St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-01-03

OF time to add to the sum total OF hu-
man enjoyment its richest blessings.
In this soil, deep, rich, and possessing
the clements of strength, is to be
found more gold than glittcrs at the
famed diggins of California Gulch or
Pixies Peak. For prairie cou&Rry
you have an abundant supply of tim
Der, which by careful use will increase
rather than decrease as time rolls on.
The Red Ccdars rand Shell Rock rivers
afford many excellent water powers,
which add much to .your advantages.
Your fine prairies not only furnish
abundance Of good arabic land, bnt
here and there, scattered with a wise
reference to the wants Of the settler,
are to be found excellent natural
meadows, while their entire surface
is covered with sweet, rich grasses
that will compare favorably with the
tame grasses of Eastern States for
pasturage.
In many localities, and sufficiently
dispersed for convenient use, is found
in large quantities a superior quality
Of grey limestone, useful in the crcc-
ton of buildings, fences and bridges,
and affording an inexhaustible sup
ply of one of the best fertilizers when
your soil shall have become inpover-
ishcd by the continual growing Of the
cereal grains.
A prairie country offers another and
not small advantage. Any indus
trious and cntcrprising man can with
in three years have farm that looks
as though it had been titled for ages
with the. exceptions of buildings and
fruit and ornamental trees. Our sires
and grandsircs when they were fel-
ling the mighty forests of New Eng
land, New York and Pennsylvania
never dreamed of the beautiful farms
that lay spread out inviting cnltiva-
tion, ready for the piow, which their
sons were destined within century
to occupy in the regions towards the
setting sun. The great variety OF
beautiful flowers that deck the prai-
rics add to their lovclincss and attract
ivcncss, and invite the lover Of nature
to take up his abode here. They also
furnish an evidence that the author o.
nature delights in loveliness, and thai
lie will not frown upon the efforts o
HE creatures to adorn their homes
with wnaIcvtr Is picas~ro- a. - o'
beautiful in nature. -.
But greater and more important
than all these advantages is the al
most uncquallcd hcalthfuluess Of the
climate. The pill vender will thrus,
his box beneath your gaze, bcaring
the truthful adagc Health the great
est earthly blessing" but one quaff d
this highly oxygenated atmosphere il
worth more to an invalid than all th'
: nostrums vcndcd by the whole trib'
and "their name is legion tina
infest our country. This more thar
all else will invite the eastern farme
, and mechanic, and the citizens Of th'
, old world to seek home here whcr,
no dire malaria loads the atmospher
I with its fatal poison, and where tn
/ consumptivc may add a few years I
l. life. i'm comparative comfort. SO lon
O as there is pcrtinence in the questio
= !" What will not man give for hl
= life," SO long will its hcalthful climat
q bc rcckoncd one Of the greatest ma
r ural advantages Of this portion Of til
II West.
= In this county you have such d
N versity of pillow lands and meadow
ID and such rich profusion Of pasturag
,e that you are not compelled to be
el grain growing county, nor a. .pastur
people, but can diversity your pr
;. duets, thus being enabled to take a
:, vantage Of the times better than
49, you were compelled to be exclusive
In the one or the other.
on Il DISADVANTAGES.
1t You labor under the disadvantag
he incident to new and almost uns'
tied country. Many Of you. no dou'
q have nearly exhausted your paticn
Ia in dragging your way through I
,n- Wapsic sloughs, and have imagin
in no hardsl,ips equal to yours. as, W
la your families, you have campcd
nd the side Of some quagmirc. WI
nd your wagon has refused locomot
ity and mgGlrcmain in stats quo until
to ditionaf Inns could be found to
sti- tricatc it. And after getting to
ind beautiful Cedar Valley, and living
is staying rather--in some rude no
ect of-hay-somc rough and comfortl
! it hut Of logs covered with "shak
scs. and daubed-with mud. or spcJNdin
Itl,, few wSsks in "prairie schoon
aer with your, cook stove erected in
re- open air, protected from the burn
at sun and drenclhpg rain by only q
the vas covering, with your wife and
.dar tie ones subjected to all these int
vcniences, it is not strange that 81
should grow weary Of this stat
nal. being aud long "for building
-. made with hands,"
ield The wonder is, that more d0not
cen come discouraged and leave for !
It in tions where more comforts are +
the found.s The day Of these disadvs
,dcr ges is fast drawing to I close.