The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-30
n WHEELING DAILY MORNING. JANUARY 1870

out on the prairie, broken up the virgir
soil, so rich as not 10 need fertiliZing
planted crops and groves Of timber, ant
made themselves independent OF ali tht
yiclssitudes OF labor and fortune In thC
East. They are oil, like their predecessor
In that region. In fair way to make I
competence.
The regions 10 which they have princi
pally gone aru Texas, Kansas, Dakota, Ne
brask,a Minnesota, and California, ID the
order named, but some have gone to Flor
ida, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, New Mex
leo, and the regions beyond the Rocky
mountains. Nebraska gained 100000 o.
these new settlers during 1878. Governor
t'illabuFy, OF Minnesota, writes that his
State gained $1,000. Kansas gained probs.
bly, l25, 1000. The Arkansas valley In Kan.
sas alone gained 5000 settlers In 1878.
That State has done remarkably well In
every way this last year. It attracted
q great rush Of settlers, and correspond.
ent writes from Topeka " follows about
his crop:
From the complete figures OF the bust.
ness of 1873 and tho past Eve years, which
now inclose, you can form some idea ut
the progressand development being made.
Kansas In 1878 stands at the head Of all
the States In the Union In wheat produc.
ti0n, the crop being estimated ut over 49,.
000, 900 bushels. OF this amount over 49,.
600 600 bushels were raised in twelve coun.
ties In the Arkansas valley, where there
were no agricultural settlements eight
years ago, and the buffalo still held posses.
sion. The drawbacks under
which Kansas has labored by reason OF
distance from eastern markets are being
rapidly renedied by the opening up Of q
new market In the mining regions OF Colo.
RADIO, New Mexico and Arizona, where a
very large emigration has been pouring in
Tor the past year or two, and promises IN
be still greater In the future. Nearly oil
The produce now prepared for consumIp-
ton is now shipped west from the Arkan.
sas valley. Wheat goes east, because We
have not yet the milling facilities to grind
It into flour, and ship west.
The eminence OF Kansas in wheat pro.
duction in 1878 is due to the immigration
Of previous years, aud such has been the
rush this year that the position OF Kansas
Is the banner State in wheat seems guar
lnteed for some time to come. While
Kansas gained $4,000 OF new settlers in
1878, II is estimated that Dakota did the
same, the rush to that region being, OF
course, due largely to the mining excite.
ment, although not exclusively. Texas
claims to have gained half a million dur.
ing 1878, but there is no proof that the In
lux to the State was more than 250, 900 ut
Inc very outside. The movement in
Florida and other regions was small.
Taking the land sales OF tho whole ne
iod since 1873, the year ofthe panic, when
he fall Of prices and the scarcity OF work
N the east set people hero TO thinking
lb0ut going west, It would appear that
more than $500, 900 people have taken up
homes in the west and south In the mast
I've years. OF this number not over Co.,
700 can possibly have been supplied BY
immigration, the rest OF the total OF 02O,.
700 immigrants In these years remaining
ho Pacific coast. At least l,SS0,O0O
leople have, therefore, gone from the
'ast and from Virginia and KontnCky,
II the lust five years; over 100000 Of
hem during 1878. This remarkable fact
y regarded US part OF the explanation why
! mes have grown perceptibly easier in
his country during 1873 There Is less
ahor unemployed, and there is larger
OF manufactured goods.
This migration to the new States would
lone have been the means OF producing
his result, even il it had no material aid
rom any other source. 1t is worthy OF
toto in this relation, that wkile the Tribune
las been advising and encouraging this
migration to the South and West, Tor the
benefit Of the unemployed and OF the
whole country, the best thinkers OF Eng
and have been ADVOCATING the very same
policy to the workingmen OF that country,
IS the best means Of relieving England
rom the horrible depression and distress
which now prevail among the people.