The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-11-22
acknowledgement.
THE RICHEST STATE IN THE
UNION.
Some Plain Facts from the Hon.
Ell PcrKinS, and Also Some re
Elections.

DONlC AANha
ELI Perkins, and Also Some re-
Elections.
Cerro Gorlo County tNOFthern love- Cor. Nav
York Sun, November u.
You in the East can have no possible
conception Of the magnitude OF the Wes-
tern crops. Take this country, Cerro
Gordo-and there are nirety.eight other
counties in tho State Just Ms large-I
find the yield OF wheat alone will be over
one million bushels. It wi he $50 bushels
10 each man, woman and child in the
county, 800 bushels to every male, and
about 500 bushels to every able bodied
man, and pork and corn in the same pro-
portion. 1tissate to say that every able
bodied man in Cerro G0rde County raises
enough TO support fifty men.
There are many wheat-telds here that
produced last season fOrty.live bushels 10
the acre. The average yield is twenty
eight bushels. Three years ago, when
visited Northern Iowa, could buy plenty
OF wild prairie land for s. per acre. The
same land is now selling for $50 and $50,
and the price is marching straight 10 $50.
There are great many farms not in
Central and Southern Iowa worth S75 per
acre.
Do you ask ME which is the richest
State in the Union
answer, Iowa. She has no waste land
but few lakes, no mountains, no barren
ridges. She has 30 900 900 acres of black
garden soil, throwing out 100000 acres
Tor roads, river.bed4, and three small
lakes, This whole 30,000,000 acres will
be worth in the market, in less than
twenty-five years, an average Of $50 per
acre; or the farm lands Of the State will he
worth 81 100000, 0O0-enough 10 pay the
National debt. The farm.lands OF Iowa
are worth more than the lsrm.lunds OF all
New England.
saw eighty acres Of ground Yesterday
along the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern Road that could have bought
four years ago for 81 an acre. This year
the owner raised 2,ilS bushels of wheat
on it, and sold it for ninety cents bushel,
making S2,l76.20 oil $500 worth Of land.
This seems an increduous story, but it is
literally true. But the owner OF that
eighty acre field to-day holds it at $40 per
acre-cheap enough for land that will
produce thirty bushels OF wheat per acre.
he Is handsome, happy young farmer,
with rosY.cheeked wife and four child.
ZEN with cherry lips and dimpIrA chins.
What splendid citizen is this man How
much greater than Wendell Phillips, o.
Charles Francis Adams, or VIM. NJ.
EvartS, is he They are parasites, living
ofOf thelabors OF other men. This young
farmer next year will produce 5000 bush
els OF grain-eRough to support n whole
village full Of Eastern capitalists. His
1000 bushels OF grain will be worth 81 QUO
here in Iowa and $4,000 in New York.
Thus does this grand citizen contribute
$4,000 annually to the railroad merchants
and directors OF this county.
The crops are not one-tenth harvested
here. Not one bushel of corn in 800 is
husked. The snow has fallen about six
inches deep, and the farmers are waiting
for thaw. About onefourth Of the
wheat is threshed. Two hundred car
loads went TO St. Louis last week from
this vicinity to be shipped to England
via New Orleans.
The north and south railroad lines to
Iowa are Transporting immense quaint.
ties Of wheat and flour from Iowa and
Minnesota 10 Burlington and st. Louis, 10
SO down the Mississippi.
"Corn, wheat and pork down from the
North, and sugar, cotton, tobacco and
coffee up from the South is fulfilling the
law OF trade" said President GrinneH Of
the Central Iowa. "The East and West
railroad lines are losing freights, but the
North and South lines are becoming great
trunk lines" Elk PERKINS.