The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-10-30
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Southern portion Of kthe 6tsae he canpot |
~ much: it 10 billy and broken. Wsll, if
he only sses What be car see from bio car
windows, how is he to know any better? How
is he 70 know that just beyond those ridges,
and hiIls, and the rough gnariel growth q
trees, . milo or two or three from the line Of
the railroad, the country spreads away into
far reaches of prairie - beautiful rs any ID
the interior Of the State7 One may go up
the North road, and he sees hiih and ridges,
and poor growth Of poor timber digging its
roots ill-natsredly into poor clay soil: he
goes up the Valley road along the entire line
Of our county, and there's the repetition Of
the hills, and the ridges, and the cross
grained timber, aud the clay soil, and he
votes Lee 9 poor and unattractive county.
We can't get vexed q his ignorance, fot tits
so according to nature and his seeing, but
wouldn't il be an exquisite qualification to
bodily translate that chap over the hills and
ridges and open his eyes ppen the Big Mourid
or the Primrose. or the Dover, or Pleasant
Ridge, or Pilot Grove, OF Denmark country
He would have to invent i new Vocabulary
Of descriptives 1t once, and his soul would
be punctured all over with exclamation
points.
There is no prettief county, there is no
better agricultural county in the State than
Lee. Especially the trans Half Breed por-
ton. There's the squalor Of the Breed upon
much Of the Half Breed Tract. But beyond
that is Gods country. There's Iowa's char
acteristis grand breadths of prairie grace
fully undulating, and stretching away down
to wooded streams. As these tracts lay
under the s,lver braid and the beauty Of the
few Autsmn days vs have had latterly that
were proper Autumn days, it required no
great strain upon = devout imagination, to
fancy them fragments Of the plains Of Para
disc cut of and let down and bounded by the
river of Life and the trees whose fruit and
leaves are for the healing Of the Nations. Il
is prairie country cut up into magnificent
farms now. We looked out across some Of
the best Of these. ~ remember that twenty
Eve years ago when first came to the county,
here where we now are was wild prairie =
said our friend G. 10 ~ "it1vas part OF :
tract Of eleven. hundred acres belonging to
Mr.. Wheeler. There was no fence, but he
had turned With breaking pillow, 4 strip OF
sod about yard in width around the en-
tire tract. That was the way he marked out
and bounded his little prairie empire, and
beyond all was wilderness" Well, that
isn't q long time in the life Of State, but it
has marked great changes here.
Some Of the best farms in the county, and
Of the very best people in America are in
aud about Dover. Dover is q Radical Re-
publican place. Right here it is noticeable,
that yet out upon the beautiful prairies, where
the sun shines, and there's fresh, pure air,
and light, and glorious mornings, and SPLEEN
did evenings, and beauty and God over oil
and there it's Republicans. Get down in the
woods, where the sun don't shine, and the
cir is bad, and there's no roads but COW
paths, and no school houses, or wash bowls
or bibles, and where tho children are born
there it is Democratic every time. Dover is
out upon beautiful prairie, and the people
are Republicans. And if one wants to fall
in love with lows and Lee county, he ought
| to settle there. Of the splendid farms there
abouts, we can only notice two. That of Mr..
Harvey Bonaelli is probably the best appoint
ed, best cultivated, and most complete and
elegant in building and field, in the county
or the State either for the matter Of that.
Mr.. Bonnell is ! model farmer. His land
is fenced BY neatly trimmed, .well-kept
hedges into conve nient farms. His dwelling
is large and elegant, erected and finished with
thoroughness and taste. Out buildings and
barn are models Of neat workmanship. His
yard il picture. Buildings and ground.
are Ill underdrained. Nowhere about the
premises is there ragged edge. Conve-
nienqs can seek nothing, beauty can add
nothing to make Mr.. Bonnells farm CON
pleter. Of good farmers, he is best.
Our friend Capt. W. H. Gill, illustrates
what can be done BY pluck and industry. He
came to this county several years ago, poor
boy without money or friends. He worked
at Gay cents day, or ten dollars month
when he could. Pluck, frugality and indus
try, have made him one Of the most indepen-
dent farmers to-day in tho county. With a
large and productive farm, an ample and
elegant home, one Of the best orchards in
the Estate, the planting Of his own hands,
with choicest fruits of all kinds, apples,
peaches, pears, plums, cherries, ounces, AID
the rest, with large property in other parts
of the State, he has achieved, while Jet .
young man, the fortune that properly direct
ed industry is sure to attain in the West In
doing this, he spared time to give bis marked
native abilities, and plucky courage to his
country, and was gallant officer in the Union
army.
Tho Nssn. BonnelL "A. Mcmillan and
many others thereabouts, have farms worthy
Of notice. And there, too. is lady that to
manifold other accomplishments, adds thi.
chiaf one-she can make the best biscuits Of
any lady in Iowa, AID she uses spring -four
to do il
There, since We have got 70 gossipping like
that, ven stop.
| Hon. Geo. w. Mecrary's Appointments
salem, eaturday, October II, 2 O'Clock p. m.
Denmark. Saturday, s. "a.
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