Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1860 — THE PROSPECTS FOR 1860. [ARTICLE]

THE PROSPECTS FOR 1860.

Throughout the county, we see everywhere evidence of a better state of things than we have been subjected to for the past two years. We see improvements going on, on almost every farm. Old rail fences are being pulled down, and good board ones erected instead; old farms, are being enlarged, and many new ones made; additions are being built to old houses, and many new ones erected. The prospect for a full wheat crop is more flattering than for many years; the spring, too, “has been warm and dry, so much so that the oats crop is already in the ground, and many of our farmers are ready to plant corn. Everything seems working together for good. We believe that the crisis is at last over, and that business will gradually assume a healthy tone, and everything will agrin flow along smoothly. We only need a railroad now to carry oft'the surplus product of the present season and our farmers will be but of debt again; and the advance which such a road would effect upon the value of the present crop, would grade, iron and stock a road to Carpenter’s Grove.