The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-06-27
The East vs., the West.


In our recent trip we ascertained that we
of the "Great Vest have more friends, by
q good many, than we had supposed, and
friends of that nervous kind that express Il
great deal of concern for our safety and
1 wsll being and apprehension about our fu-
ture. They think we are running the ma
chine a little too fast, especially in the pres
ent condition of the track, and they greatly
fear that we are going to the d--l!"
After being much obliged for the timely
warning as well as the deep interest felt fol-
the safety of our Western communities, we
cannot help liking this fast travelling which
50 much alarms our friends. After scan
ming their slow and and measured pace, and
looking at their languid condition, we feel
rather reconciled to any fate they might be
disposed to fix for us. Ii we must decide
ON extremes we should tie down the safe
ty valve and let everything flutter! Our
sage friends may shake their knowing heads,
but If this be going to the ID We rather
like it.
A little tact enabled us to discover that
all their concern was not for us. They feel
a deep concern for us, but this is not so
overwhelming but that they feel also for
themselves! they complain that many good
citizens have taken their money and removed
to Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebras-
ka! This is undoubtedly true. But we
do not bclive for a moment that we shall
become bankrupt or "go to the devil" from
this cause. If our condition is so ~'unsound"
it is not likely to be made any worse from
this class Of emigrants. We shall continue
to welcome them to Iowa regardless of con-
sequences!
But we are accused of specializing to an
awful extent This is untrue. We are no
more guilty than others who live a good
many miles nearer sunrise.
But the great and overwhelming charge
against us is that we have got the price of
our lands too high-that these prices will
tumble down, and then will come a wreck !!
We think it would not be difficult to show
our friends at the east that when our lands
tumble down in price there will be such Il
fail in farm lands in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
other older States as shall make our calam-
ity a nero circumstance hardly worthy of
notice. In central Ohio rich farms well
improved are selling at from 500 to $50 per
acre! And people are making a great fuss
because lands in Iowa are selling at 81 to
SIS and even $40 an acre! When we 90 to
the ID wonder if our eastern friends won't
be aboard of the same train!
Here in the West we are bending all our
energies towards developing the esource
of the country. Our ideas, instead Of run-
ming upon horses and carriages, liveried SER
wants, palatial residences and five dollar
wines, are busily and actively employed in
building roads, opening mines, building,
manufactures and cultivating the soil. We
are hard upon the track of the Indian and
the Buffalo with the piow, and the locamo-
tive! The evidences of our industry and
energy as a people are ~palpable and seen
every where throughout our State.< Our
condition is as sound as the rest of the world
we maintain. But even were it as repre-
santed we would go to the ID n couple of
times and after that get rich while our cas-
tern friends were recovering from one
smash!
A few months more and good crops of
grain, fruits and vegetables will have been
secured, the public mind relieved of its APP
prehension, the expected crash and the look
Cd for comet will then be forgotten, and the
croakers s'lencnd for the next decade.
Buriinotou Harkeu, & TeLe yrnDh.