Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-08-11
For the Sioux City Register.
Sao County, Iovva.

For tbs Sioux City Register.
sss County, Iewa.
Sac City, toe county seat Of Sac county
= situated on tbs west side Of the NORTH
Coon River. just one hundred miles north
west from Des Moinss City. Il Is /
haodsoae location for an interior town,
containing at this time but 20 houses j.
As yet the only town 10 Sac county, and
for 20 new place is making . promising
start ~ sejoying the advantages of edu.
cation and religious privileges. Her lar
gest and best house i. q good school house,
arranged for . District school, and also
for select school. We have three church
organizations Methodist, Bsptists, and
New School Preshyterians. Have Sab
bath school and preaching every Sabbath
and good day school kept up al the
time. A good store, kept we'll stocked
with goods. ....I....
The citizens Of Sac county have we'll
organized Agricultural Society; held
their first fair at Sac City last fall.
A large portion Of the prairies of Sac
county are rolling, and have q deep and
rich soil we'll adapted to the growing Of
wheat corn, oats. rye, potatoes, pump
s'n', melons, and in fact everything tha,
will grow in this latitude. Ia we'll water.
ed, the Coon River and Cedar Crock in
the eastern part of the county, and the
Boyer river and Indian creek in the ives.
ern part Of The county, and q great many
good springs of cold and healthy water
good groves Of timber On the Coon river,
but the larger portion OF the county il
destitute Of timber.
Timber grows very rapid in this rich
prairie coil, and man can just as easily
plant twenty or thirty acres to walnut OF
locust timber as he can put the same 10
corr. Break the ground we'll ana check
on As Tor corn; plant the walnuts Just a.
ter the frost has cut them from. the trees,
BY being planted in the soil, and taking
ihe winters freezing they come up in the
fSr'ng and grow off finely. The same
s~nd can be cultivated in corn until
w ices become large enough to shade
s'snd, and then just let them alone,
h.. aave . nice grove of young tiu
q confident that the above
;, ne e Of ',ising timber will be success.
: 10. p.''ced on the large prairies Of
If on d;u;s ,s'n p, lies very high, being
10 Miss, divide ee'"een the waters Of the
. m. 'p' and the M's,uri river
e ~ ;ers of the weste.. no., oe ,,o
70 ss. " into the Missouri, ,hos, os,to
!. o"'sa. " paf0w into the Mississippi, AZ a.
!" oo"u,s nsye have q very healthy
e Wv" 70 the hard times for the
g bought very low .od a. the s'1 crops "v" OF o,
o grain are unusual - 49, - ,
= think the presen. 0u 'a's summer
o for those who desir, o em;,rate to the
E, west for the purpose "'e " s"e
d homes, to come now fol
d. | consider the latter part Q, o"e >,
c the early part Of the Fall th.
d the year to move to Iowa. =,
n roads are in much better con: ~
e travelling with heavy loaded wss, ~,
= the weather mild aud pleasant for
}. ing out, to those who choose to co,ilp
d that way, and grain and provisions che
= and abundant for both man aud beas
n and by coming early can have a good g
t por'un,ty to secure hay and make prer
i ration for winter,
: l came to Sac county the lst day
!, June 1856. Occupied the And house tn
was built in Sac City have continued
my post ever since; have had many har
ships and difficulties to encounter, viii,
- all who come to Is new country as til
o was three years ago must have, but wi
the crops aad Improvements alreae
: made, We hope in future to feel more
= home.
j The Dubuque and Pacific Railroad C
own a large portion of the odd section
= Of land in the northern part of the cour
$ ,y. Those in the southern part Of Il
county belong to the Air Line Rsilroa
Company.
The probability is that those Compani,
=. may offer some inducements 10 those VII
, wish to settle on the ir lands.
, We have a good steam saw mill in Sa
F. City. A good situation for grist mill ,
be driven BY water power, just At the eds
of the town plat. would be we'll worth Ii
attention Of one who had capital 10 bull
Touring mill.
The best Of lands can be bought in So
county at prices ranging from govern
ment price to fifteen dollars per acre.
There are four other good school house
built at the several different groves in So
county. in the Coon River Valley, sboy
and below Sac City.
We need many more good and enter
prising men and women in Sac county
farm our good lands aud push forwsr
our improvements.
l will cheerfully correspond with an