The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-05-30
Correspondence OF the Telegraph.
Letter from Nebraska.
CUB CREEK. ON THE BIC BLUE,
GAGE Co. NFB. Nav %. 1867.

| GAGE Co.. NEB., May 20, 1867.
| EDITORS TELEGRAPH -
| 4 great many of the readers Of your pape
wished me to write them full account of thu
advantages and disadvantages of this countr.
the distance from market, quality of timbe
and lumber, etc. Now if you will be kline
enough to give me a very small space in you
valuable paper 1 can save time and paper b,
cutting them all off at one dash of the pen.
Firstly, then, Messrs Editors, we arrived
here all safe and conference.-the disap
ipointed, great deal Inconvenience, and put
I to considerable expense on account Of the neg
| ltgence or unnecessary delay on the part of the
Merchants Union Express Co. l shipped al
my goods by this company at a cost of oveI
Eve dollars per hundred, to Brownville, witt
! the exception of wagon that l freighted
through at less than one-half the cost on the
expressed goods and the wagon arrived il
Brownville first. l merely mention this foI
the instruction of others that may be coming
out.
| am located about six miles west of Bea
trice, which is the county seat of Gage county
on what is called Cub Creek, about sixty-fve
miles south west from Brownville, and the
same distance from Nebraska CITY. both .be
last named places being on the Missouri Riv
er. The country between the Missouri and
Blue rivers is very uneven, very much broken
and almost bluffy, particularly near the rivers
and creeks, which quite numerous and NOT
very far between and the timber, all there is
and such as it is, is on the streams of water
yet the soil on the high rolling prairie around
Brownville is very productive. The most
splendid wheat, oats, barley and corn 1 ever
saw in any country, is here produced in great
abundance. Here are some of the largest pens
of corn q cannot call them cribs, for they are
only rail pens about sixteen feet high without
any covering whatever) that | ever saw
Shelled corn is selling at seventy.fye cents pei
bushel, wheat is worth about two dollars pei
bushel, oats seventy five cents, bacon twelve
and one-half cents.
The country, as you proceed west, becomes
smooth and more even here west of the Blue
and north of my place, is one of the loveliest
and incest prairies in the world. You may
think it is saying great deal, but if any mar
doubts my word let him come out here and
see for himself, and if he don't say so then the
lager is on me.
You may think this is long enough, but one
moment ifyou please, to correct one very err
roneous opinion that prevails generally
throughout Wisconsin, -that is, that a man
owning property in real estate cannot come
here and take up homesteads. l will here
give the persons that are eligible first, any
person the head of a family, man or woman
no matter of what age, condition or color I'd
any single man or woman over 81 years of age
all must be citizens of ,he United States OF
have declared their intentions to become such
There is plenty of government land here a
present, but how long it will be before il is ia
ken up l donot know. There has been grea'
deal taken this spring.
But this is already too long. will writ,
more next week if you give me space.
Yours, &c,
PHILIP GAsCOIGNE.