The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-05-06
LETTER FROM NEBRASKA.
OMAHA, Nebraska, April %, 1s1t

OMAHA, Nebraska, April -, 1876.
DEAR WHIG:-There seems to be an in
creased desire, on the part of our citizens,
to emigrate West as well as foreigners and
while many are determined on visiting the
| Black Hills to see the land Of gold in the
| prospective, thousands are content to seek
! for gold through the rich soils of Iowa and
| Nebraska Every day adds hundreds of
farmers with stock of best kind and modern
implements of husbandry to those States
as stable citizens. No one can form a cor
rect idea of the prospect of success in the
hills for gold by reading the various ac-
counts from persons there. While some
are all confidence in the abundance of gold
to be obtained by merely searching super
| ticially, others say it does not
EXIsT IN PAYING QUANTITIES.
The testimonies are about as conflicting as
those in the Beecher- Tilton, Babcock crook
ed WHISTLES, and Belkuap scandals. But
there need be no fears of persons emigrat-
ing West for the ostensibe purpose of farm
ing and stock raising, or engaging in gen.
eral mechanical branches, as all the various
branches are more or less connected with
general misunderstanding stock raising,
&c. being indispensihly connected in the
general advancement and improvement of
so rich and growing popnlace.
Many States will be well represented by
the exhibition at the Centennial in Phila-
delphia, where, not only the quality of the
soil will be shown, but the actual products
from the various counties and all of the
usual industries practced by the citizens
generally. We would advise all who con-
template emigrating West, who have not
fully determined where to locate, to visit
the displays made by the different States
in the West. Iowa is a very large State,
and being bounded by two of our most
important rivers. the Missouri and Missis-
sippi and the space being over
THREE HUNDRED MILES IN WIDTH,
it has varied climate. While the extreme
northern part of The State is too cold for
some, the southern portion will suit many,
and the middle portion to many would be
unexceptional, and from a personal knowl
edge of the State for five years, would in-
duce the conclusion that there has not, or
never will be, any fears of scarcity of rain
for vegetation. I am confident there is no
portion of the United States where greater
quantity of rain and snow falls during the
800 days. But let those DESTROYS to be cor
rectly informed visit
AGRICULTURAL BUILDING,
where there is space of 39x26 feet, and
an additional POI square feet for agricul-
tural exhibitions in the main building
12x11 feet, in the educational depart
ment sIx2f feet, and in the open air
! 43x24 feet. This space, it is feared, will
be quite too small, and DIR. Shaw, who has
gone to Philadelphia, may try and secure
even more space for the use of the State.
Competent gentlemen and ladies will super
| intend the various departments, giving full
and satisfactory explanations to all wish
ing information.
Sohu you d toPS va lo"h
display, showing more fully the various
departments of her resources and indus
tries. ! hope | may hereafter be able to
send you what Nebraska intends during
the great Exhibition to present to public
view. Being much younger State than
her sister Iowa, she may have to take
BACK SEAT,
comparatively in progress but in compar
ing soil and climate, she stands in front
rank with any of the States, and in ambi-
ton and determination and, as is vulgally
styled pluck, is not Far behind many who
have had many more years Of experience
I in frontier existence
Sincerely yours, OCCASIONAL.
The most popular fashionable affecta-