The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-06-18

more relling. The larger openings are
lnterspersed wirh elumps Of timber, and
the smaller ones are surrounded by it
This gives to the face Of the country the
appearance of an old settled region. Fon-
du-lae and Marquette Counties, both di-
reetly west from this, are principally prai-
ries, and Marquette County which has
hardly seen the face of white man un-
til within ten years, with it's clean, level
farms and It's handsome groves of timber,
shows signs Of wealth, and bears great re-
semblance to the older Counties of New
York and Pennsylvania.
Farms in this (Sheboygan) county, are
worth from five to forty dollars per acre,
depending Of course upon their location
and Improvement The soil compares
faVorably with that of any part of Penn
sylvania, or any other state [ have ever
seen. Thirty bushels of wheat per acre
| is an average crop. This was worth last
! fall, about 90 cents, and now is worth
| 81 20, and Sl,25 per bushel The finest
wheat growing section of the west is said
to be in this county, and in the other
counties west Of this and in the same lat
iitude. The wheat that is gathered and
shipped at this post, commands uniform
ly five to ten cents more per bushel than
that shippd at Milwaukee
At present the business of sending off
produce is principally confined to the
summer season, when navigation is open.
Another summer the Lake Shore r. r.
will bu finished to this place, when ali
the facilities can here be afforded for
trade, either in summer or in winter,
that are now found at Milwaukee, The
Sheboygan and Mississippi r. r. which
is now in course Of construction, and the
eastern section of which will be running
this season, will attract large share of
western business. La Crosse is directly
west from this point, and the produce 60
ing east by water conveyance, as it all
does when the lake is open, will come to
this port, in preference to posts farther
south, where the distance of conveyance
by Railroad is considerably greater, and
from where it must be shipped immedi-
ately back to this post on its way east
With lake shore Railroad, western
Railroad, a good harbor, and fine farm
ing country all around to rely upon, it
does not seem unreasonable to believe
that this place is destined to become
city, as well in reality as in name.
The climate here is about the same as
in northern Pennsylvania. Spring comes
no earlier, but frosts in the fall do not
make their appearance until four or six
weeks later here than there, and it is a
rare thing for any kind of crops to be
injured by the frost in the fall. There
is less rain here than there, [ have seen
but very few rainy days since my resi-
dence here. Snow at no time fell more
than two or three inches during the month
Of April, while [ see from the papers,
! there was from two to three feet in the
east. Still I am inclined to think the
climate no warmer here than in northern
Pennsylvania and the chief superiority
it seems to possess, is the lateness of cold
weather in the fall Here, on the west
side, the wind from the lake is not cold,
| and two or three miles in from the shore
is not felt at ALL The health of the
country in this section, seems not mate
rally different from what it is with you.
Physicians say it is poor country for
them-that there are no local diseases,
nor any tendency to any particular dis
ease. Fever and ague, that great bugbear
of all westerndom, is unknown here, nor
are other fevers more prevalent here than
elsewhere.
The population Of the city and county
is rapidly increasing. Last year there
were two hundred dwellings erected in
the city. Eligible business situations
have more than doubled in value in two
years. One hundred dollars per foot
(front) is the price at which fairly loca-
ted lots are now selling. Land through
out the country is also rapidly rising
although owing to the ''hard times
there is not so mnch changing hands thi.
spring as usual. There is some emigra
, ton, from this county principally, to Kan
sas. But few go TO Minnesota from thi
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