The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-06-18
ICoTeSpondence Cincinnati Gazette.
Z ~ : Going West. : 80.

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. Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.i
So Going West. 1s--A
g5'I p IIIGuLAND Co o., May 80.
/, The reply of the Des M0ines Reg
= isier published in the Gazette o
May 5.h to the inquiry OF T. w. G.
concerning the best method OF farm
; ing thIrty-six acres, DC, leads Inc
ouL - follows: The Register don't
answer the question, but proceeds to
point eus'in glowing coiors thc adj
!, van,sgessto be- derived from gong
Ito Iowa, andlcoverily sncers at Ohi3-
ans at being So far from the center
OF the world" Iowaj la
4 don't propose TO answer II. w.
G.'s question either, but. 10 say, do
not sell out and go TO Des Moines
or any other part of Iowa, | woGldn /
be that green, bus add sxty-four
acres to your tiirty-six, il il IS to be
had. Il not, sell out and buy eighty
or hundred acres somewhere else
in Ohio. Buy good land with good
improvements on it 90 in debt for
1t if you can not pay down. You
VII work har,ler and make more
money ii You are in debL (spokcn
from cxyerlance); then besides you
are at no ineonvenience; every
thing is right ~ hand, your barn,
crcba;i, lt uces, oasbai,iings, &c.
Rec1ilect these are items not every
one iia'ls on an open prairie.
The Register says you can buy 81
improved farm from fifteen to thirty
dollars per acre. Now, we Oaioans,
living IN the outer rim like, So far.
from the ''center OF the world and,
shaving never been educated Up Ia
she .stand2rd,' pre- nCt supposed 10
know y hat improved land is. FJr
she benefit OF the i2noran. We insert
herc description Of an improved
iarm, bY one Oaioan who has actual
lv been - The CENTER ~ hat
ahey call iuiprovct land in the
West, Is = p4sch og prairie of almost
..uy -siza, N IA. $ sl&a1Y somewhere
.unit, AeuphpIlie.ssiv called 4 house.
A row or tSo OF polcs or posts
planted in ihe ground, with prairie
grass piled gp against them (cailed
- stqSle); tailty or forty acres broke
nd cucir5lcd h two telegraph lines
(feacoG), 2ud occasiona;iy AZ or
sard c9as;= Giag O 'ers Il a;n!cs, viid
DlC ana cac.e ei.eir'cs.H TIE
cuiois a.i iga! gs.oustp tire "C"ntar.
Bu. 10 20 oa! -. |. le o'j n writing
as was uo. y macu L. i-.k tp Al
". g, ..- IT, ply aHd every yolag
man who contemp.stes going Wess.
You lave "a lleard sef .uc Western
fever thu taxes OF shousanj4 every
wear. The writer was. once afflicted
with tha5 iHhrmitr, tJ1 happily re-
covered by usirg lis 5oriog fac
nlties thus: - ks
We viii suppose 1two voung men
il equal circum@;apccs III iifc. y.
With oae thousand dollars goes west
and buy unimprov@l nd aad pays
Tor il down. Now follow bin in
your Imagination threu2h series OF
years til Ac has surrounded himself |
with comforts such as you enjoy on
your OHIO farms. rhel lufn To b !
who thinks Ohio is good enough for
him; be buys an improved farm 3
makes lis first payment with his one
thousand dollars, and goes lii debt
for the balance. He then goes TO en- !
Joying himself; he can't help IL; he
has 4 shelter over his head; shelter
for his stock and grain his fields !
cleared and fenced; his orchards
beaFiag fIait, aud a thousand and
one comforts fiiat A. knows some
tiipg abcut bat-ean'a have Ia five
OF Elk years b 1owus the land lie tills, !
while X has moi yet, nor gill for,
lourgor five years to come have &
arm equal TO TIE one B. commenced
%'sb n j.
. The New York Post Calls atten
lion tothese interesting faets
The present century has see four
great events k
/. Morse's invention OF the Tele
graph. ~
2. The layinggof the Atlantic Ca
5 The death of Slavery in the
limited States. 81
4. Completlonsof the Pacific Rail
way.s -
In twenty-five years the country
has been spanned by the wires of the
telegraph. Tenyears ago the light
ming began to ran beneath the sea.
Five years ago the war for freedom
ended and Slavery died. Yesterday
the iron track was made complete
from Portland to San Francisco.
The young man OF to-day who has
seen all these things accomplished
will have tales 10 tell his grandchil-
dren such as no grandsire ofour day
can summon fcon the stores OF his
memory.
Your Siamese Twins, vino, after 4
long residence in America, came here
TO be separated, are about to return
as they came. sThe English sur
ceons decIaredthe best thing they
could do was 10 remain one. Thus
death can alone disunite then, and
The general opinion IS that tie death
OF one will XIII the other. Thrice
happy they who are sure of living
and d1inT with the other halt oi