I was surprised to get a letter from you and well pleased to learn that you want to leave the factory and Waterloo. You or any other man cannot do better than to come west and that right away, if you think you can live without hearing the factory bell. Well, Ed, I have been over most of the western states and Kansas is far ahead for everything. It is a good grain state and cannot be beat for raising stock. The winters are short and not cold.
Cattle live all winter on the range.
We are in about 33 north latitude, all kinds of fruit do well and all kinds of vines. You can get anything you want here. I live ten miles from Eureka. There is more business done here in a day than Waterloo in a week, in everything except drinking. Kansas is mostly temperate.