The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-07-06


Of the soil, and for making steam power fol-
manufactures. There is scarcely square
mile to be found without good water, and
there is not q township without some
prairie. =:
A State with such physical charsc4sris:
tics wurld be expected to have q very
healthy climate, as is the case. The moftu.
ary statistics prove it to be one Of the
healthiest States hi the Onion.
The soil Is especially. web adapted. to The
growth of grass as well ss corn and wheat.
The Chinese sugar cane has grown neYhere
In greater perfection or yielded q bctetr -
turn. Oats and potatoes are usually b0un.
tlful crops, and fruit trees, by rapid dooIvfh;
soon reach the bearing state.
The deep rich soil for miles on each side
Of the Maquoketa, Wapsy, Cedar. Iowa
and Demoine rivers offers Inducements To
emigrant farmers, not offered u this time
in any other portion Of the West The
valleys Of those rivers are already sottled,
and schools and churches are alresdy cs-
tablished, and settlers, whateycr may have
been the refinement Of their former local.
ties and associations, will not be subjected
to the hardships and privations Of d pio.
neer life. -..-
The lard is cheap The day of high
prices consequent OH The speculation Of
four years ago has passed. Farms some
what improved, OF good lands well situated
can be bought in almost every township,
and crops Of two or three Years will pay
the whole cost of the farm or prairie land
and pay for the cultivation and fencing
Building materials are cheaper than they
were several years sgo, and other expenses
for necessaries and conveniences of life are
also cheaper.
Besides this, the railroads are being cx-
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by the time the farmer settlers of this year
have crops raised for expectation the rail.
roads will be ready to carry the produce to-
market. The steamboat navigation of the
Cedar and the Demoines rivers has OPEN
ed cheap outlet for farm products in the
vicinity of those streams, not attempted
until the present year. The value Of pro-
ducts depends much on the distance from
market and the facility for reaching it, but
with such rivers and railroads leading TO
the Mississippi, the best avenue to the best
markets in the world, the question is set
tied as to the good position of Iowa as an
agricultural State.
We want no better proof of the good
character of Iowa as an agricultural coun-
try, than the success of those farmers who
came into the State five, ten, fifteen or
twenty years ago. Most of them now
have comfortable homes, and well improved
farms, worthin cash value, five, ten, fifteen
or twenty thousand dollars These are
not isolated instances, but may be seen all
over the State, and many of them in every
township in ali the older settled counties
The same length Of time will show the
same result in all the new counties, and in
the thinly populated district in the northern
part and in the unsettled northwestern por-
ton of the State. The whole districts tra-
versed by railroads leading from the Miss
issippi toward the Missouri river, are at
this time specially attractive to persons
wishing to buy lands for agricultural pur-
poses. The late depression in business and
prices affected the value of land, as it did
everything else. With the revival Of bust.
ness land prices will also be increased, and
they will be increased still further also by
the construction Of the railroads. These
facts make the present the most favorable
period for years for the purchase of farm
ing lands. ..- --- ..--@.
Disappointed gold-hnnters, victims of
the Pixies Peak folly, small farmers in
a small way among the rocky hills of New
England and the Middle States, tillers. al
the soil from the old world, will all find =
welcome here The oldest employment in
which man was ever engaged is still the
most independent, and there is no place on
earth where it may be carried on withmore
ease and better success than in this, the best
situs&ed, best watered aud most fertile n
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