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I estimate that a fair statement of the prices for stock would 

 be about as follows : "Work oxen, seventy-five to one hundred 

 dollars per yoke; cows, twenty to fifty dollars each; horses, 

 seventy-five to one hundred and fifty dollars. 



A FEW MOEE PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. 



I would say to the emigrant, Do not be influenced to select 

 any one particular State or locality until you have more au- 

 thority for the step than a single publication. Examine care- 

 fully, make up your mind deliberately, and then move with 

 determination. It will require no very great exertion to se- 

 cure a half dozen glowing advertisements from as many new 

 Western States and Territories. It will need but little more 

 effort to obtain from five to fifty "rosy" circulars from as 

 many different districts in each of the separate " garden spots." 

 After examining these until ready to sing, — 



"How happy could I be with either 

 Were t' other dear charmer away," 



take down your map, and let the railroads and streams assist 

 your choice. You have then secured yourself against one 

 danger of the journey — that of having these same circulars 

 flung into your lap en route, and being diverted by them into 

 dubious ways and needless expenditures. But be careful, 

 reader, that you select not as accurate beyond the possibility 

 of a mistake the maps accompanying the circulars ; otherwise, 

 you may find yourself unable to choose between several thou- 

 sand railroad centers from which broad gauges radiate like 



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