Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-18
Shall L Buy East or West!

LINCOLN, CAPITAL OF NEBRASKA.

LINCOLN, CAPITAL OF NEBRASKA.
More than twenty years ago, an Eng
lish colony came into Stafford Genesee
County, n. Y, and bought some of the
farms. They paid as high as $50per acre.
The persons who sold went west, and
many of them located on government land
at $l.25 per acre. To-day the profits are
larger on the Genesee investments than on
those made in the west Many of The
farms Tor which $50 per acre was paid
would sell for $3.50 per acre, &c. y Butd-
10 Cop~mercidL Adcertiser.
Where in the west could those who sold
out in Stafford GO without finding lands
rising faster than thatg
Did they take up farms in Iowa? The
average rise il, land value of farms there
In the ofyears ending with 1870, was
much more than is claimed by Statfordian
lands, namely: three hundred and twenty
one per cent, and .he average value per
acre WAS S25.26, though most of them
had been bought since 1850, and oftener
for less than Tor more than one single dol
lar.
Where then did the wanderers from
Stafford settle? Was it in Nebraska.
Then it would have been still harder for
them to make worse investments than the
English did who had bought them out
At meeting of the American Institute
Farmers Club, Feb. Il, 1873, one j. Ster-
ling Morton stated that in 1854, he pre-
empted 100 acres near Nebraska City for
S2Dc just what four acres in Stafford had
lately sold for and that he had been off
cred 5000 an acre for an unimproved por-
i2on of The same land.
But perhaps the Staflort tians were
among the Nebraska hOmesteaders, 1884
OF whom had filed their claims in Lincoln
alone previous To the last New Years.
! But then they obtained farms of sc or 100
acres apiece, whole farm costing
less than half as much as they sold every
single acre OF their old farms for But
all land in Nebraska farms was valued in
1879 at 14.5S an acre.
The more L think of the Staffordians.
the more am puzzled as To where in the
wide west | shall think OF their local habi
tation. They remind me OF the letter the
postmaster knew not what to do with,
when he read "John Smith, Valley of the
Mississl 9pi"
When | perceive that the average valua-
ton Of each farming acre while rising i'm
Genesee County one hundred and two per
cent. snd in New York at large from S29
in 1859 to J1.35. in 1870, has risen through
out Illinois from S1.9S to $500, in Iowa
! from So to 25.26, and in Nebraska from
nothing at all to S142S i cannot fail to
echo Greele, : slogan, "Go West"
cannot wonder that of the only ten States
| which have each more than 200, 900 for
eign immigrants, seven lie west of the
AlleghanieS, and that three times as many
native Americans who had their birth
near the Atlantic, rise to higher plane
beyond the Mississippi.
| The only hint wish to give to an Eu-
ropean just landed and urged to buy ON
The Atlantic slope, is Find out the real
reason the Eastern farmer wishes to
| sell" In nine cases out OF ten it is be-
cause he c,ttts himself to go West. Bu!
| Why be content with his leavings,-a
sort of last years BIRDS nest? Go your
self where he longs TO go, and vii. go as
soon as he is as free as you are. lie is
Esop's fox at the bottom of well, coax
ing goats and dOnkeys to jump III that he
may jump on their backs, horns ard
ears, 80 as to gee out himself.
Mother Goose sings:
.sThere was an old fellow who lived in his skin
| When he pops out do you pop in
But his slough will prove poor fit ;
keep your own skin, and go where you
can fashion ali surroundings 10 your
mind.