Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-09-05
FROM TIE II EST,

The following letter was received by
Mr.. CIV. Hubbard, of Jeffersonville, from !
a western friend. We are permitted to pub
lish it for the benoft of the many emf !
grants who are daily leaving this section
for the prairie States - Ed
"MR HUBBARD f
".Ssr-l have just received your letter
with many others, which now cheerfully
answer. f.,
"You speak of going to Missouri; |
have travelled much in that State and
would not go there and live for the best
farm in the State Missouri has good
land and when that is said all is said
that can be In its favor. The society. the
the productions, the want of timber, water
and health are such as would never suit
me.
This country has more natural ad.
vantages than have ever found in 25,-
900 miles of travel in the south and west.
In the first place we have the best soil
and easiest to cultivate that | have ever
seen--being deep, rich black sand mixed
with lime gravel, often two and sometimes
four feet in depth next. we have choice
variety of mber: beech, maple and bass
are the most abundant, with rock elm,
black and white ash, butternut, oak and
some other kinds. Then we have patches
of splendid white pine scattered all thro'
the good farming lands some of it large
enough to make 5000 and 5000 feet of
lumber to the tree some just the right size
for hew-timher,-for any purpose any
length desired if it is hundred feet we
have measured pines l2 rods in length,
which are not equal to those have seen
in Oregon and California, but surpass
anything east of the Rocky mountains
1--WE ale 32 miles from railroad, but
there will he roads nearer in few years,
..Wc have an excellent home market to
supply emigration and the lumbcrmcn
take all onr surplus produce.
Government land subject to the Home
stead Act will be at first Is to 20 miles
FROM mills, stores and sch ools, but an en-
tcrprising set Of pioneers such as We zen
orally have carries all such improvements
with them and they sometimes 60 il
advance Of the settlement.
"Wagcs arc from $50 to $40 per month
; COWS $50 to $50, oxen 5000 to $500 PEI
/, yoke. horses cheaper. E
I'VE have good water any where b.
digging from s to 40 feet, some spring
). and good mill streams, a very health,
country with moderate but steady winter
= and but little rain,--seldom breakup.
:. good sleighipg which protects out whea
and makes it never failing crop.
|, "shccp arc more thrifty here than il
. Pennsylvania or Ohio or any other coun
try have ever seen. Stock has an excel
: lent range iu summer in the woods.
It have seen hundreds sold and slaughtere
), right from the woods. Bees do we'll, an
S in short it is the most desirable countr
- could find in l2 years travel. .'
!. "Mueh of Northern Michigan is yet
y wilderness and wants nothing but the il
n resistiblc march of Yankee enterprise
make it far superior to the more wester
4 states.
"Persons derising to come here can CON
ie to Detroit thence on the Milwaukee X.
. to St. Johns, thence North to ST. Loul
at and they are in better country tina
IN Kabsas OF Missouri Get as many OF you
~ neighbors to come as you can and con
rs and see the country for yourself
K, ASK your printer to insert this lett
r. II. in your county paper
MS "Yours truly,
in az. H. BROOKS"