East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
Western Q orrespondence.

UPPER MISSISSIPPI, sept. 7, 1866.
DEAR FRED-Harvest has come and
gone, and autumn smiles upon the
landscape. Heavy laden graneries or
great plethoric stacks of grain and
well filled barns are everywhere album
dant. The farmer smiles on his nu-
merous evidences of success and pros
perity, and the towns and cities along
this mighty artery of commercial life
display unusual activity, and there is
nothing wanting to make the North
west the great supplier of the grain
for the world, but facilities for the
carrying it to the seaboard cheaply
and rapidly. The demand for these
conveyances, is rapidly being met and
almost every day adds something to
the already large catalogue of Eastern
routes. Within a few days railroad
connection between st. Paul and
Winona has been completed, and trains
are making daily trips, so that thifty
miles Of boating from Winona to
La Crosse-is all that prevents contin-
uous rail from St. Paul to Now York.
Western progress is no less proverblal
then wonderful, and we arc daily adj
ding to our stock of surprise that vas
moderately aroused upon our first i'd
vent here, only few months ago, and
shall be prepared soon to believe hat
the Eastern States were made soely
for the purpose of displaying by ON
trast the exceeding richness of The
Northwest.
Michigan men have not been he
last to acknowledge the growing Pos
perity of this region, and l have mt
them in all pursuits and at all poins,
from st. Louis to the Red River of
the North. In the vicinity of The
new gold mines lives an Oakland Co
farmer intent upon furnishing the
forts and settlements contiguous, With
fat cattle and sheep. His farm co,ers
tract Of twelve hundred acres ind
his hocks and herdsare very EXTENSIVE
For the past two winters he has lad
NO difficulty in protecting his cattle
from cold and during the summer tley
thrive rapidly.
Along the Chippewa River a number
of Saginaw Valley people have begun
heavy lumber speculations in entering
lands and preparing to make extensive
operations there. Kibbee, White,
Thomson and Bacon, from Vassar,
have superior locations and doubtless
others, seeing their successes, will
take up their road westward.
The season has been exceedingly
fine for lumbermen, as there has been
fair stage of water during the en-
tire year, upon most of the streams,
and lumbermen have thriven and
ono man . weai 10 announcer woe, was
never more fully demonstrated then in
the season so favorable TO numbering
Often and heavy rains, have kept the
streams up and beaten the grain down.
Great quantities have rotted in the
fields, and a large proportion of that
saved is badly grown. The area har-
vested exceeds very largely that OF
any former year, but the average of
number one grain, as well as the av-
erage per acre, is less than for many
years. All this, however, does not
prevent the average from doubling
that of Michigan, as it is beyond
question, somethingo over twenty bush
els per acre.
The cholera sighted this part of
the country, if you except few cases
that occurred upon boats from st.
Louis. These were confined to the
deck hands, and emigrants, and 1
have not heard of any other cases
above st. Louis. A largo number of
pleasure seekers are now lettering
along the beautiful scenery of this
country, some trying to make time
delightful to others, in the exhilera-
ting and string scenes, to arouse
their dormant vitality into renewed
life, and among the latter, we have
seen some remarkable changes, but of
these anon. AS ever,
TINA wordy correspondent of
the Enterprise, Of Sept. 10, introduces