The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-14
Through the County Continued.

ED. ADVERTISER We left Off our
communication at Springdale with o
promise to resume it in the future. We
will now redeem that promise.
The next place Of interest we visited
was West Branch, a lively little village
in the southwest corner of the county.
OH the b. G. r. 4 NJ. r. II. Here we
made our home with Mr.. Way, who
keeps the hotel of the village, and who
has knack of making his guests feel at
homo while stopping with him-a trait
Of character which is necessary in hotel
keeping. There is one advantage to the
stranger stopping with him--he is sure
to become acquainted with some Of the
Ways Of the world. While there we
visited the Inder office and had an in
tervisw with that man of the quill. He
has just been changing the Hde1 from
a monthly to q weekly paper, and we
cannot but express our surprise that the
editor can get off alsaper at all under the
unfavorable circumstances. It is q
readers complain, they should 60 and
see for themselves, and then 1 Am sure
they will be satisfied. The editor uses
the same press which Ben. Franklin
used, and the same termination, 9TH
erwiss there would be no Inder to guide
the people Of that place.
We also made visit to West Liberty
and called on Mr.. Trumbo, tho quill
man Of the Enterprise. He is a regular
go-ahead fellow ; lie has plenty of room
in his Office, where he 10 setting up the
old ADVERTISER press which he pur.
chased recently. He told US he proposed
to make the Enterprise a larger land
better sheet than the ADVERTISER!
Such presumption! Pshaw! Mr.. r.,
it can't be did.
The town Of West Liberty il in Mus
catins county il it was in Cedar county
We would boast of it sure, but as it 10 not,
we will say nothing further about it.
From West Liberty We came back into
Iowa township. Here canvassing for
litical sentiment of the people Of this
township is mostly Democratic. Some
of them have departed" while some
of them won't depart worth cent
There being no Democratic paper pub
lished at the county seat Of this county,
and their utter adherence of everything
that is not "Simon pure" interferes
very much with some Of them knowing
what is going Oh in the county. They
read the Chicago Times and Brick Pome.
roy's paper, but as neither of these sheets
say anything of our local matters, some
of the people over there had a great
many questions to ask. Some were in.
curing when our County Fair would
be; many were anxious to know il there
had been any work done on the Iowa
Southwestern. Well, answering all
such questions in gcntIemanly way
takes time, SO we got along slowly.
We visited the Rochester silver mines,
about which SO much has been said and
written, but a. We are not miner nor an
about Thorn. On the bluff on the west
side Of the river We saw some men at
work sinking shaft some eight or ten
feet square. They had reached depth
Of ten or twelve feet, and had also reached
some very hard rock which they were
compelled to blast with powder in order
to get it into shape to remove. As we
stood gazing at those men at work in
the pit, the words Of Pollock in his
"Courss of Time" came fitting through
our mind. He says:
"Gold silver many hunted,
sweat and blsd for gold. (siIvsr)
Walked all the night
And labored all the day.
And what was this allursment?
Dost thou ask?
A dust dug from the bowels OF the earth,
Which .
Came out . shining thing
Which fools admired" &c.
There seemed TO be but little energy
manifested by the parties; whether it is