Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-31

q year by the people of this county
for these three productions.
The following is the statement of
these articles shipped into the county
from abroad and consumed in the
county:
Flour, 16,2O4 cwt. at 1926, $52, ,633.
Wheat, 35,484 bushels at Los, 37,254.
Corn, 49,774 80, 1882
Total $1O4s49.
We did not call for any report of
barley, oats and gronnd feed, but two
of the roads have reported several
thousand dollars worth of these arti-
cles shipped here for home consump-
ton. The report we have may be
considered very acurate 80 far as it
goes.
1t is certain from these figures that
not lees than 100000, and probably
not more than $150,OOO of money has
gone out of the pockets of the people
of Wapello county into the pockets of
people living in other counties of the
State distant from us, or into the
pockets Of the people of other States
for produce which in ordinary seas
ons we have raised at home. Indeed
in ordinary seasons instead of the
$l00, 900 going out of our pockets, it
would have come tn to the pockets of
our farmers from abroad duplicated
to two or three hundred thousand
dollars, or raised to nearly or quite
half million of dollars, ss we be-
lieve ii will be this abundant season,
if we include all our surplus produc-
tions. We have had three very bad
seasons, and if we shall allow $780,
600 for the outgoing money paid for
prodnce from abroad for the
two other years which we ought
to have raised at home it would
amount to one quarter oa million Of
dollars taken out of circulation among
US that would have remained withus
if we had been blessed with fair
crops. 1t is plain to be seen why on
this account alone we have not been
prospered why we have been getting
poorer and not richer; why money
is not plenty with all the people.
Change the current of things the be-
ginning of which the present year
will demonstrate, and at once q re-
turn of better and flusher times will
set in. In some portions Of this State,
last year, they had fair crops, and in
such places there is comparatively lit
tie complaint of a want of business
activity or hard times.
1t may be said that produce will
be low this fall; grant it. There is
very much difference between having
something to sell even at tolerably
low prices and not having to buy
what we ourselves consume, than to
have nothing to sell at any price and
having to skin along to buy food to
live on and have to borrow money
by hook or by crook to do that. We
do SO much desire to have the people
Of Wapello county take q common
sense view of matters and look at
things as they really are.
A very few years ago we were gener.
ously contributing of our abundance
to grasshoppered Kansas, and since
that time we have almost needed the
like generosity turned towards us,
but in all human probability this
year commences an era of rich and
abundant garnering for us in the
years to come and we shall soon for
get our need in the abundance around
US. Reader, this is the only way out
for us-all patent substitutes will fail
and all reasonable people, we think,
are coming to regard this matter as
we do.
CHILLIcoTHE We received, too
late for Mondays daily, statement
of flour and corn shipped to and sold
at Chillicothe from July lst, 1877, to
July lst, 1878. There was received
and sold there $5,S26 worth of flour,
and $l02.6O worth of corn, or total
of $5,92S.6O. This would make the
aggregate received and sold at OF.
tumwa, Eddyville, Agency, Kirk
vile, and Chillicothe $l1O,s77,6O.
| When you buy Homeopathic medi'
cines, be suce you get the regular
preparations such as physicians use
A full line Of these on hand from
Luyties' Homeopathic pharmacy, St
Louis, and for sale by
SCoTT & GooDALL, Ottumwa.