Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-03-15
Letter from Nebraska.

LDAAoh NhhoNlCAE s-FerhapS q short
letter from this part Of the West would
be interesting to many readers Of your
valuable paper. The chronicle visits
me, regularly, once a week; it is a well
come visitor truly, and when 1 read the
many correspondence from different
parts Of Trumbun county, which are in
teresting to me, 1 feel as though it were
my duty to tell you a few facts with re-
gard to this country.
The winter has past and gone. Spring
has come; also the Robin and bluebird.
Our winter vas exceedingly short and
mild, frost disappearing from the ground
very suddenly. At this date the dirt is
flying; the roads could not be better.
Some people are surprised at the sudden
disappearance Of the water after a heavy
rain, but as the soil is porous, and there
being no hard-pan, the water has moth
ing to contend with in its downward
course. The mattock and the pick are
dispensed with in the digging Of wells,
the spade beng the only toolused.
FARMING.
Many Of our farmers have already
commenced blowing. 1t is a lovely
sight to see them turn up the black soil.
We have No. 1 plOws here, the best that
western countries can procure. A stir
ring pillow costs from SI2 to SIS; a break
pillow from SIS to $50, owing to the size Of
pillow; we also have the gang plow-two
plows constructed in a twO-wheeled cart.
The plowman rides on this machine, and
a team of horses draws it with the great
est OF ease. We have also the two
wheeled e%ultivator which is a useful
machine. This country is settling up
with an enterprising people, and this
State, although in her infancy, goes
ahead Of ohio for farming implements
One is surprised in coming here and
seeing the interest that is manifested in
50 young a State, in the building Of
school houses, churches, etc.
EMIGRATION.
The tide OF emigration still continues ;
all winter they have been pouring into
Nebraska and Kansas from Ohio, Penn
~sylvania, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois.
There are more people here from Ohio
than any other state, and a great many
from Iowa. There is occasionally one
that is disappointed with this country;
such a person generally has agOOd home
in the East; those are not the kind we
want here; it is the msn that has no
home in the East. Ny advice is, to all
young men that are renters, go Vest
Do not stay in the thronged East and
work hard and give all you make to the
owners of farms for rent purposes. There
are plenty Of chances in the West to rent
if you should have 10 do so after going
there, and you can raise as much with
less labor for your share here. Although
you would not get as much for grain at
present as you will in a few years when
the iron horse comes putting through
our State. There are several railroads
now in operation in Nebraska. Even if
we do moi get as much for grain here as
they do in the east, there is one thing to
encourage every farmer, when be puts
out a crop he is sure to reap a bounti-
full harvest, as crops have never failed
here yet. Land is changing hands very
rapidly, and the sooner a man goes West
the better chance he has Of getting a
home. Some prefer demonstrating some
buying unimproved land in a thickly
settled place, some get improved farms,
and some rent 1t just depends on a
mans circumstances.
Brownsville, the county seat Of this
county, is situated on the Missouri riv-
er, and is a town that is growing very
rapidly. 1 judge it has as many build
ings as Warren, although more scatter
ing. It has one saw and grist mill. Our
market was supplied this winter with \
buffalo meat, elk and deer; it sold at
from Z to u emit per pound. There
Was a party OF fifteen men, IRON this
vicinity, started n buffalo hunt on the
10th Of January; were gone thirty days
and succeeded in killing forty-two
buffalo, a large number Of deer and elk;
also one hundred and five wild turkeys.
They met with a large party of Indians
some three or four hundred-and were
treated kindly by them. There is a
great deal said in the east about Indian
barbarities. The further east you 60
the more you hear about them, but when
we get out here in Nebraska we hear
nothing said of their depredations, and
they are blamed for more than they
should be, If they were justly dealt
with they would be the white mans
friend. Now AND THEN.
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