Excerpt from Wisconsin Numerous causes besides the physical attractiveness of the newly opened territory contributed toward this un precedented rapidity of colonization. Transportation had made great strides during the decade immediately preceding 1840. There was now a considerable fleet of steamboats on the Great Lakes, with ports at Milwaukee and other points on the west shore of Lake Michigan. On the Mississippi side, the lead mines had carried on a thriving steamboat trade for some time. Railroads were ...
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Excerpt from Wisconsin Numerous causes besides the physical attractiveness of the newly opened territory contributed toward this un precedented rapidity of colonization. Transportation had made great strides during the decade immediately preceding 1840. There was now a considerable fleet of steamboats on the Great Lakes, with ports at Milwaukee and other points on the west shore of Lake Michigan. On the Mississippi side, the lead mines had carried on a thriving steamboat trade for some time. Railroads were progressing in the East and, shortly after 1850, they penetrated into Wisconsin itself, pushing from the lake ports inward. The financial chaos following the panic of 1837 tended to uproot many families in the older states, many of them, in fact, but lightly attached to the soil. It was the era of short specie, wildcat banks, exemptions, and repudiation of state debts. Even so new and thriving a state as Michigan was involved in com plicated financial embarrassments in the years following 1840; partly on account of this, she was almost over taken by Wisconsin during this decade. To those sufi'er ing from such conditions Wisconsin offered strong in ducements. Taking counsel from the mistakes of others, it had succeeded in organizing itself without debt, and taxes, as yet, were insignificant. It was a land of barter, where a little hard money went a long way. Rich farms could be had for a few dollars in cash. To those of a speculative turn, prospective city lots held out promises of sudden fortune, promises which were often fulfilled. It is not surprising that native emigration set in this direction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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