The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-12

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ispretty cleasto even the most supper
fetal observer, thai for some time to come,
town lots and eligible quarter sections are
to remain unavailable property. There
being no body to buy our lands and lots, It
is clear that the resources of our State must
be further deve oped, and our dependence
in the future for An improvement in our
condition, must be mainly placed upon pro-.
ductive industry. We have heretofore i'm
ported largely of goods, groceries, iron,
nails, hardware, boots and shoes, wagons
and carrisges, implements, tools and even
butter and cheese, paying BY the sale Of lots
and lands, at good round price, and with
hogs, cattle, horses and grain. There being
no further demand for our real property,
we have still kept buying, having no
resource but the products Of cur farms
These are inadequate to meet our large
purchases, and we are consequently hard
up for money. The times are indeed tight.
What is to be done about it? There is
no other alternative but to work through.
We must bring more lands into cultivation,
and farm those better that are already in
cultivation. We must raise more grain,
more cattle, hogs, horses and sheep. We
must set out our orchards, build factories
of all descriptions, make our own tools;
wagons, barrels, buckets, paper, boots and
shoes, spin and weave some OF the clothing
we wear, and make more butter and cheese.
The mineral resources Of our State are to
be developed. There is work for all. 1t is
not worth while to wait IN shops and stores
and Offices for customers and clients who
never come, while such opportunities lie in
every direction all over the State, where
thrift and industry nre sure to be rewarded
by competence. We know several mechan-
les, who, laat spring rented land and havs
raised good crops and supported their fami-
lies. As they could not get steady employ
ment, and did not wish to remove to dis
tant point they preferred to change their
occupation, at least for the time being
And we think they acted wisely in thus
adapting themselves to the circumstances
that surrounded them. Many more might
profit by this example.
There is a strong probability amounting to
certainty, that We shall find no relief from
hard times and high taxes, except in the
mode indicated above. During the year
past, considerable progress was made, and
had the season been an average one, some
relief would have been felt. But We have
been able to raise little if any more wheat
than is needed at home. OF corn we have
an average crop, and shall turn off better
hogs and cattle than last year, but not 80
many, because they are not in the country.
Some attention has been paid to the
subject of drainage. and more will be given
to it next year. The necessity for deep
blowing and improved tillage is generally
acknowledged. Experiments, are being
tried by drilling, rolling, etc., in growing
fall wheat which we hope nay reward those
who are thus engaged. Cattle are looked
after better than heretofore, and many will
be sheltered by barns and sheds, where they
were last year exposed to the weather. In
short we have made very fair progress thus
far. but must not cease in well doing unless
we mean to postpone "rhe good time com
ing indefinitely.
Another year of thrift and hard, we'll
directed labor will bring US through-pay
our debts, revive business, and turn the
tide of INN igration to our Sta,e.-Burling-
ton HG,rkeye.