Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-05-01

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per on knee, pencil In hand, you car
imagine your correspondent upon ONE
of the widest prairies ever spread out
for the admiration and use. Of man.
kind. Grundy County has heyef lei
been understood, nor will the com,
pass of single letter give your east
ern readers an idea of its expanse.
know off mary of4your Cedar Fall,
people, even, that don't quite under
stand the situation. 1t needs M
Boosting or Dragging to enable one Il
say that this couaty is now the gar
den Ut this state, and exceeds III
agricultural capacity any county il
any other State. Not a foot of tht
soil but can be made available fol
farming, either raising grain or stock
Great noise has been made because
Grundy is lacking in timber. She /.
not as timber hungry as many sup,
pose her to be. Last winter was cold
but nobody froze to death, aud a.
longas the, people cam raise grain
they will buy fuel And building ma.
eterials. Where I sit there is an un.
broken view of gently rolling, tilla.
Bile land as far as the eye can reach
Everywhere new houses are going ar
and teams are at work putting in
seed. Next year the grain trade will
be q vastly greater item than 1t Il
now, and with abundant crops will
follow large trading. This Is con.
sideration that must not be overlook.
esi by Cedar FANS waterloo, Mar
shaltown, Eldora, Parkersbarg, Ack.
ly, ct cetera, are her rivals and will
strain every nerve TO scoop up o.
much rs they can, The farmers will
have things pretty much their own
way; they can sell and buy where
they please. The real interestHof all
these to WINS lies In tire growth OF the
surrounding country. You can'l
force the towns ahead of the. latter
They will grow up to It. Dealers in
real estate i'm this county tell me that
they have sold more land to actual
settlers, this spring, than ever before
in the same time. This looks like
"biz" and will tell "fearfully" ON the
population of the county. Those set.
tiers are bringing in capital--noi
money only-but brain, and bone
and sinew. Many of them are from
the prairie school of Illinois. Adopts
at Western farming none cf your
amateurs, but men who want to I'm.
prove the country, make money and
live happy. This rapid accumula.
ton of population has raised tho
pricaof raw lands, but still they bu,
because they are cheap, and what ii
better, good. There Is no discount
on the quality of the soil. II dom
take generation to hew out q home
stead as In the timber. Nature hal
prepared the soil for The pillow, an,
the laws of Iowa protect every mar
who wishes To make a homestead 10
himself or family. There Is no bone
breaking, shin-skinning, cled-hop
ping here. II Is farming with the soil
speed, pleasure sand Ego ahead" o
the 10th century. Whilst our peopl
are signing over stone-heaps In tn
Last, the Germans and Irish ar
working themselves into independ
ence in this prairie country. Thi
may be oil highly colored. Couldn'
help 1t. tits hot our fault, but tina
of Him who spread out before us thi
gushing, tearning country. There
work here. Money, health and al
that don't come but by work, but i
is not eak-neck, ill-paid, one-hors
work as we had In the East. tt
better than "Tea Wheat"
Yours On ems bus II IN
GRUMPY COUNTY.