Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-01-19
IOWA..

A writer in the New York World, who
has been making tour of the North west
speaks as follows Of Iowa:
STOCK RAISING.
There is no part of the Northwest more
thoroughly adapted to stock raising than
Northern Iowa. The large tract of open
prairie which still exist in every county,
affords heavy growth of prairie grass,
furnishing an almost inexhaustible supply
for summer grazing, and the opportunity
to provide, merely at the cost of the labor,
abundance of good hay for winter use
The shepherd system has been adopted to
some extent, and large hocks Of sheep are
watched and taken care of one or two in
dividuals Horses have also been raised
here with success and profit for the south
ern and eastern markets.
TIMBER AND WATER.
One tenth of the surface Of iowa, ao-
cordng to the government surveys, is tim
Der land. There are belts of timber on
each side of the principal rivers, and most
of the smaller streams and beside these,
occasional groves Of oak openings are
scattered over the prairiss. The State, as
any one can see by consultation Of any
good map of Iowa, is thoroughly watered,
there not being county which is not well
supplied with running streams, except
perhaps, three or four Of the counties IN
the extreme northwestern portion Of the
State. No State in the Union can be bet
ter supplied with wood and water, which
has at the same time, other advantages Of
farming country to an equal extent. The
rivers run almost uniformly in a southeas
teriy direction, emptying their water in
the Mississippi. Rather less than one,
fourth the State is drained by streams run
ming southwes,erly into the Missouri -
Some OF the best timbered land lies upon
the Red Cedar river and its neighboring
streams. 1t is an importont fact, and
worthy Of notice, also, that the numerous
streams afford good water power, and mil!
sites are oJtaiuable in nearly every town.
ship of the cOuates.
What have to say in regard to the
accessibility to markets for grain and stock
and to the results OF the financial embar-
rassneMts, from which Dubuque and the
counties dependent upon that city are Just
commencing to recover, must be postponed
to another letter. Enough has been said
to show that Iowa is land of running
streams, pure airs aud clear skies-a "iani
flowing with milk and honey which
means according to commentators, "land
favorable 10 the raising OF stock and the
culture of bees
HEALTH.
One Of the great sources Of ANNOYANCE
to eastern people, who remove to tie West,
is the dread of intermittent and remittent
tevers. These have been found to prevail
IN the asw countries as result Of break-
ing up the soil, which exposes to the in
tucnce OF the atmosphere much decaved
vegetable matter. But in countries as far
north AS the latitude Dubuque and par.
ticularIy high lands, where drainage is
naturally good. these tevers are much less
prevalent Now in Iowa the bluffs rise
from 20 to 800 feet. inst back Of the Mis-
ctnSinpit hhh Hfhau'IlS lhCfGaSes 10 per-
haps a height of 800 feet, in the course Of
6 few miles and at this elevation the
country stretches away for hundreds of
miles toward the Missouri river in rich
rolling prairie, which affords the most per-
feet system Of natural drainage. Hence
those intermittent ievers, which are the
scourge Of the lowlands are quite unknown
in northern and central Iowa. The same
is true to a great extent Of Minnesota and
Wisconsin. But it is not only in regard
to these particular diseases that the State
enjoys the blessings Of health, bu. the
| United States census for 1850 assigns to
Iowa the third place in health among the
States in the Union, placing it after Wis
consin and Vermont
The annual fall Of rain in Iowa-situa.
ted, as it is, midway between the oceans
only slightly exceeds one half that OF the
eastern States, and three iourths of this
rain falls in the spring and summer. The
dryness OF the atmosphere has been found
especially beneficial to invalids who have
a tendency to pulmonary diseases, for
which there is no remedy 80 e6ectual as
dry climate and pure air.