Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-08-01
FROM SOUTHERN IOWA.

,0u EDITOR News DEALER; Perhaps few
ras items from this part of the Great West
IRON may not prove embarrassing to some of
Az JUL your readers
stern As you will see by the map, We are
w. auaed in the south tier of counties,
% b., about one hundred miles west of the
rctuS Father of Waters" or near midway be-
tngS tween the two largest American rivers
ii, Mississippi and Missouri. .l.
Pu' The country is high, rolling and very
astern heathy. The Mississippi River, at Bur-
aph cfc lngton, has an altitude less than 500
$ since feet above the Gulf of Mexico while we
~ III have au altitude of over 500 feet above
w,s 1.-THE river at Burlington, which, | think,
autcal serves to make it one Of the healthiest
ldred porons Of the whole western country.
vas ll' Our County is yet comparatively new,
N 'ne but is gaining rapidly in population and
III, wealth. 1t has now population of be.
s Gat ween SIX and seven thousand. Inc SOIL
thgvb mostly prairie with a fair supply Of
loDoiaa voves and belts of timber bordering the
-. nams The prsiries here differ much
NJ = Rom those in most parts of Illinois, from
t.,s lhe fact that the surface is much more
+ =, July bDdulating uneven--or rolling as it is
ternlet ermed West. TO stand at given point
pc 80 ind overlook the surrounding country
10y ou would suppose it to be one vast SWEEP
. o,br level, or at most slightly undulatine
raph Ha urface but in travelling over it one finds
Beerhan to be quite rough for prairie country
erI !, !. nl the road quite billy in many places
- mi be deception to the eye is caused by thu
July III Pr Of the swells being the common leve
is LANDED the country and the Undertaking sur
NV h bee being caused by vallies instead o
%" pills. In the bottom Of the hills Their
lance frs 70 usually creeks aud channels which
Y ~ ram OH the surplus water of the country
1 p NJ uch more perfect than the broad fla
rbsyo oughs of more level prairie country
here arc occasional pieces Of fat prairie
be Great Pre- but the rolling land is much tn
IDLE anu chest and most productive will stan'
L. D., D. wet season or drouth better. Splendid
The ,uass Faire can be bought here from three t.
IA ght dollars per acre. Timber is highc
end vas kfrom ten to twenty five dollars per acre
Oh board =, l. to,na - abundance in some No,
, - bns Of the County. This is evidentl
lenea (stined to become great stock GROWN
in the q pOtry, equaling If not SURPRISING liz
ahead is foE the reason that there 10 muc
oara ~ pre- natural shelter here for stock, fror
~ .oo.,hrh + cold winds Of winter. than In NOR
ain. Sig Vel prairie country. I have particula
I'd the lercnce to this portion Of the State
hou@ PIE portions Of Iowa are as level as mos
-, stSl f'Ons Of Illinois. Sheep do splendid
e. and people begin to get in earnei
ship, from raising them. flock Of thre
ntil WIZ 1'and passed over my farm only YET
nilesPd day. vi aoa' ustJ islf"' ,
0u 1870 see some of your journals are advisip
,gr Green Mountain Boys" to stay q
,rc unptaa me- and not 60 west That is all wei
D the ap ugh ! do not advise any one to com
We a ~. '~let all do as they please and thin
n'ps ~ But If there are aqy Of my Of,
god 'd' Or acquaintance in Itamoille Co.