The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-09-07
= Visitors impressions of Dubois
County.

Wt 0@t'"'t ttAr iVItO wing ItoIl Itt'
ter published IN The J Jacksonville News
|of The 2ist ult., from prominent citizen
Iof Clark county:
The first important fact That strikes
me j. The richness and abunsiance of ths
natural resources. II IL rich Ii soil. Ii
timber. in mineral paint. III building
stone. and above al it Il rich IN It's Inn
imensc fields pf the very finest best btu
lmious coal, aud all that Il wants is de-
Ivelopmcni, and this Is now being fas
accomplished. The conjunction 0f ihs
I-ouisviIie. Evansville and 81. Louis All
Line, with its connecting branch roads
~ Evansville, Rockport and jasper. ha'
given an impetus 10 progressive devel
opment Of the country through which
they run. which will In a very shor
time convert this narf Of our State int
q high state OF cultivation and wealth
But this Is not all other railroads beihs
projected. One from Viucennes ~ ruf
through Dubois count y 70 the Ohio riv'
.er 10 now being surveyed and located
and will doubtless be l,nIltin few years
Opening up and afford ing such addition.
IcI facilities for the transportation OF The
rich productions Of forest, mines and
soil tbss great wealth anil commercial
prosperity must BE- the result. pre-.
dict as = consequence Of the means now
|in operations for the development oi
these great natural resources that this
portion OF our State will in time become
the most wealthy and prosperous IN the
State. or course as wealth flows iuid
the country, higher civilization and
with Il higher education will follow q
"A natural consequence. with their refIn-
ing and eIevating influences.
Dubois county was named In honor OF
Toussant Dubois, who was one Of Gen
eraI Harrlson's scouts and guides in the
campaign which term mated IN the bat
tie ofTippccanoe. In size u Belongs 70
the ilrst-ciass or counties. With the ex-
ception Of the north western portion Of
the county, which is somew hat hiIly and
rolling, it q generally level. and before
Opened and cultivated inclined 70 be
boggy and wet IN places. About one
fnh Of the whole county Iies IN the bot
tom Of white river, the Patoka and olh-
er smaller Streams and during ihe spring
irekhets II often overhoWed. which makca
n aII The richer and better for their
corn crops Their lands are being
brought into high state of cultivation
The wheat crop which Il now bcine
lhTeshed. like that IN other portions of
the State will not average much over Z
half crop. Oats good. grass only tolera-
bly, and : prospect TOR good crop d
corn.
III common with the other counties Of
this portion Of the State. Dubois county
llae I,er coal fields. Coal IS abundant,
and since The county has bccn opened 70
the facilities or railroad transportation.
is beginning 10 be mined with success,
and 1t no distant day is destined to be-
come one Of the great industries or the
county.
Jasper, the county seat, IL . thriving
village, situated on the PAtoka river, Of
about twelve hundred inhabitants. q
Iss gc proportion of whom are Ger man
They have erected and a.
most completed one or the largest and
most elegant stone church buildings i'd
the State, and when finished Il would be
an ornament 70 any city. There are but
few Protestants inth place, there being.
| believe, but one small church Of Meth
odists Or some fifteen or twenty men,
bere. who worship once every two weeks
In = small, unfinished brick building.
have made the acquaintance Of n
numbur ~ interesting and pleasant gem
llemen during my fssy here, aud among
others that 81 element I)oane, ESQ, edi.l
Tor and proprietor ~ that old and
llaunch Democratic paper, The Jasper
weekly Courier, which, now near tne|
snd q the twenty-slxtn year of - age III
strong ana vigorous ~ the hands of itsI
original founder and proprietor. Du-'
Dois re- Democratic county ana c can
rive majority anywn ere srom ,ooo toI
I,uov. THIS Y the k'nn q political ap-'