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1tyoFor the Jour mil.Elk Ckkkk, Bui-talo Co., \Vis.,)January 26, 1858. jMessrs. Editors:—I arn aware that m v friends will give me credit for turn-*’ Oing out a better job with a Saddler’sround knife than with a pen. But asmy efforts heretofore have found theirway into the columns of a paper soably conducted as the Journal has *been for the last two vears, 1 feel flat-tered to try again. One seldom picks up an Eastern paper, without seeing a -1 puff from some Western eorrespon-all 1am aSOU]opethe;tnu0nantiEretO Adcs4extlt;Ereoi giOr: dent, and some of them speak of the eitliislaallrWest in such flattering terms as tomake many who have good Eastern Tincxtlt;Khomes dissatisfied. Now many of the ! puffs remind me of a hoax played oft by Barnum some years ago. Me procured a Monkey and Cod Fish, cut off f_ their heads, fastened the head of the r I Monkev to the body of the fish, thenIy ! proclaimed a Mermaid on exhibition at r! his museum; of course there was adr_ | rush, and the first finding themselvesII.! hoaxed, and not wishing to be alone. \\ ' hoaxed all others who were verdant enough to believe the storv.o *j I admit that men can make money 'd ! faster with small capital, farming inthe West than they can East. But*when men, owning good farms in (hioi _| and Indiana, sell them ami go West,or any where else to better their coudi-*tion, my impression is, that four out of five will find it’s all Fish and Monkev. Of course some of vour readersish as lt;si oitheoutInlibcilaibetioi0111ralof10idlvu‘ who have the Western fever wilt say:1C:s.httiea-h-h-ie,ofofased2r-its all stuff, he lives way towards the north pole, thirty miles from civilization, with Bear, Wolves and Indians, for neighbors, no wonder lie is dissatisfied, To such I will say, I did not see, after leaving Indiana, any country (except some timbered parts of Illinois ) that I like better than this. Our soil is unsurpassed, our water pure as the meridian spring, our timber the \ best this side of Laporte, Ind., and ^p if any of your friends are Dyspeptic,hatlovouttioOrllu me it lt;ofthetolsh iResutiner?dilUiTcinstead of going to the Water Cure atinheistweitsanlet l2d-189i toCleveland, send them here; and if, after breathing our pure mountain air for three months, thcv are not able to eat tlieir weight every two weeks, you may call me a guy.Now for fear some of your readers may think I am trying to bait them with Fish and Monkey, I will give a description of the soil and climate aswiGlieinSIthlublinTgiven me bv one of mv neighbors, lieO v' * Ostated that one day while plowing, a sudden shower caused him to leave his plow; he did not hitch to it again for ow! three days and then his team could nota itlikifrP'0tanvc-ioilub-thclostthewcseeibeVg-,56draw it; lie then turned it over and nber,giitm-r asstillhistavei 1 tofound the share had sprouted. But we ^ have, as an offset to our rich soil, aL healthy climate, very hot Bummers and often bitter cold Winters. The r£ same neighbor told me that some years | r£since there was a heavy snow fell aboutthe last of 51 ay, and on the side of a | jt hill, where the sun did not strike until noon, it burnt it all to a crust before it had time to melt. He also said that one night after feeding stock, he madetwo or three efforts to blow out his I ylamp, not succeeding, he took his fin- n gers to pinch it out, when he found the e blaze frozen solid. Now if any of I your readers think they would fancy L living in such a country, there is at small corner left. S. S. COOK. \a
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Winchester Randolph County Journal
Winchester, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 11, 1858
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