The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-03-19
CARL, ADAMS Co.. Iowa, 1
Naprh IN 1Q-0 r

DEAR SR You will perhaps be sur
prised ON receipt of this letter. l hops
YOU will excuse my presumption in wri
ting. II has been my pleasure TO read
number OF copies OF your paper in the pas
two years. which were sent TO me through
the Kindness of my brother, Frank Coop
er.) OF yolr town. | must say | regard
Your paper as a rery valuable aud instruc-
tive journal. and /. does me good to read
it. In -Four issue of the 10Th of February.
last, | noticed an article under Horace
Greeley aGvice-'Go West Young Man 7
which l think is the best of advice. Now.
| am moi going 10 enter into debate with
you on this, or aDy other question. Tor
should | do so. ] should expect TO get bad
ly beaten.
That r. r. Cos. and their agents use
every means possible to induce people TO
emigrate west. is. beyond a doubt. csry
true, and. no doubt. they publish all thst
is favorable TO the west. and leave out all
that is ~unfavorable. But l think a young
man has made a good start when he starts
west. Many persons come from Pennsyl-
yania and other States east. TO Iowa, Ne
braska and Kansas, WHO, perhaps, have
never before been one hundred miles from
home, and the country appears SO differ
ent from thai In which they were raised.
that they become home-sick, and conse-
quently. they woa { be satisfied until they
are again among the mountains and rocks
OF their native State. Young men who ex-
pect TO engage in agricultural employment
could not do better han to come TO south
western Iowa. where they would not have
mountains TO climb, and stones 10 tall over
aud pillow through, and where is found the
best soil in the Union. Iowa is also noted
Tor its pure water and heallhful climate :
and there are millions of acres of
unimproved lands yet in the markets. that
can be purchased at from 50 TO $l2 per
acre, o long time; SO that a young man
possessed OF habits OF honesty industry and
economy, can, in a short time. by months
work. pay Tor 40 acres OF this fertile soil.
which. is more perhaps, than he would
ever accumulate in Pennsylvania. There
are many persons from your State living
in southwestern Iowa, and | have never
conyersed with one yet that did not prefer
this country TO Pennsylvania. There are
persons residing in this county from Som
erset county, among " HON are the Cups, /,
and they say they would much rather live
here than there. | have known persons
who come here, as you say. and have
nothing left with which TO get back, and
to-day they have comfortable homes and
are enjoying life. and would not, il they |
could. live any other place than in SOUTH
western Iowa; where if they had had the
means to have taken them back TO the
State from which they emigrated, they
would have been homeless. There are, no
doubt, many who come west. expecting 10
find a land flowing with milk and honey,
and Of course they are disappointed in that
and instead OF making a little effort to get
along, and make money. they write home
to their friends for money with which TO
i do not wish Ia trouble You
" ith a long letter. Please excuse my
presumption and mistakes. With my best
Tor your prosperity. and hoping the
circulation OF your wide-awske paper NAV
Till be greater, ! remain
Yours Respectfully.
SYL. W. COOPER.