Handbook of the United States of America, 1880 by LP Brockett

Author:LP Brockett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Handbook of the United States of America and Guide to Emigration 1880
ISBN: 9781783660315
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

In the northern part of the State there is a vast tract known as the John Brown Tract, covering the greater part of several large counties, of excellent farming lands, much of it forest, with numerous lakes and streams – valuable land for grain crops, especially wheat, barley, rye, oats and buckwheat, and much of it excellent grazing land. It has been proposed to set it apart as a public park, with a view to the utilization of its lakes and streams for the supply of the canals and the upper waters of the Hudson. There are railroads and navigable streams on all sides of this vast tract, but as yet no railroad through it, though this difficulty would be readily overcome if it were fairly opened for settlement. There is much wild game in the tract, deer especially, and feathered game of all sorts, and delicious fish in great abundance. There are some bears, catamounts, lynxes, badgers, and many foxes, woodchucks, rabbits, squirrels, &c., &c. Here, land can be purchased at from 50 cents to $5 per acre.

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