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Newspaper
Prescott Transcript
Location
Prescott, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1856
Page
2
Observations on fruit trees including pears grapes and plums noting some varieties thrive while others struggle. Dwarf pears and Dukes apples show promise with several cultivars described as ripening well. A cautious forecast suggests local climate favors certain fruits and production may rise in the county this season.
Fragmented OCR depicts a long passage on river Valley agriculture and water power potentials. It mentions places, people, puisant farms, and various local features, including a farmer named Spa Seteital sprig and a community with irrigation and mill aspects. The text contains many garbled words and unclear names but centers on agricultural capacity and land use.
In Greenwood township and the village of Innikinie, about 300 inhabitants total, land values range from eight to twenty dollars per acre. Prospective settlers find ample church, parsonage, and school facilities offered gratis by proprietors, with organized Congregational and Methodist congregations already active and other denominations planning future organization.
The Diamond Bluff settlement twelve miles below Presesit on the Mississippi shows progress from a government land entry to a developing village. J Wy Toyt and O F Toyt laid out town lots, with Enoch Quilahy and Dr W C, planning shops, a cabinet shop, a hotel, and homes. Improvements include a school, church, and public grounds as families move in, saw mills operate, and logging expands.
Prescott advocates outline a central role for steam mills brick kilns and timber industries driven by Lake Superior Railroad access and a forthcoming dock yard. They project new academies churches schools and a jail while stressing a New England style community with diverse manufacturing plans and growing river trade.
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