The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-04

tent, but on, another fact depends, in a large
degree the price at which Indiana farmers
Y will sell their homes, that is, whether they
/ have the western fever or not They will
! dispose of their lands at high or low. prices,
just in proportion they are conteH,cl or
! discontented.l The numerous letters i'm cur
4 Church papers, in commendatioH of. the
..Great North-West,h have not been with
out their effect on the good people Of Indi-
\ ana. Whole neighborhools have changed
I their populations iu ~ efcw years past the
4 OH settlers have gone further West, .msd
\ new ones from the older States have t,kcn
their places In some instances they have
returned from the Northwest to rcbuy
their old homes at increased prices -
Z. Evansville is the principal city of
southwestern lndiana,. Ii is situated on
the Ohio river, between the mouth of Greer
river and the mouth of the " abash, and ut
the southern terminus of the Evansville and ]
Charlottesville railroad and the Wabash and
Q Erie canal AMI is in about the center of the
reitsouth-wcsterne coal basis. There is coal
4 under auJ NIL around the city, One mineis
worked just below the scits = whicll1 turns
! out 1 200 bushels per day il has been open,
ctlbut ashVrt time, and ~ constantly .sin-
Icrcasing its busipses. ~ This coal u of good
quality, and Is delivered at the mines at sew,
en cents .DSrcm great quantities at six. cents,
and is deliyercsl any where in sthe city at
from nine t"tc,l cents per bushel;-;St This city,
maStEso'm0lg a very -lar.:c Bnan ufletpring
place. The present ppaIa,ion- is ", 500
sopls; seNes thonsand OF This Is the growth
of the last seven years. iIerpresent growth
however, smostly attributable to her COM
merse, ~ her Manufacturing ficilities have
been 90 recently developed. She commands
TO a very iprge extent the wholesale trade
of south-westeru indiana, southeastern M
nois, and the Green and Pond river county
of Kentuek y.rS' The wholesale business sVf
Evansville as reportet1by The Board Of Trade,
amounted to merchandise sales S4,O96, COO,
and home manufactured articles 81, ,63i,T
Recently, foundcries, mills, furniture .est.,b-
lishments, ETC., are coming up,with c0nsid-
ersble vigor I'm our midst anu vet the stIp-
/ ply of manufactured articles is not equal to
the demand. The following fact will ind,-
cate 10 commercial and manufacturing men
something Of what could be done: Pig iron
is shipped down our canal to Evansville and
10y river TO Cincinnati and Pittsburg, and is
then returned here in manufactured articles,
and sold by our wholesale merchants to tie
country trade, and BY thenl retailed to tie
people living in the. Vicinity OF the mines
from which IL was taken in crude state.
T. p" g. Now the reader H. no doubt ready TO
ask, Why all this7-- Why are not your ores
manufactured at home? Why are moi your
cheap farms all boti ,ht up and, indeed, why
are they 50 cheaps TO AL these queries We
can give satisfactory answers The wealth
of the west is chiefly I'm unde, eloped resour-
ces, and not in money. IN the eastern
states the wealth is chiefly in cash, while
onrs is IN rich soil, in many instances uu-
euitivate.l, .,au. nliScqu.ntly ,,pproductiye
good timber unmanuiiicturvFt, ;,r..-.~.rev
mineral wealth undevelopcd.r Our cheap
, farms are not bolight because we have been
overlooked. While books aird newspapers
have been employed to make the world se-
qIlaiIIted with some portions of the country
we have been quietly "resting ON our oarS. y
: Many, excited by the general fever of cm-
grafton, have lett US and gone west Ii can
) not be denied, too, that many OF the first
settlers of southwestern Indiana were not
5 particularly enterprising. BESIDES this, too
; till within u few years southwestern In
, diana was onlx reached Wy, the river on the
7 south si,lc, and was.enly penetrated by horse
power. ------
- These statements 'wll fully answer the
: questions aboSe, and adc)unt for the Grcts as
/; tfey exist. tn additional reason WHY tn .
z is an inviting county to people intending
: TO emigrate west, is, oar railroads and canals
: are made and are now dii'nsing their benc-
i .its through oir country .ILIJf N IA 81
: have givcn what rc.s,rd as a calm,
!, faithtulstatemenis offawtsoonvrBnssoutll
!, western Indiana. ,.Indiy iluals and colonies
{ intending to come west would do well to
: come aud see Indiana There are, I'm the
: bounds pf. the, country 7 have named, many
e good schools individual and densmin.iiond
: Our people have a-eeod academy at New
= Lebanon, Sullivan county ! aud our friend:
: at Rockport Spencer county, Oh the Ohio
- river, are arranging to build an acadainy a.
= cost of from s 5000 tots %, ,oeo iaioa54 :
: The following ulay be suggestive to our
, friends east A brother, formerly from
&c Massachusetts, paid for the poplar tinfbei
Is on a tract of land in an old county in th
Of State $40 per acre Land having good
Is tinl!er as that AMI COOL soil can vet b,
n, bought at from S2 to So per acre i'll tn,
&c newer counties of this State. If this east
T., ern brother can build 4 shingle mathine anc
ID pay SO an acre for timber, and clear :
10 per thousand on his shingles, can net SOM
le OF our Yankee friends find it 10 their inter
IN est TO pay 50 or 50 per acre for land AM
Id timber both. and manufacture tile timbe
by aid of their rworld-renownel nlachincry
lr I.importunc no man, to leave bissold asso
re Citations and go wcSt.i Many have done wei
r by doinsr 20, thouisl, oil may noti Tut
of those who intend 10 20 west, most sincere
Sc tly say, come and see Indiana. We viii pu
nd you in communication with men who vii
al, take pleasure in giving you information
n and in affordiag you all the facilities in thei
al power to Inform yourselves personally abou
's- !, our country. Address, Iy letter or in pei
ch son. the following persons John A. Mann
nd Mt.Vernanl; John 1nele.S jr- orstsieheart
ly Anthcs Evansville; Rev. James Noble {
,se Andrew Lewis, Princeton; W.P. lIargroy
nj, or Dr. n. WI Hit Nineennes; Netf Il Nei
of Sullivan; George R. Taylor or George |
nd 4 Start Worthiugtou, Green county; Wn
,x-4 Mack or John Jones, Bloomfeid,r in San
,r- county; Rev. Edward Moore or. Rev Joll
,te Mickler, French Lick, Orange connty; Al
al ditor Crecellious or Rev. j JohirHughes, Lea
:, ,enwnrth; Hamilton Smith, Esq, or Rev
= B. Maynard, Cannelton, Ia; Hon. j.
raj .Neatch or T.7F.Dc Bruler, Rockport Jud,
re- sIoorei Bosirillai and dnYs Yslgghteb INe'
hat burg. FHfi3i CA TLkdIK lfg
res-tp sWriting will iie of some service, but pc
ty-s sonal examination will, be ibcttcr.l The vi
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