Q. What are the capacities for silk culture, whether any experiments have been made?-A. Good capacity for silk culture; mulberries grow abundantly wild, along the banks of the Missouri River. No experiments have been made. Q. What is the amount of wool produced, value and kind of sheep, &c. ?—A. Woolgrowing only commenced; started with a few Merino and Southdown. The country seems to be very well adapted to sheep on account of its having bluffs, with rich pasture scattered around. Sheep bring now $4. Q. What is the amount of flax raised, cost, and quantity per acre?-A. Flax-raising has not been tried yet. I think it would be profitable. Q. What other fibrous productions?-A. Have no knowledge of there being any cultivated. Q. What mineral productions?-A. Coal, but not explored. Q. What facilities for manufacture, water-power, convenient access to fuel, and its cost, cost of raw material for manufacture?-A. Water-power, good; high timber land. from $5 to $20 per acre; logs, $8 per 1,000 feet; wheat, 50 cents per bushel; barley, 50 cents per bushel; coal and wood alongside of the Missouri River and creeks; great facilities for steam-power, coal and wood being plenty. Q. What commercial facilities, natural and artificial means of communication, character and amount of domestic and foreign commerce, with the prospective expansion of local and general trade?-A. Missouri River front; the most extensive shipping point being what is now known as Texas City, on the Dakota Territory side, and Long City, on this side of the river, a ferry-boat connecting both places, and the richest country surrounding the same near and far. These two points will have a great future, and command a big commerce and trade. Railroads are projected in every direction through the country, and will open up our commerce with the neighborhood. Q. What is the total value, gold basis, of real estate and personal property?—A. Probably $500,000. Q. What are the total values of raw material produced, total values added to raw material by manufacture?-A. Value of raw material produced, $95,000; value added to same by manufacture, $47,500. Q. What are the aggregate profits of capital employed in transportation, in merchandising, invested in loans to General or State Governments, and municipal corporations?-A. Aggregate profits of capital employed in transportation not given; profits on merchandise, 100 per cent.; on loans to municipal corporations, 10 per cent. Q. What is the aggregate amount paid in salaries and wages to professional men, clerks, messengers, conductors, brakemen, officers, sailors, &c.?-A. Wages paid to mail carriers, $20 per month, and board; to farm hands, from $1 to $2.50 per day, and board. Q. What are the names of all towns and villages in your county, with the distance and direction from your county seat, and exact locality by section, township, and range?-A. Poncah, county seat; section 22, township 30, range 6 east, 6th principal meridian. Iona, northwest from Poncah, and 9 miles distant, in section 11, township 31, range 5 east, 6th principal meridan. New Castle, 7 miles northwest from Poncah, in section 20, township 31, range 5 east, 6th principal meridian. Long City, northeast 14 miles from Poncah, in section 11, township 30, range 6 east. W. D. LONG, County Clerk. FILLMORE AND CLAY COUNTIES. North boundary, line between townships 8 and 9 north; east boundary, 6th principal meridian; south boundary, line between townships 4 and 5 north; west boundary. line between ranges 8 and 9 west. Q. What is the number of acres under cultivation?-A. One thousand acres. Q. What is the number of acres of each kind of crop?—A. About 400 acres of wheat, 250 of oats, 150 of barley, 150 of corn; balance in potatoes, buckwheat, vegetables, &c. Q. What is the average production of each crop per acre?-A. Wheat, 25 bushels: oats, 50 bushels; barley, 50 bushels; corn, 40 to 60 bushels; potatoes, 150 bushels: buckwheat, 35 bushels; tobacco, 650 to 700 pounds; sorghum, 60 to 80 gallons; broomcorn, 700 to 800 pounds. Q. What are the conditions of climate, soil, &c., suitable to each ?-A. These counties, situated as they are between the Blue Rivers, are well watered by numerous springs and rivulets, tributaries to the Blue Rivers, and are favored with an exceedingly genial and salubrious climate, peculiarly adapted to the profitable growth of the above-named crops. The soil is a rich vegetable mold, from 2 to 3 feet in depth, with just sand enough to keep it friable, warm, and quick. There are large quantities of lime in the composition of the soil, also just enough salinous and alkaline qualities to enhance the growth of all cereals. Q. What are the capacities for tea culture; whether any experiments have been tried?-(No answer.) Q. What are the capacities for silk culture; whether any experiments have been tried?-A. Cannot be surpassed. Q. What is the amount of flax raised, cost, and quantity per acre?-A. Good for flax. Q. What other fibrous productions?-A. All would do well. Q. What mineral productions ?