The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-27
Letter from Omaha.
OMAHA, Neb., July 81, 1868.

Editors Journal;
B Again l ask the privilege of inAict-
ing a few lines on the readers of the
JOURNAL. Since I last wrote, the
weather has been unusually hot for
this climate. | have not known such
weather since my residence here
although we have had hot weather in
previous years, still it never lasted
over a few days at a time, and the
nights were usually cool and pleasant.
This season it is quite changed. The
weather continued hot for weeks, not
only during the day, but the nights
were uncomfortably hot. Severalper
sons have died from the effect of the
heat. This warm weather has, however,
been the best for the crops. The
wheat crop will be remarkably fine.
much better than we anticipated a
month or six weeks ago. The hop
pers" have done comparatively little
damage. The corn, oats and potatoes
were never better.
On last Monday the city and county
voted a subscription of four hundred
thousand dollars to aid in the cree
ton of the great railroad bridge at
this place across the Missouri River,
and to procure land for depot pur-
poses and the right of way. Our
young State is rapidly filling up
with farmers, the real bone and
sinew of the country. They are
finding out that this State is not
the desert it has been represented to
be, but that the soil is unsurpassed In
| fertility, and that the markets are
good. Even here in Douglass County,
in the immediate vicinity of the city,
where lands are mostly held by new
residents and spectators, and at ex-
traordinary high prices, there has
been quite a change, and farms are
being opened IN every direction, and
the lands are being sold out al reason
able figures. [ know of no place
presenting better opportunities for
market gardening and small fruit
culture than this immediate
vicinity. The city is mostly over
traded at present; no more necessity
for stores or shops, unless it is some
person with heavy capital to engage
in the jobbing business.
There are but few places presenting
better opportunities to engage profit
ably In manufacture than this place
does, as we are destined to supply the
entire West and North for over 1000
miles with the various articles of
commerce. | presume some will give
as an objection the scarcity of mate
rial. We lack this, but many other
cities that are largely engaged in man
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to import the principal part of her
material for manufacturing purposes
from a distance. A few years ago /
met a gentleman travelling in North
ern Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan,
purchasing lumber and shipping it to
New York and the New England
States, to be manufactured into va
rious articles of necessity, and reship-
ped in the manufactured state again
to the West, the consumer paying for
transportation both ways-just as the
free. traders wish us to ship the cotton
and wool across the ocean, to be re-
turned to us in a manufactured state,
instead of manufacturing it at home,
thus saving the transportation,
and giving employment to our own
people. l believe we can transport
InC mdb0IIdI CASdp6E ~ tAAS CiIy anu
manufacture it here, than we can
transport the manufactured article.
A few of the manufactures that
would flourish here, and eventually
pay the protector, are some of the
following: A corn starch manufac-
tory. paper mill. oil mill, stove found
ry, Touring mill, (although we have
one excellent Touring mill in the
city and many in the country round,
but more are needed,) wooden mill,
wooden ware mandatory, agricul-
ture works, such as mowers, eapers
plows, wagons, &c, with many small
er ones, manufacturing articles of
daily consumption; and of this
the market will afford constant
sale. We have no cooper. shop in the
city. A good mechanic of this de-
scription would make a living in re-
pairs alone. He must, however, cal
culate to transport his material from
other points. While | believe that
all Of the manufactures named, if
backed up with sufficient capital and
men of energy and business habits,
aud content with small profits, would
thrive, still [ would not advise any
one to come here without first visit
ing the place and seeing for himself.
Well, the Democrats, Conservatives, |
J~ohnsonites, Copperheads, traitors
ana rebels, after a long and severe
contest, have at last succeeded in
presenting to their followers a singu-
lar mongrel ticket, composed Of the