Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-10-13

next Hnitsep Will have seigi,t. fgAnd
fstseNs likely - grow quite as fast
Eduffng d next ,Ieeatle as II r0ugts
tile last. She Ii building railroads
with great energy and spirit, mdi
each line opened invites and secures
"a new tide of immigration The
north. rest quarter Of the State had
very few inhabitnnts up to q recent
date butsthey are now pouring in,
along the lines OF the newly opened
or half.constructed railroads In thou
sands. j learn that barely four eoun.
ties remain unorganized, and they
willsnot remain 80 long. IL she en-
counters no back set, Iowa will
double Der population between'lS70
and 1880. 40 f8g .Eo, 4a9
The town of Grinnell YVES to me an
object of greater interest than any of
her thriving cities. 10 can hardly be
hfteen years since the Rev. j. B.
Gripnell, then pastor of a Congrega-
tiorial Church In New York, resolved
immigration to the West, and took
several of his congregation with
him. He pitched on q location In
iowa, perhaps fifty miles eastward of
the center of the State, where settlers
were Few aud widely scattered, and
purchased here some six or eight
thousand acres of rolling prairie,
with perhaps, q few clumps of TIM
Der on the w~aterscourscs, when mil-
tionssCfs5ust such acres were Offered,
thFever4 part OF this State but the
Tvfcfhageo oil the Mississippi, at Gov.
eminent price. This tract was held
In subordlnation to the purpose of
establishing "Grinnell University
at its center, and sales to- settlers
were made from time 70 time TO that
hsRd. Zoe University has been fori
y years In operation, and though
FtlsSs saSost American Universities)
as yet I'm the germ, Is of greater
promise than most of Its kind. The
Common school 10 the only rival
here In architectural pretensions Z;
and It viii surprise some TO learn
That these together afford such e0u
etionalppportunfties that scholarly
parents migrate hither from the
east In order, TO secure the best in
struction for their children. And I
doubt If there is q spot an earth bet
ter suited to their purpose.
For .GTinneii has one advantage !
sasfothsAsite of a College over any
other within my range of obserya-
ton, in that no glass Of alchohclic
liquor Is or ever has been sold here.
Thouelk0ow q village of some $500
for<3,600 people. ft has no bar room,
no ..saloon,' lager beerp or other,
wise; no resort OF tippiers, even in
the most respectable stage of their
downward progress. - Every deed
covenants that the purchaser shall
not sell intoxicating beverages nor
alowthem to beusold on the prem.
ises and any violation of this COM
pact would be sure to cost the viola
tor more than he could make by it.
Need / add that Grinnsll has no
paupers, no l~oafers, no rufiians, no
Drawers, and that her people are
equal to morality, intelligence, and
culture, to any community on earth ?
l. found near Grinnell the man I
long have been looking for-he who
grows nearly or quite one hundred
bushels of shelled Indian corn per
acre on a large area year after year. !
lis name Is Wallace Clark, and he
Has grown corn for the last five years
successfully on the same hundred
acres on which / found not less than
nine thousand bushels fully ripe,
whereof enough had been gathered
70 determine the average yield. OF
lcourse, rMr. Clark sells little of Ii "a
gtatli but turns 1t into pork aud beef,
IAiid so keeps up the fertility of the
ftoil. He informed me that by plow-
fit4seactNyear an inch deeper than
fif0lpsectSaing he eeptJksin hi1ybAeks
prai rie mold, averaging more, than
bwo feet deep, maintain the yield OF
corn with our mahure,T which he
bnfnin1y sapplisd~to HE Fsssr-=He-h
had thiriy.three acres planted in Q
day by one nam ftanh iHg q planter
that planted two rows Of corn at once.
Eend hAyine . change ofteams. un:
Hundred andgsixtsxdfS Esstes Ypisnts
ed, TILED snd harvested by ons-man,
using twos span of horses alternately
On. reflection, i believe the man did
not gather alfsthts crop; shoug1f w
the harvest may continue from some
time in August, when the grain Is
in the milk, 10 near the end OF wins
ter, that would not have been impos-
sible. Swine epastuyed on clover
throughaepring and early sunmer.
stthaye cOrnseut up and thrown to them
OF COON as the ears Have filled, and
henceforth until they are ripe for
market. MANY farmers feed so long
rs they have corn tn spare. th ns CON.
sverting fstheir great staple entirely
fiate~a6sefsand pork, 30 that -ft will
bfw transportation G to- Z istant mar
/ am dailysussked sto4 remsrk the
rapid axrowth or Western cities and
Mage, as though mere bulk were
id aincitement to admire them. III
cannot SO regard 1t. If these cities
embryo, and fall fiedged-wef4 thus
ukby the introduction and
1 establishment of manu-.
es. could rqoiDei IA thekcen.
lem Hair sdeted woolah cfl
zOefvOd faeeorfes In each one Of them,
with as many fouuderies, shoe
Is snsts.iss and Sf aasaiiiedasSe . aSiieiSas tsass1
IL they are TO live mainly bystraffic--
by exchanging the farmers' products
for srloSe = other chimes aud .coun~
ltfies1tney Are QhifeIarge enough al.
ready, and their further growth
SsYpr1d not promoteths gsf1sikfS Nd-l
fare. These cities encourage home
manufactures, even though their
capitalists might not directly realize
so large profits therefrom g they are
now making by speculation and
usury. They ought to establish
manufactures If only toshA0ksun their.
large investments IN reaf estate
Were Iowa this day making her
tWEn wares a~ndefaAricS kef ciuae<
would have q sfar1bfoader base Tor
prosperity and growth thasssthsy
now lavesvhile her farmers Moaldl
~ fraits vegetables to Ear great.
profit " q they now cell Mheat
d corn. These mays be- very stnie
f6hthS yNethey need to be r~eiterat-
ed until needed and deferred to- sggal
A 9K1d III. c.
Mr.. Theophips Ppppy-pf PeSp-
vile, in Popp countyyfadcyfng HIM
lAaelfp bavsFy popular with his lady
'tsisl ss spei.r s.5sts.trassa,stssuE
hi0 to her poppy, who. whsm Asked
Tor his consent laboxing. unfair Abe,
a gslkef pbp,s popped nm
sf0ssMtM Ooor to the tune of "Pop
goes u weasel" EAAAGAG'
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