Smyrna times., 1884-12-10
For the Smyrna Times.
Letter from Chicago.

! DEAR TIMES The presidential elec.
ton IS over and every body seems en-
! gagged in summing up the effects the
/ change the new administration is going
I to produce on their own welfare as
/ well as that Of their friends and neigh
bors including the future growth and
prosperity of Chicago itself. This
claims to be Republican city run by
men and money in that line, who boast
/ OF Puntanlc origin, and a graduation
I IN the most advanced schools of New
( England progress; they have property
/ on the ground and investments in
/ progress, to back up all they claim of
/ achievements and a world wide reputa-
u0h. A quarter OF century is long
administration, and it seems more en-
deared to us by its line Of unbroken
prosperity.
True, for time, the city lay in ashes
! IN II, but she arose from it Phoenix
like, and put on more beautiful and
1 costly garments than ever before. 1t
seems paradoXical to say that the loss
| OF twenty thousand buildings could be
Il step Of progress in the life ofanv citv.
! but 1t is admitted now that the fire was
public benefaction.
The outgoing administration passed
sundry railroad land grants of which
tins city IS the great beneficiary.
Chicago was looming up Just at the
time of the unfolding of those schemes
which produced such surprising results
OF wealth, of ingenuity, and correct
toresightedness in developing the re-
sources of the northwest. The once
sO-called great American desert in n
few decades was transformed into an
empire which for wealth, population
and political influence is second TO
none.
In Congress she is more command
ing than receptive and she has never
given the country military chieftan
or a presidential candidate that has
not been Il success
The question is how are we to sue
coed with Cleveland and Hendricks
and the Democracy. The people cling
To Cleveland as new edition, and re-
gard Hendricks as the representative
OF all the superanuated ideas of the
past, whose beau ideal of reform is to
go back to where the democracy left
in 1860.
The country is too far advanced to
prosper under any retrograde legisla-
ton, and a lapaing back to the tariff
statute which the Republicans found
when they succeeded to power.
10 us the world never moved half so
last before as since protection has had
It's stimulating influence; until now
millions of vested rights i'm factories on
every hill top, no less east than west.
command more and more an influence
III halls OF legislation that will be felt.
Since then we have had a centennial
exhibition which was marvel as to
what our resources of production was
ana inventions from four to six hun
dred month have found protection in
the patent office during the intervening
years and they must have a chance to
enter INTO the great arena of the pro-
ductIve wealth of the country.
GRAIN, FRUIT, &C.
II 1t was not for the permanency of
the investment cheap lands would be
but little sought after, for the granaries
are SO full and prices so low that the
husDandman says there is nothing
in it."
Patent machinery and rich Drairie
land have brought the yield of wheat
up to SIX hundred and fifty millions of
bushels, and the price down to the old
price of corn, go cents, and out in
Dakota farmers in remote places are
selling for 45 cents The amount of
corn, raised is more than double the
quantity OF wheat and the price to the
farmer will not net him more than d
cents.
Stock raising combined with cron-
ping IS more profitable because the
grain used in fattening will net from
one-thlrd to One-half more in beef and
pork than If sold by the bushel. But
meats may share the fate of corn and
wheat may fall to an unremunerative
point.
Men are looking around for other
pursuits we recommend them to 90
to Delaware and down the Peninsula.
buy land, and engage in raising fruit and
market gardening. The scheme seems
an attractive one and your land agents
may look for buyers soon to outnum-
Der sellers because the West cannot
successfully raise peaches as a pavino
crop. The reasons are numerous first
the soil of the west being heavy CLAW
does not suit the fruit, and during its
short life it does not color finelvSnor
nave the luscious taste peculiar to
PENINSULA fruit. The cold weather
with the murcury frequently falling to
twenty and twenty-five degrees below
zero will kill the trees unless the
ground is covered deeply with snow as
a protection. Michigan succeeds hest
with peaches because she has a sandy
soil and temperate atmosphere from
lake influences, furnishing u security
to fruit trees, not fully rs yet explain
ed.
Chicago has no superior as a fruit
market early and late. California
fruits in abundance all the year round
strike this as the first large eastern
market. Florida fruits come here di-
rect by the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad and the Illinois Central Rail-
road to New Orleans in unbroken bulk.
50 also the Cincinnati Southern Rail-
road has direct connections, and nu-
merous other lines by consolidation
bring in the fruit from the January
Strawberries to December oranges.
IMMENSE BUILDINGS.
The usual fifteen millions spent an
nually in building residences and
houses of business has been augmented
this year by the erection of some mag
niticent seven to nine story buildings.
the principal of which is the new Board
of Trade granite building, and the new
Pullman block of brown stone. brick
and terra Gotta trimmings, whose gilt
tering red color throughout would
crafty our forefathers from whom the
style was borrowed. Each of them
cost million dollars, including ground.
In the latter style two new national
bank buildings and a Union depot on
9Th avenue and Polk streets are fine
and costly edifces. Somenew schemes
in the same line it is said will not be
carried into effect unless the business
outlook takes more healthful change.
A hard Winter is predicted for those
in INDECENT circumstances, and what
development the Spring may bring
forth is too early to predict. One
favorable aspect of the case is that pro-
visions and rents are very low.