The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1854-08-22
LETTERS FROM BOSTON EMIGRANrs 70
KANSAS
KANsAs TowN. July I7. ms

KANSAS Town, July IL. 1854
From ten to fifteen hundred pounds of hemp
TO the aero Is an average crop for this 'and,
aud the price the year past has been from 81
20 to $50 per ton. Pumpkins. melons. ap-
Piles. peachos, and fruit of all kinds, grow here
in abundance If planted. Such is the land in
Kansas Town, and such. also, is the land in
Kansas Territory, for it is of tho same general
character. Let it bo remembered that such
crops as tho above are raised withouta spoon
full of manure and that, too, from year to year
for oil time to come, for aught know; have
seen corn growing on land that has been plan
tod for twenty years in succession, and there
was no apparang difference between il and the
corn on new land. Also let the New England
farmer remember that to raise from 60 to 80
bushels of corn to tho acre hero, no hoeing is
required. Tho only work requisite after plan
ting is to plow amongst it few times. "Half
billing and shilling" is unknown. The price
for this land is for unimproyed from S25 to
$40 an acre; and foi improved land. from $40
to 800. This is the prico for all the land
bordering on tho Territory for several miles
south of tho Kansas river, and it will soon be
higher--for there is comparatively little such
land in the United States as this. The land
all through the Kansas river valley. in the Ter
ritory, is equally as good as that above desert
bed, and worth as much to the acre, and will
produce as largo crops. 1t il to be wondered
at then, that every young man in Missouri,
and every old man, also, who has not already
a farm of tho same quality as his own, should
bo rushing into the Territory to secure l6O a
cres for $l,25 per acre, when he knows it will
be worth from 1926 to Sl00 the moment he
gets his titlel Rather is it not strange and
wonderful that, at least, one hundred thousand
persons from New England, arc not on their
way 10 this garden of the world, ut this mo-
ment? That such would be the case ! have
no doubt f the good qualities of the land, eli
mate &C., were understood by them as well as
they are by those in Missouri on tho borders.
The rush from this State to Kansas Territory
is not so much 10 secure n foothold for slavery
there, as to secure fortune, notwithstanding
what the newspapers say about it. No: most
who go from here arc young men, in want Of
farms; and slavery, to say the least, is secon-
dary matter with them, if indeed they are not
opposed TO its introduction into Kansas, which
is certainly the case with mahy.
You ask. when is the best time for New
England men to go 10 Kansas? Unquestiona
bly, the best time is this Fall. BY coming now
they can select from the best Of the land now
open for settlement, as we'll as get their cabin
and fences made, and their land plowed ready
for spring work. The winters, ! am told, are
so mild that out door work can be done with
comfort such as splitting rails, fencinn, build
ing houses, &C., during most Of tho SEASON.
Besides, If they would be repre- sented in the
first Territorial Legislature Of Kansas, they
must be on the ground soon.