Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1889-08-08
q Tour Through the Great
North West

fe~t 81 TIE w0iid knos ~ his raosl
ioftune ~ u IL With rs.
ia the 23ad. ot July We bearded
q fullnan sleeper NJ Jack son, Mis-
-'ssi'ld, TO participate in the exrul-
sioh throughout the Nuath west
which Vas rendered 10 toe Pes. Of
the State by the !. q. a. *. Co.
The great artery Al commeru~.
which hot only CONNECTS as eth
"ihe Queen Cily of the wrsi,' Cut
cago, but has its lines extending
Into and throagh the gieat State.
at Wisc0ngin, Iowa aud Daku,a.
The I. e. n. X. 20, IL one among
The lev great failr,ad corporations
WHOSE greed bot gain does not cau.e
u 10 l0ose sight Uf the interests aud
welfare oi It's patrons along its
lines. Tue exearsiSa party was
eonpO~ed Ot o. gentlrmra and Is
ladies, Who we're taken In charge
al jackson 10y Capt Marray aud We
were sa'on sI'rtsling our way north
ward With hearts and apl,ctites es-
banded IN anticipation OF coming
pleasures. Nothing oi Importance,
except a magnificent diuneT al
CaiIo, occurred nutil NC reached
kankakee, IN, where We became
the guest OF the Hotel Rivcryiew,
owned aud kept by the I. q. A. n.
70. Here Ne wtrr highly ,-,te, tain,
ell asd eIJoyed the braafies aud
pleasures oi the great summer home
tor Southern Irople. Al this point
ne were met hy Capt. Merry, that
lOvial and genial christian gsnlle.
man. whose name - but synO,
ny IN Of the man himssli. Capt. ncr.
~ accompanied ~ iron this point
on adding greatly 10 our pleasure
aud comfort. Within a lew hoar.
after leaving kahkakee Nc wete Ia
Chicago. Space ~ too limited 10
undertake a description u this
Metropolis VI the great West. She
sits upon the bosom % the great
lases, surrounded aud Allied by her
grand paIks, monuments aud TOW,
eFing buildings, demonstrating TO
the world that Il y Western en>
eTgy aud u source Nhich has made
hsT the great oeBteT aud emporium
ior Mestsrn prOdacts Neat came
Rockford, the manufacturing cen.
ter oi the West. llrIe We weIe
highly entertained aud enjoyed the
generous hospitality Of her people
Rockford, aith only twenty
thousand inhabitants, has one hun
drrd and ffty factories of different
kiuds, making every thing from =
tack Ia steam engine. From th,
evidences of thnit and wealth
found In this manufacturing town,
Ne we're impressed With two opin
iOns-one u, that purely agriCul.
tuTal state like Mississippi can
never grow rich; the other j., that
Rockford will rrmaiL republican AZ
long a. that party iavvTs protection
lOT protectors sake. From Rock
ford We went 10 Madison, Via,
" hete We we're received and enter
tanned by Gov. Hoard. THIS Is the
most beautiiul and plc,urrsqe place
We have ever lpoked apOn. Mature
must have been 10 heI musi liberal
inoo,l when Madison VAS uIratrd,
fur u y here We hni her richest
aud IaTrat beauties bestowed in
pfofusion. The city with her
magnificent eapitOl, colleges AMI
public buildings, sits upon the
crest Of a SNAIL mountain ovtT look
ing and being surrounded at her
base by her i've bcautiful lakes,
MonoHa and Mendoza amOng the
number. THIS place offers the
summer worn southeTner cOngeu-
ial resort, a. u h the ceutrs Of the
educational interest aud culture OF
Wisconsin. FrUm Madison We
weBt TO Dubuque, Iowa, The
business portion Oi this city, with
her forty GIVE thousand people, u
situated between the Mississippi
river aud the range Of mountains
lust west, knOwn a. aud called the
Dubuque heights, At AN altitude OF
from Que hundred 10 eight hundred
feet above the river. These heights
are covered aud OCCUPIED by mag
nihcent residences, aud for grand
ute aud sublImity surpasscS any
point visited Nv us. It's near here
where the Highland s.Ock farm j.
situated, on which u owned and
kept the celebrated trottng horse
"NutwOod, who cost hts owner
e22 900 al sixteen Years OF age, aud
nOw valued at $4,000: IL may
surprise some oi our COitah stock
raisers when We tell them that We
san twenty three colts On this iarm,
Bone Of which was over two months
old, that bad bern sold at iron
$500 10 t6OO0. MONEY not only
makes the mare 90" but lt enables
people 10 engage la profitable puT,
quits. From Dubuque, Oa heI cas-
tern border, we toOk . run To Sloax
CITY, on the extreme western Tor.
der Of the great state VI Iowa, With
beT rolling pIairies bsAming with
corn. oats, Cat cattle. hne horses
aud hogs II ~ here upon the
onal Nj one of Sioux CiiS's eastern
bills that ne stood looking wesl>
ward With vision limited only by
the horizon. across aud into the
states at Nebraska aud Dakota.
Truly Was u exelaimesl hy one OF
our party, that this lookout upon
the great bsssosn u nature OIened
up 10 some ~ us revelation before
unk aown Ia us. Sloax City u the
most enterpusing aud pashing
place We saw, aud u was there,
where ne met With such generous
aud unreslTaia.d hospitality, that
our fears wsre aroused that the
South would SOU have 10 yield the
palm ~ her long boasted hospital
~ To that portioa 81 Iowa, al least.
Thence We went 90 Sioux Falls,