Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-09-16
Southern Illinois

"A correspondent OF the St Louis Dem
ocrat very justly observes: esSouther1
Illinois will eventually become the gar
den OF the Mississippi valley. The Sol
is rich and exceedingly fertile, wei
adapted to the production ofcorn. .whea
grasses, cotton, tobacco, fruits, and al
Kinds OF vegetables. This has been
fully demonstrated in the last two years
In no part of the country has the labol
OF the farmer and horticulturist been
more richly renunerated than in South
erp Illinois. The climate is salubrious
regular and healthy. The Southern tiel
of counties bordering on the Ohio river,
IS rich IN IN IRON, coal, timber an salt, and
building stone Of superior quality (sand
lime and free stone,) exists in great a.
bundance. Until recently, this portion
ofithe State has been overlooked. ip /
aa The completion of the Illinois Cen
trai Railway, and the surveys and par
tlai location of the Illinois Southern
Railroad Company, have attracted much
attention, in the last year or two, and
thousands of capitalists seeking invest
ments, and farmers, mechanics, and
others looking for homes and locations
have been induced to visit,thi region;
and the consequence is that these clouds
OF misrepresentation are beingdispelled
and Southern Illinois is now taking its
place in public estimation as inferiorto
no other part of the Union in regard to
climate, health, soil, timber, and miner
al and salinei'esources. The population
is very rapidly on the increase An in,
telllgent, enterprising class of farmers
and mechanics is taking the place of the
hunter and trapper. Churches, schools,
labor saving machinery, and the arts,
that contribute to intelligence agricul-
tural and mechanical industry, are be-
ing introduced, and this magnificent
country, for which the God Of Nature
has done 50 much, is beginning to bios
som as a floral garden '9 car % 9n1,
1t may be safely said that the,ratio of
increase III the population south of the
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad has been
greater in the last two years than in any
other portion Of the State. There is,
consequently, an enhancement of the
value Of the lands; but still lands Of SUI
periors quality for agricultural purposes
can be purchased at prices ranging
from So to- $40 per acre Here the
wheat and fruit crops are absolute Ger
t0a'aties, no failures having occurred. In
the central and especially in the north
portions of the State, lands have
reached their maximum valne-$30 to
$40 per acre and the wheat and fruit
crops, If we except apples, are absolute
uncertainties. Are not these questions
worthy of the consideration of farmers
and others who desire to make looa-
ton and purchase? But it, may be said
that the north consists eff prairies ready
for the pillow, while the south is dense
unbroken. forest. True, but the prairies
want all our timber for buildings and
fences, and the timber which covers our
lands will pay, not only for the land it.
self, but for clearing and fencing it. -
There is at present an illilnitable de-
mand for lumber on the pIains-a de-
mand which cannot be supplied. AS
evidence ofthis it might be stated, that
IN less than. two years fifteen steam Jaw
mills, running from one to fifteen saws
each, have been erected and placed in
in Pulaski county, and thew.
cannot keep up with the orders tor lum-
Der at this place, your city and the
plains; and lumber is even now being
shipped from this country to Europe. d
a9 In no part of the American continent,
perhaps, can there be found, upon an
equal area of territory 90 ,,,i,ob ,,oJ,,,iLlo
timber as upon the forty miles vide
from the Wabash to the Mississippi, and
in noipart of the world are there such
facilities for shipping timber by river
and railway to the points where most
needed. "'.a 20 .ln'2 s9..e. ~ ~
All these facts, taken together, war
rant us in the belief that Southern Him
0s will eventually become the centre of
population, commerce and wealth Of the
American continent. ieasfasaaT
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