Year: 1874

May 20, 1874.


EDITOR NEws:-An occasional re-
port of the great western country
may be interesting to you and your
many readers, who have friends 10
Gated out here.


Judging from the numerous and
varied inquiries of many friends, I see
a great interest manifested to know
more about our boasted locality. 1
shall not oyer-estimate or too highly
color the good or bad qualities of
any country. We do know and ad-
NIT, that,the great Giver of all does
not lavish all the sweets of life upon
any one particular locality. Each
has its share.


My advice is, no one should leave
a good, comfortable home for the un-
certainties of bettering his condition,
without first seeing for himself.
not relying even upon the opinions
of his best friends, as that which
may please some may displease 9TH
ers. Persons sixty years of age and
upwards had better stay where they
are, the remainder of their days.
The change of climate, seasons and
society works hard on the constitu-
ton of old people going to new
country. They generally do not live
very long.


But in the language of Mr.. Gree
ly; to young men, having no home
of their own, I would say 'go West,
and get farm of Uncle Sam, and
grow up with this great western
country. UncleSam is rich, and has
plenty of fine lands in this western
domain to take up yet. There are
plenty ofgood dhomesteads, with good
water and some timber, generally
healthy, soil rich and productive.


Visitors from the East to the West
often have feeling of sympathy,
that sometimes finds expression in
words, for those who have left their
native country for home out in the
far West, so far from civilization, re-
fnement, and the rest of mankind,
while at the same time those far west
ern emigrants have a similar sympa-
thetic feeling for their old friends
who still stay back on their native
soil, amongst the trees and stumps
and weary out their lives in renovat-
ing the worn out soil.


We have passed through toler-
ably pleasant winter and spring.
Our roads are generally dry and good,
having very little mud to contend
with.


The crops in this country never
looked better than they do now.
The farmers generally have put in
large crops of all kinds of grain.
One man in our county has sown a
small field of wheat. 1 contains only
sac hundred acres (all in spring
wheat) ''How is that for hight


The prospect for fruit Is good
Orchards are all young, having most
ly been set out in the last four or five
years. 1 think there will be enough
peaches raised in our county to sup
ply the demand of its inhabitants.
Besides, we will have an abundance
of wild fruit, such as grapes, wild
plums (of a superior quality goose
berries, strawberries, &c.


Our village is improving very fast.
There has been some twenty build
ings put up since last fall, princi-
pally dwelling houses, we have had a
large cheese Factory built and put
in operation in our town this Spring.
They are using the milk from about
six hundred COWS at this time. They
are making very good article of
cheese, I think equal to the Western
Reserve in Ohio.


This county is settling up very
rapidly, and the farmers generally all
busy, improving their farms and get
ting them into cultivation, so they
can see better times and live more
comfortable.


I will close, as I fear I have al
ready wearied your patience.


WILLIAM SIDERS.