New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-01
MATTERS IN THE WEST.
Conesnopdenee Of The N. 7. Tribune.

QUINCY, ILL.,, Nov 10, 1891.
During two weeks business tour through Illinois
and Iowa have passed thousands Of acres Of corn no:
yet harvested for the want Of help, and still every
New Yolk paper look into is filed with reports of
proceedings of the unemployed in New York, who
thIe ate desperate deeds OF violence unless they can
be supplied with work. Now, if these men really
ant work have they ueaus of going where plenty
Of lie TO be had II not some means should be adopt
ed to aid them going, for il is bad that vast fields OF
grain sGould be destroyed for want OF men to harvest
tt EN-, while men, women ard children are aotqa ~
starving for want Of an opportunity to earn their daily
bread. One farmer 10 lIGois told me lev days .lace
Ii be had lost not ess than five hundred bushels Of
wheat this for the want OF help, and that he
knew of maLy others who had been sufferers from the
came ca He coulc not ncld out Inducements tor
high sges during the Winter, bat he bad no DOUBT
but hurdred men in bis town tS,erlngl could hnd
employment among the farmers at mere than enough
to board ard clohe them during the WINTER and 10 the
Spiipg at full prces.
AVG female labor is in still greater demand. Mr..
WaikiDs. a gentleman conLected with the Dement,
House, Fulton City, Ill. Ia rst-'ate hotel by tbs way
was posilive he could find employment for hundred
good girls dOnestics in that town alone, a. wages
rot lees than 81 so per week, and probably for as
many in Lyons, directly across the river any
are now paying their domestcs from 81 ~ TO - per
The piice from 81 so to 81 ihave made inquiries at
many different points through which have passed,
and fId about the same demand for laoo and from
the best Information can GAIN have NO hesitation IN
urging all beth male and female, who cannot get en-
ploy Mt at remunersng prices in our Eastern ctes
TO cOntIive wIy to get West az soon as possible
Ii matters bnt little where if taey are only aoie and
ling TO work there will be no dlfii ultv ID hndng
eIougn 10 d. Seamsresses are also IN good demand,
ard hose qualified TO teach may De equally certain OF
employment IT,.
cities who if they have energy ard bu noes cap Aelty,
may be sufe OF ind1g at the West something tina:
they can turn their hands to- few days since
chanced to fall in company with farmer living near
Iowa City. He had fer several years been book
keeper in Cncilna but believing farmer life the
most ndt pendent, bought him d farm and weat =
work. He found it rather ba:d scrubbing for tSo or
three yesIs to sock bis farm, procure machines, ",
but he peisevered and this year ms has so,d SlOOOO
worth If produce from bis farm-not at tue ruling
pIices, no .eyer for he Cakes the papers, aud had
The good to contract bis wheat and barley at 81,
ard Lis pork a. six cents last Jure. lis neShbors
laughed him then fer contracting his whe Il and
barley low; but now, while they arc selling theirs
ct 40 cept he laughs at them for not taking the papers
Probably they thought they could not afford the
expense.
The bard times have had tendercy to chespen
lsIcs in son e psrts Of Iowa. From Davenport 70
Iowa City il said that there very good lands for
sale 8, a0 ut Sl2 Per acre. that have besn held at
from go 10 $50, end come have been offered still
lower, but from BurI gto to Mount Pleasant lands
art held from $50 to $50 per There penty
of coed farming lands still for sae 10 llnois ut $40
per acre that will pay for themselves 10 one year.
Mr. Walker Of Springfield related one iocident to the
point he sold farmer bot OF land at $40 per acre,
Which produced the fTst season % bushels Of wheat
10 the acre. paying for the land the expense OF rails
ing it, al giving the farmer about % per acre clear
profit but that when wheat brought 81 par
bushel.
There is one great drawback TO this Westen coun
try There are boussnds Of of the very best OF
Wild lanes held by Eastern spectators that ought to
be improved. Some Of hese spectators have hsd the
good TO seLd their cousins or nephew or some
body else who vsnted chance TO ~o'k on to these
lards who IL the space Of three or four years have
put :bt III under good state Of cultivation and msde
enough 10 buy good farms Of their owD besde greatly
enhancing the valueo the laads % the owners, and
converting them into sources OF reverus, instead Of
remaining dead weight tor annual taxes. If al
Essten spectators would send an enterprsng young
ia, mer to cultivate each egh yscre lot Of ther West
EN- lands there would rot co many Of them be Obliged
TO sell their lands to pay their debts, and ten Thousand
hspJy fire sides would beAr witness TO their good
uden eft.
While the West bears nsry striking evidences OF
progress there some nuisAnces almost unoearaos,
ore Of which is the practice OF rosssiog Passengers
alive in the care. The on the Chicago and Bar
Jetn route very badly managed in this respect.
Not satisfied With sutjectng The passengers TO the dry
heat Of red bot stove they have closed al the ven
tsiorS tt at not breath Of the foul Cir can escape
except by the opening Of windows TINS suoeetns the
pare myers st;iIg by them TO freezing cold on one
side and an oven heat the other. Ia such diem
ma to choose the least Of the two evils is difficult
D alter. Any ole who has the misfortune to be but
"bsf baked should by all me ans take night train
from Builr gtop 10 Chicago and II he does not come
ont done brown it is because there ia no virtue in
dry hickcry.
be Irouc to take few lessons in fsical education
They could undoubtedly make money by Il for their
nassepgers might then possibly live to ride another
dsy o. H.