Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1858-07-01
From the Dubuque Times. |
Gold for City or COuntry--EmplOymen
for all who will work.


and as some men are out of employment
just now, with your permission | will
make some suggestions which believe
are worthy the favorable consideration OF
those who want of the needful, of those
who want homes and employment. In
the first place, let all who are in want OF
employment so to the country and buy
small piece of land, and go to work
lands are cheap for cash or for credit on
lov rates of interest l am informed by
good authority that the Dubuque and
Pacific r. r. Company will offer for sale
in few days large amount of lands at
low rate of interest, 7 per cent. and
on long time. That the price will not
average over five dollars. There are al
SO plenty of other lands just as cheap
The r. R. Company has over five hun
dred acres in this county, and over a
million of acres between this and the
Missouri River. Suppose man buys a
quarter section on f@e years time at 7
per cent. Let him set apart one forty to
raise provisions for the family, and put
the other three into corn: the corn crop
would average as good as the crop of
1856, as shown by the State census,
which was forty bushels to the acre
This corn is worth 25 cents per bushel,
to put into pork. When pork is worth
81 per hundred, and it has not been be-
low that very lately, this will give ten
dollars per acre for the first crop, or
$1,000 for the product of the three forty
acre tracts. The original cost was five
dollars, which would make the whole
quarter section worth $500; add inter
est for one year at per cent, $50 !;
this would leave three hundred and forty
four dollars, supplies to pay taxes and to
buy lumber to build house. Pork al
ways commands money: il can be ship
ped from Dubuque to New York or Iiv-
erpool, in the Spring, and get return
from the proceeds month before the
harbor opens at Buffalo. Talk about gold,
about fabulous fortunes made in short
time Once reflect on the fact that an
acre of good land in this country will
yield twice its cost the first year, and an
nually thereafter forever; what business
ever equalled This? Talk about solid
wealth in a community, about great and
sudden prosperity There was never an
opportunity on earth where men could
make money so fast At the end of five
years the quarter section that cost $500
will be worth $4,000, or twenty-five dol
lars per acre. This result has been re-
allied from Chicago to the Mississippi
River, and it will be realized in the north
part Of Iowa in The next FIVE A man
without capital, who is willing to work
and who is compelled to take this course,
will soon be worth more than his neigh
Dor who is now able to live without work
But, says one, times are too hard to
begin. Let US see about that: in the
first place YOU get your lands for half
price in consequence of the hard times /;
in the next place you get provisions,
fencing, lumber, breaking, and every
thing that a man wants to open up with,
for half price, hence now is just the time
to commence. By the time the farm is all
all right and your crops are raised, there
will be a turn in the times, and wheat
will be worth a dollar, and other produce
in proportion. Now is the time to strike.
Delaware, Buchanan and Black Hawk
counties are now but slightly cultivated !;
they are just commencing to break prai-
RE. The Dubuque and Pacific Railroad
will, beyond doubt, be ready TO carry
away the first crop raised on the prairie
which is now being broken.
Suppose that one-half of each of those
counties should be cultivated for the next
five years, and that the product should
be worth ten dollars per acre, as by the
foregoing calculation. There are sixteen
townships in each county half of each
would make twenty-four townships in the
three counties, which, at ten dollars an
acre, would make five million five hun
dred and twenty thousand and six
hundred dollars for the first crop. Read
err, is that calculation too high? VIII
not corn yield forty bushels to the acre
is it not worth % cents to make pork,
and will not pork command money ?
This product for the first year would
build railroad from Independence TO
the Missouri River. The farmers of thi.
country will be able to own all the GOOD
paying tracks in the country in few
years. The lands of the three counties
above mentioned are now valued at a lri
ilc under five dollars an acre in five