Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-12-03
EMIGRATION TO IOWA.

The crops Of Iowa this year have no,
turned out by any means 80 large - was
anticipated about harvest time, Jet the
yield hss been sufficient to greatly relieve
the wants of the people, to assist material
ly in rescuing them from debt, aud 70 ena.
BILE tnem to enjoy plenty till the gathering
of another seasons crops. We have a. q
State and people passed through the reyul.
sionS Of 1878 admirably, and have before
AS now as bright prospect as any West.
era State, or as any State in the Uniun,
perhaps. Unhealthy or crazy speculation
has departed IRON our midst, and that
fever no longer prevails which TWO years
ago here fixed such prices upon Gil lands
over the State as to turn aside the poorer
classes OF emigration to other places, and
converted thousands Of farmers from hard
workers Of the soil to land speculate
The prices Of property in city and in coun.
IT,, as We stated Saturday, are becoming
readjusted and at q healthy standard. A,
their present prices, lands aud town lots
are at tina; standard which permits Of their
gradual increase with tho filing up and
cultivation Of the country, and the in crease
in tie population Of cities. This is a. i,
should be, and the change has been affect.
ed with real disaster to but comparatively
few persons, and with lasting benefits to
al oar interests as State and people.
The present condition Of things in lows
offers remarkable inducements for smieva.
ton. We need not here depict even to
the stranger the rich, beautiful and well.
watered lands which make up Iowa, nor
dwell upon the healthiness of this country.
1t is well known wherever Iowa is kaown,
that TO State in the Union surpasses her
in fertility of soil, nor any of the natural
advantages which are demanded for the
production ofimmense Agricultural wealth.
Every product Of = Northern cline grows
here abundan,ly. Our large and small
grains are grown with less labor than
Eastern farmers can conceive Is being
absolutely necessary to produce even lig6t
results-yet Of the abundance of our full
crops the pen can scarcely do justice
Nowhere else in the Union will the same
labor produce greater results. Statistics,
have proven that Iowa ranks the second
or third State in health. We turn from
these things which should recommend Iowa
to the particular attention Of every man
East designing to emigrate Westward, and
especially farmers, to the present condition
of things separate from such considerations
which are always the first looked at.
The price Of land in Iowa is low enough
to invite emigration With few hundred
dollars the emigrant may in the interior
provide himself with Is much land % be
can cultivate, with . certainty that Lis
property will be annually increasing IN
value aside from the increased value his
labor and improvements may produce
There has not been better time for pur-
chasing farming lands in Iowa, or town
lots either for that matter, for many years
than at present. That there will never be
80 good time in all the future, may read.
lily be seen. The price of lands cannot
get any lower than they now are, in view
Of the harvset, late and the gradual
Frightening up Of the prospects Of our
people, already commenced. Many who
were ready and DESTROYS to sell las, spring
and winter. discouraged by the failures OF
crops, the hard times are now perma.
nently settled, with no inteution of selling
out or leaving. The legal necessity Tor
selling has passed. except in few isolated
cases. Yet there are thousands aud tens OF
thousands Of acres of as choice lands 40
ever the sun warmed, now in the market.
but rapidly being taken mp wherever there
is easy access to points Of supply and de.
maud. These lands are particularly iuyi,.
ing to the emigran., not only on account
Of their fertility and other natural advanta
ges, but from the really low prices a which
they are held.
This year the emigration 10 Iowa has
been far larger than might have been cal.
culated or than any one had anticipated.
Almos. daily, emiRrant wagons are pass
ing through our city on the way 10 the
interior. If such is the state OF things
this year, when the emigration Westward
has been 90 comparatively small, and two
successive failures or partial failures Of
crops in lows had discouraged emigration
70 this State, what may W not expect
merit year. And what may ~ not expect
in the way Of propossionats rise 10 the
price Of lands ~ the result Of this emiesa
lionf Most certainly this 10 the time 10
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