262 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



Twelfth : There is no diffuculty in procuring water for 

 stock. It is found existing naturally in great abundance, 

 in streams, springs, ponds and lakes; and when those 

 are not sufficient, it can always be procured by easy 

 digging wells, or artificial ponds can be made very cheap 

 in clay soils, in the same manner that vast quantities of 

 cattle are watered in Kentucky. 



Thirteenth: A good comfortable cabin, such as thou- 

 sands live in at the West, will cost from $50 to $100, 

 complete. 



Fourteenth: One man can tend 30 acres of corn well, 

 and "sorter tend" 60 or 70, the product varying from 30 

 to 80 bushels to an acre. 



Fifteenth: Generally speaking, the quality of the soil 

 in the Wabash valley is fully equal in every point of 

 view, in its native state, to that of either the Ohio, Miami, 

 Sioto, or Muskingum. It only needs the same cultivation 

 to develop its riches. 



Sixteenth : The present advantages of market in those 

 valleys over the Wabash are very considerable, but it re- 

 quires but a glance upon the map, to show you that just 

 as soon as the Wabash and Erie canal is finished, say in 

 1842 or 3, that the whole of the upper Wabash valley will 

 be nearer to New- York market than either of the others. 



Seventeenth : I cannot see why the Wabash valley will 

 not support as dense a population as either of the others. 

 Nearly the whole surface is susceptible of cultivation, and 

 a healthy climate, with the exception of that one com- 

 plaint, the ague, that pervades almost every new settled 

 country in the world. 



Eighteenth: I cannot see why the land should not 

 eventually become as valuable in the Wabash valley, as 

 in any other part of the great and fertile West. 



Nineteenth : The price varies from $5 to $10 per acre, 

 owing to locality. There is no tract of land in Indiana, 

 that would not pay a good interest upon cultivation at 

 more than $10 per acre. 



