The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-12-19
A LETTER FROM IOWA.

AChLE1, IL Nv d, bCC. IL, 1COt.
ED. WYANDoT PIONEER:
Dear SIR: I received a copy Of
your valuable paper a few days
since, and was glad to note the
changes and improvements found
therein.
Since my last communication to
you, our western country round and
about here has improved very rapid
". Some twelve to fifteen thousand
acres of choice lands have been dis
posed Of this season, a portion of
which has been broken up, inclu-
ding some fifteen thousand acres
sold last year. Houses erected
thereon, and all other convenieaces
added, whereby the owners can
winter themselves and stock, and be
ready for the spring sowing should
there be an addition Of Is, 900 acres
more wheat sowed in the spring Of
'6S over that of '67, averaging Is
bushels per acre, it amounts to $780,
900, at an average of $1.5O per
bushel, would bring into circulation
the enormous sum of $685., 900,
which if anything fis rather, under
than over, what will exchange hands
a year hence, and I believe added
to the present circulation, it will be
not less than S1,000,000, that will
change hands nexi fall, and too from
the sale of wheat alone How does
that compare with the sale of the
same in Wyandot in it's infancy ?
I have, Notwithstanding the glow
ing account given above, longed
many, very many times this fall, for
a few more straws, not wheat straws,
but ''Dave Straws,' as our buyers
have not done justice to the farmer,
nor the business men Of the place,
as having built them a Board Of
Trade Room. They clogged to-
gether, and intended to make too
much, the consequence was, the far
mer drove to other points and dis
posed Of his grain, and at the same
time purchased dry goods, grocer
les, &c.
Corn crop good, and selling at
40 cents per bushel. Oats never
better, selling at 80 to 40 cents per
bushel. Potato crop excellent, sci
ling at 40 cents. But make sum
mary of our market prices and they
would be- as follows:
Flour $S per barrel Wheat 81. sc
per bushel; Corn 40 cents; Oats dc
cents Potatoes 40 cents; Hay $4.0(
per ton, &C., &c.
From the foregoing, persons con
templating move to Iowa can OBJ
tain glimpse Of what they could
do, should they follow farming
which is the most profitable bust
ness / know of, as it cannot be ovor
done, while all other branches O.
business are.
Ackley has improved wonderfu ul
ly this summer, there being from
forty to fifty business and dwelling
houses finished, or still under com
pletion, which is not more than hal
counted upon last winter, but owing
to depression in money matters du
ring the early part of the season
many refrained from building that
would have.
Besides improvements in build
ings we have an additional Rail
Road, styled the Eldora q Ackle.
Coal Railroad, though of but LITTLE
Importance as yet, it is destined to
be the connecting link that will
sooner Or later give us an air-lin'
road to st. Louis, Mo-, and St
Paul, MINI. The first will be to u
a better market than Chicago, il
five years from now, as the Soutl
will eventually fall back into the oil
habits of raising rice, sugar, cotto1
and tobacco, and will then look t,
the great northwest to furnis1
them with breadstuffs, pork and cat
tie. The second will also be wort
thousands and thousand of dollar
to us, as we will be able to procur
our pine lumber from the mills a
Minneapolis and St. Paul, in es
change for coal, which is found i
abundance in our country, thereb
keeping at'home our currency, an
> not leaving it in the hands of Dr
|buque and Chicago lumbermen.