The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-08-03
coRREsP oNDENcE.
From Davenpert.

DAvENP0RT, IOWA, July zIIn, low.
To ,he Edtor Of the wcaKIEexAx's ADvocAss- u
Ny duties calling me still further west,
like the SatsS the Empire, ! therefore ss q
ny ws5y. On IsssniFk JAnesville you i'de
Through fibs.6pAssE ~ so
tricts in the States; there are also great
quantities Of oats aud barley grown In this
section, but then harvest up here in Wis
ssseasia is fully one month behind the Skate
Of Iadiana, Il beng u sariQg 4soxa4E=aasas:
The country is very rolling without amortnt
ing to what may be called hills. There ares
no immense forests, timber being scarce !;
What there IS grown Is chiefly scrub oak.
Fruit here in this section, too, ~ scarce, APP
Plies appear to be about the emily kind Of
fruit grown to any extent, and the trees Of,
hist fruit do not reach any great sizs, they
Jock like the oaks, dwarf and scrubby. The
winters, am told, are very long theres .he
|suumer sets in with one blaze Of heat
scorching everything up nearly. At the
time was in Janesville the thermometer
marked los in the shade, that was quits hot
enough for me; but I ana now At the Town
OF Freeport, which Is quite aIarge city, hay
Iiag three railroads running through u !; il
has also excelssnt water power for manuiac-
turing purposes, the river running through
the city being quite large at this point .
government, believe. have ID In contempt
ton TO mike the river Rock nsvigable by
deepening the channel at parts whers The
rapids are, there being two At this place
one above and enc below the city. From
here you 60 20 Savasna, small town right
o. the banks Of the Mississippi, where 70 q
may either take the boat or continue in the
ears TO Rock Island. With what awe and
wonder does il strike the traveller as he be-
holds the majestic river. Justly called the
Father Of Waters, receiving the sprplas water
Of bali continent and evsf in. it, snnerring
ccurss conveying II to the sea-. As Aycr
st.nd here and gaze upon ityou are lost ID
admiration of the great and niSbty york q
IN sI-wise ,eraAtor, how the mind isrlost ~
yoa thiukFthst for thousand miles nearly
above ron and the same below yOn, this
great stream viii lose itself In the might !
Ocean. ss.s eaei
But I win continue my Journey in the
cars to Rock Island. This is place that is
destined to one day be great city. Stu
/ ated Is it's N one Of the most picturssQus
rsisys you can possibly imagine. having
good business prospects, and it being one Of
the great highways to the west the loaly
drawback bsing they have managed TO lei
their neighbor. Dessapers. across the river,
igst the sdvanssgv Of them 10 havlng the
Iheidse tit orr Che river aboFe their city
sd 1T ~ elYsn them soas adsantAgs Ii
IL business poiut OF view. There u consid-
egable Misunderstanding carried on here in
Iiron and aegioul1ural fmplsnents, and greal
numbers o1u0Fkmsn 1Fe smployed, bat sc
iar ~. I 6ould 16axu there q scssosly any
Unions hsBo III there Is they 10 mos seeth
4 10 exercise any great amount 6f influence
q should havD elG1ed that Tho eiU ts<ts It,
1 name from 1ns51a1nd hsfs ID No fl5er called
Rock Island, bd1DGHine % the general GOV.
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