir z rush 10 Kansas from all this Western
'eesn ~ig be trensAdsus. Already piooeers have
been 'ebt sst rom nsOF every village, and by May
he emeratsa from Ihb ois . one may be counted by
tbeusaIds Wveon sr viii sspd hos IaSisna, l
ihn L. ere ,bn grvs,er; IN sbort the F"e West is
alr.sey preparing to s.srr. e~ vi be fngbs.osl
Ut Of ii. II purpose by any bold DENIM srs,on % the
part Of the Border Rssns; but the gtea, mas wild