Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-27
From the Fay etteville Observer.
REMOVING TO THE WEST

From the Fay ettevlle Observer.
REMOVING TO THE WEST.
There is remarkable similarity between
the views of the Senior Editor of the Bal
timore American Farmer, Gas expressed in
the article below,) and those of our fellow
citizen j. G. Blocker, Esq, whose letters
through this paper gave very brief sketch
of the impressions of the "great West" du:
ring his late visit there. In conversation,
Mr.. Blocker, has more fully stated his views
than he had time to do in writing whilst
travelling, or since his return. That ehey
coincide with those of the Baltimore editor
no better evidence need be offered than these
two facts: With the exception of locating
a single lard warrant which he carried from
this place, Mr.. Blocker did not invest one
dollar, of either his own funds or those of
his friends which he carried with him. in
western lands. But he stopped in Georgia,
on his way home, and bought tract of land
on the Cape Fear, the owner of which lived
in Georgia. He says that he knows of no
lands in the country which will pay better
as an investment for planting or for impro-
wing than Cape Fear lands at present prices.
Those who know Mr.. Blocker need not be
told that he is a shrewd, intelligent, ener-
getic, selfmade man and knows what he is
about. The following is from the Baltimore
Patriot -
FARMING IN THE WEsT.-The intelli-
gent and estimable senior editor of the Amer
lean Farmer was one of the party who COM
posed the recent great railroad excursion to
the Wost. He Was as might haye been ex-
pected, keen observer of the agricultural
characteristics of the twenty-six hundred
miles of country through which he passed
and he AYERS that he has returned to his
home with the full conviction, that for ag-
ricultural purposes, there is no necessity for
any man in Maryland or Virginia to change
his location-that with only half the energy
and industry which it will be necessary for
him to employ in the West, he can do far
better in the Middle and Southern States.
We heard similar opinions expressed bv 9th.
er observant gentlemen during the same trip.
1t is true that the fertility of the virgin soil
of the West offers at first glance very temp
ting advantages to the hardy and industri-
Gus settlers, but there are serious drawbacks
to be taken into consideration by those who
desire to emigrate. # is manifest in the
first place that spectators have bought up n
large proportion of the lands, which they
hold at prices much higher than come with
in the means of the ordinary class Of agri-
cultural emigrants. But assuming that they
have means to purchase farm, they must
yet be content to pass many years of severe
labor before they can surround themselves
with the home comforts to which they have
been accustomed in the older States. There
is the land to clear and fence, house and
outbuildings to erect, roads to cut, domestics
farm hands to hire at extravagant wages and
difficult to procure in many instances at al
most any sum. Luxuriaut crops are of little
use to the possessor, if he cannot command
suficiency of force to house them safely
while their transportation to aremote market
takes largely from their value. The comfort
of q home everywhere depends mainly upon
the assistance that can be obtained in con.
Quoting the rougher details of household af-
fairs-in the educational facilities afforded
the younger members Of the family. and in
the reasonable proximity Of public worship.
Ifthose who immigrate to the newer States
and territories would but apply the same
energy they are obliged to use there to the
renovation of the ill farmed lands of the At
lantic border, and would consent to wear
homespun, to live in log houses, and, es-
chewing all luxurious appliances, be satis6-
ed to live upon the products of the home
stead, they could acquire competence with
more ease in settled neighborhoods than on
the fertile and sparsely populated prairies of
the great West. They would moreover be
enabled to enjoy that social intercourse
which is essential to the we'll being of every
class of persons, and living under fixed laws
among people accustomed to respect private
rights, would be far more secure in person
and property. 1t is also unquestionable that
improved land in the older States more rap
idly appreciates in price than in the new, by
reason of the greater density of population,
and the greater value Of fertile soils within
easy distance of good market, We believe
that no one need 90 West with view to
make money by farming, who is willing to
apply the same amount of labor and to live
in the same style on the seaboard.
The following article, which we take from
the Charlotte Democrat, received since the
above was in type, is fitting pendent toit,
and comedies with the remark Of a young
friend of ours who returned from the South
a few days ago-"If 1 ever leave North Car
olina again, I hope somebody may shoot me-"
MOVING AwAY.-We have wondered
why people, who were well situated in North
Carolina, and in easy circumstances, should
break up, leave their relations, old friends
and neighbors, and move off to the West.-
Some of the lands in North Carolina are as
good as any in the world-produce as much
cotton, corn, &C., with convenient and good
markets. Especially does this remark ap-
ply to the soil in our immediate section
The other day friend who was speaking of
the great advance in the price of lands about
here within the last few years, stated that he
knew land that had been worked one hun.