The Kansas herald of freedom., 1854-10-21
Settle in Kansas.

nia. where We resided during the last SUM
meT, it stood for DAYS ia succession at loo
! deg. from ten O'Clock in the forenoon 10
three In the afternoon. The winters are
comparatively mild with US, though sub
ieet 10 frequent changes, On aeeonnt oi
the high altitude of the country. The
productions OF Missouri, Kentucky and
Ohio grow here in great abundance. Ap-
pies, peaches and pears seem well adapted
to the soil. Dir. WAIKER, the intelligent
provisional Governor of the Wyandot In
dams, and formerly from northern Ohio
says he raises annually the most luscious
peaches he ever saw. Melons grow oi
mammoth proportions.
The agriculturist who seeks new home
/ in the West should not stop to. make a
location until he has visited this Territory
The organized emigration of the world is
now turned towards it, and it possesses ad-
yantages on this account which are moi
offered by any western State.
In December last the Superintendent
of Indian affairs for the Indian territory,
| in his annual report, said, in substance,
aside from the government agents, troops
and missionaries, there are not at this time
three uhite inha biiants in all that region
/ lying west of the Missouri, and embraced
in the limits oi Kansas and Nebraska. -
But ten months have passed since then,
and now. instead of a population enumer-
atel by a monosyllable, there are many
thonssn.is settled all over the country, and
hundreds are pouring in daily, selecting ard
stalking out farms, on which they purpose
locating with their families.
We confidently predict that in less
than year from this time, we shall mum
ber fully one hundred thousand souls
The times Indicate it, In all the northern
States; indeed. in nearly every county,
there are movements Kansas ward, and
frequently the numbers are so great as To
leteriorate the value of property, particl-
IarIy real estate. And why not? Lands
in many parts of the north, not favorabiy
located for market, or peculiarly proluc-
tive, command from thirty to fifty and
seyenty-fiye dollars per acre.
Here the government price is but one
dollar and twenty-five cents, and the title
deeds are from the government, hence no
question as to their validity.
The cost of turning over the prairies
ranges from two to three dollars an acre.
The first crop-lisually of corn-will pay
the expenses of culture; then the farmer
with his hundred acres of The richest land
in the world, perfectly subdned, and capa-
bic of raising any species OF vegetation,
finds it costing him but from three hun
dred aud seventy five 10 four hundred dol
Lars. II is in condition which twenty
wears OF hard labor in a tiTDbered country
cannot make it; and he finds himself en-
abled 10 produce luxuriant crop Of yege-
tation with nearly one-third the labor re-
qnired on the "hardpan' soil of most OF
tie northern and middle States.
1t is true many of the conyenienees Of
tirnbered country are wanting here but
these can all be supplied by the hand ot
labor But" says the inquirer, what
will be done fof> fences! You have nc
timber, or not sufficient, to be used for
fencing purposes, and it appears to me inn
possible to get along in such country"
In some OF the western prairie States they
haze got along very we'll without timber,
apd here, in Kansas, We expect to gel
along still better. The Usage Orange,
which is used for hedges, grows in three
years, and produces natural fence capable
of turning aside the largest animals. The
severity of the winter in more northern
latitudes makes this useless to the prairie
farmers of Iowa and Wisconsin; but here
it will increase in value from year to year
and is worth more than dozen rail fences
which cost such an immense amount d
labor to erect.
Il is objected that our market is too fal
removed To those who are not at all ac-
quainted with our position in the Repub-
lie, the objection is insuperable; but to
those who have observed that We have an
excellent water communication with al
parts of the world; aud that in two
years, at the furtheGt, We shall be banded
with iron, and a railroad connecting US
with Boston and New York, along which
the steam horse viii be propelled at the
rate Of from thirty to forty miles an hour
the objection is worthless. The Who'll,
valley oi the Mississippi will furnish us
market, as will the government trains
ahBh cross the plains TO New Mexico ane
the Rocky mountains to Utah, California,
Oregon and Washington Territory. Be
sides this, We expect a large home market
for mechanics have already COMMENCED
pouring in by thousands, and the namer
ous articles which are imported into othel
western States will be manufactured among
MS. Agricultural implements of every
species, which are usually made in ths
eastern States, will be constructed in th,
Kansas Valley. We are already talking
of our commercial city, which We CLAIM
is to rival the growth of any western
town. Chicago; with its population o
10000 in twenty-tNo years, viii find he,
growth less rapid than the great City o
the Plains which s to be the halfwa,
house between The Atlantic and Pacific
and the commercial emporium Of Nortl
America.
] The Pacific Railway viii be eompletes
I duffnrr fhxa roTf far,