The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-05-07
GOOD TIMES.

GOOD IlMhS.
seem to stare the people of this part of the
State full in the face. Money is plenty, la
Dor is scarce and commands good prices-as
indeed it should at the present high prices of
everything essential to living. The resources
of this country are being lastly developed !;
four years ago not a bushel of grain-not one
ounce of freight Of any kind passed down the
Chippewa liver now Steamers daily find their
way to the Father Of waters, loaded to the
edge with the products of the Chippewa Val
ley. Emigration is steadfastly coming in !;
steadily, surely westward the star of empire
takes its way" Thousand upon thousand of
sturdy yeonanry have, and are constantly
availing themselves of the Homestead Law
the poor mans friend-and are making for
themselves a home, mayhap a fortune-from
Uncle Sans munificence and there is yet
room for more. They cannot expect to find
here the comforts and luxuries they enjoy in
older countries as yet, but come they will
slowly yet surely. The whole country abounds
in wild game of all kinds as an illustration
of it / will merely state that an acquaintance
of mine has a wager pending that he will, in
one day, with the help of a friend, shoot and
secure t1eo hundred prairie chickens. Fish
of all kinds abound in the rivers, and the
most delightful of trout streams are abundant.
Springs of pure water are not like angels Wis
its few and far between but on the contrary
are very plentiful. The soil is somewhat san
dy in places, but there is abundance of good
farming sections; as large wheat and corn
crops are raised here as in any part of the
State. 1t is very well wooded-and as for
heGLthfu{nesS | verify believe this is the place
referred to as where they had to shoot a man
to start a burying ground.
This place, Durand, is situated on the east
side of the Chippewa river twenty-five miles
from its mouth aud one hundred and twenty
from La Crosse. 1t was laid out about -four
years ago and has a population of 40O-and
rapidly increasing. 1t is a go-ahead, active
little place and no place of its size can boast
gilmore liberal and public-spirited men. All
that it needs now is capitalize bring it rap
idly forward. A daily line of steamers leave
our levees daily. The Bill which has lately
become a law for a railroad from Tomah to
connect with the Northern line of the Pacific
railroad viii pass through this section and
probably through this place. The Chippewa
valley will then find aready and good market
for all its produce. In the educational line
we have an academy recently started-and a
good district school-both well attended by
upwards ola hundred eager (for mischief,
doubtless,) and attentive pupils. In the line
of anusements we have-well, yes-they are
principally Of the terpsichorean order. Eve
ry one dances up here. Dance by families, as
well as drill by squads this section can't be
beat for patriotism ; } pretty girls are plenty,
indifferent music ditto-and under the infu-
ence of the latter the eyes of the former look
love to eyes that speak again, and all that
sort of thing to an indefinite extent. So mote
it be.
| see the Telegraph has lately appeared in
a new dress-and | well know that those clean
type will never be put to any dirty work by
its present editors hopes for its welfare and
prosperity from
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