The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-10-29
Correspondence Of the News.
Letter from q Highland Boy In
Nebraska.
Lincoln, the NesO Western CEty--Its Rapid
GrO'Otk-Natasral AdUantages-Soa, Cgi-
mate and PTOdssctiOnS-SaH Basins--B4f-
JatO Hunting, &c. &c. &c.

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JaIO Hunting, DC. &c &c.
LIEcOLE, NEBRAsEA, Oct. Is, 1858.
This new city, the capital Of Nebraska, % situated
in Lancaster County, about forty miles from Nsbras-
ka City. JOurBsying from Ohio to this place. the
words Of Bishop Berkley viii be vvidly recalled, tina;
Westward the Star OF Empire takes iss way" This
Is verified BY the daily tide Of emigration pouring into
these broad western fields.
The between this live country snd the old
q States s Wsnderful Hers ali is enterprise work
and speculation. New farms srs opening daily and
new towns are spfinging up in a night. Around this
place the land Is Of the very best quality, and
ture the assertion that Nebraska is one Of the best
farming States In the Union. As q Wheat-growing
country is unsurpassed, while for Corn aHd other
crops the land is equally good The soil h very deep
and rich snough to distract Highland County farmer,
who has been used to delving among stumps and
rocks on his ancestral land for mere subsistence.
Here the acres "lsugb when tioklsd with q hoe and
yield from Thirty to fifty bushels Of Wheat, sixty to
seventy bushels Of Oats sHd sixty 60 Ons hundred
bushels Of Corn With railroads tapping every part
the STATE, farming will become very rsmnnsrativs.
The climate resembles that Of Southern Ohio very
much. Uus Il not ehangesble. The winters may be
colder, but the weather Is not 90 variable.
AIrssdy bas the labor Of man been found too slow
snd feeble 10 this magnificent country. and Steam
PIOus have been imported BY Judge Hilton, lornerly
ofOincinnat These are IN use on his Immense tract
OF land and half miles south ofthis place. They
attract great deal Of attention, and their operation
Is daily witnessed By large humber Of people, These
piOWs turn from fifteen to twenty acres Of sod
day Ny hrst Impressions Of them we're unfavorablo,
but when I saw these apparently unWisldly monsters
handling several plOWS with sase and Tapidity, my
views changed Materially Ard predict their success
and another revolution in farm labor In this State.
THE oITT oF LINCOLN
Was selected By The State GoFornmont az capital Of
Nebraska on account og its central position and other
natural advantages. Privats enterprise has eonarm
ed the Sagacity Of the Legislature. The lots we're
FIRST offered for sale one year ago, there being then
but two houses on tbe site Of the town. It has now
about two hundred and aty buildings It's growth
has been more remarkably rapid than any town in the
West, notwithstanding its hack Of railroad facilities
The Capitol Is rapidly progressing, and will be COM
peted and oc,upied this month. It Is built Of line
stOne of which thefe Is great abundance in this VI
cinity and when finished win be the finest Capitol
building west OF Columbus. The other State buildings
among which the Agricultural College, State Unit
versity and PenitentiaFy located here They will
OF same Mateflatf ana VIII D6 un9 G0lMce8s
Lincoln is sixty-fve miles southwest from Omaha,
the line Of the Midland Pacific Railway, now 10 the
oOHrss Of construction from Nebrsska City to Fort
Kearney. It is the natural centre Of spacious and
agricultural region which win soon be
BY the contemplated Railroads (nOw being
surveysdl from Omaha the Northeast, and Sc. Jo-
Soph she Southwest The Salt Basins, more extsn-
5ivo and richer in saline properties than those Of syr
cuse, are being worked on large scale, and must
prove Of great wealth to this locality Colum
bus, Ohio, indianapolis Ind. spFiBgaeld ILL., are not
superior to Lincoln IN natural advantages, and
prosperous cilies. When We consider that those sa-
line deposits are Of themselves suesut to sustain a
thriving and wealthy community, like Syracuse, n z
we may predict for Lincoln carsar Of prosperity IN
precedented In the history Of State Capitals.
It viii give your readers an idea Of onF HsaFness to
the frontier when state that there are large num-
bers Of Buffalo herdlng within days ride of this
city, and We are to have grand buffalo huut hezt
week. I expect to be there and In my next letter
will give you my hu,Io hunting experience, prOving
NJ. "LO does not raise my scalp Jock to adoru the
wigwam ( 'oHle du.ky, dari-eyed maiden. wish
your Hsboro hunters, tramping al day over 5tubbIs
Ids ailer few innocent quails, could experience
days hunting in this country. They would wonder
what sport they had found in what call hunt
Ing in Ohio. i1al II.