-(No answer.) Q. What facilities for manufacture, water-power, convenient access to fuel, and its cost, cost of raw material for manufacture?—Â. These counties possess extensive manufacturing facilities. Along the West Blue, Little Blue, Big Sandy Rivers, and the North Fork of Turkey Creek, there are several good water privileges. These rivers are all well wooded, which makes access to fuel convenient and cheap. When the railroad is completed coal of a superior quality can be procured for from $6 50 to $10 per ton. Q. What commercial facilities, natural and artificial means of communication, character and amount of domestic and foreign commerce, with prospective expansion of local and general trade?-A. The lack of commercial facilities, natural or artificial means of communication, has prevented these counties from becoming as fully developed as they otherwise would have been. Within the past six months the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company have proposed to run their line of road through, near the center of Fillmore, Clay, and Adams Counties, to Fort Kearny. This has given new life and energy to their present population, and caused a large amount of immigration. We are not only deprived of all commercial, but postal privileges. We have a population of nearly 500, and are obliged to go to adjoining counties for mail matter. Q. What is the total value, gold basis, of real estate and personal property?—A. The total value, on a gold basis, of real estate and personal property, separate from Government, railroad, and school land, is about $42,000. The great want of these counties is a railroad, on which the pioneer settler can transport his goods and the materials of which his buildings must be constructed. Every train would bring civilization and comfort, and return laden with the products of the soil, stock, hogs, sheep, &c. This great want the energetic officers of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad are exerting every effort to supply at the earliest possible date. This, with the other four roads aiming to connect with the Union Pacific Railroad at Fort Kearny, will give these counties all the railroad facilities that could be desired. With these railroad facilities, the constant influx of immigration, the genial climate, the almost unbounded grazing facilities, the inexhaustible richness of the soil, the extensive resources for manufacture, must inevitably create an expansion of local and general trade, unprecedented in the annals of American history, and in less than five years place Fillmore and Clay Counties at the head of the list in Nebraska. L. R. WARNER. HALL COUNTY. North boundary, line between townships 16 and 17 north; east boundary, line between ranges 8 and 9 west, 6th principal meridian; south boundary, Platte River; west boundary, line between ranges 11 and 12 west, 6th principal meridian. Q. What is the number of acres under cultivation ?-A. About 16,000 acres. Q. What is the number of acres of each kind of crop?-A. Five thousand acres of oats, 2,000 of wheat, 6,000 of corn, 2,000 of barley, 500 of potatoes, and 500 of vegetables. Q. What is the average production of each crop per acre?-A. Beets, 300 bushels per acre; corn, 50 bushels; wheat, 20 bushels; barley, 35 bushels; buckwheat, 45 bushels; oats, 50 bushels; potatoes, 200 bushels. Q. What are the conditions of climate, soil, &c., suitable to each ?-A. Climate, very healthy; soil, sandy loam-partly clay subsoil, especially adapted to corn, oats, barley, wheat, and vegetables in general, and very productive. Q. What are the capacities for tea culture; whether any experiments have been made?-A. Has not been tried yet; probably too cold in winter. Q. What are the capacities for silk culture; whether any experiments have been made?-A. Not adapted to this country; have been no experiments here; might do. Q. What is the amount of wool produced, its value, and kind of sheep, &c.?-A. Cannot be surpassed; sheep do fine on our land; number of sheep, 2,000; wool produced, 7,000 pounds; good hardy kind; wool long, of very good quality, and bringing second highest price in eastern markets. Q. What is the amount of flax raised, cost, and quantity per acre?-A. Has been tried in small quantities, and is bound to be a leading article with our farmers. Q. What other fibrous productions?-A. Good show for hemp and flax. Q. What mineral productions?—A. None. Q. What facilities for manufacture, water-power, convenient access to fuel, and its cost, cost of raw material for manufacture?-A. Three good streams for waterpower; coal from Union Pacific Railroad, in Wyoming; wood on banks of stream; cost of former, $8 per ton; latter, $5 and $6 per cord; wheat, 40 to 60 cents; corn, 35 to 50 cents; buckwheat, $1 and $1 50; barley, 50 and 75 cents; sugar beet, 25 and 30 cents, present price; can be raised in quantities at 10 cents. Q. What commercial facilities, natural and artificial means of communication, character and amount of domestic and foreign commerce, with prospective expansion of local and general trade?