The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-12-01

country, there are movements Kansas-ward, and
frequently the numbers are so great as 10 deter
loFate the value Of property, particularly real
| estate. And why not Lands in many parts
OF the ncrth, not favorably located for market,
or peculiarly productive, command from thirty
TO fifty and seventy-fve dollars per acre.
Here the government price is but one dollar
and twenty-five cents, and the titles are from
the government, hence no question as to their
validity.
The cost of turning over the prairies ranges
| IRON two 10 three dollars per acre. The first
crop-psually of corn-will pay the expenses
OF culture: then the farmer with his hundred
acres of the richest land in the world, perfectly
snbdued, and capable Of raising any species Of
vegetation, finds it costing but from three hun-
Idred and seventy-fve to four hundred dollars.
II IS in condition which twenty years Of bard
labor IN tmbered country cannot make IT, and
he finds himself enabled 10 produce luXuriant
crop of vegetation with nearly one third the
labor required on ''hardpan' soil OF most of the
northern and middle States.
It is true mnay Of the convenences of a tim
bered country are wanting here but these can
all be supplied by the hand Of labor. .sBut,"
says the enquirer, ''what will be done for
FENCES? You have no timber, or not sufficient,
TO be used for f'ncing purposes, and it appears
20 me impossible to get along in such a coun-
Try" In same OF the western States they haze
got along very well without timber, and here,
IN Kansas, W, expect to GET along still better.
The Usage Orange, is used for hedges, grows in
three years and produces a natural fence capa-
Bile of turning aside the largest animals The
severity otthp winter IN more northern latitud-s
makes this useless to the prairie farmers of Iowa
and Wisconsin; but here il will increase in value
from year to year, and is worth rsa!e than
dozen rail- fences, which cost such an immense a.
mount OF labor to erect
It is objected that our market is too far re-
moved. To those who are not at all acquainted
with our position in The Republic, the objection
IS nsurpassabe; but to those who have observed
that We have an excellent water communica-
ton With all parts ofthe world; and in two years,
al the lurhrst, We shall be banded with iron,
and railroad connecting us with Boston and
New York, along which the steam horse will
be propelled at the rate of from thirty TO forty
miles an hour, the objection is worthless. The
whole valley Of the Mississippi will furnish us
a market, as will the government trains which
cross the plains TO New Mexico and Rock
Mountains to Utah, California, Cregan and
Washington Territory. Besides this, we ex-
prct large home market; for mechanics have
already commenced pouring in by thousands,
and the numerous articles which are imported
into other States will be manufactured among
us. Agricultural implements of every species,
which usually made in the eastern States,
will be constructed in the Kansas Valley. We
are already talking of our commercial city,
which we CAIN is TO rival the growth of ana
western town. Chicago, with its population of
10000 in twenty-five years, will find her
growth less rapid than the great City Of the
Plains, which is to b. the halfway house be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific and the com-
mrrciaI emporium of North America.
The Pacific Railway will be completed dur
ing the next ten years. 1t must necessarily pass
along the southern bank of the Kansas and up
one of its principal Tributaries to the south pass
in the Rocky Mountains While this road is
being constructed the surplus products OF the
farms which fancy sees already covered with
''bending grain and golden-rindrd fruit" will
be needed 10 supply the wants Of lis laborers,
and money will be required in return 10 meet
the incidental wants Of tie Kansas farmer.
Again we say, send on the five hundred
thousand farmers, mechanics and arizans, and
we viii pledge them the most beautiful farms,
and the richest country. in all the bountrs OF
nature, which the sun OF heaven ever shone up