Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
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A Place for Tramps and Capital
WEST POINT, Cunning Co., Neb.,1 ,
August IL, 1878. {
EDITOR CouRIER:-I notice in th
weekly occasional letters from form
er Iowans who now live in the Sout]
Platte country, of this state, but it
seldom that this portion of Nebrask
is mentioned in your columns; so
I will venture word from the "Nort
Platte"
CROPS OF ALI. KINDS
are very good this year, but doubles
, the harvest would have been muc
heavier had not the long continue,
and heavy rains of the past month O
80 interfered with the gathering O
the grain. 1t really seems as if tn
elements have combined against tn
people, as since the very commence
ment of harvest the heavy rains an,
intense heat have made it almost i'm
4 possible to work. Notwithstandin
the many adverse circumstance
brought to bear on the farmers, the
are almost wholly done with thei
harvest and some have threshed.
| Taken all in all, the crop is vel
saved and will yield we'll. Their
was an uncommonly large acreag,
planted this spring. Send out a few
hundred of your tramps who are viii
ling to work and they can get from
$l75 to $500 per day in the harves
field. There is a demand for good
hands here.
The corn crop looks splendidly and
promises an unusually large yield
l hear of parties above here who are
contracting their entire crop of wheat
at 90 cts. per bushel, as soon as
threshed.
Our merchants anticipate heavy
trade this fall and are making ar.
rangements accordingly.
IMMIGRATION
has been steadily flowing into this
country for the past two years and as
consequence our country is gradu-
lily improving.
Those who come here now seem to
come with general desire of perma-
nently locating here and of building
up this beautiful country, while in
the times of the frisky grasshopper
the settlers merely appeared to be
trying an experiment which if unsuc-
cessful, at once, they were ready to
abandon, Never before, in the mem
ory of the 'oldest inhabitant," did the
building and improvements indicate
the permanency they do to-day.
Much interest is taken in Secretary
Schurz' recent decision regarding the
PACIFIC RAILROAD LANDS,
as there are many thousand acres of
these lands in this state that have
been virtually kept out of the reach
of the average settler, owing to the
many obligations necessary to obtain
them. Numbers of the North Platte
counties, especially, have had q good
deal of trouble collecting the taxes
due them from the various railroad
corporations. The B. & NJ. R. r. in
Nebraska, for instance, owes Madison
county over $4,000 in delinquent tax
es. Half of the counties Of Boone,
Greeley, Valley, Howard, Hall and
large portion of the others belong to
the different railroads.
THE CRIMINAL DOCKET
ofthe District Court of this Judicial
District, has been quite large for the
past year, considering the fact that
this is new country. Since the lst
OF last December there have been four
mon and one woman sent to the peni-
tentiary, by Judge Valentine, for
murder. Three of the men were SEN
fenced to 10 years each and the wo-
man and the other man, each had 5
years of hard labor in the Lincoln
State prison, awarded them, that
they might mediate over the folly of
their sins.
THE BIRD LAW
passed by the last legislature prohib-
iting the killing in any way, of prai-
rie chickens, has been declared un-
constitutional by our Supreme Court,
hence the heart of the average sports
man bounds with cruel joy. In due
keeping with the diction Of that court
everybody, who could, shouldered
his gun early on the morning Of Aug.
lst and at once opened hostilities on
the savory chicken. They are very
plentiful now, but fear there will be
a sad need of them in q short time if
this wholesale slaughter is carried 80
ruthlessly, on.
CATTLE AND HORSES,
that feed, exclusively on the thou
sands of acres OF rich, wild grass that
grows so 'luxuriously all over these
almost boundless prairies, are in the
very best condition. Manya car load
of Nebraska's grass fed stock will
wend its way east and help to supply
that enormous demand that ALWAYS
has and always will exist for live
stock. 1t occurs to me that if a few
CAPITALISTS
who are now struggling to get their
paltry 69S from their shaky bonds,
would come west and invest a por-
tion of their wealth, at least, in live
stock, they would strike, to use west
ern parlance, Ga lucky lead" Two
brothers (whose names have forgot.
ten) located near Wood River, 7 or s
years ago, with about $1,000 and in
vested in cattle, and last year sold q
third interest in their effects, at the
remarkably low price, it was consid.
cred, Of $4,000. Still shrescd bust
ness men will be content to loan at
l0% Most respectfully,
EIGENE Moopr