Nebraska advertiser., 1857-08-13

IRON morse could not ma water enough
to quench his thirst, or enable him to
draw his burden. This section has
been filed up with Unprecedented
rapidity. The whole country for 100
miles from the Missouri river is now
taken up and occupied by pre-emptors
who are being subject to all the varie-
ties Of @Squatter life" Generally in
cabins IA feet square ; some built of
rough boards, some of poles and some
of sod, some with windows and doors,
SOM with doors and not windows,
some with windows and not doors, and
some with neither windows nor doors,
some with roofs and floors, some with
floors and no roofs and some with
neither roofs nor floors. Yet in these
are living highminded and honorable
men, some Of them graduates from our
eastern colleges and universities; and
refined amiable, and beautiful women,
from the best families in the older
States, sustained in their present pri-
vations by hopes of future good. May
their hopes be speedily realized.
That portion of Kansas and Ne
braska lying near the Missouri river
and extending back from $50 to 200
miles is by far the most desirable
1t is an important part Of the Missouri
valley; slightly undulating i~nterspers-
ed with abundant wood lands, broad
rivers and streams and provided with
a good supply of excellent waters
Being enriched by the annual wash
ings of the best properties of the soil
from the western high lands, which ex-
tend back to the summit of the Rocky
Mountains d distance of nearly a
thousand miles, they are probably the
richest lands in the world.
Their conHgpity on the-one hand
the Missouri river which viii always
furnish an outlet to their surplus pro-
duce, and on the other to the vast
western plains which must for many
years make a heavy demand on them
for bread stuff, stamps them with i'm
mense value to the emigrant who seeks
a home in the West. AS you go West
from the Missouri river the climate and
soil become more dry and the rains
less frequent, till at a distance of 3 or
4 hundred miles the rains fall as seldom
as they do in Egypt; and the soil,
though very rich, will probably fail to
yield a crop under thehand of ordinary
cultivation except of those grains and
vegetables which mature very early
in the season. 1t is covered with a
rich grass which springs up as soon as
) the snow leaves and has furnished ex-
) cellent pasture forthe vast herds of
, buffalo, on which they have fed and
fattened from time immemorial. These
| have, however, caught the spirit of the
age and like the rest of the world are
t moving West.
The climate varies with both the
latitude and longitude and in general
description will apply to the whole
| The North is bleak and cold--the West
) is exceedingly variable--the centre
l is dry eastern Kansas and southern
2 Nebraska are blessed withthe most de.
: sirable climate. They have the lati-
l tude of Maryland and Virginia, but
!, they have a much more mild, ever anC
: healthy climate. The heat Of summer
f and the cold of winter being a number
of degrees less. The bleak and almos
t constant winds render the winters un
e pleasant, but they add as much to thu
b pleasure of summer as they Diminish
: from hat Of winter. There is a brac
Z, ing and invigorating element in tn
g atmosphere not surpassed, we think
s in any part Of the United States
s making this region a desirable resor
r for persons of reduced constitutio:
; and feeble health.