-A. Commercial facilities good, by Union Pacific Railroad; artificial communication, Union Pacific Railroad; good roads; domestic trade only, and good and expanding yearly by 50 per cent. Q. What is the total value, gold basis, of real estate and personal property?—A. Total value of real estate and personal property, $3,000,000. Q. What is the total value of raw material produced; total value added to raw material by manufacture?-A. Raw material produced, $500,000; manufacture, $75,000. Q. What are the aggregate profits of capital employed in transportation, in merchandising, invested in loans to General or State Governments, and municipal corporations?-A. In transportation, Union Pacific Railroad; in merchandising, 20 per cent.; in municipal corporations, $15,000. Q. What is the aggregate amount paid in salaries and wages to professional men, clerks, messengers, conductors, brakemen, officers and sailors, &c.?—A. Clerks' wages per month, $45; messengers', $90; conductors', $80; brakemen, $70. Q. What are the names of all towns and villages in your county, with the distance and direction from your county seat, and exact locality by section, township, and range?—A. Grand Island Station, county seat. Pawnee Station. Wood River Station. Grand Island, sections 15 and 16, township 11 north, range 9 west. Pawnee, west of county seat 8 miles, in sections 5 and 6, township 10 north, range 10 west. Wood River, 18 miles west of county seat, in section 33, township 10 north, range 12 west. JOHN WALLICHS. JEFFERSON COUNTY. North boundary, township line between township 4 and 5 north; east boundary range line between ranges 4 and 5 east, 6th principal meridian, and Otoe Reservation south boundary, base line, and Otoe Reservation; west boundary, range line between ranges 4 and 5 west, 6th principal meridian. Q. What is the number of acres under cultivation?-A. The number of acres under cultivation, as near as can be estimated, is 12,000 acres. Q. What is the number of acres of each kind of crop?-A. Wheat, 5,000 acres; corn, 5,000 acres; oats, 1,200 acres; barley, 400 acres; potatoes and other crops, 400 acres. Q. What is the average production of each crop per acre?-A. Wheat, 28 bushels; corn, 60 bushels; oats, 50 bushels; barley, 40 bushels; other crops, 300 bushels. Q. What are the conditions of climate, soil, &c., suitable to each?-A. Climate, suitable for the production of all kinds of small grain and every other crop raised in the same latitude. Where good practical farming and deep plowing is done, there is no surer county for crops. Q. What are the capacities for tea culture; whether any experiments have been made?-A. No experiments have as yet been made. Q. What are the capacities for silk culture; whether any experiments have been made?-A. No experiments made; but mulberry grows well. Q. What is the amount of wool produced, its value, and kind of sheep, &c. ?—A. This climate is excellent for sheep; all that have been brought into the county do exceedingly well. The kinds are mixed; but all kinds improve from what they are when first brought to this county, and yield a good, healthy fleece. Not many as yet in the county. Cannot give any correct statement as to value of crop of wool. Q. What is the amount of flax raised, cost, and quantity per acre?-A. No flax raised; presume it would do well, as everything else that has been planted does well. Q. What other fibrous productions?-A. No fibrous productions raised. Q. What mineral productions?-A. The county abounds in iron ore of the richest quality; immense deposits of the purest gypsum, or plaster of Paris, in inexhaustible quantities; and it is asserted that large deposits of stone coal abound in various localities, but as wood is plenty, no banks have been as yet successfully worked; but indications of coal crop out of the bank, in many places, of a good quality; water lime, in the bottom of the Little Blue, in immense quantities, with the finest qualities of build La publication des deux premiers volumes de M. Michelet produisit dans le public une certaine sensation. A cette époque, les systèmes philosophiques de l'Allemand Hegel n'étaient guère connus que de quelques lecteurs de M. Cousin. L'œuvre du jeune professeur, dans laquelle il transportait les doctrines du philosophe allemand, en les habillant à la française, était de nature à enflammer les jeunes imaginations. Le succès de l'historien fut donc complet; son nom devint en peu de temps célèbre, et les mêmes critiques qui sacrifiaient Racine sur l'autel de M. Victor Hugo, proclamèrent, au bruit de toutes les cymbales romantiques, que les Guizot, les Thierry, les Barante venaient d'être détrônés par le jeune professeur. Aujourd'hui, M. Michelet s'est créé un autre public. Champion du radicalisme et de la religion des temps futurs, il s'est fait dans les rangs de la jeunesse de fanatiques admirateurs et dans la presse des défenseurs toujours prêts à fulminer l'anathème contre quiconque se permet la plus légère critique contre le maître. Il y a donc une sorte d'obligation pour moi à apprécier avec tout le calme et avec toute la gravité possibles l'œuvre du célèbre historien. Mais avant d'entreprendre cette tâche, il me paraît