The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-06-24
OVER THE HILLS TO LIBERTY
Pixies ud Roads and Crops.

EDITOR PALLADIUM.-O last
Wednesday we took trip by land con-
veyance to Liberty after an absence
of eighteen years. We had q SPLEEN
did drive down the Liberty Pike over
those grand old hills, rendered classic
by the beautiful White Water and
Elk Horn, whose pure waters go rip
ping over their rocky beds of calcare-
Gus deposit. They were made more
than doubly beautiful by the recent
heavy rains which caused all vegita-
ting to take on their grandest hues
Such splendid fields of wheat and corn
are seldom seen. The fields of corn
are more numerous and are much
broader in extent than usual: Besides
the stand is good one. and it is
much farther advanced than is usual
at this time and has rich deep green
color; showing a perfectly healthy
condition of the crop. The wheat
fields are also more numerous than
hereto fore and broader in extent. 1t is
filing most splendidly and no appear
ance of rust is to be seem Should the
crop mature without damage, there
will be an over average, as it is very
heavy headed.
After we had crossed the beautiful
Elk Horn" some two miles. and the
grand odd hills" had melted away
into level plain near the Union
county line, the Liberty Pike abrupt
ly terminated in deep mud hole
which lasted all the way to Liberty,
except over few hills between Han
nah's Creek and Liberty, which was
so ''stic6ey' that it was very nearly
impossible to drive up or down them,
Still these hills are rich and very pro-
ductive, as we'll as the level lands.
The farms all along this mud road are
in high state OF cultivation; and the
crops are fully equal to those of Wayne
county; and yet the farmers along this
mud road and the people of Liberty
have failed TO build pike from Lib
erty to the County line where il would
connect with the Richmond and Lii
erty pike, and make a direct commu-
and thereby open up a commerce be-
tween the two places. which would be
highly advantageous to both Liberty
and Richmond The wealth of Ma
tons is largely indebted to commerce,
as well as, states. cities, towns and
individuals, no people are free and
happy, besides they are never prosper
Gus, unless they have commerce in
its broadest freedom. | fear there is
some selfshness about this thing,
arising from business stand point.
as there is pike running from Liber-
ty to Boston and an other from Liber-
ty to Abingdon, which seems to show
that the people of Liberty fully appre-
ciate the advantages of pixies. Ii such
thing as sel6shness tEom business
stand point has anything TO do in pre-.
venting the construction of the pike,
it ought to be expelled, as it tends to
destroy commerce and trade at once
As an evidence of this fact. [ know of
several fine buggies and carriages,
which have been purchased, by our
citizens, during the last year from
manufacturers in Cambridge and
Williamsburg. although Richmond
has as good carriage makers as can be
found anywhere. This is called COM
merce-an exchange Why not Rich
mond and Liberty connect themselves
together with good pike and take on
commercial relations? If anything
has beed said that will contribute In
the least towards building up more
thorough intercourse in commercial
relations between the counties of
Wayne and Union in these hastily
written lines. will have accomplished
what | intended. In some future arti-
Gle ! may contrast Liberty at this time
with what it was twenty-eight years
ago, the first time saw it.
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