Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1862-08-27
WHAT "BRICKv SAYS.

we CLIP the foiloWlng rom " Drlcn
PoMERoY's correspondence to the La
Crosse Democrat. Mr. PoMERoY made
many friends while here, who would
gladly welcome him again.
Prescott will always be live business
point. It is situated at the foot of Lake
St. Croix, and is the market for one of
the richest agricultural regions in the
State. Pierce county. two wears since,
took the highest premium for the best
wheat exhibited at the Wisconsin State
Fair, and we believe she would do the
same this year. had not the Fair been
again postponed. Eight years since, the
city WAS o wilderness; now it is one of
Wisconsin's gems, and its future one of
golden promise.
The country back of Prescott is much
like the rich prairie openings of the
choicest part of Dodge or Dane counties,
and the vast fields of wheat now nearly
harvested are surprising. In company
with Geo. A. Dill, of the firm of Dill Bro,
we rode out to see his little farm of three
hundred acres of as nice wheat as the
State can boast. For four miles it was
one continued wheat field. On either
side of the road, as far as the eye could
reach, the picture of yellow wealth was
broken only by handsome white farm
houses, half hid in beautiful natural
groves; or luxuriant fields of waving
corn, the fat ears almost dragging 10 the
earth, the slender stalk, so full of prom
Use.
The average yield of wheat in Pierce
county last year was thirty bushels to
the acre. The present crop will equal
it in yield, while the aggregate crop will
be nearly twice that of 1861. owing to
the fact that the breadth sown was
nearly double this year over last. The
soil is dark loan, very deep, rich and
quick. This season, wheat is worth at
Prescott 1880 cents. From careful
enquiry of those who know, we learned
that the cost per bushel from plow to
steamer averages 40 cents. The margin
therefore, is good one. Last season
100000 of the surplus crop of Pierce,
and of St. Croix county was sold at
Prescott. This year, the amount will
overrun 100000! Think of this, you
folks who have heretofore thought the
Northwest to be broken wilderness.
There is no richer section in Wisconsin
than the St. Croix Valley. There is here
a wealth of soil-of timber---of water
of health. The broad prairies are stud
ded with openings of oak, Eastwood and
butternut-and watered by hundreds of
pure soft water streams of rare beauty
and romance filled with millions of
speckled trout. Game of all kinds from
prairie chicken, snipe, woodcock, SPUR,
rels, deer, etc., etc., await the sports
man. Many of the streams are but
SUGGESTIONS of little cascades--the foam
ing pools filled with winding,
leaping, laughing on-veins of health
and beauty, purifying and Identifying
the richly diversified face of as charm
ing pictures of nature as man ever saw.
We find here as warm hearts--as
whole souled men-as much ambition,
talent and industry-as we'll furnished
and pleasant homes-as honorable men
and refined ladies--as much comfort and
happiness anil the cheerful surroundings
of loved hearth-stones, as can be found
in any country. We have partaken of
as generous hospitality-haye found as
much true happiness in Prescott as in
any other portion of the vast country
There is as much sociability and refine
ment here as in any city, and more than
in many older and more pretending pla-
ces.
This morning we go up to the St.
Croix by steamer III. S. AHen, charmed
with Prescott and the rich country back
of it, and under many obligations to DR..
]. w. Beardsley, the popular speaker of
the Assembly-Lute A. Taylor, of the
Journal; George A. Dill, brother to
Col. Dill, D. NJ. Lusk, and others, for MI
merous favors, which it will be our aim
in the future to pay back with interest.