The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-10-05
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our fast communication LEFT Us, is pd.
haps the proper place to begin This o.i.
Tine more proper as the two mfrs
I seemed to take exceptions to what Eas
said of the silver mines, as we sedy
their mouth piece, the West Liberty ~.
terprise Of Sept. Odd. We Were "grealy
surprised to find that the Roche str
silver mines which have been attractla
SO much talent, capital and skill durig
the past two years should be worked iy
only two poor miners;u as to 'consli
ering the use of powder dangerous We
confess we do. We have known seve-
al persons who were hurt by the usebf
it. as to leaving the two miners "wih-
out the good wishes Of the day. THY
mistake. We did and do give them The
good wishes which they desire, hoWh
ne might not hare It'd them so.
But since leaving the miners vho
were at work in the pit we have net
! other parties who were interested in The
silver mines, and who had time to talk
with us on the subject, who gave us
some very interesting information In
reference to the matter; and which If
demonstrated as the parties agreed TODD
at some future time, will cause US to
write in quite different strain in refa'-
ence to the Rochester silver mines.
We recently took the opportunity D.
visiting the family and viewing the
farm and stock of Mr.. Hildebrand, one
of the leading farmers of the county.
His farm, of which we propose to tell
you something, is situated near the cen
ter Of Pennington township, and con-
sist of T2O acres of very fine prairie land
He purct it about six years since of
one of the firm of Cook & Sargent,
Bankers of Davenport, who had fitted
it up in style entirely beyond the
means Of any ordinary farmer. The
dwelling, the barns, the lawn, the
groves, the orchard, we will not attempt
to describe, but simply say they are
Iieadi6erous. We spent near half a day
driving over the premises in company
with the proprietor, who took pleasure
ia showing US around as we did in he-
ing shown. He has 81 head of horses,
among which are two very fine thor
ough bred brood mares of the Morgan
stock, also a horse, we have forgotten
the stock, which bids fair to make some
good time at running most all his
nj. nF in al m,
the stock
Ofeattle he has about 20 head, some
10 or IL of which are thorough bred Dew
ons, the balance of the herd being
crosses. He proposes to turn his atten-
ton to the Durham stock Of cattle more
than he has done heretofore, and has
purchased recently very fiue thorough
bred animal for that purpose.
He had this season about AS acres in
wheat, none Of witch is yet ,hreshed,
100 acres of barley, mostly threshed av-
era2ing 40 bushels TO the acre. 80 acres
Of oats averaging 60 bushels, - acres OF
rye, averaging 80 bushels, aud over 100
acres of corn which is like all other corn
i'll the county this season, above the av
crage crop. We were shown IL variety OF
corn called the Ohio Premium, Of which
Mr.. Ii. aas few acres grown this sea-
Son wiiiph WE tt.:nt. equal with any corn
that we have seen grown on the Mus
kingum valley Of Ohio, and have seen
some good corn there. We also saw
r 70 .
think at Mr.. Wiley's Of Inland. 1t Is
of rich golden color, very large ears
and matufed this season in about -
days froi., the time OF planting. We do
not hesitate to recommend IL to the
farmers of this county, as a very vaIua
bic variety TO plant. Mr.. III. manages
almo ISL the entire farm alone, by hiring
men 10 do the work; giving employ
ment to five or six men all the time and
ID or %. He is one of the few
who can manage rage farm successful.
ly. While there we were shown a draw
ing representing front view of the
dwelling with the lawn and groves sur
rounding it, which is very interesting
picture to the owners. and speaks well
for the Artist, Mr.. ID. Howard, who is
now stopping in Upton for the purpose
of making some pictures for the people
there, and we understand is being well
But we are making this
letter too long. So we left Mr.. Hide,
brands with a kind invitation from him
to call again, and an assurance that we
would always find the latch string
out.
On Tuesday evening the 26tb, we met
with the Good Templars Of Inland.
There was full attendance of the
Lodge, besides Il goodly number of visi-
tors from Snowflake l.. and some from
Crystal Fount l.. All seemed pleased
with the exercises of the evening. We
enjoyed ourseif hugely.
More anon. 5.