Ibid., XIX., 82. Mentions other inducements to emigration Reynolds, J:, My Own Times, In 1820 the price of land was reduced from $2 to $1.25 per acre.
James, E., Account, Early W. Travels, XIV., 63. In 1819-1820, James says, "The difficulty of establishing an indisputable title to lands has been a cause operating hitherto to retard the progress of settlement in some of the most fertile parts of the country of Ohio, and the inconveniences resulting from this source still continue to be felt.
[522] Niles, Weekly Register, XXVIII., 161-162.
[523] Ibid., XXIX., 147.
Ibid., XXXVII., 165.
[524] Ibid., XXIX., 422. February 25, 1826.
[525] Ibid., XXXVI., 271.
Ibid., XXXVI., 304. "Owing to the great influx of emigration, provisions of all kinds are very scarce."
Latrobe, C. J., The Rambler, II., 221-222. Speaks of Illinois as "a country rapidly filling with settlers."
Reynolds, J., My Own Times, 304. 1830 "For several years past, a strong tide of emigration has flowed in upon us. Its wilderness has been subdued; and thriving villages and cultivated farms are now scattered over its whole extent."