The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-11-07


Of its people.
Neither has this in crease of wealth and
Improvement been confined to the rura,
districts alone. Towns have sprung up
where marts are almost daily crowded
with active, busy, energetic men, each of
which in this fast, progressive age, is
bending every nerve to outstrip his neigh
Dor in the race for wealth. True, there
we're towns here years ago--paper towns
but most of them have long since been
converted into fields that have borne ma
ny rank crops of corn to their proprie-
tors. ..a+as sass--z 90
First, among the towns that now are,
stands Upton, both for business and ex
tent Of population. Twenty years it had
no existence. we'll recollect the spot
ere stake was set or plat drawn to in
dicate that at some future day city
might be built thereon. And have
watched the dusky form of the Saukie
warrior as he pressed with eager but wa
ry step and with the unerring certainty
Of the slot-hound the trail of the strick-
en- deer where now stands hotels and
shops and dwelling, and have seen the
grim wolf aud her whelps skulk away
among the long grass like guilty things,
as they are, fearful that the avenser was
upon their track. No one at that time
did, no one could hav. dreamed that in
few years town. city, would arise
there, where temples "To the living Cod
would be erected, where high schools
would be established within whose walls
science, literature and morality should
impart their benefits to scores of the
youths OF the county-where lawyers,
merchants, mechanics and laborers would
congregate and minglc together in the
busy streets; where ambition should plot
and toll with unwearied brain for the
emoluments and petty authority which
office gives, and where the press should
send out its weekly heralds, dispensing
the intelligence of the day to the swarm
ing thousands which the county contains
And yet all this is now literal fact.
On the ground so lately wild, now
in graceful beauty stands the town of
Upton. Though it may not compare
with many cities in Iowa for wealth, pop
nlation or architectural splendor, yet for
pleasantness of appearance, simple neat
ness, and plain, tasteful structure, it
stands, as it will for long years to come,
THE QUEEN OF THE PRAIRIEs.
There are many other fine places that
have just begun to assume the village
form, and towards which business now
tends, that are but the germs of what
they are ultimately y destined to be; and no
citizen can look upon these towns in their
present forms, and upon our rural dis
triets in their increasing prosperity, and
not feel proud of "Old Cedar" Her
present, however, is but the incipient sta
ges of her prosperity, and the time is
fast approaching when she will be excell-
ed by but few counties in the State
When her full resources shall be develop
ed, when the capacity of every rod of
land shall be tested by the application of
that knowledge which science is now un-
folding to the agricultural world; when
fifty thousand souls shall be sustained up
on her soil; when her hydraulic power
shall be applied to the manufacture of the
raw material that can be produced in
abundance upon her lands; when the va
rieties of her productions shall be in
creased, and her citizens shall not only
bind the corn but press the grape, not
only thrcsh the wheat but pluck the ripe
fruit from the bending boughs of the ap-
pie, pear and peach; and when her sur
plus wealth instead of being counted by
thousands, as it now is, shall be told in
millions, she will then present condi-
tion not inferior to the richest and most
productive districts in the State of Iowa.
And with the present ratio of increase
and improvement, all this will be accom-
plished ere many years elapse.
There is now population Of twelve
thousand, and the number continually
augmenting, and yet there is room for
more. There is still land-good land
acres by hundreds over which the plow-
share has never run, from whose exhaust
less fertility no haryests have never been
reaped, on which may be made beautiful
homes, around which wealth may gather,
and where elegance and luxury may find
fitting repose. All that is necessary to
produce these results arc industry, intel.
ligence and perseverance. These three
agents have made Cedar county what il
j., and upon them reliance is placed for
carrying out the expectations of what i,
will be.
THE FARMER OF CopswooD.
October oath, 1857.