The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-21
NOTES ON IOWA
Ed'torat Correspondence Of the Tribune. I

y
ehis year more Wheat than any other
State, and more Indian Corn than any but
Illinois. Missouri was somewhat ahead
OF the Corn last year, but the Iowa Corn
crop OF 1871 covers much larger area
than did that of 1870, and is nearly a
quarter heavier per acre, so that the Weld
Is entirely beyond precedent. Then the
award to this State of the first place in
Apple growing at the recent National
Pomolosical Exhibition at Richmond has
still further exalted the honor of the
Hawk Eyes, who seem to me to give that
award undue emphasis. That they are
succeeding admirably with Apples, [ can
personality testify. The display at the
Des Moues Fair would have done credit
to local Fair in any State of the Union
lhe frult was not only large, fair, aud
abundant; it included most Of our favorite
varieties, with several new ones, and some
that seemed to have been improved by
transplantation- In Grapes also, Iowa
has done well. judge that she grows
Concords as easily and bountifully as any
other State, and that her growers could
afford and would contract to supply them
IN large quantities at three cents per
pound, aud would do better at that price
than at Wheat growing. OF Delawares
and the more delicate varieties, the pro
duct is far less, and judge more precar-
lous still, they all thrive here under care,
full pains taking culture OF Pears and
Peaches little is said and not many of
them exhibited. [ learn that the Peach
growing area is receding southwark on
this as Oh the other side of the Alleg-
henies.
Iowa has this day not less than One
Million and Quarter of people, with am
pie space for Ten Millions. She has at
tracted emigration more rapidly than any
other State. Is seems but yesterday that
she had only two Representatives in Con
gress; now she has six, and in the next
House will have eight And she is like,
ly to grow quite as fast during the next
decade as throughout the last. She is
building Railroads with great energy and
spirit, and each line opened invites and
secures newtide OF emmigration. The
north west quarter of the State had very
few inhabitants up to recent date but
they are now pouring in, along the lines
of the newly opened or half constructed
Railroads, in thousands. | learn that
barely four counties remain unorganized,
and they will not remain so long. If she
encounter no backs set, Iowa will double
her population between 1870 and 1880.
The town of Grinnell was to me an OBJ
ject Of greater interest than any of her
thriving cities. Il can hardly be fifteen
years since the Rev. j b. Grinnell, then
pastor Of ngregational Church in New
York, resolved on migration to the West.
and took several Of his congregation with
him. He pitched on a location in Iowa,
perhaps fifty miles eastward of the center
Of the State, where settlers were few and
widely scattered, and purchased here some
six or eight thousand acres of rolling
prairie, with perhaps few Jumps of trees
on the water courses, when millions of
just such acres were offered, in every part
Of the State but the vicnage of the Mis-
sissippi, at Government price This tract
was held in subordination TO the purpose
of establishing "Grinnell University" at
It's center, and sales to settlers were made
from time to time to that end. The Uni.
versity has been Tor some years in opera
ton, aud though Qike most American
Uniyersities) as yet in the germ, is of
greater promise than most of its kind
The Common Schools is its only rival
here 10 architectural pretensions,; and it
will surprise some to learn that these to-
gether afford such educational opportuni
ties that scholarly parents have migrated
hither from the East in order to secure
the best instruction for their children
And doubt if there is spot on earth
better suited to their purpose.
For Grinnell has one advantage as the
site Of College any other within my
range Of observation, in that no glass Of
Alcoholic Liquor is or ever was sold here
Though now village of some $500 to
1900 people, it has no bar-room, no
"saloou," dagger beer" or otherwise; no
resort of tipplers, even in the most re-
spectacle stages of their downward pro
gress. Every deed covenants that the
purchaser shall not sell Intoxicating Bev
erages nor allow them to be sold on the
premises aud any violation of this com-
pact would be sure to cost the VloIator
more than he could make by it. Need
add that Grinnell has 90 paupers, no loaf
ers, DO ruiIians, no brawlers, and that her
people are equal in morality, Intelligence,
and culture, to any community on earth I
| found near GriGDeil the man have
long been looking foi-he who grows
nearly or quite one hundred bushels OF
shelled Indian Corn per acre on large
area year after year. His name is Wal
lace Clark, and he has grown Corn for the
last FIVE years successiyely on the same
hundred acres on which found not less
than nine Thousand bushels fully ripe,
whereof enough had been gathered to de-
termine the average yield. OF course,
Mr.. Clark sells little oft as grain, but
y L.