Superior Chronicle (Newspaper) - May 20, 1856, Superior, Wisconsin C C VOLUME 50 J i neat look ir AT Superior county Wisconsin T one year ii Ii line I A H t lima y 1 of iM- net in exporter fork and other places during the half 00 Now and lay down tu settlement tu which tho r than I como before vou the ot skirted around by big in considerable Jt is located respect From Francis portion of the n 1 -U v rv n d and Milt lyin from out with which he mil saw a 00 J 00 li Oil III v was commenced last I c..he is of cultivation that it and r i -i stretch of nearly a hundred i nlcs it not interrupted by a single while yet is not en materially to retard an 11 traveler Nor aiu banks less s j 1 to agriculture than j t navigation resembling -on those of Thames the of the r i I C mid between the 1 this noble stream as J thu il ill ill tl ill till Portion ci the Ui ey thi of it 1 np t M a fuel ol inlo jiu Hut let us ut MI lunch of mne V but Oil I le from which pinions original- ed as well us the fact that very similar opinions formerly prevailed of portions of our own and parts of the try which aro now considered as desirable of the let us see for a moment what can be adduced even in tho imperfect of knowledge of the country support of proportion just laid down And in doing so I will commence at the eastern limit The inn become widely famon- and i For a little while after ced in similar respecting it- thovo which the first American California entertained of that was supp to lie too and broken too many the the soil too thin and the seasons too short experience K proved hat limie of C Tho finest in the worh in this n flourish as if native t the Mire and crop of corn v that the til Mich that crops very planting and bar has point but it con and every The description us by thi we are may he applied In tho nival body oi the pi Jt is a flection of vast extent to form whole States ol tin villi a strong Mid tu population Mr of of blue ay s service in the of of two j of bis population prevailed to i i 1 1 i- e anil tho Ot the count y o ot population in comfort and in wild in i I hat t we have reason be- j 1 of he settlement is a id of i di v S-r Licence of a W'S i e i i I M ICM I IM- n tr ca corn ho its At they informed him lhat the crop that to year and the known to him that and that it that it ne line was run between j needed it could be but the above e Mates and the i will At L the a cro as factory a miles the Selkirk we side of j strike the of the Saskatchewan river to Le of the other act at removed it ivas The Cic c: ds on the river hi tie lint continues to be The an important It has adapted to into a county of Minnesota and in From this 1 my people as it were to half heir j in in I meadow and the which on ted their with the It in tlm when 1 11 of I do not pretend and tho tho elk wan heard in all iho variety 1 the it an stream John says of the in tin same vicinity that n bavin and lind tin the J 0 the h i I on that the t and on are JJu this tu the the of are near i to want the and an of lnu it n the of ci r deep that the doenK it 11 I Jle adds however that this l i ll Our wn and the i- in as I havn of and uy oi cats and potatoes of wo had left sj tha cry there hs ho the ease at of more cultivated and rooks and dottiest i 1 oi h- than tate of Illinois lo uf tiu sent on it i to of my audience the loan but front thai I on when I to of the I that in a very the temperature it if not i andy Mid arid j of thu of lower There are so the tl the In most of made up mainly districts in which tho surface in nearly covered with and in which a multitude ol lakes low and Mr in his oi a survey of iowa and not lo in- he of You will that this is the advice the sent out to that State A little il- ill out in our lion V few and bin companions had Iu of life Ly on lo thu one had It is a well known that the of all thin make of maple and il may Ije as an truth that the presence of maple a sure indication uf a rich southwards from the highlands the of Lake on north is of the t and must upon tin avci the It mime of of the of thu lied wheat I eo that it superior to any continent The best Illinois j wl eat lo po inds to tlie measured bushel tit sixty to pounds summer degree further north where the heat exceeds or Paris At Fort Edmonton on the same river in the Mountains miles he a very much mi The value of the Athabasca valley increases as it approaches the the of the climate modified by the warm winds from the Pacific throughout its length as well as in a considerable of tlie ilio and have in-own at several oats Icy potatoes pulse mid at wheat Indeed wheat been Laird on u tributary of the more tin Ii i- In- idea this that it is a wasle I in Mindy I- mil to I ill account of its poor Miil and i this is a mistake as I h is ji Tiu t- that have its The i in portion of it end to the business i H II ci the district thus it therefore to uf il to ni found within ways by which this I Acas to maintain t it the other n-p prejudicial t t it of in its urn been acted upon il the knowledge hat is available the country came sources I fur been inclined tii the fact linr travel was tho wa- only of the country from rendered it to obtain full and draining will make the HI thus over and dismissed by Mr one of the productive in 1 need say anything for its are now well known and ft will lw this head to read a brief extract the St rioneer peeling the be- the oi the ani From reports continually us we many a spot reminded us of the rich and are satisfied that this a error Jt of The paths of our the numerous were with I t 1 Long who visited this region i rays is sin cess wheat millel pulse toe i and other roots aro cultivated in ith J quote a ripened j hits which take a longer time do not i to well and no chowan flows over a alleetcd ihu Led of sand and marl which con- from his narrative Tho river lie by which we have thus over the has inclined in n westerly direction on which account portion of Nebraska lias ed This feet ion J t is true that all our I the the Cannon ri- ver the and Hoot thu most beautiful in of rollin violets rexes ami many other wild flowers while the cm rant and gooseberry i rv and even the vine were abundant All hie over waterfalls and contribute to the health no less than to the rapid develop of the sections which they beautify these valleys thus and adorned perfect paradise One cannot through this fair valley without that it is destined sooner or later to become the happy home of men with their I it It is would in themselves make Minnesota bleating flocks and their lowing herds with by ne hundred and fifty miles in extent country not inhabited by to j The the Jts prayers of the and the artisan shall insi res its valley of from tinio of LTV what erroneous impressions and populous beyond any portion of their schools and their with their ly and first settlers of a of it I was that the of Wisconsin Iowa Missouri would bo in vicinity full and their social hearths the time of our virit the great obstacle in Oni m eir con thousand square miles At of the the tho The remaining of the Territory are not as is either the of so a consummation was States army whom of you uncomely or barren On the contrary if the hopeless wilderness to the sons lly a native of Illinois and son of the tu mu aim uie snail they never in those V while in so many men do not their own of ground and cultivate the soil of their country for Pope of the United leave them whereon to wherefore do so of acres of apparently fat ami fertile land remain mi- cultivated arid Or at we rely on tho nts of intelligent j which seemed to bar forever the march lute lamented Pope uf them around the men the table lands which lie between of and cultivation Put that man of inn abilities and solid only of of and water our beautiful comprise qualities very wilderness now that it is to yield np into this wild Will men always love ter on an seek in iu peace and plenty at least and knotty 1 javo and of lost valley westward w -1 world hits timber to he found l'11 itn highest The soil which lie took occasion the source ine at intervals averaged froni which must ultimately make them our prom tj river a similar current is feet in depth and could Jt Kansas and it have been bettered by 1 Vr tnf plains that himself While the Some miles from thought to be entirely he into the saw of I of this country will content myself with you the of a after n critical personal examination A W brother of our fellow townsman K I KMJ a civil and a of ability held a prominent position in iov vens survey the northern route a railroad to tho Pacific thus up briefly the lending of the r A deal of the country is poor wooded and with n poor soil Theio is no such as desert country or of water any Still in a deal of U nut likely ever thickly settled All of roamed tlw and in this most of- route tire and fertile ny I lie and hle to occupy the of the be lhat the try been wt n t the will Tho ef traders are on
