The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-09-10

easily the wool crop is raised. II 10 the
unanimous testimony Of wool growers here
that wool culture requires less labor than
any other crop, and is immensely more oer-
tain. 1t can be probably prosecuted in
nearly every State Of the Union, and in all
that territory east Of the Rocky Mountains
from Lat. 40 deg. down TO Texas. 1t is
pursuit which requires skill and watchful-
ness rather than severe toll, which yields
quick and generous returns, and docs not
exhaust but tends to improve the soil.
Consider also tho cheapness with which
wool may be transported, and tho safety with
which it may be kept over from year to year,
with view of getting higher prices. No
Iowa farmer can get thousand bushels Of
corn to New York without consuming about
six hundred in freights and charges, and IL
he sends il to Manchester or Birmingham,
(Eng.) another hundred will be used up, leav-
ing the farmer to get the value of three hun
dred returned in wares or fabrics whereas
thousand pounds Of wool can be sent from
Iowa to England for . fpsntieth part of its
value. That is to say, the Iowa grain. grow
or must sell for less than half the average
price throughout the world, while the wool
grower is sure Of cash market At his own
door only i've to ten per cent. lower than the
price Of wool in the highest markets. Such
are the calculations Of writer in the Trib-
una, and they are confirmed by every wool
grower with whom have talked.
Another important item should be remem-
bered. The table Of New York Prices Cur
rent from 1881 to 1858 inclusive shows that
the variations in the prices Of wool, during
those eight years, have hardly exceeded Is
per cent. Wool has been remarkably steady
for over ten years past, while, as every body
knows, wheat, -four, corn, butter, cheese,
pork, and so on, have fuctuated violently
Again, while the recent great revulsion has
Frustrated thousands Of merchants and man.
ufacturers Ito say nothing Of mere specula-
tors), and reduced most agricultural staples
moro than fifty per cent. in price, American
Wool Is moi t1snty per cent. cheaper than it
was year ago, and instead of falling as il
then was, tits now rising in value.
1t has been constant surprise to me that
our Iowa farmers do not give this culture
more attention. Are not the inducements
here presented strong enough Let me add
the contrast now existing in this State be-
tween the wool growing, and the exclusively
grazing, or grain and pork growing, districts.
have just heard from the Scioto Valley
through one who was there. What with the
present low figures for cattle and the FIRE.
quent floods which have swept the vast mead.
ows and corn. fields Of that valley, following
the grand busi-,ip Of last fall, ''times" dowl
there are hard enough. The great gra1ieri
are blue, and melsncholic, and can scarcely
believe that the Insignificant sheep hal
brought relief to any portion Of the State
But so it is. Wherever wool was grown
money now circulates more freely, and bust
ness has revived. An old friend in Newark
IA jewcler- told me that his business, which
fell OF about .wo-thirds between November
and July, and Of course didn't begin to pay
had revived about July and is now SO goot
that be is not disposed to complain. lie re
turns thanks chiefly to the wool crop, and
pertly to the increased productive industr,
Of Newark and its consequent increasing
prosperity.
/ While considering the state Of affairs here
and the causes OF the partial re-animatior
of business, VIC must not forget that just
about one year or fourteen months ago mer
here stopped sending their surplus money tt
1 the West. They suddenly discovered tina
the prospects for speedily getting back thu
sums already sent was quite black. They
were quite as greedy to make sudden for.
tunes by the rise Of real estate as were your
widest spectators. They got badly bit, and
now how they do grun.! They keep thei'
surplus al home now, and the country hert
feels the effect..of it.
/ suppose feeling akin to that OF fila
piety should prompt me to say feS word
abou, this old village Of Granville-my M
tive place, famous this long time for its pi
ETY. and intelligence, and great attention t.
educational institutions, and getting famous
lattcrly for its successful Water Cure estab
lishment under the skillful charge Of Doctor
Bancroft and Sinnett, (both, by the way
physicians Of the old school, 10 good stand
ing and FREQ from all humbug pretcnsions.
How tho old place-settled in l805-ha
grown in beauty! Nestled among the hills
with its wide front-yards and broad walk
ell thickly shaded by fast growing trees an
beautiful shrubbery, with its classic grove
: around the Dennison University ana its sev
eral academies, with its highly cultivate
farms visible in every direction from il
pleasant hill-tops, it is altogether lovely
its quiet beauty and desirable for it's soil
comfort. With m excellent telegraph ofhe
, connecting it with oil the world, and dissar
less than an hour from the Central Ohio Raj
road, one can here enjoy beautiful rus !
nrbe--can realize profound solitude VIII,
conscious Of close proximity to the bus
pulsations Of the universe.
Whoever has heard Of Granville, has al:
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