indispensable de faire connaître ici, en très-peu de mots, la prétendue philosophie de l'histoire de Hegel, galimatias trois fois germanique, dont le système de M. Michelet n'est qu'une émanation, et qui, grâce aux travaux de MM. Cousin, Quinet et Lherminier, a pénétré dans quelques cerveaux plus ou moins exaltés1. L'esprit universel, qui dans l'art est image et contemplation, dans la religion sentiment et représentation, dans la philosophie pensée libre et pure, est dans l'histoire universelle à l'état d'effectivité complète. Etats, peuples, individus, représentent des moments déterminés du développement de l'esprit. Chacun de ces moments se manifeste dans la constitution, dans les mœurs, dans les croyances, dans tout l'état social d'un peuple déterminé. C'est toujours un seul peuple qui représente chaque moment donné, et il ne le représente qu'une seule fois. Le droit absolu de chaque peuple est donc passager: il ne peut faire époque qu'une seule fois dans l'histoire. A la tête de toute action est un individu : ce sont les grands hommes qui, dans les annales des 1 Dans un remarquable article publié dans la Revue des Deux-Mondes, il y a quelques années, M. Lèbre a fait ressortir la désastreuse influence exercée par le panthéisme hegelien sur plusieurs de nos plus célèbres écrivains. Q. What are the capacities for silk culture; whether any experiments have been made?-A. No experiments have been tried in this county in silk culture; consequently no reports. Q. What is the amount of wool produced, its value and kind of sheep?-A. There are but few sheep kept in this county; not half that was here five years ago. This county is well adapted to sheep, and I am at a loss to know why more are not kept; probably because the prices of cattle have ruled high for many years, and farmers have turned their attention to cattle and horses, and let sheep go. Johnson County is second to no other in this State for stock-raising. The immense pasturage along the Nemahas and their tributaries is where the drovers find the fat stock. Q. What is the amount of flax raised, cost and quantity per acre?—A. There has never been any flax raised in Johnson County, but we have lands well adapted to its culture. Q. What other fibrous productions?-A. No report. Q. What mineral productions?-A. At Tecumseh, the county seat of Johnson County, we have coal mines in successful operation, where an amount sufficient to supply all demands is furnished at 20 to 25 cents per bushel. The quality is good, and the quantity is supposed to be inexhaustible. Building rock is found here in beds and ledges, easy of access and of good quality. Q. What facilities for manufacture, water power, convenient access to fuel, and its cost; cost of raw material for manufacture?-A. Facilities for manufacturing are not easily found in this State. We have the Great Nemeha River, running through the center of the county, furnishing water-power in great abundance for mills of all kinds. There are already three excellent grist-mills on this stream inside the limits of our county, and room for a dozen more; also, we have the North Branch of the Little Nemeha, a lovely stream, clear as crystal, narrow but deep, and affording sufficient power for mills of any kind. These streams are belted with timber, principally hard wood. Q. What commercial facilities, natural and artificial means of communication, character and amount of domestic and foreign commerce?-A. Our commercial facilities are very poor at present, but we expect two railroads to be constructed through this county within two years at least. The principal commodities for shipment to and from this county are, first, general merchandise, such as is sold in all agricultural regions, machinery of all kinds used by agriculturists, machinery for mills, &c. The exports are cattle, hogs, wheat, corn, oats, barley, potatoes, &c., and each of these classes at the rate of 30 per cent. yearly. Q. What is the total value, gold basis, of real estate and personal property?—A. From the best information at hand we would consider $2,000,000 a very fair estimate. Q. What is the total value of raw material produced, total value added to raw material by manufacture?-A. Manufacturing is in its infancy, but can safely put it down at $50,000 per annum. Q. What are the aggregate profits of capital employed in transportation, merchandising, invested in loans to General or State Governments and municipal corporations?-A. On capital employed in various ways can be safely estimated at 30 per cent. per annum. Q. What is the aggregate amount paid in salaries and wages to professional men, clerks, messengers, conductors, brakemen, officers, sailors, &c.-A. Average amount paid in salaries to professional men and others, $2,000 per annum. Q. What are the names of all towns and villages in your county, with the distance and direction from your county seat, and exact locality by section, township, and range?-A. Tecumseh, our county seat, is situated on section 28, township 5, range 11 east. Vesta is situated on section 31, township 5, range 10. C. WOODLEY, County Clerk. |