Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-07-31
City of Prescott and Banner
County of Wisconsin.

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during the last six months, and its supe-
rior quality as extra for milling purposes,
together with the bestowal of the Prize
Banner by the State Agricultural So
ciety after an active competition by the
several counties of the State, have given
rise to so extensive a correspondence,w with
a view to settlement in the st. Croix
Valley, that l have been induced to an
swet through the Farmer.
PIERCE COUNTY
Contains about six hundred square
mics, one half of which is forest timber,
consisting of Oak, Maple, Walnut, Ash,
Elm. &c. The Prairie is black, sandy
loan, with clay and limestone sub-soil.--
1t is we'll watered with trout creeks, the
gurgling brook often srriuging up at the
door sill of the farm house.
THE SURFACE OF THE COUNTRY
Is rolling, with no hills except the
Mississippi bluff. No marshes, conse-
ouently absence Of the malaria of Illinois.
The table lands affording large growth
Of blue-ioint hay, often tun per acre.
Beautiful groves of Burr Oak Opening
are interspered throughout the Prairie,
furnishing an atnple supply of fire wood:
The timber laud is being rnpidly set
tied.
The superior quality oft mber for man.
ufacturing purposes, and the ample sup
ply of water power, together with the To-
eating ofthe county scat in the timber, is
attracting capital to the timbered section
of the county.
The most important inland village aud
water power in the county,is River Falls,
situated IL miles North east of Prescott,
in a rich agricultural region. The fall
is seventy feet in loo rods. Price of
good farm lands from 81 SO to SIS per
acre. Farmers in noticing the prices Of
these lands will remember that their pro-
auctions when converted into cash, is
equal per acre, to the farms Of Rock,
Dane and Walworth counties, which
lands costs from $50 to $40; but we can
avail ourselves of 1900 miles of the best
inland navigation in the world, by which
we recca the great Southern mar
ket. rs well as touch the numerous rail-
roads competing FOR eastern trade. Farms
with good buildings can be bad, prairie,
timber and water, for SIS per acre with
out improvements.
THE AVERAGE WHEAT CROPS OF 1860
Was over 80 bushels per acre for the
entire county. From the crop of 1860
in the county, there was shipped at Pres
colt 625 900 bushels Of wheat, oats, corn
and barley, and 224,O0O lbs. of pork -
for which was paid S293.7oO, or $62 for
each man woman and child in the county.
Beside its productiveness for the cereal
grains, Pierce County is also peculiarly
adapted to tho raising Of cattle and
sheep.
OUR Markets
Are ST. Louis, Chicago and Milwau-
kee. Price paid for moving the crop of
1860, 10 cents per bnshel for wheat -
price same to either place; while many
of the interior sections of the State are
charged Is cents to the same market, ow-
ing to want of competition by public car
riers. By reason of the expenditure
Of the wealth of Eastern men Of capital,
and The settlement of their families in our
midst. we have so far secured the estab-
lishment of schools churches and roads.
that none need fear the hardships Of the
eatly pioneer.
THE CLIMATE
| Has been much discussed by persons de-
sirous of emigratng to Northwestern
Wisconsin and Minnesota. The prevail
ing winds are from the West and South
west, which brings q dry atmosphere
flom the great plains West of the Mis-
souri, aud New Mexico. Weeks Of cloud
less sky, summer and winter, are com
mon. Winter sets in from the middle
to the last of November, after which we
expect very little mud and rain. The av-
erage depth of snow is six to twelve in
ches, afiording about three months of
sleighing. The eliminating point of win
ter is the goth of February. Flowing
is commenced about the first of April
There are few parts of the world where
so little time is required to mature grain.
Sowing done in May is harvested in July.
making the seed time and harvest inside
of three months.
CITY OF PRESCOTT
Prescott, the moEet town for the county
of Pierce, large portion of St. Croix
county, in Wisconsin, Washingt N coun-
tv, Gin Minnesota, and the re-shippihg
point for the st. Crox Valley, is situated
at the confluence of the Mississippi " ith
River and Lake St. Croix. 1t has a
good steamboat landing of one mile in
length, at which all the boats of the river
and lake land. Besides the regular boats
from st. Paul and St. Anthony, there is
a daily line from Prescott 10 St. Cr.ix
Falls, distance of seventy miles, bring
ing ont, for trans-shipment, the products
of one of the richest valleys in the West.
THE POPULATION OF PRESCOTT
Is mostly from New England, with New
England institutions and customs. It
has tho best graded schools in North
western Wisconsin, and in possession of
those very comforts which the New Eng
land farmer, while toiIing amidst the