The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-03
Iowa Correspondence.
CARL, Iowa, May, 1S7t

CARL, IOWA, May, 1910.
Ed. PRESS We confidently expect
a large increase of immigration to
Iowa during the next three years
Many eastern people who are strug.
Cling with misfortunes and embarass.
ments will move West, but they will
not 90 to Kansas and Nebraska. They
have heard of dIouth, hot Winds
chinchbugs and grasshoppers. They
will not wish to run any of the chances
of these. And those who come to
middle and southern Iowa, will risk
no such chances and have no regrets.
Few of your readers fully appreciate
the advantages possessed by this sec
ton, nor to its full extent the pros
pect for its rapid advancement during
the next few years. There are more
reasons than 1 dare enunerate, while
:'be BRIEF" "conde1se," "cut 'em short
is ever chiding,w why those contemplat-
ing coming West should come here to
Iowa, which will eventually be one of
the two richest states in the Union,
and one Of the most desirable. Our
soil is far superior to any equal area
in any other state except Illinois. 1t
produces all kinds of crops natural to
this latitude, and some of them with
more unerring certainty than any 9TH
er state in the Union. This is nota-
bly, true Of the potato and oat crops.
The past year has placed us above all
in the production of corn. Few excel
US in wheat, and none raise finer BAR
ley, rye OF hay. Experience has prov
ed this section well adapted to the
production of all the hardy varieties
of apples, pears and grapes. In short,
Iowa raises of the staple productions
of the soil vast quantities fer shipment
to less favored regions, and will year.
ly largely increase these quantities un-
less visited by worse calamities than
have ever yet befallen us. Our cli-
mate is exceptionally healthy, and our
material prosperity gives US an envi-
aOlO shO hOe"tSos
Last winter the weather was unusual
ly rigorous, but it produced no ill eff
fects upon the health of child or adult.
No state can boast greater number
of fine pleasant days to the year than
we experience. Ague is comparative
iy rare, and consumption almost un-
known. Society, though, perhaps
not quite so desirable here as in the
older and mere favored circles of
Ohio, is generally good. We lack
some of your advantages and some of
your refinements, but in exchang: for
these we will assure to those who
come here plenty to eat and wear and
good home to depend upon for
maintenance the balance Of their lives
The rich deep soil of Iowa at from
S5 to $35 per acre, on long credit, is
within the reach of all. In view of
the fact that these lands are being rap
idly taken and improved and are
gradually advancing in price it is the
part of wisdom for those contemplat-
ing moving West to do so before a
great advance in the price takes place.
Lands are steadily going up, and fhe
next three years will develop more of
Iowa than any corresponding period
of time in the past has done. Money
is becoming more plenty business OF
all kinds is receiving new impetus.
Let those of your readers who are
struggling with endorsements and
those who wish to extend their posses
sions come here and improve their
There is no place to which an agri-
culturist can migrate with so sure a
chance of health and wealth. Draw
line on your map from Bismarck, Da-
kota to Austin, Texas and you have
the extreme limit of paying tillage. All
west of this has been drouth and grass
hoppers three out of every five years
ever since it has been known and al
ways will be. 1t is true irrigation has
been employed with large yields west
of this, but that necessitates very lim-
ittd o lerations and is very costly, re-
quirmg large outlays in the com-
But here in Iowa crops
have meyer yet failed. Nature irrigates
and we are sure of large returns for
our labor. These facts are becoming
more generally known each year, and
our lands are increasing in value as
people learn they are really worth
more than any others west of Illinois.
Let me say to your readers, do net be
ehticed into buying rail road or any
other lands west of the line indicated,
to Iowa, Minnesota, Mis-
souri, or Arkansas, but if you go west
of these, drouth, grasshsppers and
ia mine will plague and ruin you.
The prospect for good crops here
in Adair was never surpassed. AL
though the spring was uncommonly
backward, wheat and oats are looking
well, and corn is up and growing fine
ly. Never, since the first settlement
of the county has there been so much
prairie broken in one year as there is
being done this. Kansas and Ncbras-
ka must decrease, but Iowa will in
crease. W. S. YECAL.
Carl, Iowa, May 24th, 1875.
A MAN in Sacramento read on